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AUGUST 24, 2010

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The Recovering Engineer

AUGUST 25, 2010

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Steve Farber

AUGUST 10, 2010

In Greater Than Yourself (and over on the GTY website ), I introduced you to Tommy Spaulding , an insanely talented and experienced leader who has become my close friend and GTY Project. Well…today’s a landmark day for Tommy: his debut book, I t’s Not Just Who You Know , hits the stores. I’m off to Denver tomorrow for Tommy’s book launch celebration, and I can’t tell you how proud of him I am.

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Next Level Blog

AUGUST 11, 2010

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QAspire

AUGUST 1, 2010

Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer Excellence: Lessons From Anupam Kher I have believed that most good things in life are either free or inexpensive. A good walk, a great hug, a few moments spent together, a long drive, a free lecture, time spent with friends and so on. I write this because over the weekend, I experienced some of these. Monsoon is at its best.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 11, 2010

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The Recovering Engineer

AUGUST 3, 2010

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Steve Farber

AUGUST 1, 2010

In a recent article in Investor’s Business Daily , Sonja Carberry interviewed Jim McCormick , Razi Imam , and myself to identify the “X Factor&# qualities in entrepreneurs and executives who tend to rise above the rest. From what Sonja gathered, they’re people who tend to: Aim The Highest. Change The Speed. Stare Down Trouble. Fall In Love.

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Next Level Blog

AUGUST 30, 2010

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QAspire

AUGUST 15, 2010

Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer 10 Pointers to Build Comfort Within The Team It pains to see teams where people work on a common goal but don’t get along well with each other. We work in teams and knowing how to get along well with others is extremely crucial. So how do you get along well with others and establish required comfort? Here are 10 broad pointers that may help.

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Lead on Purpose

AUGUST 29, 2010

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 23, 2010

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The Recovering Engineer

AUGUST 11, 2010

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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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Steve Farber

AUGUST 26, 2010

David Pinter , a shining example of principal-as-Extreme-Leader, sends us this update on “the ever-deepening implementation of Leap , Edge , and GTY &# within his school, Joseph Finegan Elementary , in Atlantic Beach, Florida: “While roughly one fourth of our District’s approximate 166 schools dropped per the demands of The Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test (FCAT) , Finegan’s score increased.

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Next Level Blog

AUGUST 20, 2010

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QAspire

AUGUST 22, 2010

Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer Innovation, Quality & Entrepreneurship at Akshaya Patra Akshaya Patra Foundation in India is a shining example of how social entrepreneurship combined with power of innovation can make a HUGE difference. First, some background information. Akshaya Patra is an Indian NGO that provides mid day meals to about 1.2 million children across India on all school days.

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Lead on Purpose

AUGUST 14, 2010

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 22, 2010

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Ruminations of a Programmer

AUGUST 27, 2010

Great languages are those that offer orthogonality in design. Stated simply it means that the language core offers a minimal set of non-overlapping ways to compose abstractions. In an earlier article A Case for Orthogonality in Design I discussed some features from languages like Haskell, C++ and Scala that help you compose higher order abstractions from smaller ones using techniques offered by those languages.

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Steve Farber

AUGUST 24, 2010

Richard Branson , Virgin Group founder and figure head, has a lot to say about the near-ubiquitous word, “they,&# and its nasty implications for business. “A company where the staff consistently overuses the word ‘they,’&# he says, “is a company with problems.&# ( Read his Open Forum post, “They&# Have a Lot to Answer For ).

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Next Level Blog

AUGUST 18, 2010

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QAspire

AUGUST 5, 2010

Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer Engagement, Leadership and Power of Storytelling Last week, I had a short conversation with one of my colleagues in HR about the all important topic of employee engagement. In an impromptu conversation, we touched upon a very important point: People love (and remember) stories, not facts. We loved it when our grandparents wrapped important life lessons in form of stories.

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Lead on Purpose

AUGUST 11, 2010

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 12, 2010

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Ruminations of a Programmer

AUGUST 9, 2010

I love removing code. More I remove lesser is the surface area for bugs to bite. Just now I removed a bunch of classes, made unnecessary by Scala 2.8.0 type system. Consider this set of abstractions, elided for demonstration purposes. trait Instrument // equity case class Equity ( name : String ) extends Instrument // fixed income abstract class FI ( name : String ) extends Instrument case class DiscountBond ( name : String , discount : Int ) extends FI ( name ) case class CouponBond ( name : St

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Steve Farber

AUGUST 30, 2010

Once upon a time, Robert Thompson , Mike Neiss and I worked together at the Tom Peters Company , and we’ve stayed connected over the years. Now the boys have a cool, weekly talk show called Thought Grenades on BlogTalkRadio, and they were kind enough to invite me on to talk about Greater Than Yourself and other things leadership. It was a lot of fun, and I invite you to listen in: Listen to Robert H Thompson on Blog Talk Radio.

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Next Level Blog

AUGUST 2, 2010

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QAspire

AUGUST 10, 2010

Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer In Pursuit Of “Customer Delight”: Getting The Basics Right A lot of companies have the phrase “delighting our customers” in their well-crafted mission statements and quality policies. I see “customer delight” as a cherry, with the cake being “solving their problems and meeting the expectations” – so when we say “cherry on top of the cake”, the cake has to be right.

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