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Gainful raises $7.5M for personalized sports nutrition

TechCrunch

” So when when you first sign up for Gainful, you take a quiz about things like your height, weight, exercise patterns, fitness goals and how often you plan to consume the protein product. If you’re hydrating properly, you can work harder during your exercise, and your personalized protein powder is working harder for you.

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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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The only CIO resolution that matters

CIO

Such exercises are valuable but anachronistic. In fact, continuous real-time learning must become an IT leadership priority. Business IT Alignment, IT Leadership, IT Strategy In many communities, December is a month set aside for reflection. Today, not so much. Here’s what that means and how to achieve it.

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NEX raises $25M, launches Active Arcade to get people moving

TechCrunch

It also previously raised a $4 million seed round from Charmides Capital, Harris Blitzer Sports & Entertainment Ventures and Mandra Capital, Steve Nash, Jeremy Lin and Mark Cuban in 2018. Many other leaders in sports, media and technology have also baked NEX. This latest round comes after NEX raised an $8.5

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Parents as Leadership Coaches

Let's Grow Leaders

It’s interesting to see leaders who take their servant leadership philosophy seriously at work, but have a more hovering approach when it comes to their children. The best way to learn leadership is by leading. As I was writing the Parent’s Guide to Leadership, I asked him what he remembers most about our work on leadership growing up.

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SRE as a team sport

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Engineering has a second meaning in this interview: it is contrasted with leadership , another key SRE skill. In this contrast, engineering covers all the technical work while leadership covers people skills. The importance of leadership springs from the extra layer at which SREs are removed from users.

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From CIO to CEO: IT leaders rise to the top

CIO

Ross Meyercord never set out to make the leap from technology leader to CEO, but a set of intentional and opportunistic career choices delivered the breadth of business experience and leadership skills required to land the job. Neal Sample A transferable skill set Meyercord would certainly make that case.