General Leadership
FEBRUARY 9, 2016
GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. “Nobody wants to hear how rough the water is, just get in the boat and start rowing.”. …At least that’s what my little league coach used to tell us kids. We were the original Bad News Bears, but we ended up in first place anyway.
Let's Grow Leaders
FEBRUARY 22, 2016
Jane confided, “I feel like an enthusiastic puppy with all kinds of ideas and possibilities, but when I go to share them, there’s always someone who stomps on my tail.” John chimed in, “I know exactly what she means, everyone around here’s just so negative. I’m beginning to wonder why I bother.” Perhaps you’ve felt that way too.
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Erik Bernhardsson
FEBRUARY 2, 2016
I’ve been spending several hundred bucks renting GPU instances on AWS over the last year. The speedup from a GPU is awesome and hard to deny. GPUs have taken over the field. Maybe following the footsteps of Bitcoin mining there’s some research on using FPGA (I know very little about this). I don’t think there’s a coincidence that GPUs that are built for graphics turn out to be great for image classification using convolutional neural networks.
Terry Starbucker
FEBRUARY 21, 2016
I love leadership lessons that are backed by facts and history. Because they become what I call “ immutables ” – lessons that must be heeded to get to greatness. And there’s one immutable that has influenced me, and how I practice leadership, more than any other lesson I have ever received- and after 40 years of studying leadership, that’s saying something.
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Many organizations today are unlocking the power of their data by using graph databases to feed downstream analytics, enahance visualizations, and more. Yet, when different graph nodes represent the same entity, graphs get messy. Watch this essential video with Senzing CEO Jeff Jonas on how adding entity resolution to a graph database condenses network graphs to improve analytics and save your analysts time.
Toptal
FEBRUARY 17, 2016
Unlike most front-end web frameworks, React's aim is to solve the various challenges of building user interfaces that rely on changing data. Although React is a simple JavaScript library and is easy to get started with, it is still possible to misuse it in ways that deny the web app from reaping the benefits that React has to offer. In this article, Toptal engineer Ivan Rogic demonstrates the synergy of React, Redux and Immutable.js, and shows how these libraries together can solve many performa
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General Leadership
FEBRUARY 19, 2016
GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. “People ask the difference between a leader and a boss … The leader works in the open, and the boss in covert. The leader leads, and the boss drives.” Theodore Roosevelt. Many times when I am called in by an organization it is to “fix” an employee who is not meeting the expectations of the boss and the organization.
Let's Grow Leaders
FEBRUARY 2, 2016
If you only care about next week’s results, bring in a User Manager. He’ll get it done. But watch out for the aftermath. You know the type– the kind of manager who works to win at all costs. The guy who’s “all business” or the woman who’s “got no time for that crap (meaning connection and understanding).” They’ve got their teams spinning, scared to under-perform.
Erik Bernhardsson
FEBRUARY 2, 2016
I’ve been spending several hundred bucks renting GPU instances on AWS over the last year. The speedup from a GPU is awesome and hard to deny. GPUs have taken over the field. Maybe following the footsteps of Bitcoin mining there’s some research on using FPGA (I know very little about this). I don’t think there’s a coincidence that GPUs that are built for graphics turn out to be great for image classification using convolutional neural networks.
Terry Starbucker
FEBRUARY 7, 2016
Can a company really “measure its heart”? As more human leaders, we instinctively know that there’s a strong correlation between a caring, connected and happy team and successful financial performance, but we also know that finding a way to measure and confirm that correlation is an essential part of sustaining (and even tightening) it over the long haul.
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IT leaders know the importance of compliance at every level, but the database often gets left behind as other environments are automated for robust protection. This whitepaper emphasizes the importance of robust, auditable, and secure database change management practices for safeguarding organizational compliance. Learn how automating database compliance: Mitigates risk Protects against security vulnerabilities Helps avoid regulatory penalties Aligns database workflows with app lifecycle Turns d
Toptal
FEBRUARY 15, 2016
Python is a powerful, object-based, high-level programming language with dynamic typing and binding. Due to its flexibility and power, developers often employ certain rules, or Python design patterns. What makes them so important and what do does this mean for the average Python developer? In this post, Toptal Senior Software Engineer Andrei Boyanov explains why Python is great for design patterns, and how they can be used to unlock even more potential, or to streamline development and make code
CTOvision
FEBRUARY 9, 2016
Bob Gourley. Time for another clear and unambiguous warning on the growing cyber threat, this one in testimony to Congress by the leader of the U.S. Intelligence Community: Security of Information systems: Allow me to turn now to a transnational threat that is, at present, difficult to measure -- the threat of attack against our information systems and information-based infrastructures.
General Leadership
FEBRUARY 10, 2016
GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. “Remember one thing…. you screw up just this much and you’ll be flying a cargo plane full of rubber dog-doo out of Hong Kong.”. Commander Tom “Stinger” Jordan. For me, one of the best scenes in the whole Top Gun movie is the dressing down that Commander “Stinger” Jordan gives Maverick as he sends him off to Top Gun with the admonition that if he mes
Let's Grow Leaders
FEBRUARY 8, 2016
“Laura,” a senior exec working to build leadership throughout her team, looked up from her salad and confided. “Karin, the truth is I have so many things going on in any given day, I may not remember the exact decision I made if it was a trivial matter, and I may not even remember exactly what I said about something important. But what I DO KNOW is what I WOULD HAVE SAID in any given circumstance.
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.
Change Starts Here
FEBRUARY 19, 2016
As I sat on a plane yesterday on my way to facilitate a client workshop, I remembered the saying about how a plane has to take off against the wind. Rather than ponder the nature of aerodynamics while flying, instead I wondered – could there be change with no resistance? As a fun exercise, I tried to envision what the conditions would be for a resistance-free change.
Career Advancement
FEBRUARY 1, 2016
“If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door” ~ Milton Berle. You’re good at your job – you have great reviews, get excellent results, and you’re well-liked. Maybe you’re fairly new to your career, or maybe you’ve spent years at the same job without a promotion. Either way, if you if you keep performing, your success will be rewarded…right?
Toptal
FEBRUARY 4, 2016
Machine Learning, in computing, is where art meets science. Perfecting a machine learning tool is a lot about understanding data and choosing the right algorithm. But why choose one algorithm when you can choose many and make them all work to achieve one thing: improved results. In this article, Toptal Engineer Necati Demir walks us through some elegant techniques of ensemble methods where a combination of data splits and multiple algorithms is used to produce machine learning results with highe
CTOvision
FEBRUARY 10, 2016
Bob Gourley. DARPA funded research has produced a device, called the "stentrode," capable of direct recording of brain activity, right from neurons. This amazing technology repurposes stent devices to enable this breakthrough. . From the DARPA announcement : A DARPA-funded research team has created a novel neural-recording device that can be implanted into the brain through blood vessels, reducing the need for invasive surgery and the risks associated with breaching the blood-brain barrier.
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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.
General Leadership
FEBRUARY 5, 2016
GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. “The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.” Ferdinand Foch. This post was co-written by Col Albers and his friend/mentor, Joe Scrivner. For more on Joe Scrivner, please see the bio posted at the bottom of this article.
Let's Grow Leaders
FEBRUARY 19, 2016
Welcome back to the Let’s Grow Leaders Frontline Festival. This month’s festival is all about building productive workplace relationships. Thanks to Joy and Tom Guthrie of Vizwerx Group for the great pic and to all our contributors! Next month, we turn our focus to fresh perspectives for leaders. Give us your best fresh insight! Submissions due March 11th– new participants always welcome, please use this form.
Change Starts Here
FEBRUARY 3, 2016
Ever get through part or all of a change implementation and discover that it didn’t quite take? You thought you were done, but people are still doing things the old way and the benefits have not been fully realized? If so, it’s likely your change got off to a false start. The initiative has run down the track, but the organization was left behind. Initiatives get off to a false start when you only take into account what is being implemented and ignore that people must also be moving away from so
Women on Business
FEBRUARY 13, 2016
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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.
Toptal
FEBRUARY 28, 2016
Designers are not mere pixel pushers. If they improved communication and employed their skills more effectively through strategic design thinking, they could make a bigger impact with their work.
CTOvision
FEBRUARY 23, 2016
Bob Gourley. Fred Kaplan is the national security columnist for Slate and author of four other bestselling books examining some of the nation's most significant strategic issues. His book, The Wizards of Armageddon, captures the dynamics in the early nuclear age including the critical to understand story of the small group of men who devised plans and shaped policies on how to use the Bomb.
General Leadership
FEBRUARY 26, 2016
GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. Selflessness. As a leader, we must understand true leadership is not found in an individual, but the individuals developed. The measure of our success is found in the success of those we lead. At the heart of this statement is a true selflessness in which you know the ultimate purpose of leadership is to build your organization a more capable leader
Let's Grow Leaders
FEBRUARY 15, 2016
Have you ever had leak, repaired it, only to find the drip, drip, drip showing up someplace else? Or have you recognized a familiar employee engagement problem, and breathed an immediate, “oh, I’ve seen this movie before” sigh of relief and began to apply your time-tested know-how, only to realize the sequel was far different from the original?
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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.
Lead on Purpose
FEBRUARY 1, 2016
Great leaders are confident in their ability to succeed. This seems pretty obvious. The question is how did they become confident? What do/did they do differently than most other people?
Women on Business
FEBRUARY 19, 2016
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Toptal
FEBRUARY 5, 2016
Boring. That’s a word many people use to describe the server industry, although unexciting and uneventful would be a better fit. This is not necessarily a bad thing, because when something “exciting” happens to a server, it usually involves blue smoke and downtime. Luckily, the server space is about to get a bit more exciting, thanks to the introduction of servers based on ARM processors.
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