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5 signs your agile practices will lead to digital disaster

CIO

Business leaders expect IT to develop new products, improve customer experiences, automate workflows, and deliver new artificial intelligence capabilities. CIOs should not assume there’s sufficient trust between leaders and teams and psychological safety for people to work without unnecessary stress.

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Book Review: The Right Leader

Lead on Purpose

In his book The Right Leader: Selecting Executives Who Fit , author Nat Stoddard (with help from Claire Wyckoff) investigates the complex topic of assuring smooth executive transitions, with their primary focus at the CEO level. The first section of the book focuses on finding executives who “fit&# the organization.

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My big jump: Sukhinder Singh Cassidy’s CEO journey

TechCrunch

Specifically, I hoped to join a company with a very strong engineering and product management culture that needed a CEO with strategy, vision, business development, fundraising and team-building expertise. Published and reprinted by permission of Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.

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Book Review: The Pursuit of Something Better

Lead on Purpose

In the book THE PURSUIT OF SOMETHING BETTER: How an Underdog Company Defied the Odds, Won Customers’ Hearts, and Grew Its Employees Into Better People , the authors Dave Esler and Myra Kruger detail how Jack Rooney turned US Cellular into a company known for great customer service.

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Bringing an AI Product to Market

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

The Core Responsibilities of the AI Product Manager. Product Managers are responsible for the successful development, testing, release, and adoption of a product, and for leading the team that implements those milestones. Those are questions that every product team needs to think about.

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Managing conflict

Lead on Purpose

The Arbinger Institute answers these important questions in the book The Anatomy of Peace: Resolving the Heart of Conflict. The book teaches important principles through an intriguing story of parents who are struggling with their children and with problems that have come to consume their lives. Conflicts will arise.

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Speak the language

Lead on Purpose

You have to immerse yourself in their culture and let go of old ideas and pre-conceived notions. Too many times leaders or managers think if they say their word the people will understand what they mean and become motivated to do what they say. The executive team wants to know when we’re shipping.