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Nigeria’s IROKO plans to go public on the London Stock Exchange AIM in 2022

TechCrunch

Founded by Jason Njoku and Bastian Gotter in 2011, IROKO boasts the largest online catalog of Nollywood film content globally. However , more bad news came in August when the CEO announced that the company was laying off 150 people. sports betting company, GVC and online fashion retailer, ASOS have done in the past.

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Data Engineers of Netflix?—?Interview with Kevin Wylie

Netflix Tech

Kevin Wylie is a Data Engineer on the Content Data Science and Engineering team. In his free time he enjoys gardening and playing sports with his 4 kids. I started my career as an application developer with basic familiarity with SQL. When I joined Netflix back in 2011, our content analytics team was just 3 people.

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Dealing with Conflict | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Leadership is a full-contact sport, and if you cannot address conflict in a healthy, productive fashion then you should not be in a leadership role. One of my favorite examples of what I described in the paragraph above is the weak leader who cannot deal with subordinates who use emotional deceit as a weapon of destruction.

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Leadership – No Talent Required | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Clearly the difference possessed by all great leaders is that they refine, develop and build from their foundation – they don’t ignore it or take it for granted. In most sports I’m aware of you cannot play if you don’t suit-up and show-up. Leadership is a participation sport and never works well in absentia.

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Who's In Charge?

N2Growth Blog

As much as it may be politically incorrect to say so, it’s not nearly as much about the team, as it is the leader’s ability to assemble and lead the team. In all but the rarest of circumstances, teams simply don’t function well in the absence of sound leadership. is who they are going to put in charge?

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AoAD2 Practice: Team Dynamics

James Shore

This is a pre-release excerpt of The Art of Agile Development, Second Edition , to be published by O’Reilly in 2021. Visit the Second Edition home page for information about the open development process, additional excerpts, and more. Team Dynamics. Whole Team. Together, these skills determine your team dynamics.

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It Never Ends. Even More Leadership Lessons from the Washington.

Next Level Blog

That post, which mainly focused on team owner Dan Snyder, went a little viral.    And, of course, he hired a Super Bowl winning coach in Mike Shanahan to lead the team from the sidelines and a five time Pro Bowler in Donovan McNabb to lead the team on the field. Rabid sports fans are known to disagree after all.