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2020 Top CHRO List – The People Leaders To Watch

N2Growth Blog

While Chief Digital/Technology Officers or Chief Marketing Officers are often tagged with the innovator label, it is the CHRO who is the real innovator in 2020. Remember, it’s the people and culture who enable technology and marketing success – not the other way around. ?. and a development manager at Oracle Corp.

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The Best Leadership Books of 2016

Leading Blog

As technology becomes more disruptive and we see more importance placed on big data and artificial intelligence, what will matter most are those things that make us human – the soft skills. Taylor There's no such thing as an average or old-fashioned business, just average or old-fashioned ways to do business. Blog Post ).

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Guest Post: Watch Out for Flying Monkeys!

Lead on Purpose

With over 20 years of technology industry experience, he has a fresh and current perspective in leading product management teams and has a gift for taking conceptual ideas and turning them into strategic reality using methods based on market sensing best practices. Jim’s passion is product management and product marketing.

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3 Questions About AI That Nontechnical Employees Should Be Able to Answer

Harvard Business Review

Taylor Callery/Getty Images. For example, I manage the finances for a team that travels very often, and I’ve been grateful for the intelligent guesswork that my expenses software extracts from receipts using machine learning: the merchant’s name, the dollar amount spent, taxes, and likely expense categorization.

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Fixing the Euro Zone and Reducing Inequality, Without Fleecing the Rich

Harvard Business Review

Increasing inequality of income and wealth has occurred across the developed world for the past 30 years, with the majority of the gains from technology, globalization and deregulation accruing to a small minority in each country. Milton Friedman imagined a helicopter flying over a community and dropping dollar bills from the sky.

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Why Zuckerberg Is (Almost) Right About Great Talent

Harvard Business Review

While "average" and "better than average" coders, developers and architects may — ultimately — be able to consistently deliver these dynamic alignments, what a Zuckerberg or Bezos look for are individuals, pairs and small teams who grok how to integrate these qualities from the beginning instead of bolting them on towards the end.

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Five Good Reasons to Champion Auto-Analytics in Your Organization

Harvard Business Review

The recent boom in auto-analytics, or "self-tracking," or "self quantification" has been playing out mostly as a consumer trend — as something we do during our leisure time to become more deliberate about personal fitness, finances, or diet. Frederick Taylor's early pig-iron experiments measured and improved factory worker performance.