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African Leadership Group acquires coding school Holberton

TechCrunch

Coding school Holberton today announced that it has entered into an agreement to be acquired by African Leadership Group (ALG). ALG founder and CEO Fred Swaniker started the organization as a leadership academy (now the African Leadership Academy ) for small cohorts of students. Image Credits: African Leadership Group.

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Rackspace’s Brian Lillie on the importance of leadership principles

CIO

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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Lexmark International’s Vishal Gupta on next gen tech leadership

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As software and data move to the center of a company’s products and services, the background and skills of the executive leadership team must evolve. When IoT becomes the driver of a new solutions P&L, the general manager of that business will need more technology acumen than general managers of the past.

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On the cutting edge: Celebrating 30 years of technological innovation and leadership at Thoughtworks

CIO

Thirty years of leadership in any industry is a remarkable accomplishment. We’ve built into our culture this ability to proactively stay ahead of the industry, by attracting, growing, and retaining the passionate, diverse technologists who want to bring that thought leadership to our industry, to our clients, and to society.”

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The [Often] Overlooked Skillset: Top 8 Soft Skills for Software Engineers

Gorilla Logic

Skill #3: Leadership Whether you choose a managerial or technical-oriented career path, you may be asked to lead projects or teams from time to time. Leadership skills include the ability to delegate, provide clear direction, motivate and inspire others, and also make difficult decisions in a timely manner.

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Fundamentals of Data Engineering

Xebia

The following is a review of the book Fundamentals of Data Engineering by Joe Reis and Matt Housley, published by O’Reilly in June of 2022, and some takeaway lessons. This book is as good for a project manager or any other non-technical role as it is for a computer science student or a data engineer.

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9 most in-demand IT jobs in manufacturing

CIO

technologies that fueled data strategies aimed at identifying inefficiencies, streamlining processes, and improving the ability to forecast and predict industry trends. Software engineer. In this role, you’ll be expected to design, code, debug, improve, and maintain software to support the organization. Systems engineer.