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Rackspace’s Brian Lillie on the importance of leadership principles

CIO

Brian Lillie is president of Private Cloud at Rackspace and had previous technology leadership roles at Equinix, Verisign, SGI, and the United States Air Force, so he’s worked hard to define his leadership style. With these values clearly defined, Lillie had a new question: “How do I apply these values to leadership?”

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Aligning security and business strategies

CIO

During the 2008–2009 Global Financial Crisis (GFC) and subsequent recession, researchers noted that cybercrime rates increased dramatically. To keep ahead of cybercriminals, organizations must remain agile, pivoting to embrace new strategies and technologies whenever necessary in order to outrun attacks.

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CDOs’ biggest problem? Getting colleagues to understand their role

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The CDO position first gained momentum around 2008, to ensure data quality and transparency to comply with regulations following the housing credit crisis of that era. There’s more and more focus on being data-driven,” says Mahajan, who leads the Amplitude data strategy efforts, in addition to her digital and technology roles. “It

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M13’s Karl Alomar: 6 strategies for leading startups through a downturn

TechCrunch

Based on his time leading startups through the dotcom implosion in 2000 and the 2008 Great Recession, Alomar said it’s critical for founders to be strategic and not reactive. As a result, everything is up for consideration, including the makeup of the leadership team itself. When it’s OK to leave money on the table.

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VUCA Leadership: Leading Through Turbulent Times

Experience to Lead

From the 2008 global financial crisis to the COVID-19 pandemic and the ongoing, devastating effects of war and conflict, real leadership is required to navigate these challenging times. What is VUCA Leadership? If businesses are to get through difficult experiences, strong leadership is essential.

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Driving 15 years of IT transformation in 5

CIO

Through this strategy, Lovelady and his team have struck the often difficult to balance attributes of business unit flexibility with enterprise scale. “At IT Leadership, IT Strategy, Manufacturing Industry The Birmingham, Ala.-based At corporate, we focus on things that can be done globally,” says Lovelady.

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Bending Spoons acquires Evernote, marking the end of an era

TechCrunch

This proved to be a winning strategy — at least at first. Under his leadership, Evernote hit $100 million in recurring revenue, millions of paying customers and over 250 million users. ” Small, the former CEO of platform-as-a-service company TokBox, came on in 2018.

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