Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

Practical ways to engage your team (or leadership book club) as you read Courageous Cultures together. One of the real joys of being authors is hearing from leadership book clubs and teams who are reading our books together. And, you don’t get better at leadership or building culture just by reading a book.

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CIO

MAY 18, 2023

Why not pick up a book that will inspire you to be a more effective leader, help you spot challenges and pitfalls in your IT strategies and processes, or prepare for the future of information technology? And this group of CIOs, CTOs, and technical CEOs have strong favorites — books they turn to again and again for inspiration.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Integrity, individuals, impact and innovation are the “ 4 I values ” that drive my decisions and the actions of those at my company each day. The tone of the company’s culture comes from the top. The tone of the company’s culture comes from the top. This is not the way.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 31, 2020

Karin Hurt joins us in-studio for the first time ever to talk about Courageous Cultures: How to Build Teams of Micro-Innovators, Problem Solvers, and Customer Advocates. In this episode, find out why business leaders are responding passionately to Courageous Cultures, why courageous […].

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Modern CTO

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

We discuss the intricacies of managing distributed teams across different cultures, effective communication strategies in a remote work environment, and the evolving landscape of API development. Today, we’re talking to Sagar Batchu from Speakeasy and Mark Martin from SolarWinds. All of this right here, right now, on the Modern CTO Podcast!

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CIO

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Upskilling programs and focusing on the employee experience are also crucial for businesses looking to hold onto talent and drive innovative transformations, and recruitment for tech talent is much more effective when IT leaders are actively involved in the process. You have to be innovative,” adds Balbo. Each case is different.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2021

Framed by Kalanick as his “revenge business” after his previous P2P startup Scour was sued into oblivion for copyright infringement, Red Swoosh would be the precursor for Expensify’s future culture and ethos. It echos one of the key arguments of Fred Turner’s book, “ From Counterculture to Cyberculture.”.

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CIO

AUGUST 20, 2024

In his book, The Creative Act: A Way of Being , legendary music producer Rick Rubin shared a profound observation that doesn’t just apply to creativity, but also to digital and AI transformation: “Beware of the assumption that the way you work is the best way simply because it’s the way you’ve done it before.”

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Xebia

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

The release of our book Actions in Action This was epic for Rob Bos, Michael Kaufmann, and me since we finally received the printed versions of our books. We spent about 18 months to get this book published. Last but not least, we got Scott Hanselman to write the foreword for our book; how cool is that!

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Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 6, 2020

If you’re like many leaders with whom we’ve shared our new book Courageous Cultures, you’re mentally indexing your team and wondering if they’re capable of micro-innovations, problem-solving, and advocating for your customer. You want them to contribute, but they’re reluctant or clumsy. […].

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CIO

DECEMBER 8, 2022

The author of six books, including his latest, Digital Transformation for Dummies , Jensen’s career journey spans 20 years of transformational leadership in CTO, CIO, and CDO roles at organizations like Danske Bank, IBM, and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. Jensen, chief innovation officer, Teladoc. Innovation, IT Leadership.

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Apiumhub

JUNE 16, 2021

We’ve collected a few of the best tech leadership books, so you can dive in with the best chance of success. Books offer an amazing opportunity to delve deeply into topics. Books offer an amazing opportunity to delve deeply into topics. I hope you find our list of tech leadership books useful: Tech Leadership books.

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AWS Machine Learning - AI

APRIL 21, 2025

The company also adapts quality web novels into films, animations for international markets, expanding the global influence of Chinese culture. Hao Huang is an Applied Scientist at the AWS Generative AI Innovation Center. is a senior applied scientist with the Generative AI Innovation Centre at AWS. Guang Yang , Ph.D.

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Hacker Earth Developers Blog

MAY 25, 2021

But there are many of us who find the answers we seek in books from wonderful authors. Most people who aspire to become better, be it in their personal or work lives, look toward books that introduce them to a plethora of ideas and possibilities. Do you have these recruiting books on your bookshelf? Find the book here.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JUNE 18, 2020

As we prepare to launch our new book, Courageous Cultures: How to Build Teams of Micro-Innovators, Problem Solvers, and Customer Advocates, we invited thought leaders to share their best writing on courage. Welcome to the Frontline Festival. Thanks to Joy and Tom […].

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 4, 2021

This is because diversity increases revenue, boosts innovation, sparks creativity and leads to better decision-making. Diversity in the workplace starts with an inclusive culture. Done right, an inclusive culture should help to foster a sense of belonging and shared values. Unfortunately, many companies get this wrong.

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Daniel Bryant

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

BOOK RECOMMENDATIONS Platform strategy, Team Topologies, IaC, SRE, metrics and more! The Syntasso team is often asked for platform engineering book recommendations at conferences, via social media, and in Slack DMs. We’ve pooled together our collective top five recommendations for this blog post.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 18, 2021

As we entered 2021, I wrote about the big question on every startup’s mind for 2021: How will a cataclysmic event such as a pandemic show up in post-pandemic innovation? Company culture and trying to not be the “fool in the room” Image Credits: filo / Getty Images. To get this in your inbox, subscribe here.

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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

“Hi, Karin, our company is growing so fast, I’m not even sure what our CULTURE is. How do I CARVE OUT A TEAM CULTURE?” ” #askingforafriend How to Carve Out A Team Culture Even When Your Company Culture is Lacking Great question! You don’t need to wait for the bigger culture to emerge.

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AWS Machine Learning - AI

JANUARY 22, 2025

However, when users want to search or book flights and hotels, they are connected to an agent who guides them through the process, collecting essential information while maintaining the session until completion. The flow offers two distinct interaction paths. For general travel inquiries, users receive instant responses powered by an LLM.

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Let's Grow Leaders

APRIL 2, 2025

Maybe your internal project could pave the way for a more inclusive culture. Let the team know theres a number-one seed out theremaybe its a competitor, or another team chasing the same innovation. Find the meaning behind the missioneven if it’s buried under spreadsheets and ASAPs. Dont assume they see it. And say it often.

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AWS Machine Learning - AI

JULY 15, 2024

Today, Mixbook is the #1 rated photo book service in the US with 26 thousand five-star reviews. In this post we show you how Mixbook used generative artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities in AWS to personalize their photo book experiences—a step towards their mission. AWS enables us to scale the innovations our customers love most.

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InfoQ Culture Methods

JUNE 16, 2020

The book Leveraging Digital Transformation - Proven Leadership and Innovation Strategies to Engage and Grow Your Organization by M. It explores how to lead a digital transformation, how to engage people into the transformation, and what can be done to enable digitalization and innovation.

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Perficient

APRIL 10, 2023

The psychology of innovation is like any other area of life where our brains and emotions simply get in the way of our progress. I recently wrote a blog post about harmful innovation myths , and now I want to dive into the psychology around innovation. Businesses must foster a culture where ideas are not owned by individuals.

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thoughtLEADERS, LLC

JANUARY 16, 2023

Learn how an award-winning CEO transformed a once struggling organization by improving its workplace culture. I have just published a book called The Buddhist CEO , but in many ways I was the accidental CEO. Today’s guest post is by Thane Lawrie, author of The Buddhist CEO (CLICK HERE to get your copy).

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Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 13, 2023

A Retrospective: Santa’s Big Leadership and Culture Change Is there anyone more beloved than Santa Claus? Today, the North Pole is a paragon of human-centered leadership and culture. Santa, Donner, and the head elf had created and took part in a toxic culture of ridicule that led to poor performance. Performance soared.

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thoughtLEADERS, LLC

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Innovation thrives on meaning, but superficial innovation talk can lead to stress and fatigue, and thus less creativity, in a company culture. Today’s post is by Alf Rehn, author of Innovation for the Fatigued (CLICK HERE to get your copy). It is common knowledge that talking the talk is easier than walking the walk.

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thoughtLEADERS, LLC

AUGUST 29, 2022

Innovation is the buzzword of buzzwords. Today’s post is by David Cutler, author of The GAME of Innovation ( CLICK HERE to get your copy). Innovation is the buzzword of buzzwords. Job descriptions seek “innovative leadership.” Organizations tout their “innovative culture.” But what exactly does it mean?

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Until recently, technology was often seen as a mere expense rather than a catalyst for innovation and business growth. Yet, in our innovation-focused role, we are the architects of new business processes and ideas. We must overcome it to fully realize technology’s potential as a driver of business growth and innovation.

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 18, 2022

Your book, Courageous Cultures, kind of scares me. And they said, “yeah, maybe not so much on the innovation.” Communicate your desire for innovation in the areas you really want them to focus on. How do you help your team focus on the most helpful innovation? They needed more focused execution.

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Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Episode 239: Antonella Pisani, the CEO and founder of Eyeful Media , a digital marketing and consulting firm, joins host David Dye, and discusses the importance of culture, values, and remote culture in leadership. She emphasizes hiring experienced talent and creating an intellectually stimulating environment.

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Let's Grow Leaders

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Inspire team innovation with an idea garden, saving great ideas for future growth. Hi Karin, “I attended your Courageous Cultures, how to Read Courageous Cultures with your team book club, and we loved it. We are using the book and we’re reading it. The good news is we’re getting SO MANY IDEAS.

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thoughtLEADERS, LLC

APRIL 8, 2024

Sam Adeyemi reveals the six secrets to an enviable working culture for values-driven leaders and C-suite executives. ” 6 Secrets to Creating an Enviable Working Environment If your organization were a mechanic, your working culture would be the tools of your trade.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MARCH 15, 2024

In this podcast episode, Andre Martin discusses the importance of finding the right fit in your career and building a culture that supports employee motivation, engagement, and satisfaction. The post Culture, Fit, and Employee Motivation Strategies appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 12, 2021

And yet, managing your professional life as a model, actor, writer or designer remains a mish-mash of emails, manual booking processes and dreaded PDFs. Late last year the Contact platform launched, initially offering models a way to take bookings and manage some aspects of their work. Image Credits: Contact.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 30, 2021

10:03 – Next, we look at the pervasive “culture of insatiability” and how it precludes us from doing the work that actually makes a difference. 16:38 – A practical example of an innovative team member who was innovative because he regularly had a minute to think. Get Juliet’s Book.

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CIO

JULY 20, 2023

Regarding this culture of busyness, many CIOs say that working longer hours is regularly associated with harder work. CIOs must always question if the applications they design and use are adding to, or eliminating, a culture of busyness. This utterly destroys innovation.” This is a major contributor to busyness culture.

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