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February and March 2022. Watch Gartner’s hour-long webinar Finance Technology Innovations for 2022 on February 9th delves into where finance leaders are focusing their technology efforts, from process automation to advanced data analytics, and offers best practices to help you deploy the right technologies. Read In Amp It Up: Leading for Hypergrowth with High Expectations, Urgency and Intensity, Frank Slootman, CEO of Snowflake (which saw the software industry’s biggest-ever IPO in 2020) shares his experience in taking three firms public in this guide to improving performance without making massive change. Attend As forward-thinking business leaders look to address environmental and social concerns, like DE&I, hybrid event Sustainability LIVE (Feb 23-24) will deliver two days of compelling content from more than 60 of the world’s leading sustainability leaders. Expect keynote addresses, roundtables, Q&A sessions and 1-2-1 networking. Listen to The Diary of a CEO with Steven Bartlett, ex-CEO of Social Chain and new Dragon on TV show Dragon’s Den, delivers weekly solo and guest sessions uncovering the untold truths of lives and careers with guests including founders of Starling Bank (Anne Boden) and Gymshark (Ben Francis).
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Business Chief Book Club Transformation in Times of Crisis Co-authored by Nitin Rakesh, CEO of IT solutions firm Mphasis and internationally renowned academician Jerry Wind, Wharton Professor of Marketing, this practical tome addresses the opportunities to be had in a crisis. Easy to read and described by co-author Rakesh as a “handy roadmap to cultivating resilience through disruption”, this multi award-winning book delivers specific guidance, via eight principles, for entrepreneurs and businesses to create post-pandemic opportunities, from speeding up digital transformation and design for personalisation at scale to reinventing one’s talent strategy. The book is loaded with insightful quotes, citations of successful businesses, from Zoom to Toyota, and analysis with each principle written in a practical way to make implementation simple, and a list of questions to help readers assess how their organisation is aligned with the principle discussed.
“Success comes from choosing repeatedly, not choosing once. Many people subscribe to what I call the 'Myth of the Single Choice.' They think people are successful because they take one mighty risk. The opposite is true. A career is built over many, many choices" Sukhinder Singh Cassidy
Author of business book Choose Possibility, in which Singh Cassidy recommends re-framing the way we look at our careers, so instead of striving for perfection, striving for progress.
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The number of speakers expected at Women Tech Global Conference 2022 (June 7-9). Featuring a wide variety of live events hosted across various time zone (Americas, Europe, APAC), delivering keynotes, industry-specific summits, career growth expo, workshops, discussion groups, and 1:1 networking. Expect speakers from Google, Microsoft, Intel, Amazon, EY, IBM, SAP, Salesfoerce, Red Hat, Siemens and Deloitte.
