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How To Lead In The Digital Economy

The Horizons Tracker

The report, which saw several thousand executives from over 120 countries quizzed, revealed that just 12% thought their leaders had the right mindset, and 9% the right skills to thrive in the digital economy. Timing : Creating an appropriate sequence and roadmaps for deploying new technology.

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Is The Gig Economy Set To Disrupt The Legal Profession?

The Horizons Tracker

Platforms offering relatively low skilled work with minimal job security and many of the bad things that have come to characterize the gig economy. The study explores the Chinese market after the country’s Ministry of Justice made online legal services a key part of its strategy.

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The Edge: How 10 CEOs Learned to Lead—and the Lessons for Us All

Leading Blog

The edge is that “place or point or period where your past skills are serving you, but you need to bring new skills online as well.” Your task is now to acquire the skills you need in this new territory before your career or your enterprise falters as a result of your personal limitations.

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Corporations: Donate Your Skills, Not Just Your Money

Harvard Business Review

They told us "skills-based" volunteerism that leverages an individual's particular strengths and interests was more rewarding than traditional programs that offer a generic opportunity to help. A skills-based, or pro bono, approach is about donating skills, not just money.

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How Leading Companies Build the Workforces They Need to Stay Ahead

Harvard Business Review

The strategic underpinnings of most companies’ workforce plans should change dramatically as a result of technological innovation. But it will impact the way many jobs are performed, requiring new skills and making many existing skills less valuable. Take insurance, for example. Most companies have been slow to react.

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The Four Personas of the Next-Generation CIO

Harvard Business Review

Just as previous technology and business shifts have changed the role of the CIO, the new, more consumer-oriented business models of the social revolution will favor a new breed of business and technology leader. As overall business strategy planning ties closer to IT strategy, four personas of the next-generation CIO will emerge: 1.

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CIOs Must Lead Outside of IT

Harvard Business Review

Adopt emerging technologies, while weighed down by the past. Today, however, technology innovation is creating a drastic change — across all major industries — in the way customers want to interact with their suppliers. The CIO paradox is a set of contradictions that lies at the heart of IT leadership.

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