Mills Scofield

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

From how I was raised through my education and my career at Bell Labs and AT&T, I never felt any gender bias. The stories, including one by America’s new CTO and former VP at Google[X] Megan Smith , are the authentic voices of women who have persevered, overcome, created, and innovated their careers and accomplishments.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 11, 2022

It’s a partnership between the client and firm, intent on placing executive leadership within suitable roles. C-Suite: CAO, COO, CFO, CTO, etc. Finding the right candidate for leadership roles in your organization requires much more than any traditional search strategy used in the past. This includes: Board Directors.

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thoughtLEADERS, LLC

JUNE 12, 2023

Today’s guest post is by Nikolay Gekht, CTO of Gehtsoft USA. Read the rest of this post at thoughtLEADERS, LLC: Leadership Training for the Real World. Learn the three steps a leader should take to prevent Fake DevOps and the five principles of DevOps. Let’s say you want to know whether your DevOps works well.

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HR Digest

MAY 9, 2024

The company made multiple changes to its leadership recently, with a new CTO, Amazon’s Dr Muge Erdirik Dogan, and a new CMO, Nicole Hubbard Graham, who was a returning employee. The post Nike Layoffs Announcement to Affect 740 Employees by June 28 appeared first on The HR Digest.

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Skip Prichard

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Over the past 27 years of my career in marketing, brand management and executive search + coaching, I’ve found time and again that organizations have blind-spots when hiring talent. Leadership Tip: slow down hiring. It requires a leadership Emotional Intelligence (EI) makeover along with a company EI makeover.

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Skip Prichard

MARCH 13, 2020

” What ways can aspiring leaders prepare and futureproof their career? Leadership Tip: developing lifelong loyal employees is preferable and probably more cost-effective than the constant churn and friction of hiring and layoff cycles. Companies that fail to adapt to change typically fade into obsolescence.”

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2013

"It''s never foolish to begin preparing for a transition no matter how many years away it is or where you are in your career," says Muriel Maignan Wilkins, coauthor of Own the Room: Discover Your Signature Voice to Master Your Leadership Presence. Seize leadership opportunities, no matter how small. Look for the white space.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2017

McManus’s reframing of leadership — the leader as the sidekick, the intern as the superhero — embodies three powerful principles that enable innovation and discovery. He had her sit next to the CEO, and enabled her to wander around and ask questions to everyone, including the CEO and the CTO. Be the beginner.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2017

For example, if a CRO or CTO leaves a young company, it can cripple the organization. As a result, the sales leadership devised a proactive plan to reverse this dangerous trend. But founders can minimize the chances of that occurring by prioritizing culture from the startup’s earliest days.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2015

Starting a global engineering operation “essentially doubles the expense for 6-12 months,” says former Informatica CTO, James Markarian. They believe in strong, empowered global leadership, at both HQ and at remote sites. In fact, costs go up initially. Pay the true cost and invest.”

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2018

But for a generation of senior managers and functional heads raised on a steady diet of “visionary leadership,” this more adaptive approach does not always come naturally. They want to seize on the promise of AI, machine learning, and people analytics to improve business results and enhance their career prospects.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Eriksson, Banfield and Walkingshaw ’s book Product Leadership has a section that has a lot more detail on this topic). Founder/CTO/CEO relationship with PM – Especially in earlier stage companies, it’s important to know how involved the Founder/CEO/CTO is in the product process.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2011

The news had just hit that Danny Lewin — the co-founder of Akamai Technologies, its charismatic CTO, a former commando in the Israeli Special Forces, and MIT mathematics genius who led the company from a math class to an IPO and a market cap of $30 billion — had suddenly died. For all of us, Danny was our CTO and visionary.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2015

“When you’re a technical expert, you know your value to the organization,” says Wanda Wallace, President and CEO of Leadership Forum and author of Reaching the Top. “It’s a beginning of the shift in your career.” Hill says you should also show a desire to help your employees advance in their careers.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Celine Schillinger sought to change the leadership landscape of Sanofi, a major pharmaceutical company. Making the leap to a new career curve is a bold idea that also needs to be sold, and the importance of mitigating risk for the key decisionmaker — the prospective employer — holds true.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 5, 2025

Leadership plays a crucial role in fostering an environment where employees feel valued, engaged, and motivated to contribute to the company’s success. Retention challenges also arise from insufficient investment in leadership and communication during transitions.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2016

Lately I’ve been hearing business professionals at various stages in life, from college students to mid-career executives, talk more about their mothers and fathers than their spouses and children as sources of career conflict. ” “I’m afraid to tell my parents I’m gay.

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