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How To Disrupt the Tech World

Mills Scofield

From how I was raised through my education and my career at Bell Labs and AT&T, I never felt any gender bias. The stories, including one by America’s new CTO and former VP at Google[X] Megan Smith , are the authentic voices of women who have persevered, overcome, created, and innovated their careers and accomplishments.

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Whose Job Is It to Manage Freelancers?

Harvard Business Review

One of us is a consultant and educator whose new book, Agile Talent , describes how organizations can maximize the advantages and strategic return on their agile talent investment. Others are new to managing or stronger technically than as a supervisor. One approach that 10X has recommended is creating a roving CTO or project managers.

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How to Support Employees’ Learning Goals While Getting Day-to-Day Stuff Done

Harvard Business Review

You’re not cut out for engineering. Lines like this are still used all too frequently when employees tell their managers that they want to move in a new direction. Managers are under tremendous pressure to generate results. Part of your job will be to manage this uncertainty. You’re not a data scientist.

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Which U.S. Companies Are Doing the Most R&D in China and India?

Harvard Business Review

Which companies allocate the highest proportion of that budget to engineering in China and India, specifically? And what drives their success with these global engineering initiatives? Six selected insights are presented here, tempered with our own experience in many years of consulting with global engineering initiatives.

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Leading Innovation Is the Art of Creating “Collective Genius” - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM HBS EXECUTIVE EDUCATION

Harvard Business Review

HBS Executive Education brings you these articles about business management courtesy of Harvard Business School Working Knowledge. For a holiday promotion, a young project manager and his marketing colleagues launched a “treasure hunt,” working nonstop to launch registration pages, clues, and an hourly countdown clock.

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Leading Innovation Is the Art of Creating “Collective Genius” - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM HBS EXECUTIVE EDUCATION

Harvard Business Review

Executive education students at Harvard Business School. HBS Executive Education brings you these articles about business management courtesy of Harvard Business School Working Knowledge. At Harvard Business School’s General Management Program. As Harvard Business School Professor Linda A. Join the conversation.

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How Sephora Reorganized to Become a More Digital Brand

Harvard Business Review

When I joined in 2007, it was obvious Sephora had the right ingredients to become a world-class digital brand — willingness to take risks, commitment to customers, and passion for educating clients. What needs to be in place for people in these roles to succeed, and on a personal level, what is it like to manage your dual roles?

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