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LeagueApps raises $15M to be the ‘operating system’ for youth sports organizations

TechCrunch

Today, LeagueApps , which aims to be the operating system for youth sports organizations, announced it has raised $15 million in a Series B round of funding. Today, over 3,000 sports organizations use LeagueApps as their operating system. . It’s a lot.

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Orda raises millions to digitize African restaurants with its cloud-based operating system

TechCrunch

However, for smaller restaurants — which represent the biggest segment of this $50 billion industry — these systems can be rather expensive and do not adequately cater to their needs; thus, they stick with running operations manually. . million seed investment. The two-year-old startup raised $1.1

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StartupOS launches what it hopes will be the operating system for early-stage startups

TechCrunch

“We do have a diverse leadership team. We are proud of the diversity in our leadership team, and we will continue to hire the best talent, regardless of race, religion, gender and creed.” Adding a woman or some fresher blood to the team might have been a nice touch.

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2023 CIO Hall of Fame inductees on building a successful IT leadership career

CIO

“I wanted to be on the side that could influence a better decision rather than on the side lobbying for a better decision,” Loura says of his drive toward leadership. Jordan, who early on had aspired to leadership roles, was thoughtful about advancing her career — a strategy she recommends to others. “Be

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Today’s best CIOs are strategy wranglers

CIO

In the aughts (2000s), the leadership focus for IT was “strategic alignment” — that is, linking IT’s strategy to the business. Strategy is the operating system for “what is that.” IT Leadership, IT Strategy Just this past year another strategy must-have arrived to upend nearly every organization.

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8 steps to turning around a toxic IT culture

CIO

The survey should include questions directly related to organizational culture, including morale, personal recognition, compensation, promotion decisions, management leadership quality, and an employees’ likelihood to remain with the organization. Culture is a function of leadership execution. IT Leadership, Staff Management

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Is Leadership Development the Answer to Low Employee Engagement? (Yes.)

N2Growth Blog

This White Paper is excerpted and adapted from Ultra Leadership: Go Beyond Usual and Ordinary to Engage Others and Lead Real Change (Giuliano, Lioncrest, 2016). The problem is leadership on autopilot. In such an underperforming state, without leadership that can drive real change, organizations are trapped in a vicious cycle.