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b'In this Leadership Deep Dive episode, Francois Locoh-Donou, CEO of F5 (www.f5.com), takes us inside his leadership philosophy and demonstrates in a hard to refute way why diversity, open company structures, constant learning and ongoing transformation are not just values to look into, but crucial strategies to adopt if a company wants to stay competitive in its (ever evolving) market.\\n\\nFrancois has become CEO of F5 in 2017 and from this conversation, you can find out why in this time F5 has made a conscious and strategic decision to only acquire two companies (nginx and Shape security)\\n\\nFrancois also talks about growing up in Togo and living in the US, why he decided to invest in agricultural industry in his and what his background taught him about identity, pride, privilege and perseverance.\\n\\n\\nAbout F5\\n\\n03:15 About F5 - Enabling 24/7 delivery and security of applications\\n04:40 Challenges of application delivery\\n - multi-cloud\\n - microservices and distributed architecture\\n - automation of continuous improvement\\n07:04 Telemetry-based security (Shape security)\\n11:47 Application capital economy\\n13:58 Code To Customer - integrated view across silos\\n15:47 How F5 has been evolving with IT architecture trends\\n\\n\\nBuilding Successful Teams\\n\\n17:22 Company culture at F5\\n - humility\\n - loyalty\\n - embracing rapid transformation\\n18:36 How to make successful acquisitions\\n21:47 The roles that CEO has to play\\n - vision \\n - leadership\\n - strategy\\n - building relationships with clients\\n\\n24:47 Developing and driving vision for the company with diverse perspectives\\n28:12 Building and supporting successful teams\\n - traits of a good leader\\n29:00 Using humility to grow and listen\\n31:00 How hierarchies kill innovation\\n31:40 The value of diversity and nurturing passion and commitment\\n36:57 Francois\' fundamental values\\n - sense of identity and awareness of privilege\\n39:40 "Development in Africa will come from agricultural revolution"\\n - Francois\' investment in developing Togo\'s economy\\n42:48 Mentors in Francois\' life\\n - The driving force of drive and transformation\\n48:25 Francois\' most memorable failure and what he learned\\n - persevering despite self-doubt and learning from mistakes\\n51:05 "Once you go through a period of severe adversity and self-doubt, your confidence and desire to take risks is greater."\\n51:29 Advice for future CIOs and digital leaders\\n - managing your time investment into risks and learning\\n - nobody gets anywhere on their own'