Let's Grow Leaders
AUGUST 22, 2013
'Patience is the support of weakness; impatience the ruin of strength -Charles Caleb Colton “Karin, we should be able to have this project done by the end of the year.” I listened impatiently as the team broke down the timeline, contingencies, and tasks. They were the experts, and the project involved heavy IT lift–never fun. I [.
Terry Starbucker
AUGUST 4, 2013
'“Morale is poor, turnover is high, and our performance has been dismal. Can you fix all this for us?” Leadership has its challenges, and there’s none more daunting than walking into a difficult “turn around” situation. The expectations are high and the pressure is on, but the rewards are great for the leader that accepts this call to duty, and succeeds.
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Change Starts Here
AUGUST 27, 2013
'Tuesday, September 10, 2013 – 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. Eastern. The path to implementing change in an organization isn’t always smooth. On the way, you run into frequent speed bumps, wrong way signs, and even concrete barriers. These road hazards on the way to change act as obstacles that prevent you from moving forward. Despite your best intentions, you and your change initiative can get stuck.
General Leadership
AUGUST 6, 2013
'“We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided.”. J.K. Rowling. On a hot and hazy morning in August 1984, Bill Shore’s life changed. He was a senior political advisor to Senator Gary Hart in his Washington office. Coming off Hart’s presidential campaign loss, Shore was reading the Washington Post when he came across a brief article about impending famine in Africa: “200,000 to Die this Summer in Ethiopia,” the headline read.
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N2Growth Blog
AUGUST 27, 2013
'By John Baldoni , Chair, Leadership Development, N2growth. Usually if the title of a business book contains the word “idiot” in the title I assume the book is a screed on the perils of working for bosses who are not as smart as the author and therefore deserve belittlement. Such books I avoid like the plague because like subjects of these fevered rants, the authors – often disgruntled employees or self-important consultants – offer little of merit other than an ability to rail against the syst
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Let's Grow Leaders
AUGUST 19, 2013
'“Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.” -Henry Ford Competent, lazy leaders are dangerous. “Why fix something that’s working?” “I was promoted to this position for a reason.” “I’ve seen this movie before.” Beware of highly skilled, non-learning leaders.
Terry Starbucker
AUGUST 18, 2013
'It was 5 years ago when I discovered the real secret of life after a walk down Pearl Street in Boulder Colorado. I just happened to have my eyes wide open that day – one of those rare ones where for whatever reason, there was a hightened sense of awareness of my surroundings. I wandered through candy stores and ice cream shops, and watched kids playing in the water fountain.
Change Starts Here
AUGUST 6, 2013
'Influencing organizational change is undoubtedly a complicated endeavor. You have to assess your unique situation and determine when and how to use the vast array of influence techniques at your disposal. And yet, patterns appear when you look at what you are really trying to do when you influence others. Underlying all your options are five fundamental levers of influence you can apply to accomplish your goals.
CTOvision
AUGUST 11, 2013
'By Bob Gourley Genomics is a critically important discipline in contemporary biomedical research that takes a comprehensive approach to determining and understanding the structure and function of DNA to advance our understanding of life and our ability to make lives better for all. For IT professionals we can contribute to this domain through Bioinformatics.
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N2Growth Blog
AUGUST 20, 2013
'By Brian Layer , Chair, Organizational Development, N2growth. Years ago, I picked up a pearl of wisdom from coaching great, John Wooden. Make each day your masterpiece! Living at that level is a powerful and challenging concept. Most of us fall short and it‘s easy to blame our circumstances and those around us for their distraction. Yet, a leader has a duty to perform at the highest possible level and an honest assessment may reveal days laden with missed leadership opportunities.
Erik Bernhardsson
AUGUST 11, 2013
Andy Sloane decided to call my 2D visualization and raise it to 3D. (Looks a little weird in the iframe but check out the link). It’s based on a LDA model with 200 topics, so the artists tend to stick to clusters where each cluster is a topic. The embedding also uses t-SNE but in three dimensions (obviously).
Let's Grow Leaders
AUGUST 2, 2013
'Great leaders open doors for other leaders. Great leaders also know when to knock. Be a door opener. Learn how to knock. Who’s opened doors for you? What have you done to open doors for others? Bill Treasurer, author of Leaders Who Open Doors, is collecting stories of leaders who have opened doors, or [.] The post Super Leaders Open Doors appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.
Terry Starbucker
AUGUST 11, 2013
'I remember this meeting oh so well. It was a dart throwing session where the trees were getting more attention than the forest, one of my all-time pet peeves. That is, we had drilled down hard on what I thought was a relatively insignificant metric, rather than look at the bigger picture of what was happening out there – improved morale, higher trust, and a turnaround on the “big stuff” (the overall customer satisfaction number, among them).
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Toptal
AUGUST 13, 2013
Node.js shines in real-time web applications employing push technology over websockets. What is so revolutionary about that? Well, after over 20 years of stateless-web based on the stateless request-response paradigm, we finally have web applications with real-time, two-way connections, where both the client and server can initiate communication, allowing them to exchange data freely.
CTOvision
AUGUST 13, 2013
'By BryanHalfpap While at Defcon (the largest computer security conference in the United States) I overheard it described as a sort of “Hacker New-Years holiday” If that’s true, then maybe it’s time to go over one of the trends I’ve seen popping up for a while that has gained a lot of momentum this past year: Wireless hacking.
N2Growth Blog
AUGUST 1, 2013
'By Brian Layer , Chair, Organizational Development, N2growth. Recently, I approached the entrance of familiar children’s store and saw a dead bird on their doorstep. Decay indicated the time for a proper burial had passed and while disturbed, I was not surprised the employees left it lying in state. The dead bird on the doorstep is a common symptom of a big organization problem and if you run one, you might have a few dead birds of your own.
Erik Bernhardsson
AUGUST 8, 2013
I’ve turned into a lazy bastard and I’m just posting presentations on this blog, but here’s one from Rohan Singh at Spotify talking about the backend infrastructure of the Discover page.
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Let's Grow Leaders
AUGUST 12, 2013
'Authenticity is risky. When you lead from your heart, feedback stings brighter. It takes courage to think (and even more to say) to those in positions of power, “Thank you, I understand you, I choose not to lead that way.” I’ve said that. These potentially vital words are treacherous on two fronts. First, you may be [.] The post The Sacrifice of Authenticity appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.
Change Starts Here
AUGUST 13, 2013
'Since The Change Agent’s Dilemma radio show is taking a break this month, here is a recap of the seven episodes that have aired so far this year. Click the play button below each description to listen to that episode. Gaining Agreement on a Blueprint for Change. Guest: Martha Greenway, former Deputy Superintendent of Fulton County Schools in Georgia.
Toptal
AUGUST 13, 2013
Sometimes I hear people complaining about their clients, saying that they insist on using Rails, that they've had too much Kool Aid. If they are recruiters, they almost feel sick in the stomach from perspective of having to find yet another ROR primadona. From the programmers point of view it sometimes looks like clients don't have a clue. However, I believe most clients know their options just fine and they still decide to go with Rails.
CTOvision
AUGUST 11, 2013
'By Bob Gourley Vogon’s are not bogons, but look like them. With this post we will dive a bit deeper into bogosity in networks, paying particular attention to the fundamental element of bogosity, the Bogon. We will then articulate a use case for the Centripetal Networks RuleGate which can ensure bogons never get to your enterprise. As a prelude let me first say there is a very high likelihood that your ISP is sending bogons your way right now, using the bandwidth you paid for to do so.
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N2Growth Blog
AUGUST 28, 2013
'By Mike Myatt , Chief Executive Officer, N2growth . I’m a big fan of author and historian David McCullough. His writing has a way of transporting me back in time like few other authors can. Recently I have been immersing myself in his account of America’s second president John Adams. McCullough’s portrayal of John Adams has made no small impact on me.
Erik Bernhardsson
AUGUST 16, 2013
I just answered a Quora question about what, if any, are the differences in the algorithms that are behind recommendations for music and movies. Of course, every media type is different. For instance, there’s fundamental reasons why latent factor models works really well for music and movies, as opposed to location recommendations where I suspect graph based models are more powerful.
Let's Grow Leaders
AUGUST 29, 2013
'Communicating the hard stuff leaves even the best leaders stressed and queasy. You care deeply about the human beings you support. You don’t mean to play games, but a sprinkle of sugar-coating, with a dollop of “they don’t really need to know this…” diminishes trust and undermines your leadership. When we’re not honest and direct, [.
Change Starts Here
AUGUST 1, 2013
'I regularly watch a show on HGTV called “Love It or List It.” The home makeover show features a couple who are tired of their current house and want to make a change. The show pits two professionals against each other: Hilary, the interior designer, and David, the real estate agent. Both Hilary and David set out to fix up the current house or find the couple a new one, respectively.
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Toptal
AUGUST 16, 2013
A few years ago, driven by my curiosity, I took my first steps into the world of Forex by creating a demo account and playing out simulations (with fake money) using the Meta Trader 4 trading platform. After a week of 'trading', I'd almost doubled my 'money'. Spurred on by my own success, I dug deeper and eventually signed up for a number of forums.
CTOvision
AUGUST 13, 2013
'By Bob Gourley CTOlabs.com, a subsidiary of the technology research, consulting and services firm Crucial Point LLC and a peer site of CTOvision.com , has just announced a white paper titled “ Empowering Analysts with Big Data.” This paper, the results of four years of study and assessments and use case review focused on the use of Big Data in the federal government, provides design tips, concepts of operation and overarching design requirements which can inform any big data sol
N2Growth Blog
AUGUST 19, 2013
'By John Baldoni , Chair, Leadership Development, N2growth. Are you ready to hang it up? That may not be a question that most people ask themselves often enough, but maybe it is one more of us need to ask ourselves. This thought is prompted by a 2012 column by best-selling author Bob Greene column on St. Louis Cardinal manager Tony LaRussa’s decision to retire after winning the World Series, the first time that any manager has ever done so.
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