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James Taylor: An interview by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

James Taylor is the CEO and a Principal Consultant of Decision Management Solutions. James is the leading expert in decision management and decisioning technologies.

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I Am Out of Touch; You Probably Are Too

CEO Insider

This realization happened recently while reading the book Extremely Online by Taylor Lorenz. This is embarrassing, but I will admit it: I feel out of touch. Lorenz shares the history of influencers on the internet – primarily through social media – and how they impact our society.

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First Look: Leadership Books for February 2024

Leading Blog

More often it's an implicit contract, a buildup of organizational and cultural norms and the adoption of new technologies that make it easy to tether people to work. Either way, this workaholic behavior is unhealthy and counterproductive for workers and for organizations. It's time to fight back.

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First Look: Leadership Books for October 2021

Leading Blog

From Michael Dell, renowned founder and chief executive of one of America’s largest technology companies, the inside story of the battles that defined him as a leader. Play Nice But Win is a riveting account of the three battles waged for Dell Technologies: one to launch it, one to keep it, and one to transform it.

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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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Dehumanizing with AI, Automation, and Technical Optimization

The Practical Leader

In the early 1900s, Frederick Taylor, used “Scientific Management” principles to make the new production lines more efficient. Last year, I facilitated a planning retreat with a back-to-the-future technology colossus. We’ll see what happens when they lose their technological edge.

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Impatiently Patient

QAspire

Thanks to Mike Taylor for featuring my sketchnote/post on “ Three L’s from Self-Directed Learning: Insights from my first TEDx talk ” in his latest round-up of Best in Learning, Design and Technology. Patience, especially in the face of adversity and external resistance can be the source of our hope and strength of our soul.

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