Book Review: Only The Paranoid Survive
“Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive” Andy Grove ,former Intel CEO, shares his experiences about the strategic inflection point through which Intel re-positioned itself from memory chip to microprocessor producer successfully. Grove descibes a strategic inflection point as a 10X change of 6 forces (Porter’s...
Leading Virtual Teams
In the last two decades , organizations have become increasingly global and complex. In addition to that constantly changing customer needs, technological advancements and continuous competitor innovation have driven the rapid use of virtual teams. A virtual team is a group “of geographically, organizationally and/or time dispersed workers brought...
Book Review: The Leadership Challenge
“Do what you say you will do. Align your actions and your words. Demonstrate honesty and trustworthiness, because credibility is the foundation of leadership” The Leadership Challenge by Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner is a true classic. Thousands of leadership cases are distilled in “The Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership”:...
Book Review: Leading Digital
“Leadership is the lever that turns technology into transformation” Westerman, Bonnet, and McAfee describe essential characteristics of digital tranformation in 2 sections. Digital Capabilities (Customer Experience, Operations, Business Models) and Leadership Capabilities (Vision, Engagement, Governance and Technology). They are explaining the DNA of digital masters with well structured case...
Book Review: The Digital Transformation Playbook
“Digital transformation is not about technology—it is about strategy and new ways of thinking” During pandemic I’ve found more time reading books. Last one is The Digital Transformation Playbook. The book explains underlying concepts of digital era which are reqired to craft a successful strategy. Digitial transformation’s 5 domains...