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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. That position humbled me and taught me lessons about leadership that I still use today, some 20 years later. To keep leading, keep learning.

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Leadership in the Modern Workplace

The Center For Leadership Studies

Some Gen Z and millennials grew up with technology, and are not only comfortable with it, they also consider it an inextricable dimension of their very being. Not surprisingly, Gen Xers frequently fall somewhere in the middle of these generational extremes when it comes to all things “technology.” What Does It Mean to Be a Leader?