Let's Grow Leaders
JUNE 7, 2013
'“I’m not sure I’m qualified.” “I don’t have experience.” “I’m too old to try that now.” Negative self-talk smashes dreams. We look for data to corroborate our fear. Big Starts Small I always wanted to run the Boston marathon. The only issue, I hadn’t yet run a 10K. I was decidedly not qualified for that [.
N2Growth Blog
JUNE 13, 2013
'By Brian Layer , Chair, Organizational Development, N2growth. Today the U.S. Army celebrates its 238 th birthday. Looking back, its growth into comfortable old age seems inevitable but in its youth that outcome was far from certain. In 1783 on the Ides of March, the inseparable fates of our Army and Republic were very much in doubt; disgruntled officers of the fledgling Army were gathered in a secret meeting in Newburgh, New York to discuss insurrection.
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Terry Starbucker
JUNE 27, 2013
'Last week at the Digital Marketing Conference in Portland, I did an “Ignite” presentation on my “15 Ways To Tell The Difference Between a Boss and a Leader” I really like the Ignite format, because of the challenge it presents - 20 slides in 5 minutes, each one changing over every 15 seconds, whether you are ready for the change or not.
NeverFriday
JUNE 7, 2013
James Shore, author of the book “The Art of Agile”, wrote an article that covers the alternatives to acceptance testing. The way you write an acceptance test is to take a user story and then write code that tests the end result of a software process. For instance, a user story where “an ecommerce website owner can create a product” may use an acceptance test where server requests are made to the website to login, create the product, and then check that the product appears
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Change Starts Here
JUNE 24, 2013
'My guest this month is Daryl Conner, internationally recognized leader in organizational change and author of Managing at the Speed of Change and Leading at the Edge of Chaos. In this episode, he shares how being a change agent is about more than what you do — it’s about who you are. Listen to this inspiring episode to learn about how “who you are” impacts how you influence change and how to find your personal voice as a change agent.
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Let's Grow Leaders
JUNE 25, 2013
'Bad leaders suck life-force from their teams. They don’t mean too. And yet, contagious yawns permeate the workplace. Low energy abounds. Why? I’ve been asking this question everywhere this week (my organization, LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter). Here’s the top 10. I’ll leave it to you for #11. 10 Energy Zappers 1. Blurry vision Working frantically without a clear purpose [.
N2Growth Blog
JUNE 9, 2013
'By Brian Layer , Chair, Organizational Development, N2growth. Thoreau wrote: “It takes two to speak the truth – one to speak and another to hear.” Most of us are great at the former but at the latter, not so much. Truth be told, most of us are poor listeners. When considering great leadership skills, we focus on transmission skills–speaking and writing.
Terry Starbucker
JUNE 16, 2013
'What are the secrets to entrepreneurial success? The best way to discover them is to ask those who have overcome the odds to tell their stories, and that’s what the Oregon Entrepreneur’s Network (OEN) did last week here in Portland, inviting 15 Oregon entrepreneurs to speak at their first OEN Summit. I was honored to be the emcee of the event, which attracted a sell-out crowd of nearly 200 (that’s me doing the kickoff in the pic).
NeverFriday
JUNE 18, 2013
Some notes from the Effective Technical Leadership talk given by David Byttow. Attributes of an effective technical lead. Knowledge: “A strong tech lead’s knowledge is broad and deep…A tech lead should be a master of several technologies.” Speed: “be ultra-responsive and capable of making instant decisions, always kicking the ball forward” Awareness: “You should be able to keep the current state of the entire project in your head at all times.” Activitie
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
JUNE 6, 2013
'A recent study by the Association for Change Management Professionals (ACMP) shows that 73% of change management professionals surveyed also have other, non-change-related job duties. I suspect for many of the respondents, the “other” job duties are really their primary job, and those who consider themselves change agents do so because they’ve realized change management is a necessary function of their primary job.
Erik Bernhardsson
JUNE 1, 2013
I’ve been obsessed with Wikipedia for the past ten years. Occasionally I find some good articles worth sharing and that’s why I created the wikiphilia Twitter handle. Just a long stream of stuff that for one reason or another may be interesting. It’s also a bunch of friends posting links. Anyway, the tragedy is that there’s 800 tweets but only 70 followers, so you should follow it now.
Let's Grow Leaders
JUNE 17, 2013
'The young leader came racing in my office, his “great idea” bursting from his heart. He had a plan and was ready to go. I listened to his enthusiastic outburst with mixed emotions. He had energy, passion, and commitment. Good start. But…it was a stupid idea. My inside voice screamed… No way This idea will [.] The post Stupid Idea or Seeds of Brilliance?
N2Growth Blog
JUNE 11, 2013
'By John Baldoni , Chair, Leadership Development, N2growth. Does a leader need an enemy to succeed? While fear of an enemy is always a great unifier, it does pose risks. Essentially you are calling people to come together for a negative rather than a positive. Case in point might be Abraham Lincoln in the Civil War. While the Confederacy always considered Lincoln the enemy, Lincoln as president viewed it differently.
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Terry Starbucker
JUNE 30, 2013
'It was the fall of 1982. I was 3 months out of college, working for an accounting firm in San Antonio. Up to that point it had been an uneventful start to my career, since the summer is a slow time for most accounting groups. I spent hours at my cubicle just studying up for the CPA exam, and serving as a “go-fer” for the higher ups in the office (lets just say I knew my way around the copy and storage rooms).
NeverFriday
JUNE 16, 2013
The United States Army has a field manual on leadership and leadership influence. In it, they describe multiple techniques for influencing your team/squad to accomplish tasks and fulfill mission objectives. Leadership Influence Techniques. It has a great list of leadership influence techniques that would benefit managers or team leaders in office settings: Pressure.
Change Starts Here
JUNE 19, 2013
'Are you responsible for implementing change in your organization? Do you feel like you’re swimming against the current? If you answered yes, then I’d like to invite you to attend a unique workshop that will be held in Atlanta, Georgia later this year. The path to implementing change in an organization isn’t always smooth. On the way, you run into frequent speed bumps, wrong way signs, and even concrete barriers.
Erik Bernhardsson
JUNE 25, 2013
Continuing in the same spirit of shameless self-promotion, here’s some recent Luigi press: Reddit thread. A Guide to Python Frameworks for Hadoop (slides from the NYC Hadoop User Group ). This presentation from the Open Analytics NYC meetup about how Foursquare uses Luigi. . Luigi is in the middle of a pretty massive refactoring of the visualizer. David Whiting at Spotify just ripped out the old visualizer (based on Graphviz) and replaced it with one based on D3.
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Let's Grow Leaders
JUNE 10, 2013
'The professional distance thing has always been tricky for me. I get the rules. I’m a SHRM certified HR professional and spent years in HR roles. I also understand the logic of keeping professional distance, particularly between men and women. I’ve seen the disastrous consequences of inappropriate relationships. There’s nothing more awkward than firing a [.
N2Growth Blog
JUNE 17, 2013
'By Mike Myatt , Chief Executive Officer, N2growth . The secret to leadership is there aren’t any real secrets. The best leaders have simply gone to school on improving their tradecraft. While the capabilities possessed by the best leaders might seem otherworldly to many, they are merely the outcome of hard work, experience, perspective, and yes, a bit of luck.
Terry Starbucker
JUNE 2, 2013
'“A person who is nice to you but rude to the waiter, or to others, is not a nice person. (This rule never fails).” - Jim Swanson, from Swanson’s Unwritten Rules of Management. A big part of being a more human leader is showing respect – for the people you lead, and for the jobs that they do. It should be a very natural thing to do, BECAUSE it’s such a human thing.
NeverFriday
JUNE 5, 2013
FiFrom this article on IT World, “Why your users hate agile (and what you can do about it)” , come some answers and strategies for dealing with user/customer/client expectations : 7 tips for making Agile more palatable to users. Find ways to give users some sense of predictability. Earn trust incrementally. Explain how updates will become more accurate as the project progresses.
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CTOvision
JUNE 12, 2013
'Editor's note: Markus Ehrenmueller-Jensen is the author of Microsoft Business Tools, and is well positioned to provide context on ways users can better leverage these tools. -bg.
Erik Bernhardsson
JUNE 15, 2013
We had an unconference at Spotify last Thursday and I added a semi-trolling semi-serious topic about abolishing documentation. Or NoDoc , as I’m going to call this movement. This was meant to be mostly a thought experiment, but I don’t see it as complete madness. To be clear, I’m not talking about comments in the code here. I think those are great, and you should probably do more than you are already doing.
Let's Grow Leaders
JUNE 11, 2013
'I get frustrated and sad when I see highly qualified people unable to sell themselves in a job they deserve. It happened again, perhaps you know someone who can benefit from this story and actions that followed. Meet Me in St. Louis The sweet woman next to me on the flight from Denver to St. [.] The post Why You’re Not Getting Hired appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.
N2Growth Blog
JUNE 19, 2013
'By Brian Layer , Chair, Organizational Development, N2growth. Lately I’ve seen several leaders trip over the unexpected outcome of a grand plan. They failed to anticipate the mistakes and mishaps that happen in all organizations. When I see an outcome surprise a leader, I’m reminded of a lesson I learned years ago from my Dad. He had been a great football coach and when I expressed interest in playing quarterback, he agreed to teach me how.
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Terry Starbucker
JUNE 9, 2013
'There’s a pesky pronoun out there that leaders need to be contstantly aware of. It’s a slippery one because it’s so short and sweet. One letter. It’s pesky because of the messages it sends to those who hear it. It could be simple. “It’s about me” Or a mixed message. “Well, it could be about you too, but how could you know, given the use of this particular pronoun” Or, a message with absolutely no ambiguity. “Hey ,it’s ALL about m
NeverFriday
JUNE 3, 2013
Django get versus filter for single object? While working on a project, we use a particular pattern in Django for getting a single object. We first filter the queryset by the id or slug and then check if the queryset exists. If so, then we return the object otherwise we return none. Here is an example of how this looks in Python: models = MyModel.objects.filter(id=24) if len(models) > 0: return models[0] else: return 'could not find model'.
CTOvision
JUNE 18, 2013
'From: [link] SpaceCurve Raises $10M Series B Financing. Brings Unmatched Performance to Big Data Applications and Services. SEATTLE?(BUSINESS WIRE)?June 18, 2013?. SpaceCurve, the creator.
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