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What Does It Mean to be a 21st Century Leader?

Moves the Needle

In many organizations, performance reviews or quarterly, at best. Of course, you might believe in the well worn startup myth: only hire “A-players.” Say you’re a founder of a young startup and you hire a software engineer who is a bona fide A-player. She is entrepreneurial and just writes mad code.

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Audiences + Algorithms

100%Open

A software engineer may well propose a solution that requires extracting and verifying participants dates of births from various databases before sorting them in date order using an algorithm, and then finding matching pairs using another algorithm, before counting any matches and giving total.

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Setting the North Star: Crafting Tech Success through Transparency and OKRs

Tullio Siragusa

Through OKRs, an organization can effectively chart its course, defining the objectives it wants to achieve (the North Star), and the key results that will indicate progress. By consistently bringing it back to the key metrics in meetings and tying it to employee reviews and promotions, a culture of organizational thinking can be fostered.

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Learning How to Master the Art of Your Career

Daniel Burrus

It doesn’t matter what you do for a living — whether you work in medicine or retail, law or construction, software engineering or writing — there’s an art and science to every career. But this isn’t the case; you prefer your dentist over one you have never been to due to their individual touch.

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New Study: 2018 State of Embedded Analytics Report

Why do some embedded analytics projects succeed while others fail? We surveyed 500+ application teams embedding analytics to find out which analytics features actually move the needle. Read the 6th annual State of Embedded Analytics Report to discover new best practices. Brought to you by Logi Analytics.

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Ideate or Deteriorate – Why Companies Must Learn How To Be Innovative to Achieve Major Growth

Qmarkets

These two yahoo software engineers would go on to become the founders of Whatsapp. However rather than choosing this specialisation, their hand was forced due to their failure in other more lucrative operations. Qmarkets software will help you ensure that billion dollar opportunities don't slip away!

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Innovate or Deteriorate – How Can Corporations Ensure That Billion $ Opportunities Don’t Slip Away?

Qmarkets

These two yahoo software engineers would go on to become the founders of Whatsapp. However rather than choosing this specialisation, their hand was forced due to their failure in other more lucrative operations. This is a prime example of how crucial it is for companies to utilise the knowledge of their employees.