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Startup CTO or Developer

TechEmpower CTO

Should a startup CTO spend their time programming? That’s why the CTO’s attention is on programming for the earliest stage. What does it mean to be a CTO for a startup? What does the role demand? Exploring new technologies? Increasing competitive advantage? The answer is: it depends. The role of a CTO varies as the company matures.

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Cybersecurity Canon Candidate Book Review: Defensive Security Handbook – Best Practices for Securing Infrastructure

Palo Alto Networks

Cyber Canon Book Review: “Defensive Security Handbook – Best Practices for Securing Infrastructure” (2017), by Lee Brotherston and Amanda Berlin. This is not a book for long-time practitioners; it is designed to be a reference for those comparatively new to managing a security program.

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Key skills tech leaders need to secure a board seat

CIO

Therefore, we have programs to educate all directors on cybersecurity. We have a formal Cyber-Risk Oversight Certificate Program for our members, created in partnership with the CERT Division of the Software Engineering Institute at Carnegie Mellon University and Ridge Global. That said, there are really two buckets.

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Announcing: The ASTD Management Development Handbook

QAspire

American Society for Training and Development (ASTD) recently released a fantastic collection titled “ The ASTD Management Development Handbook ”. This is a very non-traditional approach to write a handbook of management development! I am grateful to Lisa for inviting me to write in this book.

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How the Right Onboarding Program Can Increase K-12 Teacher Retention

PowerSchool

But an effective onboarding program, powered by data-based technology, can break the teacher turnover cycle and encourage new teachers to stay in your classrooms and in the profession. Teacher orientation may include new hire paperwork and a review of the employee handbook and policies. How to build an onboarding program.

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Better.com offering employees 60-days severance, losing ‘tens of millions’ per month per sources

TechCrunch

Below is the email that Richard Benson-Armer, Better’s chief people, performance and culture officer, sent to the company this afternoon outlining the voluntary separation program that TechCrunch obtained: Team, . As always, adherence to our Code of Conduct and Employee Handbook will be enforced throughout this process.

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#MyTechFrenemy

TechCrunch

Some students at the MyTechBestFriend academy have always been a little suspicious of the program and its founder, Mary Awodele. Since its founding in 2020, a whisper network murmured that many of the materials taught by the academy were plagiarized from various other online programs, such as those from Google or Salesforce.