January, 2016

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Got a Complaint? Make a Request!

General Leadership

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. “Gratitude is riches. Complaint is poverty.” Doris Day. We have all been there. Someone does not do something we asked him or her to do and we get fired up. We are the leader after all, shouldn’t our team or followers do what we asked?

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6 Competencies Your Sales Team Must Master

Let's Grow Leaders

My husband looked at me in bewilderment as I explained why I couldn’t buy that “perfectly good” house in the neighborhood with the great schools, close to his work, UMD where I teach, BWI airport, our church, and our gym. “I love the house. It’s a great community. But I just can’t trust that builder. If they hire someone LIKE HER as their sales manager, I question who’s running the place.

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I believe in the 10x engineer, but…

Erik Bernhardsson

The easiest way to be a 10x engineer is to make 10 other engineers 2x more efficient. Someone can be a 10x engineer if they do nothing for 364 days then convinces the team to change programming language to a 2x more productive language. A motivated 10x engineer in one team could be a demotivated 0.5x engineer in another team (and vice versa). A average 1x engineer could easily become a 5x engineer if surrounded by 10x engineers.

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The 10 Qualities That Make A Great Leader (and a more human one too)

Terry Starbucker

What are the 10 qualities that make a great leader, and a more human one too? What are those attitudes and attributes that reside deep in the hearts and souls of those who step into the arena and lead their teams to the More Human success trifecta – a great business, a happy team, and a fulfilled leader ? In my view it boils down to these 10 things – together, the essence of great leadership.

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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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Thinking Ahead – Millennial Leadership

N2Growth Blog

By Brody Clemmer. Chief Innovation Officer, N2Growth. Leadership is a hot topic today and will continue to be for a while. I don’t want to tell you the things that you already know, but make you think about the things you don’t. Let’s stop discussing trends, predictions, and statistics, and let’s focus on people. The individuals that will shape the next generation of leadership are not a group of millennials, they are a group of leaders just as the generation before them, and the many generati

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Set the Example – Lead From the Front

General Leadership

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. “Leaders don’t force people to follow, they invite them on a journey.” Charles S. Lauer. Setting the example is a primary function of every leader. We speak of this 24/7/365 activity with statements like, “lead from the front, large and in charge, out front all the time, and on the front line to name a few.” I have always bel

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What’s Going to Happen to You in 2016

Let's Grow Leaders

If only you had a crystal ball. The planning, the decisions, the choices would be so much easier. But you don’t. And those decisions and tradeoffs aren’t easy. Should you stay? Should you go? Is that project realistic? What if they reorganize… again? Are you getting the whole story? What You Do Know About 2016. There’s much you can’t possible predict.

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I believe in the 10x engineer, but…

Erik Bernhardsson

The easiest way to be a 10x engineer is to make 10 other engineers 2x more efficient. Someone can be a 10x engineer if they do nothing for 364 days then convinces the team to change programming language to a 2x more productive language. A motivated 10x engineer in one team could be a demotivated 0.5x engineer in another team (and vice versa). A average 1x engineer could easily become a 5x engineer if surrounded by 10x engineers.

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Why It’s Important to Maintain Your Employability

Women on Business

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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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(The Huge Importance Of) Shifting A Naysayer To A Truth Teller

Terry Starbucker

It was a conversation that forever changed my vision of “ corporate leadership “, and put me on the more human path. It also taught me the immense value of an open heart and mind. The funny thing was, it wasn’t a chat with a boss, or a mentor, or a teacher that set me straight. It wasn’t a concerned friend or colleague who wanted to pass along helpful advice.

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How Open Hybrid Clouds Will Change Cloud Computing

CTOvision

Rick Delgado. The cloud has evolved quickly. Businesses have weighed the perks of private, public, and even hybrid clouds. If those options weren’t enough, here comes the open hybrid cloud. An open hybrid cloud leverages the benefits of accessing data and processes across private and public implementations, while facilitating open source development.

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Dynamic Dozen: Know Your People and Look Out for Their Welfare

General Leadership

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions. Harold S. Geneen. During the 1950-1953 Korean War, American fighter pilots dominated the skies, even though the Soviet-made MiG-15 jets were faster and more nimble than the American F-80 and F-86s.

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A Deeper Dive into Developing Your People

Let's Grow Leaders

When I ask managers where they regret not spending enough time, unequivocally, the number one answer is “Not spending enough time developing my people.” There never seems to be enough time, or resources, or support from above, or fill in your favorite blank here _. And yet when I ask managers to identify one thing they KNOW would improve their results, you guessed it… the same answer, “If only I had more time to develop my people.” Perhaps you’ve felt that way

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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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Let’s Put the Agent Back in Change Agent

Change Starts Here

When we think of the term “Change Agent,” we typically think the word “agent” means catalyst: a force or substance that causes change. After all, we’re the ones who get things done, right? We instigate change and keep the energy going to see the change come to fruition. However, there’s an alternate definition of “agent” we should consider when talking about change agents: a representative.

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6 Ways to Treat Your “True” Customer Well

Women on Business

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REST Security with JWT using Java and Spring Security

Toptal

Although the old, standardized security approaches work with REST services, they all have problems that could be avoided by using a better standard. For this, JWT arrives just in time to save the day. In this article, Toptal engineer Dejan Milosevic guides us on how to implement a JWT token-based REST API using Java and Spring Security.

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A Conversation With Marc Andreessen: AI, Robotics, Jobs and Accelerating The Future

CTOvision

Bob Gourley. If you are an enterprise technologist or if you love thinking about the incredible future we can build for ourselves you no doubt already track the very interesting Marc Andreessen. His open sharing of views and context via his blog , on YouTube and his Twitter Feed are a great source of information for those seeking insights into the emerging tech scene and we recommend following him there for continuous context.

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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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Stay Strong – Be a Reinforcing 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]. “The way positive reinforcement is carried out is more important than the amount.” B.F. Skinner. What is a reinforcing leader? Do you know any reinforcing leaders? How do you become a reinforcing leader?

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8 Ways to Refresh Your Career in the New Year

Let's Grow Leaders

If you’re like me, at this point, the holiday hoopla already feels like a distant memory; you’re invigorated by the possibilities for the year ahead; and perhaps just a bit overwhelmed by the the stretch-goals in front of you. You’re neck-deep in planning and goal setting. If you’re a people manager, you’re likely meeting with your team to establish performance agreements and developmental plans.

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The Standard for Change Management is Flawed – It’s Also a Step in the Right Direction

Change Starts Here

When the Association of Change Management Professionals (ACMP®) first introduced the idea of a change management standard, I was intrigued. I liked the idea of enlisting the wisdom of the profession to develop common approaches that work. I personally participated by providing feedback on the original draft. While many of my suggestions were adopted into the current version, The Standard for Change Management© still has some major flaws: It’s too generic to be truly helpful, and yet can’t be spe

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5 Ways to Boost Productivity in 2016

Women on Business

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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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Career Advancement – 5 Key ways to Stand Out

Career Advancement

“ The secret of joy in work is contained in one word – excellence.” ~ Pearl Buck. Client Maria Asks: I’ve been with my company for six years now, and I’ve gone as far as I can go. It’s time to move to a bigger playing field. How can I really set myself apart from the crowd? I know I’m good at what I do, but how do I convey that without overselling myself or looking like an egomaniac?

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Comprehending Machine Intelligence: Research and Graphic by Shivon Zilis

CTOvision

Bob Gourley. Shivon Zilis is an investor at Bloomberg Beta , a very interesting early stage venture capital fund. I knew I would like Bloomberg Beta when I saw how they do their website. It is smart and reflects very well on their leadership team: They decided to leverage GitHub for their site. Doing so puts them one step closer to the creators that a VC in their space needs to know and is a great way to step out in a trust-based relationship.

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Fill ‘er Up … Stay Full!

General Leadership

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. “Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.” Benjamin Franklin. You know that feeling you get when you drive away from the gas station after gassing up? It feels like you have the potential to go anywhere and accomplish anything.

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How to Help Your Children Grow as Leaders

Let's Grow Leaders

Leadership development is not just for grown-ups. If you’ve been with me for a while you know how passionate I am about this. Most of us take a deliberate approach to developing other skills in our kids early on: we teach them to swim, to ride a bike, to read, and read music, as early as we can. Leadership development should be no different. The earlier we can ingrain these skills, the more natural they will feel.

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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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Why emotional intelligence is essential to leadership

Lead on Purpose

What makes a good leader? Experience? Vision? Knowledge? These traits are all traditionally associated with effective managers. But nowadays, there’s another factor that is slowly gaining reputation in the workplace: Emotional Intelligence.

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Superstars of Tech – 3 Women Who Influence the Business World

Women on Business

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Integrating Facebook Login in AngularJS App with Satellizer

Toptal

Integrating social network login in web applications directly using their SDKs can be a time consuming task. The fact that these SDKs keep changing every now and then doesn't help either. In this article, Toptal engineer Son Nguyen Kim provides us with an in-depth tutorial on how to use Satellizer, a feature-rich AngularJS library to integrate Facebook Login in an AngularJS web app.

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