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Rackspace’s Brian Lillie on the importance of leadership principles

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Brian Lillie is president of Private Cloud at Rackspace and had previous technology leadership roles at Equinix, Verisign, SGI, and the United States Air Force, so he’s worked hard to define his leadership style. With these values clearly defined, Lillie had a new question: “How do I apply these values to leadership?”

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The Best Leadership Articles of 2022 (according to you)

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Your Favorite Leadership Articles of the Year. Every year, we count down the best leadership articles of the year, according to your reading and sharing. Thanks so much for being a part of our human-centered leadership development community and for all you do to encourage courage! Other Very Popular Leadership Articles.

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Ex-NFL CIO Michelle McKenna on leadership today

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The NFL’s first and only CIO, Michelle McKenna, left her “dream job” in March 2022 to tackle a new challenge: advising CIOs, CEOs, and NFL teams on how to lead in this era of digital transformation and the next-generation workforce. She founded the namesake advisory firm, The Michelle McKenna Collaborative, in April 2022.

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Leadership playbook: Michelle McKenna’s winning formula for CIOs

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Those are just two of the many “firsts” McKenna has accomplished over the course of her career, which has also included executive leadership roles at Disney and Universal Orlando Resort. When we collaborated on the Leadership Development track of the CIO100 Awards event, you shared four pillars from your leadership playbook.

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How the new AI executive order stacks up: B-

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In contrast, US regulators must have a light touch with startups to maintain the country’s leadership position in innovation. startup companies (valued at $1 billion and higher), according to a 2022 National Foundation for American Policy analysis. Immigrants have provided the fuel behind America’s technology startups.

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14 essential book recommendations by and for IT leaders

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For grasping artificial intelligence Sherry Comes, former CTO at IBM Watson and current managing director of conversational AI at PwC, thinks you need to read Age of Invisible Machines: A Practical Guide to Creating a Hyperautomated Ecosystem of Intelligent Digital Workers (Wiley, 2022) by Robb Wilson.

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The Smart Way to Handle Your Agent Shortage Problem this Holiday Season

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Consider customer authentication: you must verify the identity of each person who contacts your organization, right? This could be through knowledge-based authentication (ex: “What’s the city you were born in?”) What if you used AI and automation to offer an even more effective form of customer authentication like a 3D photo scan?