Let's Grow Leaders

MAY 29, 2017

Welcome back to the Let’s Grow Leaders Frontline Festival. This month’s festival is a celebratory finish line of the Winning Well International Symposium with themes of confidence, humility, results, and relationships. Thanks to Joy and Tom Guthrie of Vizwerx Group for the great pic and to all our contributors! Next month’s Frontline Festival is all about handling conflict in your team.

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Henrik Warne

MAY 28, 2017

Many software developers have a tendency to avoid talking to people. They would rather just rely on written communication in chats, email or issue tracker tickets. However, talking to people more can make them more effective as software developers. Here are some examples: Example 1. Suppose you are implementing a new feature. The ticket in the issue tracker describes how the new functionality should work.

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General Leadership

MAY 29, 2017

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. On this memorial day, the curators and authors of GeneralLeadership.com pause to honor the men and women who died while serving in the U.S. Military. We reflect upon their sacrifices, as well as the sacrifices of the thousands of soldiers who serve in harms way around the globe on this day.

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Toptal

MAY 31, 2017

Interaction design principles form the bedrock of awesome UX. Truly great interaction design relies on a set of conventions, standards, best practices and rules-of-thumb.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 30, 2017

If you’re a senior leader, mid-level manager or, simply, a company change agent struggling to determine ways in which to ensure the long-term success of your business, you may find value in what I call the Back-To-Basics Prescription. It is an overarching program aimed at renewing the basic business fundamentals that every organization should have perfected to compete at a world class level.

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CTOvision

JUNE 1, 2017

Bob Gourley. We should all collectively thank Mary Meeker for her continued efforts in helping capture key trends in our interconnected technology. Her yearly report on the state of the Internet (available at Internet Trends Report and embedded below) provides context relevant to just about every enterprise decision-maker. Here are key takeaways: Global smartphone growth is slowing.

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Steve Farber

MAY 31, 2017

If you want to learn what it takes to become a great mentor, one place to look is at the great mentors who’ve influenced your success. As a motivational speaker, my mentors (and I’ve had several including Jim Kouzes, Tom Peters, and Terry Pearce) had more confidence in my abilities than I did, and always looked for opportunities to shove me into the training and speaking spotlight.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 28, 2017

Is Memorial Day weekend just another holiday, or does it mean something more to you? While this weekend simply signifies a long awaited prelude to summer for some, it is much more than that for others. As a veteran and lifelong student of leadership I have always found Memorial Day weekend to be one of the most meaningful and significant of all holidays.

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Women on Business

MAY 31, 2017

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CTOvision

MAY 30, 2017

Bob Gourley. There are seven key megatrends driving the future of enterprise IT. You can remember them all with the mnemonic acronym CAMBRIC, which stands for C loud Computing , A rtificial Intelligence , M obility , B ig Data , R obotics , I nternet of Things , C yberSecurity. In this post we dive deeper into Artificial Intelligence. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the discipline of thinking machines.

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Toptal

MAY 31, 2017

There is no way around application diagnostics. No matter how good your code is, you will need to be able to monitor and study system behavior. This is where Android's DDMS shines. In this article, Senior Android Engineer Gilad Haimov explains how veteran Android developers leverage the potential of DDMS to improve app stability and performance, test new features, diagnose, and debug their code.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 31, 2017

Have you ever worked for a boss who always said no ? If you have, my first guess is it was a frustrating experience. My second guess is you don’t hold said boss in high regard as a leader. I’ve always been amazed at the number of well known axioms espousing the benefits of learning to use the word “no” with greater frequency.

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Women on Business

MAY 30, 2017

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CTOvision

JUNE 2, 2017

Bob Gourley. The Global Connected Aircraft Summit (7-9 June 2017) provides airlines, operators, integrators, and technology vendors with a venue for advancing the state of the entire aviation community. This fourth annual event connects business, technology, and industry perspectives and goes beyond just in-flight entertainment, to include operations, communications and technologies that impacts the aircraft and the traveling public.

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taos

MAY 30, 2017

Author’s Note: This is a 9 part Monitoring Series. I recommend reviewing them in the order they are published for cohesiveness. What Makes Us Monitor? I know what you’re thinking, “let’s get on with it, show me the good stuff!” Well, this is the good stuff. Unless you know why you’re monitoring, and you take the time to create boundaries, you will end up with a bunch of useless data and system overhead.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 30, 2017

Graduation is a joyous time full of accolades and recognitions, serious reflection, and great anticipation. By all means, enjoy graduation – you worked hard to reach this point. That said, my advice is don’t get too caught up in the pomp and circumstance – real life is about to hit you in the face. Following are 11 tips for jumpstarting your future that I wish someone would have shared with me.

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Women on Business

MAY 28, 2017

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Toptal

MAY 29, 2017

Elijah Windsor, a Toptal Software Engineer, shares his take on the key benefits that convince top talent to freelance.

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Lead on Purpose

MAY 29, 2017

Today is Memorial Day in the United States. While many here gather as family and kick off the summer season, Memorial Day goes much deeper.

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Professor Beekums

MAY 28, 2017

It often feels like accuracy should be the most important thing when conveying information. Why wouldn’t it be? What’s the point of explaining something that’s false? Whether we are writing a blog post, documentation, a book, or anything that someone else will read, we want to make sure what we are saying is true. But being 100% accurate is not always the most important thing.

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Women on Business

JUNE 1, 2017

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Speaker: Blackberry, OSS Consultants, & Revenera

Software is complex, which makes threats to the software supply chain more real every day. 64% of organizations have been impacted by a software supply chain attack and 60% of data breaches are due to unpatched software vulnerabilities. In the U.S. alone, cyber losses totaled $10.3 billion in 2022. All of these stats beg the question, “Do you know what’s in your software?

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Toptal

JUNE 1, 2017

The private equity industry is showing signs of maturity as record competition amongst funds and record-high levels of dry powder, combined with strong competition from cash-rich corporates, have driven valuations to levels that make it difficult to see how returns could remain competitive.

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SQream

MAY 29, 2017

Big Data systems are built to handle data intensive applications. Now, as large-scale machine learning and streaming start to play a larger role in the enterprise, the Big Data systems are in need of more computational capabilities. Leveraging GPUs for analytical workloads is on the rise, particularly among telcos, ad-tech companies, financial services, and retail organizations that often deal with extremely large data volumes with high scaling and real-time processing requirements.

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CollabNet VersionOne

JUNE 1, 2017

Get Your Complimentary Copy of the Enterprise Agile Planning Tools Magic Quadrant Now. Gartner recently acknowledged CollabNet as a visionary in a broad Agile Planning Tools report, the “Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Agile Planning Tools,” written by analysts Thomas E. Murphy, Mike West and Keith James Mann. You can read the corresponding full announcement here.

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Women on Business

JUNE 2, 2017

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Radiant Logic

MAY 30, 2017

The post Cloud Directories, IDaaS, and Federation IdPs vs. the Rest of Your IAM Infrastructure appeared first on Radiant Logic.

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Allen Holub

MAY 30, 2017

When it comes to Agile, people often ask the wrong questions. I’ve used the term “wrong question” before, and it brought out the trolls, so let’s start with that. The trolls usually scream: “there is no such thing as a wrong question,” and then they launch into a discourse on why I’m an idiot.

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ProtectWise

JUNE 2, 2017

It wasn't that long ago that we couldn't comprehend how to store and manage the vast volumes of data we create every day, never mind how to analyze it to reap its hidden value. Academia took care of detailed data analysis while businesses relied instead on good old-fashioned gut instinct. Back then, data analysis was complicated and required experts with hard to find skills to own processes to ensure data was of a high enough quality and proper analytics were applied.

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