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6 Defining Values of a Leadership Culture

N2Growth Blog

Why should the 8-year old, first generation, 88-person software development company in San Diego expect to have the same desired culture as the 48-year old, 3rd generation, 268-person manufacturing company in Rochester, NY? For the purposes of this article, leadership is defined as the CEO and his or her executive team.

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My belated 2022 recap: blog posts and articles

Puppies, Flowers, Rainbows and Kittens

It is useful to read as a leader and a great recruiting tool for those companies. Etsy Engineering | Leading your engineering team through an unexpected… [link] By Najla Elmachtoub May 26, 2022 This article was originally written for LeadDev. We didn’t learn in 2001 or 2008. I’ve broken it into sections based on content.

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The Stack Overflow Age

Joel on Software

With some perspective, it’s clearer now what we did right and what we messed up, so I’ll try to cover the good and the bad over a series of blog posts. And, also: we’re just a few weeks away from launching Stack Overflow Teams, the biggest upgrade to Stack Overflow ever, so that’s going to be really cool. Today is chapter one.

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Official Intelligence

LeanEssays

But consider the Amazon team that came up with Lambda. Yet the Lambda team did not have to answer the sobering question: “Do you know how much revenue Lambda might cannibalize?” Too Big to Communicate Around 2001, Amazon’s growth was outstripping the capability of its internal systems to keep up.

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Our Response to 9/11 Gave us Lessons for COVID-19

The Cipher Brief

By 2001, it was no secret that al-Qaida was building an army of foreign operatives trained at facilities in Afghanistan. national security officials developed unified national strategies to deal with this threat. Hygiene Laboratory (later the National Institutes of Health) who studied it an effort to develop a cure.

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Investing in Strategic Capability versus Buying Tactical Capacity

The Agile Manager

The increase in global IT sourcing is outpacing the rate of development of highly-qualified professionals in many markets 2 – salaries are increasing as there are more jobs chasing fewer high-qualified candidates, and turnover of IT staff is rising as people pursue higher compensation. one organisation’s senior developer is another’s junior).