December, 2013

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8 Ways to Nurture Leadership in Young Children

Let's Grow Leaders

'“Mommy, I’m not a leader.” Why do you say that? “Because John is the one that tells us what to do on the playground and we follow him. So that makes me a follower.” Ugh. Tricky. I’m not impressed by John’s “leadership.” I want my son (and all young children) to see kindness, […] The post 8 Ways to Nurture Leadership in Young Children appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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The No-Boss Workplace: Can Great Leadership Be Crowdsourced?

Terry Starbucker

'There’s an interesting leadership experiment going on right now here in Portland. Last summer, the local startup Treehouse , a producer of online education courses, decided to create a no-boss workplace by eliminating all the manager positions from its 61-person workforce, thus creating the ultimate “flat” organizational structure.

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A Christmas Battlefield Miracle

General Leadership

'Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does. William James. In the early months of the First World War millions of servicemen, believing this would be a quick war, rushed from all over the continent to join in the fight. By December of 1914, most realized they had been wrong. This war was far from over. So each side dug miles and miles of trenches across the French countryside with often, only 60 yards separating the combatants.

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Who Will Tell the Emperor He Has No Clothes?

N2Growth Blog

'By Patricia Lenkov , Chair, Executive Search, N2growth. The time honored Hans Christian Anderson tale about the emperor and his new clothes, or lack thereof, bears significance for corporate boardrooms today. To remind you of this story, an Emperor cares very little about his responsibilities and only about wearing fine clothes. Two dishonest weavers promise the Emperor new clothes made of such high quality fabric that they are invisible to anyone who is stupid or incompetent.

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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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Interview: Measuring Resistance to Change with the LOE Index

Change Starts Here

'My guests this month are Dr. Victoria Grady, President and Principal Consultant at PivotPoint Business Solutions and creator of the LOE Index, and Jinnie Lee Schmid, an independent consultant certified to administer and interpret the LOE Index. In this episode, Victoria shares how the LOE (Loss of Effectiveness) Index identifies those behaviors, perceptions, and attitudes that emerge in organizations in response to change.

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Expert Advice on Gifts and Giving: A Frontline Festival

Let's Grow Leaders

'Welcome to the Holiday Edition of the Frontline Festival: Expert Advice on Gifts and Giving. In addition to sharing their posts, I invited each thought leader to share their “leadership gift” in one or two words. Engaging a Giving Spirit Jon Mertz, Thin Difference shares The Unboxed Life: Giving To lead more fully, we need to […] The post Expert Advice on Gifts and Giving: A Frontline Festival appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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(The Return of) The Leadership Checklist: 10 Things To Do Right Now To Make It A Great Year

Terry Starbucker

'Fellow leaders, it’s that time of year again – time to dust off our leadership checklist, and get ‘em done. It’s time to get ready for a new year of issues and challenges. Proper preparation is key, and I assure you, if you do these 10 things, you’ll be more than ready to make the coming year the best one ever for your leadership.

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Microsoft’s new marketing strategy: give up

Erik Bernhardsson

I think it’s funny how MS at some point realized they are not the cool kids and there’s no reason to appeal to that target audience. Their new marketing strategy finally admits what’s been long known: the correlation between “business casual” and using Microsoft products: Apparently it’s also for people in ties: And let’s add a (beige?) cardigan on top of that: On top of that, let’s be sexists and add a woman to the campaign who doesn’t care about work but likes to take photos!

Strategy 100
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Give the Gift of Time

N2Growth Blog

'By Brian Layer , Chair, Organizational Development, N2growth. Marissa Mayer is in trouble. Information recently spilled through the Yahoo firewall that she is habitually late. Evidently she has the tardy gene, a degenerative marker that becomes symptomatic with a little authority and can become chronic with a lot. She is not alone; many bosses do things they shouldn’t when they can.

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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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Stakeholder Specs That Help Tailor Your Approach

Change Starts Here

'By definition, a stakeholder is anyone who has something at stake due to your change. A stakeholder is not just the person who must change the way they work in order to gain the desired results. A stakeholder may also be someone who benefits or suffers from the outcome of the change, or someone who must support the change in order for it to happen. “Stakeholder” is the generic term for anyone who is impacted by or who impacts the change.

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Penn & Teller and GoogleGlass: Legendary performers now pioneers of wearable computing

CTOvision

'By Bob Gourley Pasted below and at this link is an interesting Google Glass video. I captured it after Penn & Teller both gave me permission to record them while onstage. I was at their show and given the opportunity to participate as an observer to one of their most famous and amazing acts, one involving two magic bullets. Also at this link. The video underscores a few things technologists should track: - Wearable computing is not mainstream yet.

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7 Reasons You Won’t Hear the Truth

Let's Grow Leaders

'Your team decides what you can handle. Like parents protecting young children, they safeguard you and themselves. They anticipate tantrums, and work around them. They’ll even throw in a few things “they’re worried about,” to make you feel better. Don’t blame them. You’ve taught them well. Your well-intended intensity sends them to the nearest diaper genie to […] The post 7 Reasons You Won’t Hear the Truth appeared first on Let's Grow Le

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The Ultimate Leadership Tip (From a Trend Too Compelling to Ignore)

Terry Starbucker

'I was at a friend’s house for Thanksgiving dinner the other day when the conversation turned to leadership, and my blog. I was asked about my “More Human” philosophy and why it wasn’t more prevalent in today’s business world. I said I believed it was based on a couple of core issues – one, a mistaken belief about basic human motivation, and two, a fear that being “touchy feely” couldn’t possibly produce economic success.

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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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More recommender algorithms

Erik Bernhardsson

I wanted to share some more insight into the algorithms we use at Spotify. One matrix factorization algorithm we have used for a while assumes that we have user vectors and item vectors. The next track for a user is now given by the relation. . Where is a normalization constant to make sure the probabilities add up to one. This essentially means we treat the tracks choices as outputs of a softmax.

Chemicals 100
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The Leadership Lesson They Don’t Teach In Business School But Should

N2Growth Blog

'By Mike Myatt , Chief Executive Officer, N2growth . I’ve always believed leadership exists to disrupt mediocrity, but I’m afraid in recent times many leaders are losing that battle. Somewhere along the way, they threw in the towel and settled for a weak-kneed, watered-down version of leadership – they have rationalized and justified themselves into an acceptance of mediocrity.

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5 Steps to Conduct a Brand Audit in Your Annual Business Wrap-Up

Women on Business

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IBM Claims Advances In Fully Homomorphic Encryption (and I’m claiming advances in an anti-gravity device)

CTOvision

'By Bob Gourley For years computer scientists have talked about the very interesting challenge regarding the desire to be able to operate over encrypted data in an advanced way called Homomorphic Encryption. This is a field that gets nuanced fast, with terms like “partially homomorphic” relevant to many existing systems that are in place, but Fully Homomorphic thought by many to be so far away to be just a dream.

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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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Winning When the Troops are Tired

Let's Grow Leaders

'“I’m so sorry, I whispered before he could even say hello.” It was Sunday afternoon, and it was the third time I had to call. He graciously spoke what we both knew was technically true, “Karin, no worries, this is my job.” But it had been a long couple of weeks, and I […] The post Winning When the Troops are Tired appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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The One Leadership Responsibility You Must Accept

Terry Starbucker

'I remember the first time I really acted like a leader – that is, when I accepted the most important leadership responsibility. It happened in 1977, when I was in high school. I was the editor-in-chief of our student newspaper. We had a staff of about 12 people, and my job was to get all the content put together, edited, typeset, proofed and delivered to the printer by our deadline.

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More recommender algorithms

Erik Bernhardsson

I wanted to share some more insight into the algorithms we use at Spotify. One matrix factorization algorithm we have used for a while assumes that we have user vectors and item vectors. The next track for a user is now given by the relation. . Where is a normalization constant to make sure the probabilities add up to one. This essentially means we treat the tracks choices as outputs of a softmax.

Chemicals 100
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Tolerance Versus Free Speech – Keeping The Main Thing The Main Thing

N2Growth Blog

'By Mike Myatt , Chief Executive Officer, N2growth . I have watched quietly, curiously, and with great interest the intense emotions surrounding the controversy with regard to recent comments made by Duck Dynasty’s Phil Robertson in the January issue of GQ. In today’s column, I question whether or not there should have been a controversy at all.

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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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Is Your Body Language Ruining Your Business and Career? – Infographic

Women on Business

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Federal Big Data Community Convenes 6 Feb at Apache Hadoop Forum

CTOvision

'By Bob Gourley If you are an analyst or executive or architect engaged in the analysis of big data, this is a “must attend” event. We will be there engaging with the community and hope to see you there. Registration is now open for the third annual Federal Big Data Apache Hadoop Forum! Register here. Join us on Thurs., Feb. 6, as leaders from government and industry convene to share Big Data best practices.

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5 Reasons Your Peers are Getting Snarky

Let's Grow Leaders

'He’s driven, ambitious and successful. HIs boss loves him and he’s on the fast track. His peers are getting snarky, but he doesn’t have time to worry about that crap. They’re just jealous. “They’re not as serious about performance as I am.” “I’ve got a job to do, I don’t have time to make friends.” […] The post 5 Reasons Your Peers are Getting Snarky appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Getting Things Done: How Great Leadership Moves From Talk To Action

Terry Starbucker

'Leaders do a lot of talking. It’s their job to paint the picture of what is supposed to be happening- that grand world of team harmony and stellar execution. I hear a lot of that talk these days as an angel investor, and by and large, most of the startup CEOs I listen to do a pretty good job of that kind of visioning. Where the rubber meets the road, however, is when these CEOs go from talk to action.

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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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Microsoft’s new marketing strategy: give up

Erik Bernhardsson

I think it’s funny how MS at some point realized they are not the cool kids and there’s no reason to appeal to that target audience. Their new marketing strategy finally admits what’s been long known: the correlation between “business casual” and using Microsoft products: Apparently it’s also for people in ties: And let’s add a (beige?) cardigan on top of that: On top of that, let’s be sexists and add a woman to the campaign who doesn’t care about work but likes to take photos!

Strategy 100
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2013 – Top Change Posts of the Year at Enclaria

Change Starts Here

'Thank you for reading my blog this year! Here’s a list of the most popular posts at Enclaria for 2013. Have you read them all? The top 5 Enclaria blog posts from this year are: Three Ways to Frustrate Employees Going Through Change. Four Reasons Leaders Need Change Agents. When Does a Project Justify Using Change Management Tools? Five Jobs Made More Effective With Change Management.

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10 Hot Topics that Mattered to Women in Business in 2013

Women on Business

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