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Decide the reputation you want to have and do not leave it to chance What words would the CEO use to describe you and your IT department? Would the CEO use words such as innovative, agile and competitive? Or would he say reliable, cost effective and consistent? Are the words unreliable or unresponsive unfortunate possibilities? And how is a CIO to

The rise of private, for-profit corporations—which allow the pooling of investment and risk—unlocked additional possibilities.

The study of human knowledge is as old as human history itself.

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Corporate structure and governance: corporate documents and interviews with management, board, and advisors.

As Machiavelli noted, the best strategy is often the one that no one believes you will undertake because it is either so high risk or so destructive that it is hard to imagine anyone actually implementing it. But sometimes, there is no alternative.

believes one explanation for the high women-to-profit ratio may be that the high-performing firms do well because their top executives make smart decisions.

But we did have this … I then showed them a slightly singed Fortune cover dated 2005 featuring the story “Aérospatiale: Company of the Year.” “What could have happened to generate that cover story?” I asked. The executives broke into two small groups. Each came up with a narrative about how such a cover story might come to pass. The fascinating thi