Technology Leadership

"A FUNNY, HARD-HITTING, SYSTEMS-THINKING APPROACH TO BUSINESS & IT!" Most books: Here's *my* opinion on how to do technology. UNF*CK IT!: Here's a process to analyze your Business & IT and to apply systems-thinking & continuous improvement methodologies to improve your business-technology alignment. With a liberal amount of F-bombs added for salty goodness. Full of pop-culture references and language that would make a sailor blush, UNF*CK IT! presents a comprehensive, systematic plan to improve IT performance, Business-IT alignment, & reduce IT costs. Using six hard-hitting case studies ...

Today, small and medium businesses are faced with daunting challenges: *Increasing global competition *An unprecedented array of media and technologies *New and evolving buyer expectations *Demand for real-time and relevant brand engagement To succeed in today's environment, effective strategies are needed. This book is for start-ups and established companies who want to grow their business. *Create winning approaches to the market *Avoid common pitfalls, saving time and money *Eliminate waste on unproductive approaches and tactics *Accelerate revenue growth and success Marketing For ...

Fighting for the Colony is the first of two volumes revised and expanded from the original Keeping the Colony. This volume follows Ricky as he defends against an interstellar empire. Ricky and his girlfriend Edin have both been medically tested and proven to be adults, so now they are engaged, and Ricky provides Edin the full ability to determine when she will become pregnant. With a triple birth underway in the specially prepared birthing suite in his house, Ricky invites his Grammy and Edin’s immediate family to visit Murna using a secret, rapid method he has recently developed. He ...

The primary purpose of this book is to provide valuable insights for digital transformational leadership empowered by technical excellence by using a pragmatic five-pillar framework. This empowering framework aims to help the reader understand the common characteristics of technical and technology leaders in a structured way. Even though there are different types of leaders in broad-spectrum engaging in digital transformations, in this book, we only concentrate on excellent technical and technology leaders having digital transformation goals to deal with technological disruptions and robust...

The Civil War was the first "modern war." Because of the rapid changes in American society, Abraham Lincoln became president of a divided United States during a period of technological and social revolution. Among the many modern marvels that gave the North an advantage was the telegraph, which Lincoln used to stay connected to the forces in the field in almost real time. No leader in history had ever possessed such a powerful tool to gain control over a fractious situation. An eager student of technology, Lincoln had to learn to use the power of electronic messages.

Since the days of the dot-com bubble in the late 1990s, no industry has made a greater global impact than Silicon Valley. And few individuals have done more to shape Silicon Valley than billionaire venture capitalist and entrepreneur Peter Thiel. From the technologies we use every day to the delicate power balance between Silicon Valley, Wall Street and Washington, Thiel has been a behind-the-scenes operator influencing countless aspects of contemporary life. But despite his power and the ubiquity of his projects, no public figure is quite so mysterious.

Conventional product development focuses on the solution. Empathy is a mindset that focuses on people, helping you to understand their thinking patterns and perspectives. Practical Empathy will show you how to gather and compare these patterns to make better decisions, improve your strategy, and collaborate successfully.

It’s hard to avoid innovation these days. Nearly every product gets marketed as being disruptive, whether it’s genuinely a new invention or just a new toothbrush. But in this manifesto on the state of American work, historians of technology Lee Vinsel and Andrew L. Russell argue that our way of thinking about and pursuing innovation has made us poorer, less safe, and — ironically — less innovative. Drawing on years of original research and reporting, The Innovation Delusion shows how the ideology of change for its own sake has proved a disaster.

Zhou Qunfei is a self-made billionaire and the founder of Lens Technology, a leading supplier of glass screens for tech giants like Apple, Samsung, and Huawei. Born in a rural village in China, Zhou faced early hardships, including the loss of her mother at a young age. She began working in factories as a teenager but used her keen eye for precision manufacturing to start her own glass-processing business in 2003. Through relentless innovation and determination, she built Lens Technology into a global powerhouse, revolutionizing the smartphone industry. Today, with a net worth of $6.1 ...

Demystifying IT has been hailed as the one book about information technology that leaders of midsized companies should listen to. Given the importance of IT in today’s world, it might also be the most timely and valuable business book of any kind to be published recently. The co-authors are masters of leveraging IT for creating sustainable competitive advantages for businesses. They’ve been at it for decades, solving problems that defied other experts, and leading digitization projects which have boosted client companies into new realms of growth and profit.

Ricky’s forces have beaten back the Empire of Man’s attempted invasion of Earth, though he suspects that was a fact-finding mission in force. While doing so, his Navy has captured members of an alien spacefaring species currently known as the Kinaklyn. Ricky has the first known vocal conversation with the Kinaklyn people with very positive results. Now, he needs to figure out a way to get to their home worlds, which are located on the far side of a fair portion of the Empmen’s space. Space Marine Major Amy Brella is Ricky’s pointwoman in dealing with the Empmen. She leads the ...

We are in the midst of an unprecedented degree of technology-driven change at the same time that society faces challenges more complex than our organizations and we as individuals have been prepared to handle. Autonomous Transformation: Creating a More Human Future in the Era of Artificial Intelligence is for leaders who want to create a better future within this context of change and supplies a balance of historical and theoretical context with practical frameworks for beginning to create a more human future today.

Today, organizations are grappling with ambiguity, volatility, and paradox surrounding the challenges they face. This is complexity. But too many leaders approach complexity the wrong way - they push their people harder and harder and tackle problems one at a time over months, sometimes even years and nearly always in a linear fashion. It’s like setting a pot of water on “low” and waiting for it to boil. In this book, the authors share their proven formula for dramatically shortening the process and solving an organization’s toughest challenges in mere days.

Twenty-one years after its incorporation and 16 years after its stock peak, Yahoo sold for 96% less than its value on January 3, 2000, when it had closed at an all-time high of $118.75 per share, resulting in a market capitalization of $120 billion. Wall Street valued Yahoo!, at that time in business less than six years, higher than it did Disney, News Corporation, and Comcast combined. Yahoo!'s story is one of missed strategies, failed opportunities, and poor execution.

The race is on to become a digital enterprise. Every organization has a plan for updating products, technologies, and business processes. But that's not enough anymore. With disruptive startups outperforming industry stalwarts, executives everywhere are pushing greater growth and innovation. Staying competitive demands a complete digital transformation.

An innovation expert illuminates why your power to make a difference is no longer bound by your status. In The Power of Onlyness, Nilofer Merchant, one of the world's top-ranked business thinkers, reveals that we have now reached an unprecedented moment of opportunity for your ideas to "make a dent" on the world.

While the world is transfixed by bitcoin mania, your competitors are tuning out the noise and making strategic bets on blockchain. Your rivals are effortlessly tracking every last link in their supply chains. They're making bureaucratic paper trails obsolete while keeping their customers' data safer and discovering new ways to use this next foundational technology to sustain their competitive advantage.

Unlocking Business Growth is your essential toolkit for navigating the complexities of expanding your enterprise with confidence and precision. Dive into a strategic exploration designed to transform burgeoning potential into realized success. This comprehensive guide begins with the foundational importance of understanding and cultivating growth potential, emphasizing strategic planning as the backbone of any robust expansion endeavor. Discover how to define and communicate your business’s core values, ensuring they align seamlessly with your growth goals. Learn the art of strategic ...

Friday, November 13, 1981 I’ll always remember the news reports from that tragic day. I was 13 years old and we lived in Utah, about a half-hour north of Salt Lake City. The TV news stations and the local newspapers reported the heartbreaking story and it stuck with me for years. Two brothers, not much younger than I was at the time, were playing in a pile of leaves in front of their grandma’s home in Salt Lake when a car drove through the leaves, running over both boys. Michael Mace, age 11, was killed in the accident. His younger brother, Billy, who was 9, miraculously survived. The ...

Ignorance of technology is the new measure of illiteracy. Is it hurting you and your business? Are critical IT decisions being made by the right people in your organization? In many small to medium-sized companies, key business decisions are being made by the IT support folks (geeks), while technology decisions are being made by management. Too often signals get mixed and decisions with less than ideal judgment or clarity are made.