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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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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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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. It really drives sustainability and is a growth engine that helps develop a competitive advantage.” Those bridges need to be built.”

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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. Felix Gaehtgens et al, Top Strategic Technology Trends for 2022: Cybersecurity Mesh, Gartner, October 18, 2021 For more cybersecurity thought leadership, please visit us online.

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Bending Spoons acquires Evernote, marking the end of an era

TechCrunch

Evernote, the note-taking and task management app founded over 20 years ago, has been acquired by Milan-based app developer Bending Spoons. Under his leadership, Evernote hit $100 million in recurring revenue, millions of paying customers and over 250 million users. This proved to be a winning strategy — at least at first.

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Finch Capital acquires Wirecard Turkey

TechCrunch

We are excited to team up with Wirecard Turkey under the leadership of its CEO Serkan Yasin and we continue to actively look for further M&A opportunities in the region to accelerate its growth and development” Wirecard Turkey (Wirecard Ödeme ve Elektronik Para Hizmetleri A.?.)

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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.