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Seven Critical Needs for Sustained and Successful Organizational Change

Great Results Team Building

According to Gartner , 46% of CIOs feel that culture is the most significant barrier to the success of their change plans… and it is the gap in understanding between C-suite and entry-level employees that contributes to lack of their commitment to changed behaviors. People who aren’t coachable simply don’t want to change.

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How to Stop Selling Your Ideas and Start Enrolling People in Them

Next Level Blog

That idea comes from Donagh Herlihy who, when I interviewed him for the first edition of The Next Level back in 2005, was the CIO for Avon. People get kind of resistant to being sold a strategy. I was recently reminded of a better way to make progress on your most important priorities – don’t sell, enroll.

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Servant Leadership Observer ? November 2010

Modern Servant Leader

Holocaust and the 2008 Financial Crisis – Leadership Lessons in Resistance. If You Seek Prestige, Please Don’t Try To Lead… Servant Leadership Profile: Lionel Logue. Leadership Lessons from a Cracked Pot. It’s the Size of the Service in the Leader That Matters. Why GOOGLE+ Spells Trouble for Facebook. David Goodman.

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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.

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The Rise of the Digital CMO

Harvard Business Review

Yesterday''s Linux hackers are now the chief architects and CIOs of the largest enterprises. Many CMOs see their digital future, but struggle to make the case across the executive ranks, where resistance is born of unfamiliarity, fear, or misperceptions about what digital marketing means for the brand.

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

Harvard Business Review

Cultural resistance can also become a bigger obstacle than anticipated. According to KPMG’s 2016 CIO Survey , data analytics is the most in-demand technology skill for the second year running, but nearly 40% of IT leaders say they suffer from shortfalls in skills in this critical area.