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Authentic leadership: Building an organization that thrives

CIO

Leadership styles have traditionally centered their focus on profits, share prices, and productivity, but a new approach increasingly taken up by today’s leaders, known as “authentic leadership,” takes a different spin on the concept. What are the characteristics of authentic leadership?

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Six Definitions that “Innovation” Ain’t

thoughtLEADERS, LLC

Job descriptions seek “innovative leadership.” Read the rest of this post at thoughtLEADERS, LLC: Leadership Training for the Real World. Innovation is the buzzword of buzzwords. Organizations tout their “innovative culture.” Grants support “innovative solutions.”. But what exactly does this mean?

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10 digital transformation roadblocks — and 5 tips for overcoming them

CIO

Transformation efforts can be derailed for any number of reasons, but there are several common themes as to why digital initiatives fall short — and most revolve around leadership. IT leaders must work with business leadership to help establish a clear understanding of digital transformation goals and a practical roadmap for achieving them.

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An IT leader’s mission to retrofit the tech foundation at Eon

CIO

Weber definitely didn’t want the merger of two old IT infrastructures to create one big old IT infrastructure. That’s why, for example, he recently opened a Leadership Excellence training program for everyone interested, with a separate conference for IT employees. That’s why his focus was on grassroots work that modernized IT.

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CSM certification: Costs, requirements, and all you need to know

CIO

CSM certification Agile practices are being rapidly adopted in project and product management across many industries, and the ScrumMaster is an important leadership role in agile development to not only improve workflow but increase your value as your career evolves.

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10 things to watch out for with open source gen AI

CIO

Even if you don’t have the training data or programming chops, you can take your favorite open source model, tweak it, and release it under a new name. First, there are new license types that are only open source under a very loose definition of the term. It’s also the training data, model weights, and fine tuning.

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How Communities of Practice and Leadership Build Your Workforce Leadership Skills

Evolution4all

Communities of Practice and Leadership. Now the question is, how does CoP help in developing leadership skills among your employees? Is it possible to integrate leadership training in a CoP even if the centre of conversation of its members is all about their respective domains? Leadership as Starting Point.