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Leadership is an intangible skill, and that makes it hard to describe. What makes an effective team leader can’t be captured in a short definition. The needs and goals of leadership vary across time, industry, and department.

While Ruby has its competitors, over 1 million live websites are currently running on Ruby. And several major companies, including Airbnb and Shopify, were developed using Ruby.

Now 27 years old (old enough to vote!), Ruby is as alive as ever. Nearly two decades of growth and development have made it a powerful tool for building web applications.

Leadership is a multifaceted skill. Depending on their context, a leader may have to perform administrative tasks, social activities, and even technical operations. Good leaders perform many different kinds of labor.

Although leadership is first and foremost a social role, it has often been forgotten that much of it entails emotional labor. Leaders are ultimately responsible for their organization's health, which requires cultivating practical attitudes in themselves and others.

Over the long term, the cost of emotional labor can add up. Managers experience burnout, fatigue, and depression from working themselves too hard. But there are several strategies that you can employ to prevent this from occurring.

As the World Wide Web enters its mid-30s, web development continues to grow and expand in new and exciting ways. Developers are tinkering with ways to bring faster, smarter, and more fun experiences to the public. 

Whether stated explicitly or not, every company has a set of values that it lives by. These values shape the way employees operate, from managerial decisions to individual actions. And in turn, a company’s values affect the product or service it delivers to its customers or clients.

These values can really make or break a company. While no company would enshrine negativity or a fear of failure as their core values, nevertheless, many do become characterized by them.

By selecting and expressing your core values up front, as JetRockets does, you can make it clear how your company should operate. Selecting good values can set the tone for how employees operate and lead to better delivery for your clients.