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Executive Leadership: One Temptation Most Successful Executives Resist

Let's Grow Leaders

If you’re an executive (or aspiring to be one) this time I’m writing for you. Not my usual M.O., I usually write for your teams (and how to help them deal with you ;-) But today, I write to you. Why? Because when senior leaders practice winning well behaviors, the culture shifts that much faster– and results not only go up, they stay up– and teams feel excited about what they’re up to.

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6 Books Leaders Read to Become Stand-out Leaders

Career Advancement

“If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.”~Ralph Waldo Emerson~. Damion’s goal was to become a great leader. He’d been under some mediocre leaders and wanted to do a better job than that. He looked at other leaders in the company and got some ideas of leadership skills from them. But he felt there was more than what he was seeing.

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Simple Ways to Market Your Business in the Local Community

Women on Business

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How Big Data is Becoming Smaller Than Small Data

CTOvision

Carol M. Evenson. In E-Commerce, Small Data = Big Data and Vice Versa. Big Data, small data and everyday data: Is there a meaningful difference between these three information carriers nowadays? The answer by data scientists would be no; some of the information that can be gleaned from Big Data sets these days can also be extracted from smaller data sets.

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Embrace AI: Make Your VoIP Service Stand Out

Dialogview is revolutionizing VoIP services with its AI-powered platform, which is now available for white labeling. Our solution autonomously resolves over 68% of customer queries in more than 40 languages, dramatically reducing your team’s workload. With advanced conversational AI, Dialogview understands customer sentiments and queries in real time, without any button presses needed by users.

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The Importance of Customer Retention — An Empirical Study

Toptal

Startups nowadays are hyper focused on growth at all costs, a practice which often undermines the fundamental health of the business. This article takes an in-depth look at the importance of focusing on customer retention from day one and the practical benefits it can provide in the medium to long term.

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5 Reasons Your Business Needs a Blog (Even if You’re Too Busy)

Women on Business

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Learn The Latest On All Things Data At The 25 April 2017 Cloudera Government Forum

CTOvision

Bob Gourley. In the world of data somethings are totally consistent and some are incredibly dynamic. One timeless consistency is that organizations have always sought to optimize the use of data for their mission. That has always been true and all indications are it always will be. But approaches to doing that are more dynamic. Lessons learned and new approaches to managing data are important to track.

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What is the Border Adjustment Tax? Potential Benefits and Risks

Toptal

With tax reform discussions likely to rise to the national forefront, this article provides analysis regarding border adjustment taxes and the recent House proposal. It assesses economic implications and historical comparisons to help you understand how you and your business might be impacted.

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How to Accelerate Team Learning

QAspire

A team’s ability to learn quickly is at the heart of adapting to constant changes. In fact, it seems that constant learning is the only key to agility as a team and organization. Jack Welch famously said, “An organizations ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the greatest competitive advantage.”. On this blog, we have visually explored various facets of creating a learning organization.

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Streamlining Database Compliance with CI/CD Integration

IT leaders know the importance of compliance at every level, but the database often gets left behind as other environments are automated for robust protection. This whitepaper emphasizes the importance of robust, auditable, and secure database change management practices for safeguarding organizational compliance. Learn how automating database compliance: Mitigates risk Protects against security vulnerabilities Helps avoid regulatory penalties Aligns database workflows with app lifecycle Turns d

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Osayi Emokpae Lasisi Joins the Women on Business Contributor Team

Women on Business

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Variety in collaboration tools is not a curse!

CTOvision

Dennis D. McDonald. According to a recent article in ZDNet, "… enterprise collaboration is exciting again." The reasons given for this include: Low friction "chat" solutions are making collaboration easier in the enterprise. New collaboration tools come with apps that simplify integration with other enterprise systems. Collaboration tools are proliferating and this complicates adoption of a universal enterprise collaboration platform.

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How to Design Delightful Experiences for the Internet of Things

Toptal

The next wave of IoT will connect millions of devices. The skills needed in this new paradigm will shift from component thinking to whole systems thinking.

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A Nifty Workshop Technique

James Shore

05 Apr 2017. James Shore/Blog. It's hard to be completely original. But I have a little trick for workshops that I've never seen others do, and participants love it. It's pretty simple: instead of passing out slide booklets, provide nice notebooks and pass out stickers. Specifically, something like Moleskine Cahiers and 3-1/3" x 4" printable labels.

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7 Pitfalls for Apache Cassandra in Production

Apache Cassandra is an open-source distributed database that boasts an architecture that delivers high scalability, near 100% availability, and powerful read-and-write performance required for many data-heavy use cases. However, many developers and administrators who are new to this NoSQL database often encounter several challenges that can impact its performance.

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6 Tips to Use Graphics or Images You Find Online

Women on Business

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Don't Outsource Software Maintenance

Professor Beekums

A friend once told me that they work at a company where the maintenance of software is outsourced. That means their in house developers only work on new features. Bugs and such are handled by an outsourced team. I can only guess as to why this company chose to do this. Maybe they think it’s more efficient. Maybe their developers just refused to do maintenance.

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The Salesforce Release Train: A Practical Approach to Release Management

Toptal

Deploying new features with Salesforce can be problematic in more ways than one. It is crucial to have a sound strategy governing the publication of new releases, without running the risk of breaking your product. In this post, Toptal Software Engineer Ajinkya Deshmukh will provide you with all relevant information and key tips that will allow you to manage your next Salesforce release smoothly.

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Getting the most out of API management, Part 2

Akana

API management fills several key roles in the modern digital enterprise, this diagram explains the key components for an effective API strategy. Today we'll look at the services that support the core layers. The post Getting the most out of API management, Part 2 appeared first on API Management Blog - Akana.

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Entity Resolution Checklist: What to Consider When Evaluating Options

Are you trying to decide which entity resolution capabilities you need? It can be confusing to determine which features are most important for your project. And sometimes key features are overlooked. Get the Entity Resolution Evaluation Checklist to make sure you’ve thought of everything to make your project a success! The list was created by Senzing’s team of leading entity resolution experts, based on their real-world experience.

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Hosting a Client Hospitality Event? Here’s Why You Need to Watch What They Eat

Women on Business

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Stress Test Your Leadership

Nathan Magnuson

I recently conducted a needs assessment for a senior executive group and was surprised when one of the highest rated development needs was stress management. The topic came up again in training discussion when another executive group expressed a high desire to include stress management on the list. I guess I assumed in a climate where everyone was expected to delivery more with less (as is the case in most places) the topic would seem too “soft” to them.

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Building trust with your customers

Lead on Purpose

One of the key elements to business success is customer engagement. When you have customers that are excited about your products or services, your business grows and you prosper.

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Does A CIO Run A Democracy?

The Accidental Successful CIO

Should a CIO allow workers to vote? Image Credit: Amy Woodward. Ah, the burdens of leadership rest heavily on your shoulders. As the person with the CIO job, it’s your responsibility to collect all of the available data, process it, and then make the best decisions that you can. With a little luck, your decisions will be the right ones most of the time based on the importance of information technology.

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Monetizing Analytics Features

Think your customers will pay more for data visualizations in your application? Five years ago, they may have. But today, dashboards and visualizations have become table stakes. Turning analytics into a source of revenue means integrating advanced features in unique, hard-to-steal ways. Download this white paper to discover which features will differentiate your application and maximize the ROI of your analytics.

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3 Tips for Creating An Offering Around Your Expertise

Women on Business

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Counterintelligence Tactics to Help you Hire the Best Candidate

Steve Farber

It’s important to do business with people we like, but I confess a tendency to let my emotions drive too many of those types of decisions. I conduct what Justin Recla calls “intuitive due diligence,” and if the other person passes my gut-check, I’m eager to roll forward with a deal. That’s not a wise approach, Recla says, and he knows a few things about due diligence.

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Effective Engineering Productivity

Code Simplicity

Often, people who work on engineering productivity either come into conflict with the developers they are attempting to help, or spend a long time working on some project that ends up not mattering because nobody actually cares about it. This comes about because the problem that you see that a development team has is not necessarily the problem that they know exists.

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Bring Your Own Intel: More Reliable Intrusion Detection.

ProtectWise

Threat intelligence feeds promise insight on the latest attacks but despite a vast choice of feeds, attacks are still being overlooked. Unfortunately, those vast choices are part of the problem. A daily chore for security operations center (SOC) analysts is to correlate information across the many disparate and uncoordinated threat feeds for which they have subscriptions.

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A Tale of Two Case Studies: Using LLMs in Production

Speaker: Tony Karrer, Ryan Barker, Grant Wiles, Zach Asman, & Mark Pace

Join our exclusive webinar with top industry visionaries, where we'll explore the latest innovations in Artificial Intelligence and the incredible potential of LLMs. We'll walk through two compelling case studies that showcase how AI is reimagining industries and revolutionizing the way we interact with technology. Some takeaways include: How to test and evaluate results 📊 Why confidence scoring matters 🔐 How to assess cost and quality 🤖 Cross-platform cost vs. quality tr

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5 Unexpected Job Interview Tips that Work

Women on Business

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Getting the most out of API management, Part 2

Akana

API management fills several key roles in the modern digital enterprise, this diagram explains the key components for an effective API strategy. Today we'll look at the services that support the core layers. The post Getting the most out of API management, Part 2 appeared first on API Management Blog - Akana.

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A Nifty Workshop Technique

James Shore

05 Apr 2017. James Shore/Blog. It's hard to be completely original. But I have a little trick for workshops that I've never seen others do, and participants love it. It's pretty simple: instead of passing out slide booklets, provide nice notebooks and pass out stickers. Specifically, something like Moleskine Cahiers and 3-1/3" x 4" printable labels.

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