The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

While the metaverse sprang to public attention with the renaming of Facebook earlier this year, the phrase was coined back in 1996 in Neal Stephenson’s book Snow Crash, in which the science fiction author described an immersive version of the internet that was accessed via virtual reality. ” Immersive worlds.

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Stephenson Wireless Christensen Automotive 84

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2018

Yet AT&T executives quickly came to believe so strongly in Job’s vision that they skipped internal process protocols to land the deal. Randall Stephenson, then CEO of AT&T, famously said , “I told people you weren’t betting on a device. We also had to figure out how to measure leadership, a trickier question.

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Stephenson Kahneman CEO Commitment 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2015

Randall Stephenson of AT&T explained, “We had 270,000 people we employed around the globe. ” CEOs also worried about whether their high potential employees were being properly developed. We wanted to keep those two things in the forefront of our thinking and driving our strategy and execution. Ken Powell of U.S.

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CEO Stephenson Pharmaceuticals Globalization 8