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Lessons in Leadership to Last a Lifetime

Leading Blog

But in 1999, at the height of the Internet boom, I took a two-year leave of absence to serve as director of system architecture at Akamai Technologies, an MIT start-up located here in Cambridge. Back then, the vast majority of Akamai’s 100 engineering staff had been recruited directly from MIT and other top universities.

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Closing The Gender Gap In STEM

The Horizons Tracker

Closing the gender gap in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) goes beyond just getting more women into fields like computer science. They dove into the numbers from the American Community Survey between 2009 and 2019. The researchers focused on computer science and checked how women in this field are doing.

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Three practices of successful product managers

Lead on Purpose

They focus on this marketing campaign or that new technology, and lose track of what’s most important. Provide clear direction: One of the key directives for products managers is to provide clear direction to the engineering/development teams. Inspire them to do great things, especially when developing your products.

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Business Model Architecture | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Also, a common response is to confuse a sales engine, fulfillment process, operational process, technology platform, or any number of other areas as business models, where this is not the case. Furthermore, a business plan, strategic plan, marketing plan, capital formation plan, exit plan, etc., are also not business models.

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How Dumb Is Your Business?

N2Growth Blog

As odd as it sounds, businesses that are not dependant on smart talent, capital, or technology can scale faster and easier than those businesses burdened with the aforementioned dependencies. The dumb factor not only applies to talent, capital, and technology, but it also extends throughout the entire value chain.

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Highly Paid Programming Languages of 2020

HR Digest

Advancement of technology has developed every sector of the world, not leaving even the Computer Science and IT sector behind. The Go language was developed by IT giant Google and introduced to the market in November 2009. This programming language is significantly used in creating and developing Web apps.

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Entrepreneur, CEO or Both? | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

I believe great leaders will mentor and coach subordinates for the purpose of identifying and developing other great leaders. While there is an element of truth in that statement if this is what you aspire to as a leader it constitutes a complete under-utilization of leadership responsibility.