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Activator: Success in the Tech Industry with Design Thinking
Contributor(s): Gillespie, Brandon (Author), Monson, Heather (Editor), Wilkerson, Gary

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ISBN: 0998749907     ISBN-13: 9780998749907
Publisher: Revenant Press
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Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: February 2017
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BISAC Categories:
- Computers | Software Development & Engineering - Systems Analysis & Design
- Business & Economics | Careers - General
- Business & Economics | Strategic Planning
Physical Information: 0.5" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" L (0.82 lbs) 204 pages
Features: Dust Cover
 
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Fear has quietly and insidiously woven its way throughout the very fabric of how we do business in Technology. Our goals are driven by failure, rather than success.

Design Thinking is a powerful adjustment in how you approach change, helping you to address this fear by becoming an Activator of change. You can be more effective in your Technology career, whether you are CTO, CIO, Architect, Project Manager, Engineer, Developer, or you hold any other role.

Learn about:

  • How fear effects the human side of technical people
  • The Principles of Design Thinking
  • How to use Design Thinking in technical leadership and planning
  • How to use Design Thinking to be more successful and effectively make change
  • Identifying and ending toxic behavior

"Activator is a must read for anyone strategically planning with any level of complexity. Simply written and powerfully driven home. Brandon takes us down an interesting and thoughtful road that leads to great results."
- Alan Rencher, CIO

"A thoughtful explanation for building tech software or infrastructure, with valuable strategies for the people factor."
-Seth Law, CSO, nVisium

Brandon has a breadth of experience, through his career including CTO, CIO, Director of Operations, Architect, Engineer and Developer across the public, private, and nonprofit sectors. These experiences have given him a unique insight into the behaviors we so often exhibit.


Contributor Bio(s): Gillespie, Brandon: - Brandon has a breadth of experience, through his career including CTO, CIO, Director of Operations, Security and Infrastructure, Architect, Consultant, Engineer, Developer, and Project Manager across the public, private, and nonprofit sectors. Some of his accomplishments include consolidating the Operational Intelligence strategy for a large organization with 1200 disparate systems; Architecting a large DoD compute facility and cloud stacks; defining policy used across the world for incident handling in a virtualized datacenter (RSA Conference and VMWorld presentations); and serving as Lead Architect on the team awarded Innovator of the Year from Red Hat. As an entrepreneur, he has led the development of open source software with global team members, pioneered online game technologies, started several companies, and has developed for FreeBSD. More recently, he has created Reflex, an OSS tool to help with the modern challenges of ephemeral system/container management. Brandon is a published author, loves all forms of technical or hacking topics, and blogs about them at http: //surfingthe.cloud/. Hailing from the slopes of Utah, he enjoys the outdoors with his family, tabletop games, and writing fiction.
 
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