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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

CIO

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. And when software shifts from enabling the revenue stream to being the revenue stream, the focus of the chief technologist must expand from internal productivity to the external market.

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Solving the Culture Conundrum in Software Engineering

DevOps.com

The one crucial ingredient underpinning our transition to a digital-first economy, more than any other, is software. That’s why software engineering has become one of the world’s most in-demand professions. The post Solving the Culture Conundrum in Software Engineering appeared first on DevOps.com.

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Modus Create Acquires Romanian Software Engineering Firm Clarisoft

Modus Create

Modus Create has acquired Clarisoft , a Romanian software engineering company with deep expertise in custom product development for enterprises. Clarisoft’s CEO Bogdan Bucura will join Modus in a sales leadership role, and Development Director Mircea Enache will take on a delivery leadership role.

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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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How leadership can empower developers in the AI era

CIO

However, software engineering doesn’t always seem to reward or even allow incremental learning. It can be hard to learn incrementally People tend to gain more confidence in their abilities when they can acquire new skill sets incrementally, according to Dr. Cat Hicks, Director of Pluralsight Flow’s Developer Success Lab.