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Should We “Defund” Leadership?

Lead Change Blog

The Pixar 2018 documentary on the company tells the tale of a group of passionate, driven people who worked around the clock, sleeping under their desks to bring to market revolutionary technology tools. ” One of the General Magic engineers immediately responded, “Thanks, but we don’t need a manager.

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Lessons in Leadership to Last a Lifetime

Leading Blog

A FTER 18 YEARS on the MIT faculty, I thought I knew a thing or two about leadership. But in 1999, at the height of the Internet boom, I took a two-year leave of absence to serve as director of system architecture at Akamai Technologies, an MIT start-up located here in Cambridge. To keep leading, keep learning.

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Digitalizing Your Business Means Re-Imagining How It Operates

N2Growth Blog

Otherwise, the introduction of digitalized commerce technologies will only amount to paving over the cow paths! The assembly-line, given the power of today’s digital technology, is becoming an unnecessary construct. In essence, business processes need not be limited by reporting lines or geography in this kind of operating model.

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Nine Key Strategies for Going Beyond Great

Leading Blog

T O THRIVE in a new, more tumultuous era of social tension, economic nationalism, and technological revolution, you need to go beyond great. And third is “a technological revolution fueled by the exponential growth of global data and digital technologies.”. Operating Beyond: Rethink How Their Companies Operate.

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Leadership and Digital Transformation

N2Growth Blog

Your business now operates as part of a global digital eco-system where leveling the playing field has become a digital impossibility. Don’t attempt to compete with those who are more evolved, piggy-back off of them, partner with them, engineer around them, on move out in front of them. Think next chapter vs last book.

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F1 Racing and the Insurance and Finance Industry: A Comparison of Trends and Challenges

N2Growth Blog

Flexible Work Arrangements and Pay Flexible work arrangements are not commonly offered to F1 team employees, especially those in roles that require on-track activities, such as mechanics, engineers, and drivers. Effective leadership is crucial in managing and optimizing a team’s performance with multiple high-performing individuals.

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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. ?. Selection Methodology.