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High-Touch Leadership in Buffer’s Fully Remote Culture

Gitprime

So she ensures that her remote teams socialize together, no matter where they live. And it’s intentionally done—think more the office lunch out, more so than the water cooler banter—because socialization is necessary for even the most introverted human beings. “We Second, we see technical leadership as an equal track,” she adds.

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10 Leading Books on Social Business

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

During the research for our forthcoming book, Social Business By Design , I ended up taking a close look at a number of other excellent titles on the subject. In fact, that’s the core tenet of social business: Anyone can participate. Smart Business, Social Business by Michael Brito.

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Bringing an AI Product to Market

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

This isn’t always simple, since it doesn’t just take into account technical risk; it also has to account for social risk and reputational damage. Ultimately, the company decided to simply drop the most social components of the platform, a decision which limited overall growth. This is particularly true for AI products.

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How IT and the Role of the CIO is Changing in the Era of Networked Organizations

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

Central to this was including internal customers closely in the process of technology change, often taking their lead, using an internal culture he calls Nimble. People rely less on curated information, he explained, and more on networking and learning what other businesses are doing. ” How does he enable next-gen IT?

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#define CTO OpenAI

Greg Brockman

We talked about strategy (what we would work on), culture (the kind of people we wanted to hire, valuing engineering and research equally), and tactics (hold a daily reading group). Technical leadership should call the shots while still doing hands-on technical work.