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

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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. Earlier this month TechCrunch covered Arist , for example, a startup that provides corporate training delivered to end-users via text. The concept has traction.

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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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6 revealing statistics about career challenges Black IT pros face

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More than one in three Black participants in the 2017 survey said they left a job or company due to unfairness within the past year. If new hires quickly find your internal culture allows for microaggressions, hostility, a pressure to code-switch, and an inability to bring one’s authentic self to work, you can’t expect them to stay.

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Singapore-based esports startup Ampverse lands $12M

TechCrunch

Its play-to-earn business allows players to earn rewards by playing games like Axie Infinity, Townstar and Spider Tanks, and also get training from professional esports players. ” The company’s leadership team has previously held roles at media, entertainment and gaming companies like Havas, Twitch and Universal Music.

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IT leaders uplift women to fill tech talent gaps

CIO

The problem: She had no formal training and experience in computer science. Yet in the cybersecurity field, women only account for about one quarter (24%) of the overall workforce, albeit, up from 11% in 2017, according to the ISC2 Women in Cybersecurity report. That’s the real issue.”. Fishing for nontraditional talent.

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3 nonprofits committed to empowering women in tech

CIO

Here, a number of factors are at play, not the least of which are IT workplace cultures that have a long way to go. A 2017 poll in the Pew Research Center report found that 50% of women said they had experienced gender discrimination at work , while only 19% of men said the same.

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How CIOs reinterpret their role through AI

CIO

As businesses digitally transform, technology is increasingly integrated into every activity, and the CIO is becoming more of a catalyst for data-driven value creation through analytics, new AI model training, software development, automation, vendor engagement, and more.