Business strategist Jim Collins takes on this challenge in his latest book, How the Mighty Fall.

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The idea that a CIO must be both an IT leader and a business strategist has been around for decades.

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However, like Jobs, Gates was also a business strategist first and foremost.

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So I sought help from business strategist Alexis Martin Neely.

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Like Venters, Kristi Blicharski, a Los Angeles-based empowerment coach and business strategist, thinks it's important to encourage the uniqueness of others without judgment because it emboldens both confidence and creativity.

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This is one that reacquaints the brand with the business strategy, elevates the CMO and marketing team to the level of business strategist, and reconnects sight, sound and motion but in a digital context, and creates differentiation beyond the campaign.

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Cedric Muhammad is a business economist and former Congressional campaign strategist.

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Her new book is called The Strategist: Be the Leader Your Business Needs.

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"Bill's back in business, big time, " said one strategist, who adds that the former President has made it clear to party insiders that he wants to be very active politically in both the 2001 and 2002 elections.

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Brandi Moore is a global strategist focused on the practices that deliver financially successful business relationships between India and US corporations.

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The role of the technology strategist is therefore as essential as that of the head of the business division that is using the technology.

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Don Southerton is a consultant, marketing strategist, and researcher for top Korean-based corporations with global business, along with major western firms that have ventures in Korea and Asia Pacific.

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Courts often find banks aren't liable in cybercrime cases in which a business client's computer systems were breached, according to George Tubin, senior security strategist for Trusteer Inc.

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One City analyst, Stephen Pope, the global stock strategist at Cantor Fitzgerald in London, has stuck his neck out with a rare recommendation in the brokerage business, a call to sell BP stock.

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