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First Look: Leadership Books for February 2024

Leading Blog

More often it's an implicit contract, a buildup of organizational and cultural norms and the adoption of new technologies that make it easy to tether people to work. We've traveled far and fast from the old world of business ethics, where black-and-white concerns about bribery and fraud could be addressed via rules and processes.

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First Look: Leadership Books for September 2020

Leading Blog

To stay relevant, we have to be able to excel cognitively, behaviorally, and emotionally in ways that technology can't. Kilimanjaro and spent more than a decade traveling the world. On the most fundamental level, leaders must bring divergent groups together and forge a consensus on a path forward. Rainier and Mt.

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Growing Support Among Patients And Doctors For Telemedicine

The Horizons Tracker

Telehealth has long been a technology with considerable promise, that seemed to struggle for widespread adoption due as much to organizational inertia as any fundamental flaws in the technology itself. Opinions among doctors themselves tend to vary somewhat, depending in many cases on what the technology was used for.

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How to Lead in High Turbulence – 5 Lessons from the Tunisian revolution

Strategy Driven

This dialogue reached a consensus among political parties stipulating that the incumbent Islamists hand over power to a technocratic transitional government. I was asked to be Minister of Higher Education, Scientific Research, and Information & Communication Technologies. How could I refuse? About the Author.

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What U2 and the US Navy Have in Common: Connecting with Core Employees

Michael Lee Stallard

The Value Bridge Admiral Clark described his strategy as using the Navy’s “asymmetrical advantages” of the “best technology in the world” combined with the “genius of our people.” This made it safe for people to disagree and express views that were outside of the consensus view.

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The First Wave of Corporate AI Is Doomed to Fail

Harvard Business Review

A few years later they were caught napping when online upstarts disrupted industries such as music, travel, news, and video, while transforming scores of others. Already, evidence suggests that early AI pilots are unlikely to produce the dramatic results that technology enthusiasts predict. the parent company of Google.)

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Boards Aren’t as Global as Their Businesses

Harvard Business Review

There’s a growing consensus that companies need strong, independent boards full of qualified directors if they are to sidestep risks and seize opportunities in our complex and dynamic international economy.