Head of Business Platforms & Data @Lebara 》Interested in leadership, scaling tech teams, culture & start-ups 》AI, Digital, and Data Transformation 》 Cloudify.
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"I believe if you hire a person to do a job, you ought to get out of their way and let them do it."
~ Ray Kroc
#Leadership #Micro #Management #Trust #Accountability
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It’s always been preposterous to believe that #careers should be linear, like everyone progresses higher & higher, step-by-step on a ladder.
In reality, the most successful leaders deliberately take roles where they can acquire unique skills. This means they go in many directions to make progress -- not always up.
#Leadership #LeadFromTheHeart
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Three factors that lead to failure:
- Most initiatives are run as technology projects.
- Users resist changes in their ways of working.
- It isn’t easy to demonstrate analytics ROI.
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Our Manifesto to #FixTheDigitalDivide covers 5 areas the new Government should adopt to eliminate digital exclusion.
Watch our Associate Director of Digital Inclusion Delivery, Sital Mistry-Lee, unpack our ask around bringing internet connectivity and data to all.
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Action bias. Football goalkeepers will jump to the left or right when facing penalties, even though statistically they'd be better off just staying in the middle. Action bias is the tendency to choose action over inaction, even where there's no indication that taking action will help. We tend to (falsely) equate activity with productivity & keeping control. We see action bias frequently in the improvement world. When results don't come quickly, leaders will want more changes, rather than waiting for the improvements to work their way through the system. Deliberately deciding to do nothing is a good practice/skill that improvement leaders need: thedecisionlab.com/biases/ac…. By @TheDecision_Lab
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Yann LeCun says because all the information we consume will soon be mediated by AI assistants, we need a free and diverse selection of models
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So many misnamed IT concepts that took off:
- Microservices (not so micro)
- DevOps (DevSecFinCloudPlatformOps)
- Serverless (except there are servers...)
- NoSQL (not only SQL)
- Monolith is bad (but good to start with)
- what else?
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Have you completed an Executive Education programme in 2022? Would you be interested in sharing your experience? Please complete the following form if you would like to get involved or share a blog with us in the new year eu1.hubs.ly/H02scth0
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Many software companies (=managing directors) I know need to understand that having human capital is way more important than owning the source code. Software source code has little value without smart people who know the application domain and can understand and evolve the code.
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This chart is exactly why companies like Notion or Airtable - ones where Microsoft/Google has viable alternatives - should be worried.
CIOs and CTOs will overwhelmingly choose the product that is included in their current suite in large enterprises where the big money is.
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A highly effective way of dealing with #ambiguity is to imagine various potential scenarios & how you'd best respond to each of them should they occur.
Mentally rehearsing is a powerful way to be prepared to respond to whatever comes your way.
#Leadership #LeadFromTheHeart #CEO
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#AWS introduces the #ArchitecturalDecisionRecords (#ADR) process for #SoftwareEngineering projects! The process results in a collection of approved, rejected, or superseded ADRs in a decision log. Learn more on #InfoQ: bit.ly/3ME7ILu
#SoftwareArchitecture
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Top priorities in my #CIO convos recently:
- Be a better business leader
- Become a #talent/retention magnet
- Seize more opportunities
- Get #IT foundation + house in order
- Data and #AI-enable everything
- Mentor more
- Storytell better
- DT 2.0
#NewCSuite #leadership
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It’s a sad truth, but if we’re lucky enough to live to age 80, we still only get 4,000 weeks here on planet Earth.
Mega-selling author @OliverBurkeman is my new# podcast guest & shares uncommon & brilliant advice for managing time in our remaining weeks.
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Twitter is the fastest news source in the world.
And depending on who you follow, the most reliable.
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Revenue: $51.7 billion versus $50.9 billion expected
Earnings per share: $2.48 versus $2.31 expected
Microsoft cloud revenues up 46%.
Shares down 4%.
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1 2 1 conversation w team is an important tool for managers if used effectively and consistently.
1️⃣Frequency should be weekly or fortnightly.
2️⃣Clear agenda, come prepared and no last moment cancellation.
3️⃣In post covid world at least have one in person meeting once a month.
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The best and most successful workplaces ensure that people feel supported through difficult times. Learn more about how to build #teams that can weather uncertainty and change from @lizandmollie: mitsmr.com/3velUFq
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Where do humans find #meaning at #work?
McKinsey research says these are the top 2:
#1 is in ourselves (via our growth, autonomy & rewards).
#2 is the #connection we have with fellow employees & caring about each other & doing the right thing for the team.
#LeadFromTheHeart #HR