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Fueling Innovation: How Microsoft Finally Got It Right

Leading Blog

His goal was not to make Microsoft the most innovative company but the most successful in its field. Of course, part of that entailed reestablishing the company’s reputation for cutting-edge technology. Innovation had become the goal, and that wasn’t enough. Innovation requires clear goals to reach toward.

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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.

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The Entrepreneur’s Faces: 10 Entrepreneurial Types and Their Journey

Leading Blog

As if the changes in technology haven’t left many wondering what to do next, the reaction to the COVID-19 virus has left many leaders in a kind of limbo. For many of us, the pandemic has interrupted our goals and stolen our sense of purpose. Allan Young’s Awakening. Allan Young’s parents were Chinese immigrants.

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Candidate Management During a Crisis

N2Growth Blog

While in the second year of my profession the great recession hit and had a significant impact on my area of expertise including venture capital, and private equity-backed technology companies. So, if your hiring process is paused, that could cause a much more significant inconvenience in that person’s life than you may think.

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The Best Leadership Books of 2021

Leading Blog

Emerging technologies, changing demographics, the data economy, automation, and other trends-the undercurrents of radical, systemic change-are crashing into each other. Almost 30 years later, at the pinnacle of his success as founder and leader of Dell Technologies, he found himself embroiled in a battle for his company’s survival.

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Taking a Look at the Future of Oil and Gas Industry

Strategy Driven

Renewable technology is gaining ground left and right. Sustainable technology is getting cheaper as time rolls by. What is more, the adoption of new technologies will facilitate oil and gas operations. Technology also gives the oil and gas industry a chance to wash its face. The Green Revolution. The Bleeding Edge.

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Finding the Right Speed in an Ever-Faster World

The Practical Leader

His goal seemed to be to bombard us into using his knowledge management approaches so we could cram more stuff in our craniums. ” Many people believe that younger generations raised in an environment of juggling multiple technologies at once are better at multitasking. Numerous studies prove that’s dead wrong.

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