April, 2013

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5 Ways to Drive Results Through Fear and Intimidation

Let's Grow Leaders

You’re on the fast track. You don’t need sustained results, you need quick wins. Results matter. You’ve got a review coming up. With a few simple tactics, you can get your organization performing in no time. You’ll be promoted and someone else can deal with the fall out. 5 Ways to Drive Results Through Fear [.] The post 5 Ways to Drive Results Through Fear and Intimidation appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Where J.C. Penney And Ron Johnson Went Wrong

N2Growth Blog

'By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth. It’s not hard to lead talented people with an aligned vision who fall under the umbrella of an iconic brand that has a cult-like consumer following. This describes Ron Johnson’s role as head of Apple’s retail operation prior to assuming the CEO role at J.C. Penney. Johnson was fired today by JCP as his efforts to rebrand and turnaround the struggling retailer failed to get traction.

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Interview: Building a Remarkable Culture

Change Starts Here

'This month on The Change Agent’s Dilemma, guest Tim Kuppler and I discuss building a remarkable culture. Tim is former President of Denison Consulting and founder of The Culture Advantage. In this episode, you’ll hear the hallmarks of a remarkable culture and learn the steps you can take to build a remarkable culture in your organization.

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Being data driven

Erik Bernhardsson

I picked up an issue of Foreign Affairs while flying back to NYC from SFO. It features this long interview with U.S. General Stanley McChrystal and I thought it was pretty interesting how striking some of the similarities are between fighting in a war and developing software. On cycle time and how it’s important to learn and integrate quickly: In 2003, in many cases we’d go after someone, we might locate them and capture or kill them, and it would be weeks until we took the intelligence we learn

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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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From OK To Extraordinary: How To Find The Elusive “It”

Terry Starbucker

'“They just don’t have it. ” “ It’s not there.” “I can’t find it. ” “I’ve got it!” “He’s got it!” “She’s got it!” We’re all looking for this thing, this “ it “ The difference maker. The “je ne sais quoi” that gets a team, a company, and ourselves past the ordinary and into the rarified air of extraordinary.

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How to Give Your Boss Bad News (the D.A.R.N. way)

Let's Grow Leaders

'Darn-it. You screwed up. Or, perhaps you trusted your team and now you have empowerment run amok. You don’t want to blame… but you’re mad too. Your boss will be ticked. And worse, she might have to tell her boss. It’s time to come clean. How do you tell your boss the bad news? Bad News the [.] The post How to Give Your Boss Bad News (the D.A.R.N. way) appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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6 Ways To Conquer Leadership Pressure

N2Growth Blog

By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth. How a leader deals with pressure will tell you much about who they are as a person. Their reaction to pressure will reveal the strength of their character and conviction, what and whom they value, and whether or not they can be trusted. The reality is most people buckle under pressure. Only a few handle pressure well, and even fewer possess the qualities to be able to thrive on pressure.

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DHS CIO Spires put 'on leave', Enterprises running Java versions.

CTOvision

'Here are the top cyber news and stories of the day. DHS CIO Spires put 'on leave' ? ?FedScoop has learned that Department of Homeland Security's Chief Information Officer Richard Spires has been put on immediate 'on.

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Annoy

Erik Bernhardsson

Annoy is a simple package to find approximate nearest neighbors (ANN) that I just put on Github. I’m not trying to compete with existing packages, but Annoy has a couple of features that makes it pretty useful. Most importantly, it uses very little memory and can put everything in a contiguous blob that you can mmap from disk. This way multiple processes can share the same index.

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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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Muster Energy for Change After the Luster Fades

Change Starts Here

'Much energy is generated at the beginning of a change initiative to draw attention to the need for change, generate excitement about the vision, and coordinate activities. After the change initiative has been launched and some progress has been made, it is easy for the organization to fall into complacency. Thinking the initiative can coast without additional effort, managers and others drop the energy level.

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Boston Strong

General Leadership

'“Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived from unity.” Vince Lombardi. Several years ago the U.S. Army unveiled its newest advertising campaign. You may remember it. The TV commercial showed a soldier running alone across the desert, carrying a backpack but no rifle. Helicopters swoop overhead.

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Frontline Festival-April 2013: Feedback and Coaching Edition

Let's Grow Leaders

'This month’s Frontline Festival is all about Feedback and Coaching. I am delighted by the outpouring of submissions. It’s an amazing line-up. Courageous Feedback Lolly Daskal, encourages us to take some risks in giving feedback in her post, We Need a Courageous Conversation “In most organizations, and in our relationships, we’re all so busy being polite with [.

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How To Predict The Future

N2Growth Blog

'By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth. Life is just plain easier when you can see what’s ahead of you. Some leaders clearly have poor vision – their most polished skill seems to be running into brick walls. Other leaders simply possess adequate vision – they avoid the obvious speed bumps, but fail to stand out from the crowd. Then there are those leaders who possess legendary vision – the rare few who can see around corners.

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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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The Future of DoD Command and Control: When will software eat.

CTOvision

'DoD's mission will continue to evolve and shift to counter the tactics and intents of our enemies. One day it's the terrorism inflicted by al Qaeda, the next it's possible nuclear Armageddon from North Korea, and then the next.

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Stuff that bothers me: “100x faster than Hadoop”

Erik Bernhardsson

The simple way to get featured on big data blog these days seem to be. Build something that does 1 thing super well but nothing else. Benchmark it against Hadoop. Publish stats showing that it’s 100x faster than Hadoop. $$$. Spark claims their 100x faster than Hadoop and there’s a lot of stats showing Redshift is 10x faster than Hadoop. There’s a bunch of papers with similar claims.

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The Art of the Elevator

Women on Business

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Implement Change with More Influence, Confidence and Impact

Change Starts Here

'Does your project seem like pushing a boulder uphill? Would you like to implement change with more influence, confidence and impact? If your job is to implement change in your organization, I’m guessing at least one and probably more of the following statements is true: Despite your efforts to get everyone on board and doing what they need to do, it’s not happening as quickly or as smoothly as you’d like (or as others expect).

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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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2 Ways to Instantly Lose Credibility with Your New Team

Let's Grow Leaders

'You’ve got a new job, a new team, or a new project. Credibility is vital, but people are skeptical. Questioning eyes wonder, “who is this guy?” “why him?” “seriously?” Their looks intimidate. And you wonder, “why me?” “What are they thinking?” ”yikes, they look pretty smart.” And the downward spiral begins.

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Why Sports Builds Leadership

Lead on Purpose

'Guest post by Jordan Spindler. Leadership is a personal trait that often proves elusive to many people, however is intimately related to personal success. Leaders are at the forefront of their fields; they are respected and quite often wealthy. Leaders also foster social change, and most of our cultural, social and economic progress is the result of leadership.

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An Interview with Ron Yaggi of IO - CTOvision

CTOvision

'Podcast: Play in new window | Download. In this podcast I interviewed Ron Yaggi, SVP of IO Federal. IO is the leading provider of next-generation modular data center technology and services designs, engineers and delivers.

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Stuff that bothers me: “100x faster than Hadoop”

Erik Bernhardsson

The simple way to get featured on big data blog these days seem to be. Build something that does 1 thing super well but nothing else. Benchmark it against Hadoop. Publish stats showing that it’s 100x faster than Hadoop. $$$. Spark claims their 100x faster than Hadoop and there’s a lot of stats showing Redshift is 10x faster than Hadoop. There’s a bunch of papers with similar claims.

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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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10 Laws of Social Media Marketing

Women on Business

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Who Cares About Your Strengths?

Nathan Magnuson

'“Well it’s good to talk with you today, Nathan. Why don’t you tell me a little bit about your strengths.” Now replace my name with yours. How would you respond? When was the last time someone asked you to identify your strengths? Was it in an interview or an application? Were you joining a new organization, team, [.].

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6 Secrets to Building Teams in a Stack Ranked World

Let's Grow Leaders

'Most performance management systems reward individual performance. Bell curves, stack ranks, 9 box succession planning grids… encourage selfish choices. In most cases, you can’t change the system. But you can build great teams within it. Bell curves frustrate. “My ‘innocent’ belief of bell curve is like listening to Mozart and trying to adjust my graphic [.

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How I Answered The Call of Leadership – And Won A “Can’t Win” Election

Terry Starbucker

'It was the spring of 1981 – my junior year in college. I had just successfully completed my “core” courses in my selected major of accounting with “A”s across the board, and was sailing towards my senior year with a bright future of debits and credits ahead of me. Accounting seemed right for me. I was good with numbers, and had a knack for the fundamentals of 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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Thanks In Large Part to Windows8, PC Shipments Post Steepest.

CTOvision

'down All technology trackers have known the PC era is over. Of course old fashioned PCs will not disappear, but they are not the driving force they used to be. All projections have been for poor PC sales. But there was hope.

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Being data driven

Erik Bernhardsson

I picked up an issue of Foreign Affairs while flying back to NYC from SFO. It features this long interview with U.S. General Stanley McChrystal and I thought it was pretty interesting how striking some of the similarities are between fighting in a war and developing software. On cycle time and how it’s important to learn and integrate quickly: In 2003, in many cases we’d go after someone, we might locate them and capture or kill them, and it would be weeks until we took the intelligence we learn

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13 Lists to Make Your (Work) Day Better

Women on Business

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