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Bringing the National Museum of African American History and Culture to the world

CIO

In 2022, with the pandemic subsiding, the National Museum of African American History and Culture at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC, once again served more than 1 million visitors. The project was awarded a 2022 US CIO 100 Award for leadership and innovation. And it’s working. Today, it employs more than 200.

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How Startups Can Revamp Their Executive Leadership Talent for Growth

N2Growth Blog

Organizations, particularly startups, require changes in executive leadership talent in the business lifecycle to capitalize on growth potential. NerdWallet is an example of when the rapidly growing company missed profitability targets and subsequently changed its leadership team. First, learning agility.

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An Exclusive Culture Leadership Charge for Symposium Readers (S. Chris Edmonds)

Let's Grow Leaders

We first met in person when he was sharing tips from his fantastic book The Culture Engine with a group of tech leaders committed to building healthy business cultures. Chris offers one of the clearest, practical guides to creating a positive corporate culture that you will ever find. Winning Well Reflection. Well said, Chris!

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Bunch adds $1M to its seed round to flesh out its leadership learning app

TechCrunch

The company’s product, a mobile app , focuses on teaching leadership skills to the younger generations more accustomed to learning in smaller chunks, often on the go. Gutnick told TechCrunch that her company has partnered with academics to detail different leadership style “archetypes” as part of its foundation.

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14 essential book recommendations by and for IT leaders

CIO

To learn leadership from the SEALs Nageswaran Vaidyanathan, CTO of Duck Creek Technologies, enjoyed reading Extreme Ownership: How US Navy SEALs Lead and Win (St. Martin’s Press, 2017) by Jocko Willink and Leif Babin. There they discovered that leadership is the element most essential to team success — even in the worst situations.

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5 questions CIOs must ask after Southwest Airlines’ failure

CIO

But Southwest’s technology was also cited by experts and the company’s leadership as contributing to the calamity. “IT billion in stock buybacks between 2017 and 2019. The investment seems minuscule given that Southwest Airlines was a $33-$38 billion market capitalization airline in 2017. IT Leadership.

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Lead the Play: Leadership Lessons from Space Pirates

Agile Alliance

The **future of leadership** is emerging to guide 21st-century organizations beyond the small, cross-functional, green-field software development teams of the 1990s. Agile leadership must cope with **distributed teams**, "gig economy," diverse skill-sets, and the impact to morale of unexpected changes.