January, 2013

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7 Ways To Prevent False Urgency

Let's Grow Leaders

False urgency can be lethal in organizations, and it become more toxic the higher it starts. Gravity exaggerates false urgency. How You Are Unknowingly Creating False Urgency Even if you are an empowering, enlightened leader, if you are the “boss” and you say “jump” (through your words or unintentional reactions), your team will likely start [.

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15 Big Differences Between Acting Like a Boss and BEING a Leader

Terry Starbucker

In fast paced, high stress business environments it can be all too easy sometimes for leaders to slip into what I call “ Boss Man ” mode. What I mean by that is that they stop being a leader, and start acting like a boss. A boss who supervises a staff. The staff reports to the boss, just like it says on the organizational chart. And they do exactly what the boss says, because, of course, “ He’s the boss!

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The CTOvision Disruptive IT List: Firms we believe all enterprise.

CTOvision

'The CTOvision.com Disruptive IT List is our assessment of the technology firms with the greatest potential for virtuous disruption of enterprise IT. Our goal is to provide enterprise CTOs with advanced notice of firms they should.

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Slides from NYC Machine Learning talk

Erik Bernhardsson

Slides from the talk. Slightly edited because (a) some of the slides make little sense taken out of context (b) Slideshare seem to have problem converting some of the stuff. Collaborative filtering at Spotify from Erik Bernhardsson.

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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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The Trouble With Changing Behaviors (and What You Can Do About It)

Change Starts Here

Changing the behaviors of people in an organization is tricky. You can communicate what is expected. You can train people how to do the behavior. You can provide tools to make it easier. You can add incentives to help motivate people to do something new. And still, they will probably continue to do things the old way. Because perhaps the strongest factor in how people choose which behaviors to do is not in that list.

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The Input Paradox

Let's Grow Leaders

When you take your leadership seriously, you are on a constant search for input. “How am I doing?” “What do you think” “How did that go?” “Am I on your short list?” Before I go any further, let me stop and warn you. This is one of those “do what I say… not as a [.] The post The Input Paradox appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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The Best Motivational Tool We Love to Hate

Terry Starbucker

When I was in school I hated deadlines. Absolutely hated them. To make matters worse I was a classic procrastinator, especially when I was in college. It wasn’t unusual for me to finally crack the book open a couple of days before the exam, or pull out the typewriter just a day before a term paper was due. What was interesting about this “hatred” was that it actually worked for me – that is, what I didn’t realize was that that the deadline put me (albeit pretty l

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My Infosec Wish for 2013: A Balanced Cyberwarfare Debate.

CTOvision

'Cybersoldiers I can already hear the chuckling. ?Cyber warfare? Balanced? And I'd like partisanship in Washington to end, a double date with Mila Kunis and Scarlett Johansson, and some fries with that!? Yes, my desire is.

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Slides from NYC Machine Learning talk

Erik Bernhardsson

Slides from the talk. Slightly edited because (a) some of the slides make little sense taken out of context (b) Slideshare seem to have problem converting some of the stuff. Collaborative filtering at Spotify from Erik Bernhardsson.

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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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Female Entrepreneurs Are Making Business Boom [Infographic]

Women on Business

More female entrepreneurs are starting their own businesses in 2013 than ever, and the aggressive growth trend for women-owned businesses that started in 1997 shows no signs of slowing down. Today, women-owned businesses can be found in every industry and the statistics are truly amazing, as you can see in the infographic below from CreditDonkey. However, there are still many challenges that female entrepreneurs face, some of which are more prevalent for businesses owned by women than businesses

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How to Get Rid of the Things That Drain You

Next Level Blog

Over the weekend I had a great reminder of how much things change over time. I received an email from a coach I worked with back in 2004. She had been cleaning out some files and found a document that she asked me to write for her when we were working together. It was a list of twenty nine things that were draining my energy back then. I was in a bit of a funk in that period and the list included worries about family, health, friends, business – the works really.

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Why Can’t You See The Big Picture?

Let's Grow Leaders

I was doing my normal juggling of “leader” and “mom” roles. I was feeling pretty good about the “mom” part as I drove to the stadium that night. Sure I was on a conference call the whole way there, but I pulled into the parking lot well before halftime. The marching band had not yet [.] The post Why Can’t You See The Big Picture?

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Hackers and Hummingbirds: Leadership Lessons from Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg

Terry Starbucker

I recently read “ Think Like Zuck: The Five Business Secrets of Facebook’s Improbably Brilliant CEO Mark Zuckerberg ” by Ekaterina Walter (I received an advance copy). The book is a fascinating deep dive into many aspects of Facebook’s meteoric success, but I was particularly interested in her perspectives on the importance of great leadership.

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Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI

“Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI” is an extensive guide for integrating generative AI into product strategy and careers featuring over 150 real-world examples, 30 case studies, and 20+ frameworks, and endorsed by over 20 leading AI and product executives, inventors, entrepreneurs, and researchers.

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By 2015, more than 30 percent of analytics projects will deliver.

CTOvision

'cyber-workforce.preview Gartner projects that by 2015, more than 30 percent of analytics projects will deliver insights based on structured and unstructured data. Sounds rational/logical/realistic to me. Sounds like the entire.

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Momentum and mean reversion might just be volatility bias

Erik Bernhardsson

The Economist just published an article called The best, the worst and the ugly. By looking at historical performance for mutual funds, they find strong support for momentum and mean reversion. Picking the best or the worst fund over the previous five years gives great returns over the next five years. I think this is just confusion around what risk reward is.

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Impressive Achievements of Million-Dollar Women-Owned Businesses Revealed

Women on Business

New data released by American Express OPEN and Womenable reveals some of the impressive achievements of million-dollar women-owned businesses over the past 10 years. Using U.S. census data, the report was authored by American Express OPEN research advisor Julia Weeks. Taking a look at million-dollar women-owned firms by industry as reported by this research, wholesale trade is the industry with the largest share of women-owned $10 million+ firms (20%) followed by finance/insurance (12%), transpo

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What Happens When Executives Freak Out

Next Level Blog

So, the Super Bowl this year is guaranteed to have a winning coach named Harbaugh when John of the Baltimore Ravens and Jim of the San Francisco 49ers square off against each other. It’s the first time brothers have ever faced each other in the big game. It should be a good one and is bound to be entertaining if. Click headline to continue.

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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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10 Ways Fear Slows Us Down

Let's Grow Leaders

“Courage is fear that has said it’s prayers.” -Karl Barth Back in November, Dan Rockwell wrote 4 words that have stuck with me. “Fearful leaders need certainty.” Try walking around with that in your heart for a month or two and observe. …Watch leaders you admire. …Observe leaders you don’t. …Consider how you respond to [.

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Interview: Gaining Agreement on a Blueprint for Change

Change Starts Here

In this episode of The Change Agent’s Dilemma, Martha Greenway, former Deputy Superintendent of Fulton County Schools in Georgia, recounts a fascinating story about gaining agreement on a blueprint for change as she lead the initiative for the organization to become a charter school system. Listen below to hear the approach she took to gain consensus with a variety of stakeholder groups on a politically charged project.

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Microsoft and DoD strike a deal, Cybersecurity issues unveiled at.

CTOvision

'DoD Here's the top cyber news and stories of the day. Big Data in Demand for Intelligence Community - The National Security Agency (NSA) is poised to deliver an initial cloud computing capability for the entire intelligence.

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Momentum and mean reversion might just be volatility bias

Erik Bernhardsson

The Economist just published an article called The best, the worst and the ugly. By looking at historical performance for mutual funds, they find strong support for momentum and mean reversion. Picking the best or the worst fund over the previous five years gives great returns over the next five years. I think this is just confusion around what risk reward is.

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Monetizing Analytics Features

Think your customers will pay more for data visualizations in your application? Five years ago, they may have. But today, dashboards and visualizations have become table stakes. Turning analytics into a source of revenue means integrating advanced features in unique, hard-to-steal ways. Download this white paper to discover which features will differentiate your application and maximize the ROI of your analytics.

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Booth Babes – The Dirty Side of Trade Shows

Women on Business

If you’re an attractive, young woman in business who has worked in sales or marketing (and sometimes, even if you haven’t worked in those departments), you’ve probably been sent to a trade show (or marketing event) to “man the booth” for the primary reason to attract male attendees to the booth. Sadly, the concept of “booth babes” has been around for a very long time and is used in every industry regardless of how relevant or irrelevant female sexuality

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What People Want: 8 Things Money Can't Buy - by Nathan Magnuson

Nathan Magnuson

Home About Coaching Contact Guest Posts Archives. Thoughts for the Everyday Leader. by Nathan Magnuson. Home / Influence / What People Want: 8 Things Money Can’t Buy. What People Want: 8 Things Money Can’t Buy. January 14, 2013. — 7 Comments. You may remember the Mastercard commercials that ran on television several years ago. Each one depicted a family having a wonderful (and expensive) excursion together.

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Easy and Practical Team Building Activities

Let's Grow Leaders

It’s been a rather heavy week on Let’s Grow Leaders, talking about Courage, Fear, Transparency, and Chaos. So I am going to end the week on a lighter note. I had my team in town this week, working on business strategy and plans. We also made time the day before for a few practical [.] The post Easy and Practical Team Building Activities appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Leaders Who Follow Rules

Lead on Purpose

Leaders who follow rules have subordinates who do – Guest post by Jack Meyer. Great leadership skills are those that are developed over time. Although textbooks and classes can help you improve the kind of leader you want to be, it takes real-life practice and implementation to make you great. A successful leader has the trust of those under him or her and is supported by those subordinates.

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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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Tech Blogs We Love - CTOvision

CTOvision

'What makes a great tech blog? It takes great staff, an actionable vision, and timely/accurate reporting. It also takes leaders who don't mind hard work and who are good at engaging with the community. How do you know.

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NYC Machine Learning meetup

Erik Bernhardsson

From the NYC Machine Learning talk I had last week: Haven’t looked at it yet except briefly. Unfortunately the quality isn’t the best.

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The Status of Women in Media Is Not Good

Women on Business

The status of women in U.S. media in 2012 isn’t good. In fact, it’s extremely disappointing. Women’s Media Center put together a variety of statistics from research conducted by various organizations over the past couple of years and published the data in a report called “ The Status of Women in the U.S. Media 2012.” The report authors, Robin H.

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