Let's Grow Leaders
FEBRUARY 7, 2013
As leaders… self-talk is important. We must listen to our inner voice. But what if our inner voice gets scared…and wants to grab the mic? What if our inner voice wants too much affirmation? What if our inner voice needs excessive feedback? Can an extraverted inner voice get in the way? Loud Inner Voices Why [.] The post When Your Inner Voice Grabs the Mic appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.
Terry Starbucker
FEBRUARY 10, 2013
I recently returned home from a 10-day vacation in Hawaii. It was a wonderfully relaxing experience, although it did take a few days before I could fully jettison all of the business “stuff” rolling around in my head. Once I could fully disengage from what was happening on the mainland I could literally “feel” the restorative power of just kicking back and enjoying the time off.
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General Leadership
FEBRUARY 20, 2013
'Many of you may remember seeing the following TV commercial several years ago: A soldier is running alone across the desert, carrying a backpack but no rifle. Helicopters swoop overhead. A squad of soldiers runs past, moving in the direction opposite of the lone runner. Voiceover: “Even though there are 1,045,690 soldiers like me, I am my own force.
N2Growth Blog
FEBRUARY 25, 2013
By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth. Process… just the mere use of the word can spread fear and panic in the workplace. This sad reality exists for a reason - 100% of companies unnecessarily suffer from a process problem. They suffer to varying degrees, but they are nonetheless suffering. The good news is bad process is one of the easiest things for leaders to remedy.
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CTOvision
FEBRUARY 27, 2013
'cyber-workforce.preview There are several certainties in computer security. One is that when adversaries have intent they will always find a way to get what they want. Another certainty is that leadership in government and.
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Let's Grow Leaders
FEBRUARY 28, 2013
“The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.” George Bernard Shaw We all have blind spots– aspects of our leadership style that we think are just fine… and we don’t fully see the impact on others. What’s your blind [.] The post The Blind Spot Leading the Blind Spot appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.
Terry Starbucker
FEBRUARY 17, 2013
How do you know when your leadership is making a difference? As we move forward on our leadership journeys, there are lots of clues out there that can let us know how we’re doing, but there are 10 in particular that you should focus on. I call them “ triumphs “, and for good reason – these milestones represent critical tests of leadership.
Change Starts Here
FEBRUARY 12, 2013
Changing an organization is a challenging endeavor. At times, it can be downright frustrating. Yet often, change agents avoid doing the very thing that will enable the change to happen because it seems too difficult. Those who do the most challenging work of change are the ones who see results instead of continuing to bang their heads against the wall.
N2Growth Blog
FEBRUARY 18, 2013
By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth . The point I want you to take away from the video above and the text that follows is an avalanche need not always end in disaster. Pushing the envelope is something all leaders must get comfortable with. It’s when leaders push themselves and those they lead past comfort zones that great things happen.
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.
CTOvision
FEBRUARY 12, 2013
'selling My job is all about finding commercial solutions that will solve government problems. Some of my favorite work experiences have been when I can connect a new technology to an existing government problem!
Erik Bernhardsson
FEBRUARY 26, 2013
I recently came across this paper describing how they do ML at Twitter. TL;DR Their approach is pretty interesting. Everything is a Pig workflow and then they do everything as UDF’s. This approach seems pretty interesting. As long as your data can be expressed as small atomic machine learning functions, I’m sure it works great. But there’s so much more than that.
Let's Grow Leaders
FEBRUARY 26, 2013
“Our cultural instinct is to wait to get picked…No one is going to pick you. Pick yourself.” –Seth Godin, The Icarus Deception Are You On the Grid? Do you know where you stand in your organization’s succession plan? Most organizations use a deliberate approach like the 9 box Performance Potential Grid (great tool, for more visit [.] The post The Secret Behind the 9 Box Performance Potential Grid appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.
Terry Starbucker
FEBRUARY 24, 2013
I remember when I didn’t have permission to fail. Or, to say it a bit more precisely, when I was really afraid to fail. I wasn’t a very productive employee. I never took chances. I never stepped out of the narrow little box I was existing in. I did my job. I did what I was told to do, and nothing more. Because, if I did something wrong – something unacceptable, or way off the mark…… I’d be in trouble.
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Change Starts Here
FEBRUARY 19, 2013
Today on The Change Agent’s Dilemma, I welcome Shari Harley, president of Candid Culture, who shares tips and insights from her new book, How to Say Anything To Anyone. Tune in to learn why candor is so important when you want to influence change. Hear the steps that will help you build candid relationships at work, and learn a straightforward process for having feedback conversations.
N2Growth Blog
FEBRUARY 27, 2013
Disclosure: My company, N2growth has worked with many of the organizations represented on this list. Lots of executives aspire to become a CEO, but few actually possess the leadership chops to pull it off. As someone who earns their living as a leadership advisor to Fortune 500 CEOs, I always keep a sharp eye peeled for up and coming leaders. The 10 leaders profiled below represent different industries, different disciplines, and even a few different countries, but they all share one thing in co
CTOvision
FEBRUARY 1, 2013
'Wow, what a month. Two big stories to note: USCC is seeking to grow over 5x to 4900 people, and the NYTimes (and WSJ it seems) have been hacked, purportedly by the Chinese over their China coverage. In other news, a.
Erik Bernhardsson
FEBRUARY 5, 2013
This article from today in Mashable describes some of the fun stuff I get to work with: Erik Bernhardsson is technical lead at Spotify, where he helped to build a music recommendation system based on large-scale machine learning algorithms, mainly matrix factorization of big matrices using Hadoop. He moved into this role after heading the Business Intelligence team, where he collected, aggregated and made sense of all the data at Spotify, whether that’s ad-hoc insights, A/B testing, visualizatio
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Let's Grow Leaders
FEBRUARY 13, 2013
I don’t know your boss. She may be great. He may be a pain in the neck. He may be supportive. She may be a real witch. I’ve been that boss. I’ve had all those bosses. All leaders have “bosses” of one sort or another. Sometimes you are the boss of you. Most of the [.] The post 5 Ways to Support Your Boss (Without Kissing Up) appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.
Terry Starbucker
FEBRUARY 3, 2013
Not as much as you think. I was reading a quote the other day from John F. Kennedy, who in 1960 was battling perceptions in his presidential campaign that he didn’t have enough experience. Experience, he said, “ is like taillights on a boat which illuminate where we have been when we should be focusing on where we should be going “ This quote got me to thinking about the value of experience in being a great leader, and my own struggles to overcome a perceived lack of experience
Women on Business
FEBRUARY 11, 2013
Optimism prevails among women business owners in 2013 according to the data from the 2013 State of Women-Owned Businesses report from Web.com and the National Association of Women Business Owners (NAWBO). The data comes from a survey of 552 women business owners conducted between December 14, 2012 and January 4, 2013. Of the survey respondents, 85% predicted that more women will become entrepreneurs in 2013 than in previous years.
Change Starts Here
FEBRUARY 26, 2013
Every now and then someone asks a question like, “My background is (X). Do I have what it takes to implement change in my organization?” I’m tempted to make a list of the “X”s I’ve heard. But I won’t. For one, the list is really long. And second, no matter how many roles I list, someone will still be left out.
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CTOvision
FEBRUARY 19, 2013
'Insa_clear The Intelligence and National Security Alliance (INSA) has released a white paper documenting the vision and approach for enhancing enterprise information technology in support of intelligence and national.
Erik Bernhardsson
FEBRUARY 5, 2013
This article from today in Mashable describes some of the fun stuff I get to work with: Erik Bernhardsson is technical lead at Spotify, where he helped to build a music recommendation system based on large-scale machine learning algorithms, mainly matrix factorization of big matrices using Hadoop. He moved into this role after heading the Business Intelligence team, where he collected, aggregated and made sense of all the data at Spotify, whether that’s ad-hoc insights, A/B testing, visualizatio
Let's Grow Leaders
FEBRUARY 14, 2013
Leadership grows with conversation. It’s Valentines day– How about spreading the conversation with a few candy hearts? I still get nostalgic for the doily decorated lunch bag full of cardboard valentines in elementary school, coupled with that sickening feeling from eating too many candy hearts. Perhaps you’ve upgraded your Valentines Day to more sophisticated endeavors.
N2Growth Blog
FEBRUARY 14, 2013
Q: Why do so many companies struggle when it comes to making great hires? A: They overlook the obvious. In other words, the people doing the hiring fail to understand, look for, and qualify the one characteristic that indicates the certainty of a good hire. While companies screen for many things, they often miss the gold standard litmus test – they play a game of chance when it’s simply not necessary.
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Women on Business
FEBRUARY 6, 2013
NEWS AND INSIGHTS UPDATE: Are you guilty of using phrases in your business communications that could be doing more harm to your career than good? Darlene Price, founder and president of Well Said, Inc. and author of the new book, Well Said!: Presentations and Conversations That Get Results , has made it easy for you to make sure you’re not hurting your career with your words by creating a list of the 10 phrases that should be banned from the workplace.
Lead on Purpose
FEBRUARY 23, 2013
Guest post by Brad Zomick. There is no worse feeling then when you are trying to lead a group and no one on the team is taking you seriously. Nobody listening to you makes it difficult, or even impossible, to achieve your shared goal. With these short principles of persuasion, we hope to put those experiences in the past. Many studies have been done about the science of persuasion, and Robert Cialdini is perhaps one of the most respected experts in the field.
CTOvision
FEBRUARY 5, 2013
'Here are the top mobile news and stories of the day. Android 4.2.2 could roll out this month ? Rumors have it the next iteration of Android will be rolling out shortly. Android 4.2.2 is said to have improved Bluetooth connections.
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