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DisrupTV Episode 0017: Featuring Don Tapscott & Alex Tapscott, Blockchain Revolution
This week, Don Tapscott and Alex Tapscott about their new book "Blockchain Revolution." DisrupTV is a weekly Web series with hosts R “Ray” Wang and Vala Afshar. The show airs live at 11:00 a.m. PT/ 2:00 p.m. ET every Friday. Brought to you by Constellation Executive...
Is the future of business a company without workers, managers, or a CEO?
These days, it’s hardly surprising to hear that a hot new startup has received gobs of money from eager investors. But a new company called the DAO (short for “decentralized autonomous organization”) is not your average startup. The DAO, designed to serve as a kind of...
Blockchain and the CIO: a new model for IT
The most important emerging technology for the enterprise – and therefore the CIO – is not big data, the social web, artificial intelligence, robotics or the cloud – it’s blockchain The digital revolution is bringing a new and radically different platform for business...
Don Tapscott on How to Reinvent Talent Management
There are three major trends which are impacting the effectiveness of talent management, according to leadership expert Don Tapscott, who said organisations and their HR leaders need to seriously rethink their approach to talent in light of these changes. “Everything...
Thought Leader Interview: Don Tapscott
One of the world's most influential management thinkers discusses a new model for tackling the world's 'wicked problems'-issues such as poverty, inequality and climate change: Global Solution Networks (GSNs). Collaboration among nation states-while still necessary-is...
Marketing Chiefs Need To Embrace Technology
We have grown so used to being interconnected, to having the means of communicating with other people or finding out information at the touch of a screen that it is hard to believe that when the current generation of senior managers were in the early stages of their...
The General and the Visionary
Two influential voices are now calling for brain scientists to work together and be less competitive to accelerate advances in our knowledge and treatment of brain diseases and injuries. Read the rest of this article on Financial Post.
Best Advice: Leave the Executive Fast Track to Become an Entrepreneur
Thirty-five years ago (yep, that sure dates me), a colleague dragged me kicking and screaming away from my fast-track executive career to join her in launching our own company. At the time, I was deeply anxious — worried this would end up being the biggest mistake of...
Do Companies Still Need a CIO?
Introducing the IT Services Supermarket The IT Function has been under duress for many years. Prior to the introduction of the personal computer, the IT department controlled all technology use. With the PC and then later the early days of the web many business...