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First Look: Leadership Books for July 2020

Leading Blog

Before Silicon Valley disrupted the world with new technologies and business models, America’s industrial giants paved the way. Companies like General Electric, United Technologies, and Caterpillar were the Google and Amazon of their day, setting gold standards in innovation, growth, and profitability.

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The Benefits of a Chief Transformation Officer for Growth

N2Growth Blog

Vrio Corp has been committed to following market trends and increasing its value proposition through transformation: investing in technology and content aligned with the consumers’ habits, emphasizing the next generation. Daniel Roldán Chiffoleau is the Chief Transformation Officer at DirecTV Latin America (Vrio Corp.),

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How Smart Companies Can Close The Skills Gap

Eric Jacobson

“In the next ten to fifteen years, rapid change in a post-pandemic world and emerging technology will revolutionize nearly every job, eliminate some, and create new forms of work that we have yet to imagine,” says Deanna Mulligan , author of the new book, Hire Purpose: How Smart Companies Can Close The Skills Gap. It is the entire world.

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How Smart Companies Can Close The Skills Gap

Eric Jacobson

“In the next ten to fifteen years, rapid change in a post-pandemic world and emerging technology will revolutionize nearly every job, eliminate some, and create new forms of work that we have yet to imagine,” says Deanna Mulligan , author of the book, Hire Purpose: How Smart Companies Can Close The Skills Gap. It is the entire world.

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Successful Leadership Today: What to Do Now

Mark Sanborn

George Bernard Shaw said, “Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything. Whether a change in technology you must adopt to keep up or an economic circumstance, a force outside the leader’s control has created the need for change. How has leadership changed and what should you be doing now? The first is imposed.

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Psychology Is the Key to Detecting Internal Cyberthreats

Harvard Business Review

The key to identifying and addressing at-risk employees before a breach or incident occurs is to focus as much on understanding and anticipating human behavior as on shoring up technological defenses. Treating insiders as a technology problem ignores the human aspects of motivation and behavior.”

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Making Virtual Teams Work: Ten Basic Principles

Harvard Business Review

I had one face-to-face meeting with the team lead for the technology development this past December.". Commit to a communication charter. Leverage the best communication technologies. However, selecting the "best" technologies does not necessarily mean going with the newest or most feature-laden. Could this be you?

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