November, 2016

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Let's Encrypt Everything

Coding Horror

I'll admit I was late to the HTTPS party. But post Snowden, and particularly after the result of the last election here in the US, it's clear that everything on the web should be encrypted by default. Why? You have an unalienable right to privacy , both in the real world and online. And without HTTPS you have zero online privacy – from anyone else on your WiFi, from your network provider, from website operators, from large companies, from the government.

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5 Ways to Tame a Bad Boss

Let's Grow Leaders

“Greg” called to share his news, “You know that situation with my boss is going a lot better! I decided to go on the offense and just keep him over-informed. He loves it. Now he stays off my back and I can do my work.” Bingo. Another “bad boss” tamed. 5 Ways to Tame a Bad Boss. Sure I’ve met some loony tunes over the years.

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Veterans Day – Solemnly Remember

General Leadership

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. Armistice Day parade – 1929 – Boston (Source: Boston Public Library). “…solemnly remember the sacrifices of all those who fought so valiantly on the seas, in the air, and on foreign shores, to preserve our heritage of freedom.”.

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Dream Adjusters: Why Company Leaders Also Have To Be Chief Calibration Officers

Terry Starbucker

When is a dream too big? When is it not big enough? When should the dream change? And who should be the one sorting it all out for an organization and/or team pushing for greatness? YOU, the leader. . There is no other person that can do it most effectively, or with the most impact. In fact, I’d argue that this is probably the most important job for high-level leaders- they also need to be Chief Calibration Officers.

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Peak Performance: Continuous Testing & Evaluation of LLM-Based Applications

Speaker: Aarushi Kansal, AI Leader & Author and Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO at Aggregage

Software leaders who are building applications based on Large Language Models (LLMs) often find it a challenge to achieve reliability. It’s no surprise given the non-deterministic nature of LLMs. To effectively create reliable LLM-based (often with RAG) applications, extensive testing and evaluation processes are crucial. This often ends up involving meticulous adjustments to prompts.

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Cognitio’s Bob Flores, Ex-CIA CTO, Featured in IDG TechWorld Providing Context On the Cyber Threat

CTOvision

Bob Gourley. Cognitio's Bob Flores, former CTO of the CIA, was just featured in IDG TechWorld providing context on the state of the cyber threat. From the article: The former CTO of America's Central Intelligence Agency , Bob Flores, has said the gravest cyber security threat facing the world is the lack of protection for critical infrastructure and the internet of things – and that it's worth challenging narratives about attacks from nation states that get repeated without criticism.

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Your Digital Pinball Machine

Coding Horror

I've had something of an obsession with digital pinball for years now. That recently culminated in me buying a Virtuapin Mini. OK, yes, it's an extravagance. There's no question. But in my defense, it is a minor extravagance relative to a real pinball machine. The mini is much smaller than a normal pinball machine, so it's easier to move around, takes up less space, and is less expensive.

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5 Conversations Your Millennial Employees Are Longing To Have

Let's Grow Leaders

Morgan (a family friend who also happens to be a millennial) was practically screaming in frustration as we began our mentoring session, “Arghhh, Karin, I’m just so frustrated. They want me to do all this crap… none of it seems important, and it’s getting in the way of my real work.” It would have been tempting to just take Morgan’s word for it– that the “crap” she was being asked to do made no sense.

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Bridging the Divide

General Leadership

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. “We choose to go to the Moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard; because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one we intend to win.” Pres

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Why Above All Else, Leaders Must Teach and Not Tell (and 6 Ways To Do It Right)

Terry Starbucker

The teaching element of leadership is so often overlooked and overshadowed by more glamorous things like vision, strategy and execution. But in the end, it is probably the most gratifying part of leadership, because when you do connect with someone this way, and they get it, they thrive and grow, and even surpass you, the resulting feeling of satisfaction is unlike anything else.

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Top 5 Challenges in Designing a Data Warehouse for Multi-Tenant Analytics

Multi-tenant architecture allows software vendors to realize tremendous efficiencies by maintaining a single application stack instead of separate database instances while meeting data privacy needs. When you use a data warehouse to power your multi-tenant analytics, the proper approach is vital. Multi-tenant analytics is NOT the primary use case with traditional data warehouses, causing data security challenges.

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How Big Data Drives The Sharing Economy

CTOvision

Brigg Patten. Your data is being tracked. Don't worry, you aren't alone. The advent of "Big Data" has resulted in an internet landscape where every major company tracks their users' information. When a website warns you that it wants to use cookies to track your information, that's a clear sign of big data at work. We often hear about the sharing economy, big data, and other technical terms that seem a bit mysterious.

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What’s Your Employee Value Proposition?

N2Growth Blog

Nearly every business leader recognizes the importance of their organization’s value proposition. It’s the elevator pitch, the one thing that your business can deliver to its customers that separates it from every other business out there. Your value proposition is so intrinsic to your business that, if I were to ask what it is, I bet you would be able to spout it off in a nanosecond.

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Four Ways to Fuel Change With a Clear Future State

Change Starts Here

Every change initiative needs a clear, well-articulated vision of the desired future state. The vision describes what the organization will become as a result of a successful implementation of the change initiative. There are at least four ways you can use a clear future state vision to help move the organization forward. Navigate. The vision of the future is the North Star for your organization, and for the change initiative.

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The Morning After: 6 Sure-Fire Ways to Ensure Your Training Sticks

Let's Grow Leaders

“John” glanced excitedly at the conference room walls filled with easel sheets, plans and ideas. And then sighed deeply as he shuffled though his deep pile of notes and action items. “Karin, I guarantee you, I’ll be a better leader tomorrow morning as a result of your Winning Well bootcamp. And I’m almost certain I’ll still be a better leader the following week, and maybe even the week after that.

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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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Leading Teams to Greatness – Part 2

General Leadership

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. “A good plan, violently executed now, is better than a perfect plan next week.”. General George S. Patton. After all the instruction and practice on the beach, it was time to actually put my board into the ocean and paddle out to the break.

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5 Steps to Develop a Viable Digital Marketing Strategy for Small Business

Women on Business

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CTOvision Named To BizTech’s List Of Top 30 Must-Read Blogs For the Small to Mid-sized Business

CTOvision

Bob Gourley. We are pleased to report that CTOvision has been named to BizTech's list of the top 30 "Must-Read" blogs for small to mid-sized businesses, ranking as number 2 of 30. The small to mid-sized market includes all firms under 2000 people in size, which is 90% of the businesses in the U.S. We believe in the small to mid-sized business (SMB) and know the leadership team of firms in this criticaly important segment are frequently not able to spend as much time and energy on topics of data

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5 “NEXT PRACTICES” WHEN HIRING A GENERAL COUNSEL

N2Growth Blog

Today’s Executive Search and Management Consulting firms s are famous for espousing “Best Practices.” But guess what? Nothing could be more detrimental to your organization. Think about it this way: Why would you and your organization want to “follow the herd”? At N2Growth, we’re not just another consulting firm espousing best practices.

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business. That’s what drove the five companies in this e-book to change their approach to analytics. Download this e-book to learn about the unique problems each company faced and how they achieved huge returns beyond expectation by embedding analytics into applications.

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Three Reasons People Get Stuck in the Status Quo (And How to Break Free)

Change Starts Here

People who implement change often describe the experience with similar metaphors: It’s like running through quicksand, or swimming upstream, or pushing a boulder uphill. They all describe the same feeling of putting in a lot of effort and going nowhere fast. The power of the status quo, or the current state of the organization, contributes to that sense of futility.

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The 7 Deadly Sins of Skip Level Meetings

Let's Grow Leaders

Skip level meetings always seem like a good idea at the time. A little MBWA (management by walking around) never hurt anyone. Or did it? Done well, skip level meetings are a remarkable tool in your Winning Well toolkit. Skip level meetings help you connect “what to why,” reinforce the MIT (most important thing), help you build genuine relationships, give you a chance to ask strategic questions to learn what’s really going on, and most importantly, to build genuine relationshi

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Happy 241st Birthday to the United States Marine Corps!

General Leadership

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. “Admiration of the Nation. We’re the finest ever seen. And we glory in the title. Of United States Marines” Early words to the last stanza of the first verse of the “Marines’ Hymn”. Happy 241st Birthday to the U.S.

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5 Telling Signs that You Need to Become an Entrepreneur

Women on Business

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Revolutionizing Contact Centers: Next-Gen Tech for Enhanced CX

Speaker: Liran Meir Frenkel, Performance Management and RPA Sr Product Marketing Manager at NICE; Harpreet Makan, Practice Director at Everest Group; & Santhosh Kumar, Practice Director at Everest Group

As contact centers navigate the challenges of delivering excellence within budget constraints and adapting to evolving employee expectations, optimizing agent tasks becomes crucial. Discover a holistic approach across three pillars - people, process, and technology - that is essential to excel in this dynamic landscape, and explore how next-gen technologies such as generative AI, performance analytics, and process intelligence play a pivotal role in transforming contact centers into advanced CX

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Nation-Blanking DDoS Attacks Launched By Individuals Now Proven Able To Take Entire Nation’s Off The Net

CTOvision

Bob Gourley. We live in times of extreme technological hooliganism, where small groups or even individuals can cause asymmetric damage from a distance. This was proven several times over the last few months, most famously in the 21 October attacks against Dyn that impacted many of Dyn's clients, including Amazon, Twitter, Reddit, Airbnb, New York times, Spotfiy, Netflix and many others sites.

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Temperament: What It Takes to Lead

N2Growth Blog

By definition, temperament connotes disposition — an outlook on the world but also a sense of individuality that radiates self-assurance. In my experience, those with a good temperament are those who bring people toward them. Why? Because they invite smart people and feel warmed by their presence. That in turn encourages a spirit of contribution that leads to collaboration.

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The Mistakes Most Swift Developers Don't Know They're Making

Toptal

Swift is the new programming language created to be a modern replacement for Objective-C in iOS and OS X application development. In general, a skilled Swift developer is usually someone who is already experienced with Objective-C, and that, among other things, might lead them to write Swift code using Objective-C best practices, which can cause some bad mistakes.

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The 7 Deadly Sins of Skip Level Meetings

Let's Grow Leaders

Skip level meetings always seem like a good idea at the time. A little MBWA (management by walking around) never hurt anyone. Or did it? Done well, skip level meetings are a remarkable tool in your Winning Well toolkit. Skip level meetings help you connect “what to why,” reinforce the MIT (most important thing), help you build genuine relationships, give you a chance to ask strategic questions to learn what’s really going on, and most importantly, to build genuine relationshi

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IDC Analyst Report: The Open Source Blind Spot Putting Businesses at Risk

In a recent study, IDC found that 64% of organizations said they were already using open source in software development with a further 25% planning to in the next year. Most organizations are unaware of just how much open-source code is used and underestimate their dependency on it. As enterprises grow the use of open-source software, they face a new challenge: understanding the scope of open-source software that's being used throughout the organization and the corresponding exposure.

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Are You A Resilient Leader?

General Leadership

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. “Gumby is a great example of the rigid-flexibility needed in a 21 st century resilient leader.” Joe Thornell. Being a leader is tough duty. On the best days and on the worst days, leadership is tough skating.

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3 Elements to Build and Engage a Community for Your Startup

Women on Business

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The Cyber Threat On Election Day: No need to panic, expect some nuisance attacks and exaggerated reporting in press

CTOvision

Bob Gourley. Everything I'm seeing and hearing in the security community says there is no need to panic about cyber attacks on election day. There will be attacks, but guess what? There are attacks every day now, that is the new normal. More specifically, we can say there will likely be some nuisance attacks against election infrastructure and some of those will be reported in the press.

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