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The C-Suite Needs a Chief Entrepreneur

Harvard Business Review

Sure, there are exceptions who are both visionary CEOs and innovators — Steve Jobs and Jeff Bezos, for example — but there are very few companies that can stomach that sort of leadership. This is not a CTO role or a role that reports to the CEO. You’re comfortable with uncertainty. You don’t fear failure.

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To Drive Digital Transformation, Focus on People

Strategy Driven

That requires a new way of thinking about people and leadership. But there’s a model of leadership that will. Above all, driving the use of these techniques depends on the stance of leadership. Leadership should make it clear that they are offended by wasting time, as it’s also wasting energy, resources and brain space.

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C'mon, IT Leaders. Take a Chance!

Harvard Business Review

To respond to the volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity of the business environment today, IT leaders need to address risk differently by looking at it in totality and questioning their assumptions, challenging long-held assertions and recognizing both the analytical fallacies and less-than-perfect cognitive processes they use.