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Through a series of expert interviews, this podcast mini-series explores some of the most pressing questions raised by the CSIS Middle East Program report, “Citizens in Training: Conscription and Nation-building in the United Arab Emirates.” Hear from leading experts on the Gulf, the UAE, and modern militaries in general what the UAE’s bold experiment in military conscription as a nationbuilding tool reveals about the leadership’s diagnosis of its key challenges at a pivotal moment in its na ...
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Episode 10: Cognizant Episode #11: CEO, Dimitri Sirota of BigID
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Welcome to the Cognizant Leadership and Innovation podcast. I am your host Thomas Anglero, the Nordic CTO & Innovation Officer. This podcast is to answer the questions that top leaders have on Leadership and Innovation from some of the world's best leaders and innovative people. In this episode, I have the honor of speaking with the co-founder and …
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Episode 9: How anonymizing and extracting revenue from your data is the new water, not the new oil with Gary LaFever, CEO of Anonos
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Hi, I am Thomas F. Anglero, the host and Cognizant's Nordic CTO and Innovation Officer (CTIO). On this episode of the Cognizant Leadership and Innovation podcast, we explain the power of data. Why collecting and harvesting value from your data is the most important thing you should be doing with your data. The hype around data and accumulating data…
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Episode 8: Becoming a great leader using innovative leadership with Anette Borge, SVP of Digital Supply Chain for Orkla AS
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In this episode, Anette Borg, SVP of Digital Supply Chain for Orkla AS shares with us her journey from growing up in a small town in Norway to being an SVP for Orkla. Anette shares with us so much great advice on how to overcome so many of the challenges of being a leader. Though Anette is a powerful female leader, her advice is helpful to everyone…
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Episode 7: To be a Great Leader, You Must Have a Mentor or Coach That Challenges You with Jan Grønbech, Chief Business Officer at DCompany.no
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In this great episode, Jan Gønbech, Chief Business Officer at DCompany, shares his experience of founding Google in Norway and his experiences of having a great coach that helped elevate him to be a great leader. He discusses the benefits of challenging yourself and the difficulty of making those tough decisions. He touches on leaders' inner though…
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Episode 6: How to be a great leader and build trust in your organization with Eva Fors, Managing Director of Google Cloud Nordic
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"Great leadership comes from within." Eva Fors, Managing Director of Google Cloud Nordic, shares the many experiences she has learned through the years of leading thousands of people that make her one of the great leaders of today. Eva shares how she handles employee conflict, build trust in her teams, and so much more. Eva also shares stories that…
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Episode 5: Getting Value from your Data with Axel Borge, CEO of Sesam.io
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Do you want to understand why there is so much attention around data? Why is everyone talking about data this and data that? What should you do with all your data? What are good data and bad data? Etc. Our guest in this episode is the world's leading expert on data, Axel Borge, CEO of Sesam.io. Axel explains in simple words why data is so essential…
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Episode 4: The Power of the Cloud Platform with Maans Johnsson, Sr. VP of Salesforce Europe
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In this episode, Maans Johnsson, Sr. VP at SalesForce Europe does an incredible job of explaining specifically why cloud computing is beneficial for all leaders and companies to utilize. Maans explains how the "low code" and "no-code" movements will change and shape the future of how anyone can benefit from a cloud computing platform. As Maans says…
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Episode 3: Connecting with Employees as People with Jakob Andersen, CIO of Velliv
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Listening to Jakob is like listening to a wise teacher who has reflected on some of the most difficult challenges leaders have with their people, how to make them happy. Jakob's and Velliv's solution is to care for them more and see them more as people than employees. Jakob shares what the Velliv leader group team did during Covid to improve morale…
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Episode 1: Episode 1: Great Leadership through Experience with SAP Nordic & Baltic CEO, Helle Dochedal
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Welcome to the Cognizant Leadership and Innovation podcast hosted by Thomas F. Anglero, Nordic CTO and Innovation Officer at Cognizant. In this episode, Helle Dochedal, Nordic and Baltic CEO of SAP, shares how she has led the thousands of her employees worldwide. What were some of the challenges she faced, some of the ideas she implemented, and why…
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Episode 2: Episode 2: Building a great team culture with AWS Nordic CEO, Manuel Bohnet
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Welcome to the Cognizant Leadership and Innovation podcast hosted by Thomas F. Anglero, Nordic CTO and Innovation Officer at Cognizant. In this episode, Manuel Bohnet, Nordic CEO of AWS, shares the leadership principles he instills in all of his employees in AWS in the Nordics. He gives specific examples of AWS's new leadership principle to the wor…
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Conscription and the Social Contract in the Gulf
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In this episode, Jon Alterman is joined by Dr. Steffen Hertog, an associate professor in comparative politics at the London School of Economics. Steffen discusses the goals and long-term prospects of the UAE’s national service program in the context of shifting relations between Gulf militaries, governments, and societies. He considers how the UAE’…
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In this episode, Jon Alterman takes a broader view of conscription with Elisabeth Braw, a NATO expert and nonresident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council. Elisabeth is a former journalist who has observed Nordic armies closely throughout her career. She discusses the evolving approaches towards conscription of some European nations that have main…
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In this episode, Jon Alterman talks to Dave DesRoches, associate professor and senior military fellow with the Near East South Asia Center for Strategic Studies, National Defense University. Dave, a former Defense Department official responsible for U.S. defense policy in the Gulf and a retired U.S. Army Ranger, lays out the military case for—and a…
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National Service and the “Entitled Patriot”
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In this episode, Jon Alterman speaks to Dr. Calvert Jones, assistant professor at the University of Maryland, College Park in the department of government and politics and the author of Bedouins Into Bourgeois: Remaking Citizens for Globalization. Calvert reflects on the UAE’s military conscription program through the prism of wider efforts to cult…
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"Little Sparta" and the Gulf’s New Nationalism
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In this episode, Jon Alterman speaks to Dr. Kristin Smith Diwan, senior resident scholar at the Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington. Kristin situates the UAE’s conscription program in the context of a “new nationalism” in Gulf Arab countries that seeks in part to galvanize citizens to contribute more actively to the state. Kristin also discuss…
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In this episode, Jon Alterman speaks to Dr. F. Gregory Gause, professor of international affairs and head of the international affairs department at the Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A&M University. Greg assesses the durability of the United Arab Emirates' (UAE) conscription project, its potential to spread beyond the UAE, a…
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Introducing Citizens in Training: The Unlikely Story of the UAE’s National Military Service Program
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In 2014, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) embarked on a bold experiment: It began drafting young men into the military. But as a CSIS Middle East Program research team discovered, the UAE’s move to press young men into military service is not merely a response to security challenges. It is a stunningly ambitious experiment to use the military to shap…
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