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Who is the 21st Century CEO?

In the CEO Afterlife

Steve Jobs and Larry Page took note of the environment in which their companies would operate but fretted little about it. That’s because success for Page and Jobs hinged on the strategic choices they made – primarily which products and applications to bet on.

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Managing With a Conscience

Leading Blog

Sonnenberg discusses at length, nine critical success factors that need to be built into the organization: Passion that develops commitment to the organization’s mission, values, and goals. An innovative and creative environment and mindset that reinvents itself every day.

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Invest in Digital Marketing to Control Your Destiny

Harvard Business Review

His "Obama for America" fundraising , analytics and "get out the vote" operation was a masterpiece of agile electoral innovation and entrepreneurship. There's not a brand manager, health care administrator, CMO or CIO who wouldn't benefit big-time from benchmarking their own operations to this campaign's. They're right.

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The 2010 Execution Round-Up: Six Companies That Couldn't 'Get It.

Strategy Driven

Closing the Execution Gap : How Great Leaders and Their Companies Get Results by Richard Lepsinger If an organization can’t execute its plans and initiatives, nothing else matters: not the most solid, well thought-out strategy, not the most innovative business model, not even technological breakthroughs that could transform an industry.

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A Tool for Balancing Your Company’s Digital Investments

Harvard Business Review

Instead, they should use a portfolio tool that classifies all existing, planned, and potential digital investments into four categories based on an assessment of their current and future contribution to business success. With this model, an investment can be defined as strategic, key operational, support, or high potential.

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What Executives Don't Understand About Big Data

Harvard Business Review

Is big data there to provide a more innovative signal or a comfortable redundancy? A commitment to a desired business outcome is the critical success factor. Amazon's transformational recommendation engines reflect Bezos' focus on superior user experience rather than any innovation emphasis on repurposing customer data.

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Marissa Mayer Is No Fool

Harvard Business Review

The (far) more interesting counterfactual would have been a leaked memo declaring that telecommuters and virtual teams were — by far — the most agile, innovative and productive performers at Yahoo. Why would Mayer minimize what she had experienced as a critical success factor?