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  • The Evolution of the 50/25 Meeting Format: Why Starting Late is the New On-Time

    Introduction: An Updated Perspective on Time Management In a continuous quest to boost workplace effectiveness, it’s useful to revisit our approaches. Ten years ago, while working as CTO at The New York Times, I advocated the 50/25 Meeting Format. The premise was straightforward: shave off a few minutes from each meeting to enhance focus and…

  • The Evolution of Generative AI Platforms: How Large Language Models will Disrupt Business and Society

    The Evolution of Generative AI Platforms: How Large Language Models will Disrupt Business and Society

    Large language model (LLM) powered platforms OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google’s Bard, and You.com have captured the public’s imagination recently with their ability to generate remarkably human-like text and images. However, this is just the beginning. As LLMs become more powerful, integrating them with other systems will evolve them into full-fledged platforms and unlock their capabilities even…

  • Yale CEO Summit June 2023: The Intersection of AI and Leadership

    I’ve admired Jeff Sonnenfeld for more than a decade since I studied his book Firing Back and wrote a review. Having attended Professor Jeffrey Sonnenfeld’s Yale CEO Summit twice before, in 2014 and 2016 and finding the learnings there invaluable, I followed the news and insights from this year’s event with great interest, especially because…

  • Take Back Your Power by Deb Liu (Book Review)

    As I wrote in my review of Professor Jeffrey Pfeffer’s book Leadership B.S., leadership advice that is actually effective is in short-supply among the tens of thousands of leadership books. Deborah Liu‘s new book, Take Back Your Power: 10 New Rules for Women at Work is one of the rare few that offers evidence-based, practical,…

  • My Personal and Professional Values: Keys to Collaborative Success

    Shared values and principles are the driving force behind any successful team. I hold certain values dear, not only in my professional life but also in my personal interactions. These are not attributes that I always embody perfectly, but they are principles that I constantly strive to uphold. 5 of My Values Victory Through Unity…

  • An Example of Respectfully Declining a Meeting at Work That is Already in Your Calendar

    Here is an example of how to respectfully decline a meeting to make time to work on a higher priority. We occasionally find ourselves in meetings when our time could be better spent doing something else of greater value. I previously wrote about how to respond to and politely decline meeting invitations. This post is about…

  • Leadership B.S. by Stanford University Professor Jeffrey Pfeffer (Book Review)

    Many books on leadership are like fairy tales: Inspiring, but misleading about leadership that is actually effective in our real world. Real leadership — i.e. leadership based on evidence and science, and thus statistically more likely be effective in practice — is less commonly found in leadership teachings. Instead, what we often hear is “feel good…

  • Reflections on the Yale CEO Summit 2016: Disruption and Leadership in Focus

    Yesterday, I attended the Yale CEO Summit for the second time. The summit, held at the Waldorf Astoria in New York City, brought together some of the world’s most influential leaders across various sectors. The theme of this year’s summit was “Delight and Despair Over Disruption, Part II: The Post-Election Story.” This Summit, hosted by…

  • Fastly’s Altitude Summit

    Rajiv spoke at Fastly‘s Altitude 2016 Summit in San Francisco. #Altitude2016 was a full day conference featuring technical content and idea sharing about the edge, web performance and content delivery from industry experts. Rajiv spoke from his personal knowledge of a CTO’s role in getting, maintaining, and developing buy-in for infrastructure engineering projects from business stakeholders. Here is…

  • My Interview in TheMarker Magazine

    During my recent visit to Tel Aviv, I was interviewed by the well-respected Israeli business and technology journalist Inbal Orpaz for TheMarker Magazine. Our conversation was an engaging and insightful exploration of the future of media and journalism in the digital age. Although the article was published in Hebrew, in this blog post, I discuss…

  • Why Data Breaches Don’t Hurt Stock Prices (Harvard Business Review)

    If you are a CEO, CFO, corporate board member or investor, the article Why Data Breaches Don’t Hurt Stock Prices published on Harvard Business Review by Elena Kvochko and Rajiv Pant may be of interest to you.

  • Cyber Resilience Towards the Quantification of Cyber Security Threats

    The World Economic Forum and its partners have developed and shared a way for organizations to calculate the impact of cyber security threats. The framework, called cyber value-at-risk comes at a time when cyberattacks are increasing in velocity and intensity, and when 90% of companies worldwide recognize they are insufficiently prepared to protect themselves against them. Download the…