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Top 10 Most Read Leadership Blog Posts of First Half 2021

Let's Grow Leaders

Your Favorite Leadership Blog Posts So Far This Year. One of the interesting parts of being regular leadership writers (we’ve been blogging here at Let’s Grow Leaders since 2012), is to see which of our leadership blog posts resonate the most with our readers and why. We would love to hear from you. Read more here.

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6 revealing statistics about career challenges Black IT pros face

CIO

In a 2022 report, State of Tech Diversity: The Black Tech Ecosystem , the Kapor Center found that nearly half of all Black technologists reported experiencing racial inequity in hiring, promotion, leadership opportunities, and salaries and benefits. of technical roles, and 4% of executive leadership. of board roles, 3.7%

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IT leaders uplift women to fill tech talent gaps

CIO

Her pitch laid the groundwork for a pilot program in which Gusto covered the cost of a seven-month, full-time bootcamp while continuing to pay McGrath a salary and maintain her benefits and vesting. I had seen others leave to learn software engineering and not come back, which is why we advocated for this program.”.

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Curio Wellness launches $30M fund to help women and minorities own a cannabis dispensary

TechCrunch

Registre’s conviction around this program is obvious as he explains the problem the fund is addressing. Participants of this program gain access to capital and operational resources. Founded in 2014, the family-owned business operates dispensaries rooted in a patient-centric approach. .”

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Embracing sustainable IT unlocks environmental, business, and financial benefits

CIO

Cegal , a Norwegian global IT services business, is a great example of this leadership. It was a differentiator for us that Dell Technologies had a program that allowed us to return equipment for refurbishment when it’s no longer in use. Dell recycles the remaining five percent in adherence with local regulatory guidelines. “It

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Travel app Hopper raises $96M from Capital One to double down on social commerce

TechCrunch

But after Hopper’s public debut in 2014, the company’s leadership decided to pivot to mobile and devote engineering resources to flight prediction, building a tool that continuously monitors airline prices and sends price change alerts via push notification.

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What I Learned at Leadercast 2014

Nathan Magnuson

For the third year in a row I had the pleasure of attending the Leadercast leadership seminar at a local simulcast location. I don’t get to attend as many leadership events as I’d like to, but I always take something away from the ones I do. Will your leadership outlive you? The event was fantastic, as usual.