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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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Great Leaders Say “Yes!”

thoughtLEADERS, LLC

Back in 2008-2009, when we were all struggling with the great recession of our age, I was also struggling with my company culture. Read the rest of this post at thoughtLEADERS, LLC: Leadership Training for the Real World. Today’s post is by Chris Dyer, author of The Power of Company Culture ( CLICK HERE to get your copy).

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CDOs’ biggest problem? Getting colleagues to understand their role

CIO

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. Part of the challenge is to capture the right amount of data needed to train large language models for specialized tasks at each organization, she says.

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The Loneliness Epidemic: Is Your Network Your Net Worth?

thoughtLEADERS, LLC

One of the first events I participated in when I joined TELUS in late 2008 was the annual Retirees Holiday Lunch. Read the rest of this post at thoughtLEADERS, LLC: Leadership Training for the Real World.

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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. Moreover, it may involve implementing processes and technologies to help reduce complexity and streamline cybersecurity management, and train employees to understand and follow best practices.

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

TechCrunch

Even though we’d just been trained for exactly this scenario, many colleagues didn’t know how to react: a few panicked, others braced themselves in doorways, and a number of people simply ran for the exits. As a result, everything is up for consideration, including the makeup of the leadership team itself. I joined more than 8.5

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Looking For Leadership

N2Growth Blog

News Flash – If you have to look for leadership it doesn’t exist…Today’s post is not going to sit well with many in the leadership profession, but then many of my posts seem to have that effect. In my opinion the practice of leadership identification is simply based upon flawed business logic, and it is make-work in the purest form.