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To Transform, Trade Ego for Humility

The Agile Manager

Neither strategy paid off. Both companies burned through billions of dollars of investor capital on losing strategies in the handset market. That strategy worked for GE in the 1990s. The executive who understood the sea change taking place would not concoct a strategy to fight the battle on their terms. From everybody.

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How companies can become magnets for digital talent

All Things Distributed

And these talents are by no means coveted only by companies that always had a digital business model to begin with; suppliers to the automotive industry, financial services companies, and retailers also, urgently need product managers, and technical staff who can quickly make their organizations digitally attractive to their customers.