Let's Grow Leaders
NOVEMBER 6, 2015
The number one frustration I hear from team leaders is that their feedback falls on deaf ears. The employee seems to get it– for a minute, and then they go right back to their old habits. So they give the same feedback again, this time “louder” either literally, or through progressive discipline, or sadly sometimes threats or biting sarcasm.
General Leadership
NOVEMBER 11, 2015
GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. Armistice Day parade – 1929 – Boston (Source: Boston Public Library). “…solemnly remember the sacrifices of all those who fought so valiantly on the seas, in the air, and on foreign shores, to preserve our heritage of freedom.”.
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Terry Starbucker
NOVEMBER 15, 2015
I remember the first time I got it at age 22, a mere 4 months after I graduated from college, as a staff accountant at a public accounting firm. It was given to me reluctantly, out of sheer necessity, and it terrified me. But on the other hand, it was what I wanted. After all, I was young, and overflowing with exuberant ambition. So I took the ball, and ran with it, all the way up the field.
CTOvision
NOVEMBER 12, 2015
There is something special about Tamr. As technologists we focus on things like their ability to help organizations make better decisions through smart, differentiated technologies. Results are what matters in enterprise IT. The savvy enterprise leader knows this. Really great firms deliver results long term. How can you know if you are dealing with a firm like that?
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Erik Bernhardsson
NOVEMBER 11, 2015
Curious about Google’s newly released TensorFlow ? I don’t have a beefy GPU machine, so I spent some time getting it to run on EC2. The steps on how to reproduce it are pretty brutal and I wouldn’t recommend going through it unless you want to waste five hours of your live. Instead, I recommend instead just getting the AMI that I built (ami-cf5028a5).
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Let's Grow Leaders
NOVEMBER 16, 2015
Trust me, I’ve seen that look. The #areyouinsane ? look. The #whatplanetareyoufrom ? grimace. The #thischickisclearlyfromH R lament. The #anddoesnthaveaclue freak out. A few months later, they were all in. Not because of some clever incentive program. Not because of beautiful spin. Almost entirely because they could taste the win. If you’re struggling to gain traction on a new idea or program, you may be dealing with one of these five sources of resistance. 1.
General Leadership
NOVEMBER 18, 2015
GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. “Don’t let the fear of striking out hold you back.” Babe Ruth. Comedian Steve Harvey has a video on YouTube where he describes how to take a “jump” and put change into motion in your life.
Terry Starbucker
NOVEMBER 1, 2015
An open letter to all who are thinking about being a leader, are about to be a leader, or are already been given the responsibility of a leader and are trying to figure out how the heck it all works: . Dear Prospective, Pending, or Current Leader: I understand you are trying to be a leader. First off, that’s fantastic – leadership is a great calling that can bring you great success and satisfaction on so many levels, both personally and professionally.
CTOvision
NOVEMBER 2, 2015
There are seven key megatrends driving the future of enterprise IT. You can remember them all with the helpful mnemonic acronym CAMBRIC, which stands for C loud Computing, A rtificial Intelligence, M obility, B ig Data, R obotics, I nternet of Things, C yberSecurity. In this post we dive deeper into the first of these trends, Cloud Computing.
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.
Erik Bernhardsson
NOVEMBER 11, 2015
Curious about Google’s newly released TensorFlow ? I don’t have a beefy GPU machine, so I spent some time getting it to run on EC2. The steps on how to reproduce it are pretty brutal and I wouldn’t recommend going through it unless you want to waste five hours of your live. Instead, I recommend instead just getting the AMI that I built (ami-cf5028a5).
Change Starts Here
NOVEMBER 19, 2015
This month’s guest, leadership consultant and executive coach Aaronde Creighton of Pique, shares why and how to be your true self at work when you’re leading change. Leave the mask at home and let your real leadership show up!
Let's Grow Leaders
NOVEMBER 9, 2015
I’ve never met someone who would admit to preferring drama over collaboration. And yet, most cultures have too much drama, too little collaboration. What’s up with that? This weekend we stayed in a beach house in Nags Head with my sister, and 28 of her closest friends (most of whom we had ever met) to run the Outer Banks Southern Fried racing weekend.
General Leadership
NOVEMBER 6, 2015
GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. “Communicate unto the other person that which you would want him to communicate unto you if your positions were reversed.” — Aaron Goldman. Across the years, especially when I was a young employee or supervisor, I was always interested in how little information flowed in the organizations I belonged to.
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Terry Starbucker
NOVEMBER 29, 2015
“Terry my boy, what do you think?”. There it was, finally, the question I was waiting for from my brilliant but mercurial multi-multi-millionaire boss. I had been pondering the answer for several weeks. We were working on an important project in the fall of 1990, and there was a problem, one demanding some out-of-the-box thinking. As the Project Manager, I had many hours of meetings with all the key players involved, and diligently forged a consensus on a proposed course of action – so we could
CTOvision
NOVEMBER 16, 2015
There are seven key megatrends driving the future of enterprise IT. You can remember them all with the helpful mnemonic acronym CAMBRIC, which stands for C loud Computing, A rtificial Intelligence, M obility, B ig Data, R obotics, I nternet of Things, C yberSecurity. In this post we dive deeper into Artificial Intelligence. Artificial Intelligence is the discipline of thinking machines.
Erik Bernhardsson
NOVEMBER 3, 2015
I haven’t mentioned what I’m currently up to. Earlier this year I left Spotify to join a small startup called Better. We’re going after one of the biggest industries in the world that also turns out to be completely broken. The mortgage industry might not be the #1 industry you pictured yourself in, but it’s an enormous opportunity to fix a series of real consumer problems and join a company that I predict will be huge.
Women on Business
NOVEMBER 6, 2015
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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.
Let's Grow Leaders
NOVEMBER 2, 2015
“But we’re already doing so much better than last year, when is enough, enough?” “Don’t you see how overwhelmed we are already?” “That’s not a stretch goal, that’s a delusion.” If you’re like most managers, at some point you’ve heard this kind of pushback from your team. Challenging your team to do more (often with less) is one of the biggest challenges of a manager.
General Leadership
NOVEMBER 13, 2015
GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. “S wonderful! ‘S marvelous! That you should care for me!” Ira Gershwin. What do you care about as a leader? Is it the same thing that your team members care about? What about the organization?
Lead on Purpose
NOVEMBER 6, 2015
According to Business Week, the life expectancy of a multinational corporation (typically on the Fortune 500 list) is only between 40 and 50 years on average. Many companies do not even last that long.
CTOvision
NOVEMBER 2, 2015
Toyota Motor Europe’s Wouter Dullaert explains Tamr’s features and benefits in the video below. We like this video because it is another great example of how a technologist in an enterprise can make a huge impact on the business of an organization. It is also good because it underscores why Tamr is unique. Dullaert underscores that tapping into the full value of customer information is key, “with ‘roughly 270 different databases that have customer data in them — and that’s before we actually get
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Erik Bernhardsson
NOVEMBER 3, 2015
I haven’t mentioned what I’m currently up to. Earlier this year I left Spotify to join a small startup called Better. We’re going after one of the biggest industries in the world that also turns out to be completely broken. The mortgage industry might not be the #1 industry you pictured yourself in, but it’s an enormous opportunity to fix a series of real consumer problems and join a company that I predict will be huge.
Women on Business
NOVEMBER 17, 2015
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Let's Grow Leaders
NOVEMBER 20, 2015
Welcome back to the Let’s Grow Leaders Frontline Festival. Our November Festival is all about gratitude. Thanks to Joy and Tom Guthrie of Vizwerx Group for the great pic and to all our contributors! Next month, in celebration of the launch of the new Star Wars: the Force Awakens movie we’re going to give you two options. You’re welcome to submit your “best of” post of 2015.
General Leadership
NOVEMBER 11, 2015
GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. “Whenever you’re in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.”. William James. Over the course of your professional career you’re going to experience conflict in the workplace.
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Toptal
NOVEMBER 19, 2015
Real-time applications have already started to dominate the landscape of the Internet. With modern frameworks and standardization of the necessary client-side features, building a real-time web application has become a breeze. However, such web applications still pose unique scalability challenges. In this article, Toptal engineer Mahmud Ridwan explores the architecture of a simple real-time web application that works using Redis Pub/Sub and doesn't compromise its horizontal scalability.
CTOvision
NOVEMBER 19, 2015
NASA has announced that MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory ( CSAIL) is one of two university research groups nationwide that will receive a 6-foot, 290-pound humanoid robot to test and develop for future space missions to Mars and beyond. You need to see this thing to believe it. Check it out in the video at this link and embedded below: A group led by CSAIL principal investigator Russ Tedrake will develop algorithms for the robot, known as “Valkyrie” or “R5,” as part
Next Level Blog
NOVEMBER 2, 2015
Lately, I’ve been thinking about what it means to have a beginner’s mind and why, especially if you’re a non-beginner, it’s so important to have one. The thought process started for me a few weeks ago when I was in a yoga class. If you’ve read my blog for awhile you know that I’m a committed yogi. I started in depth five years ago (last month was the anniversary of my first class) as a way to get back on my feet (more or less literally) after receiving a diagnosis of multiple sclerosis.
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