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This is not (just) another roundup of tech layoffs

TechCrunch

Startups across all sectors, from healthcare to enterprise SaaS to crypto, are laying off portions of staff and citing, seemingly, from the same notes: it’s a tough market, a time of uncertainty, and a correction toward sustainability is needed. In 2020, Carbon Health developed both pop-up clinics and at-home test kits.”.

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English Football (Soccer) and Executive Development

N2Growth Blog

There are multiple football leagues, as well as club teams in almost every village. The latest statistics show there are more than 140 individual leagues, containing more than 480 divisions, with an estimated average of 15 clubs per division, giving this tiny country more than 7,000 teams in the English men’s football league system.

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14 essential book recommendations by and for IT leaders

CIO

For understanding teams “CTOs and CIOs who work for organizations that are struggling to deliver value sustainably will greatly benefit from reading Team Topologies: Organizing Business and Technology Teams for Fast Flow (IT Revolution Press, 2019) by Manuel Pais and Matt Skelton,” says Peter Kreslins Jr.,

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Extra Crunch roundup: Guest posts wanted, ‘mango’ seed rounds, Expensify’s tech stack

TechCrunch

Quality of life (personal health, sustainability, proptech, transportation). The company, which has raised over $455 million since it launched in 2014, was most recently valued at just over $4.5 ” VandeBoom notes that to scale sustainably, SaaS startups need to “stand apart from the herd at every phase of development.

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Re-Imagining New Leadership Possibilities in 2014:

The Empowered Buisness

Yet, in my 30 years experience of working with leadership teams and companies, the terms “vision,” “mission” and “values” are THE most overused, misunderstood and abused words in the business community today. Weak visions are meaningless superlatives or vague language that have no energy and fall flat on your organization.

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Agile Bonuses – The Damage They Do

Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

From working with Scrum and Kanban teams, I know that bonuses are counter-productive anywhere team members are doing knowledge work and their work is interdependent. The same might apply in other areas too, but I know this to be true in the context of software development in particular, because of my experience and study.

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AoAD2: Choose Your Agility

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. Agile teams achieve organizational success by focusing on delivering value and decreasing costs.

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