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Servant Leadership Observer ? November 2010

Modern Servant Leader

Holocaust and the 2008 Financial Crisis – Leadership Lessons in Resistance. Book Says Servant Leadership Critical for Marketing Leaders. If You Seek Prestige, Please Don’t Try To Lead… Servant Leadership Profile: Lionel Logue. Leadership Lessons from a Cracked Pot. Why GOOGLE+ Spells Trouble for Facebook. Jill Knapp.

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Exploit IT for Strategic Benefit

Harvard Business Review

However, when we ask CIOs how their "enabling" is going, they consistently respond that sometimes it goes well; sometimes not so much. At a recent CIO roundtable, one CIO said that the demand for IT in his company is infinite. And other CIOs nodded in agreement. IT Cannot Be Only the CIO''s Responsibility.

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IT Doesn't Matter (to CEOs)

Harvard Business Review

They resist getting their hands dirty alongside the CIO, even though many of them will readily get down into the mud of a balance sheet with the CFO or strategize the details of global brand issues with the CMO. Nor do they understand the CIO''s role or, typically, the technologies that the company deploys. Accountability.

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The Rise of the Digital CMO

Harvard Business Review

Fact: When it comes to marketing spending, analog still outstrips digital by a factor of three to one. Digital marketing provides targeted reach and measurable impact. Innovative digital marketing approaches in social media, CRM, and other areas dominate the discussion. Shouldn''t CMOs and all marketers be shocked by this?

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How to Integrate Data and Analytics into Every Part of Your Organization

Harvard Business Review

D&A should be the pulse of the organization, incorporated into all key decisions across sales, marketing, supply chain, customer experience, and other core functions. Increase market share? Cultural resistance can also become a bigger obstacle than anticipated. Jumpstart process and cost efficiency? All of the above?

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Using IoT Data to Understand How Your Products Perform

Harvard Business Review

This truth could be very different from what the company thought it was or was marketing it as. The CIO of HP Inc., Of all the technologies that companies have implemented in the last 50 years, the IoT may face the greatest organizational resistance. running out of ink), and it enticed many customers.

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Why Apple’s New HQ Is Nothing Like the Rest of Silicon Valley

Harvard Business Review

Old concrete parking lots gave way to new green landscapes and a wooded preserve populated with 9,000 indigenous California trees, including ornamental and fruit trees, selected to resist drought and the threat of future climate change. Buildings, on the other hand, are change averse, optimized to stand for decades.