Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 5, 2014

'Executives are naturally a tough audience. They’ve got limited time, competing priorities, information overload, demanding bosses, and pressure to make great decisions quickly. Your job is to give them all the information they need in a way they can easily digest. Most of us have stories of times when the message we tried to send was not the message received, and the tidy PowerPoint presentation spiraled downward in a frenzied fiasco. 9 Mistakes To Avoid When Presenting to Executives. 1.

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General Leadership

DECEMBER 5, 2014

'“Thunderbirds Check…. Two, Three, Four, Five, Six”. “Lets Run’em Up…”. “Smoke On – Ready…. Now”. “Smoke Off – Ready… Now” “Release Brakes – Ready…. Now”. With these simple commands, Thunderbird 1 initiates the roar of afterburners which thrust the Air Force Thunderbird demonstration team skyward. With high-G, high-speed, split-second accuracy and precision, the men and women of the USAF Thunderbirds leave spectators spellbound evertime.

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CTOvision

DECEMBER 19, 2014

'By Bob Gourley. The FBI just posted the first official written articulation of why they believe North Korea is linked to the ongoing Sony Hack. As someone who has worked with FBI investigators in the past I have to tell you they do not go public like this unless they have evidence. It is true they have been wrong before, and it is a very American trait to be skeptical of government assessments.

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Terry Starbucker

DECEMBER 7, 2014

'My Dad used to love wearing trucker hats. He was a carpenter – that is, when he wasn’t working full time for the county sheriff’s department – and he had a closet full of cool hats to wear out on his jobs. He loved helping friends and neighbors that way, hanging a door, installing a window, fixing a roof, repairing siding, or even building an entire garage (I was with him on that adventure , in the summer of 1974).

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Change Starts Here

DECEMBER 4, 2014

'One of Enclaria’s training programs is Leading Your Team Through Change, a workshop to help leaders effectively leverage their authority to influence change within their teams. During a recent session with senior leaders of a large organization, one of the participants interjected, “What if we don’t like it ourselves?”. It’s not enough to know what you need to do to implement change.

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Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 10, 2014

'If you’re just tuning in, I’ve been teaching an MBA course on Managing Difficult Employees and gave these “students” (read that, really smart working millennials with big jobs in our nation’s capital) “homework” to developing an approach to manage their difficult employee and to journal about it. If you missed Monday’s post , best to start there.

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General Leadership

DECEMBER 12, 2014

'Leaders of character shine! “Learn from others’ mistakes, you don’t have time to make the all yourself” GK Chesterton. From the time we’re very young we’re presented with a list of “don’ts” to set boundaries. To be sure young people get the lion’s’ share of the boundary setting, but every society and organization has its list of what you can’t do.

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Erik Bernhardsson

DECEMBER 10, 2014

This is the last post about deep learning for chess/go/whatever. But this really cool paper by Christopher Clark and Amos Storkey was forwarded to me by Michael Eickenberg. It’s about using convolutional neural networks to play Go. The authors of the paper do a much better job than I would ever have done of modeling move prediction in Go and show that their model beat certain Go engines.

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CTOvision

DECEMBER 5, 2014

'By Bob Gourley. On 11 Dec 2014 we will be providing a briefing on lessons extracted from our research into the new Cloudera and Intel partnership. This presentation is designed to arm architects with the information they need to efficiently modernize and deliver cost-saving, mission-supporting capabilities to their enterprise. This webinar format will enable us to dynamically present and then interact with the architects, program managers and technology executives attending.

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Terry Starbucker

DECEMBER 14, 2014

'George Santayana. I’m sure you’ve heard this famous quote many times: “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it” – George Santayana. Indeed, it’s a very powerful message about learning from the past. However, I would offer that this quote should be amended to truly reflect using history to a leader’s advantage: “Those who learn best from wisely selected amnesia are destined to greatness”.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2014

'By Damian D. “Skipper” Pitts. Chair, Organizational Development, N2Growth. The extension process within the Crisis Leadership & Performance-Driven Execution framework’s Leadership GPS System evolves from the new reality in business analytics and organizational design. Preemptive Crisis Analytics, an extension of the Five Ws Agenda within the Leadership GPS System, examines incoming data and decision sciences to increase productivity, efficiency and effectiveness for leaders an

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Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 3, 2014

'“What’s the best way for John to improve?” I asked, one of those coachy-interviewing questions people like me say to bosses and peers of folks we’re working to support. “Honestly, I wish he would just stop trying so hard to improve, and just lead. We’ve all given him plenty of advice. He’s taken a gazillion courses.

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General Leadership

DECEMBER 3, 2014

'Like all Americans, I followed the congressional proceedings on ISIS with great interest. Of particular note was the testimony of retired Marine General Jim “Mad Dog” Mattis, former Commander of US Central Command. If Gen Mattis thinks we will probably need boots on the ground, well I believe him. Now let me tell you why I say this. I have immense respect for Gen Mattis, personal respect he earned in the early days of our Post 9/11 war in Afghanistan.

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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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Erik Bernhardsson

DECEMBER 29, 2014

I just made it to Sweden suffering from jet lag induced insomnia, but this blog post will not cover that. Instead, I will talk a little bit about technical debt. The concept of technical debt always resonated with me, partly because I always like the analogy with “real” debt. If you take the analogy really far, there are some curious implications. I always like to think of the “interest rate” of software development.

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CTOvision

DECEMBER 5, 2014

'By SeanLawson. On October 27, 2014, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) issued a new Notice to Airmen (NOTAM) that bans the use of “unmanned aircraft and remote controlled aircraft” near stadiums. The move comes in the wake of a number of reports worldwide , including within the United States , of “drone” use at sporting events. Though these incidents certainly raise legitimate safety concerns, the FAA’s response is problematic for a number of reasons.

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Change Starts Here

DECEMBER 23, 2014

'This year on The Change Agent’s Dilemma radio show, fantastic guests joined the show to share their wisdom, experience and tips for how to influence change at work. Here’s the list of topics we discussed. Click through to listen to each episode, visit the radio show page , or subscribe to the podcast on iTunes. A big thanks to all my guests for sharing their time and insights.

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Terry Starbucker

DECEMBER 21, 2014

'9 years ago this week, I started this blog with a declaration (of sorts): Yes, I always tend to look at the glass as “half full” – call me an eternal optimist, call me a fool, but I find it’s the best way to live one’s life with the least amount of angst. 965 posts later, I find myself sitting in front of my computer thinking about all that has happened after I drew that line in the sand.

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Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 1, 2014

'The band had travelled 13 hours on 14 buses for this once in a lifetime experience. Now slime was falling from the sky. The 500 piece band had planned to hold their final rehearsal on the fields of Newark airport. Now they were stuffed into the Marriott ballroom. It was raining, sleeting and blowing on their parade. David Starnes, the band’s director, stood on the makeshift podium– a pile of chairs– on the far edge of the ballroom,”I know this is not ideal, but sometimes

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General Leadership

DECEMBER 10, 2014

'“Excellence is the Result of Caring more than others think is Wise, Risking more than others think is Safe, Dreaming more than others think is Practical, and Expecting more than others think is Possible.” Ronnie Oldham. Expectation management is critical – at home, at work, in business, wherever it is that you walk – properly managing expectations is a difference maker when it comes to results.

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Erik Bernhardsson

DECEMBER 7, 2014

My previous blog post about deep learning for chess blew up and made it to Hacker News and a couple of other places. One pretty amazing thing was that the Github repo got 150 stars overnight. There was also lots of comments on the Hacker News post that I thought were really interesting. (See this skeptical comment for instance). A couple of things came up in several places.

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CTOvision

DECEMBER 20, 2014

'By SeanLawson. For more than a decade we have heard constant warnings about the coming of “cyber war” and “cyber terrorism.” The prophets of cyber doom have promised that cyber attacks are just around the corner that will be on par with natural disasters or the use of weapons of mass destruction. With every new report of a cyber attack, the prophets exclaim that their visions have finally come to pass, and so it is with the most recent attack against Sony.

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Change Starts Here

DECEMBER 16, 2014

'In this episode, Debora McLaughlin, author of The Renegade Leader and and Running in High Heels , joins the show to share her easy to remember I.G.N.I.T.E. model for increasing your influence and impact at work. Listen in to also learn how communication impacts your influence, and how you can evaluate whether you might need to alter your communication style.

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 12, 2014

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Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 17, 2014

'It’s almost always easier to say yes than no–in the short run. Yes, it’s okay for you to treat me that way. Yes, I’ll stay late tonight and miss dinner again– after all my wife won’t say no. Yes, it’s okay skip my workout. Yes, your work is fine (even though it could be better.). A close second to expectation violations , the inability to say no is one of the top sources of intrapersonal and interpersonal conflict in organizations.

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General Leadership

DECEMBER 2, 2014

'Digit Murphy, David Webb, Matthew T. Fritz, John E. Michel, Hilary Knight. It’s that exciting time of the month again when you have the opportunity to interact with us LIVE on SiriusXM Patriot Channel 125 at 9pm Eastern (8 Central, 7 Mountain, 6 Pacific) Wednesday, 3 Dec 2014. This special “12-Talents” broadcast will feature David Webb, newly-retired General John E.

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Erik Bernhardsson

DECEMBER 29, 2014

I just made it to Sweden suffering from jet lag induced insomnia, but this blog post will not cover that. Instead, I will talk a little bit about technical debt. The concept of technical debt always resonated with me, partly because I always like the analogy with “real” debt. If you take the analogy really far, there are some curious implications. I always like to think of the “interest rate” of software development.

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CTOvision

DECEMBER 23, 2014

'By Bob Gourley. Editor’s note: I have been very excited to have the opportunity to observe the MACH37 team up close as one of their team of mentors. It is great being associated with Rick Gordon , Dan Woolley , Robert Stratton and Ledger West and the many virtuous firms they help accelerate into the market. For an update see their release below. – bg.

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Change Starts Here

DECEMBER 30, 2014

'It’s hard to believe I’m wrapping up the seventh year of blogging about influencing change at work at Enclaria. As has become tradition, I’d like to take this opportunity to share some of the most popular posts of the year. Thank you for reading and sharing! Four Features to Look For in a Change Management Methodology. Do you have trouble telling all the change management methodologies apart?

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