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Who is the 21st Century CEO?

In the CEO Afterlife

Steve Jobs and Larry Page took note of the environment in which their companies would operate but fretted little about it. That’s because success for Page and Jobs hinged on the strategic choices they made – primarily which products and applications to bet on.

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What Executives Don't Understand About Big Data

Harvard Business Review

A commitment to a desired business outcome is the critical success factor. Big Data should be neither servant nor master; properly managed, it becomes a new medium for shaping how people and their technologies interact. Google is a company whose products and processes are explicitly designed to be data-driven.

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Marissa Mayer Is No Fool

Harvard Business Review

Most successful technical leaders I know avoid getting in the way of their best people's productivity. But what do leaders do when even very good people aren't being as productive as you want or need them to be? Why would Mayer minimize what she had experienced as a critical success factor?

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How Coty Reinvigorated Its Supply Chain

Harvard Business Review

The results helped mobilize a significant part of the organization: people at all levels and functions teamed up to generate new revenues, cut costs, increase productivity, and enhance quality. Operations in a Connected World. The technologies and processes that are transforming companies. Kotter’s book Accelerate.).

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The 2010 Execution Round-Up: Six Companies That Couldn't 'Get It.

Strategy Driven

Closing the Execution Gap : How Great Leaders and Their Companies Get Results by Richard Lepsinger If an organization can’t execute its plans and initiatives, nothing else matters: not the most solid, well thought-out strategy, not the most innovative business model, not even technological breakthroughs that could transform an industry.