Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 13, 2014

'Shortly after joining a new church, the council president enthusiastically revealed that I was part of their “volunteer leadership succession plan.” I politely declined and spent the next month working to act less “leader-like” at church. Plus, I figured if I skipped coffee hour, I could dodge the recruiters. Busy people freak out when asked […] The post How to Recruit Leaders in Your Volunteer Organization appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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General Leadership

JANUARY 17, 2014

'When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt. Honore de Balzac. Visualize you are an ice skater in a competition. You are in first place going into the final round. If you perform well, the gold medal is yours. You are nervous, anxious and frightened. Then, mere minutes before it’s your turn to take the ice, your trainer rushes over to you with incredible news: “You’ve already won!

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Terry Starbucker

JANUARY 30, 2014

'It’s so easy for a leader to say yes. Its a simple nod of the head, or a “ yep “, or an “ OK “, or a smile and a “ sure “ And, we like to throw in an embellishment for good measure. “No problem!” Most ambitious leaders like to think of themselves as doers, so to turn anything down is akin to failing, or looking less than the awesome superperson that we’re supposed to be.

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Change Starts Here

JANUARY 21, 2014

'It’s probably the most-quoted statistic about organizational change: 70% of change initiatives fail. But what does that mean? Where did that number come from? And is it even true? Jennifer Frahm, Director of Conversations of Change, joins the show from Australia to discuss the history and dispell the myth that many accept as fact. Listen in as Jen challenges us as change practitioners to respectfully set the record straight.

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CTOvision

JANUARY 2, 2014

'By Joey Echeverria. Editor’s note: The guest post below from Joey Echeverria first appeared on his Techno Babble blog. I would like to associate myself with his views and have reposted it here with his permission. – bg. Some people may find this an odd topic for the first post for what is ostensibly a technology blog, but they’re probably wrong.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 29, 2014

'“Sam” was beaming with excitement as he told me about his promotion. He was in the throws of a transition from supervisor to manager, He’ll now lead leaders. ”…but it’s scary,” he added. “I know I have to handle this whole thing differently. I was very close to my team. We talked about everything […] The post How to Succeed as Scope and Scale Increases appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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General Leadership

JANUARY 7, 2014

'We hope you enjoyed David Webb’s December broadcast with the troops and General Leadership live from Kabul, Afghanistan. Tonight, you can join us live at 9pm Eastern Time (6pm for you West Coasties!) for our first new show of 2014 as we continue our “ 12 Virtues of Leadership ” series on SiriusXM Patriot Channel 125 and the David Webb Show with the following special guests: - Ken Wahl (Twitter: @KenWahl1 ) and Shane Barbi (Twitter: @Barbi_Twins ). - Papa Joe Bradford (Twitter

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Terry Starbucker

JANUARY 5, 2014

'On my latest More Human Leadership Podcast , I have a lively and inspiring chat with Liane Davey, author of the NY Times best seller “ YOU FIRST: Inspire Your Team to Grow Up, Get Along, and Get Stuff Done” . It was a real treat to have Liane on the show, because of her many years of experience in working with some of North America’s leading financial services, consumer goods, high tech, and healthcare organizations, providing her deep insights into group dynamics to create powerf

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Change Starts Here

JANUARY 14, 2014

'Last week I attended the Association for Strategic Planning Atlanta chapter’s monthly meeting for a presentation called, “Zero to Strategy in 12 Months.” It was the story of how the presenter led the development of an Office of Strategy and Solutions in his organization over the course of the last year. He started with nothing, and now his group of internal consultants numbers 12 people.

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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.

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CTOvision

JANUARY 22, 2014

'By WayneWheeles Editor’s note: Wayne Wheeles has established a fantastic reputation as a pioneer in applying big data solutions to enterprise cyber security mission needs. -bg. Much like the Lufthansa heist of 1978 , the recent Target data breach has captured the attention of the American people; focusing them on the incredible threat potential posed by cybercrime.

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Erik Bernhardsson

JANUARY 22, 2014

We run a ton of A/B tests at Spotify and we look at a ton of metrics. Defining metrics is a little bit of an art form. Ideally you want to define success metrics before you run a test to avoid cherry picking metrics. You also want to define a metric that has as high signal to noise ratio. And of course, most importantly, your metric should ideally correlate to high level business impact as much as possible.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 6, 2014

'We’d spent the last 5 days reconnecting as a family, completely dark from any semblance of social networking. Alright, I’ll be honest… all networking…each night my husband and I requested a table for 4 on this 5 night cruise to Mexico. It’s cool to meet other travelers… but not this time, we needed family and […] The post Effective Networking: 6 Secrets Your Kids Know appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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General Leadership

JANUARY 21, 2014

'“Things turn out the best for people who make the best of the way things turn out.”. John Wooden. As the end to my working years begins to come hazily into view, conversations with younger co-workers naturally and frequently include the question, “What are you going to do when you retire?” Feeling not very smart or helpful, I usually mumble something about taking care of household chores that have been put off for later.

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Terry Starbucker

JANUARY 23, 2014

'I’m honored to chat with one of my leadership mentors on my latest More Human Leadership Podcast - author, keynote speaker and consultant Steve Farber. Steve has written and published a series of best-selling leadership books, including “ The Radical Leap ”, which recently was named one of the “100 Best Business Books of All Time”. Under the banner of his company Extreme Leadership Incorporated, he is also is a senior-level leadership coach and consultant, and has worked with and sp

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Change Starts Here

JANUARY 22, 2014

'What really needs to change in your organization for your initiative to succeed? Unfortunately, there is no one-size-fits-all answer to that question. But, before you start to influence change at work, you must understand what really needs to change in order to achieve the desired results for your organization. With that clarity, you will start to build the energy required to move away from the status quo and towards an improved future.

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CTOvision

JANUARY 23, 2014

'By Bob Gourley The agenda for the 3rd Annual Cloudera Federal Forum (6 Feb 2014, Hanover MD) has firmed up and will no doubt lead to an incredible event. This will be a great venue for thought leaders from the federal government, great tech firms and very talented integrator firms. The speakers are a world-class-best mix of data and analysis practitioners, and from what I can tell the attendees will be the real action-oriented professionals from government really making things happen in Big Dat

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Erik Bernhardsson

JANUARY 22, 2014

We run a ton of A/B tests at Spotify and we look at a ton of metrics. Defining metrics is a little bit of an art form. Ideally you want to define success metrics before you run a test to avoid cherry picking metrics. You also want to define a metric that has as high signal to noise ratio. And of course, most importantly, your metric should ideally correlate to high level business impact as much as possible.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 27, 2014

'Mark shuts the door and begins the emergency meeting. What he’s got to say isn’t easy, but these guys can handle it. That’s why they “get paid the big bucks.” He minces no words. Stock prices, competitive pressures… time to get it together. NOW. The intimidation factor is high. Fix it fast… or […] The post Trickle Down Intimidation appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 25, 2014

'We''ve Moved! Update your Reader Now. This feed has moved to: [link] If you haven''t already done so, update your reader now with this changed subscription address to get your latest updates from us. [link].

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Terry Starbucker

JANUARY 26, 2014

'To my readers, friends, and family: As you now know, I’ve begun a new and exciting journey: “More Human”, the book. I’ve explained the “why?” I’ve outlined the “how?” And now, it’s time for the “what?” The manuscript. “More Human: A Journey To The Heart of Leadership” With the help of a talented advisor and an awesome editor, I have a memoir on paper.

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Change Starts Here

JANUARY 2, 2014

'What are some of your New Year’s resolutions at work – To gain support for a much-needed change initiative? To make progress on a stalled or difficult project? To better anticipate and overcome resistance to change? To have more confidence and be more assertive with colleagues? It sounds like you want the changes you implement to be IRRESISTIBLE.

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CTOvision

JANUARY 24, 2014

'By Bob Gourley At this link and embedded below Dave Vellante of Silicon Angle leads a discussion with Stu Miniman and David Floyer on the $2.3 Billion purchase of IBM’s server business by Lenovo. Dave, Stu and David are three of the most plugged in/truth seeking analysts in this space. They are always thinking and writing about these issues are are continuously in direct contact with decision makers in the enterprise market and also with leaders in the IT community.

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Erik Bernhardsson

JANUARY 11, 2014

Radim Rehurek has put together an excellent summary of approximate nearest neighbor libraries in Python. This is exciting, because one of the libraries he’s covering, annoy , was built by me. After introducing the problem , he goes through the list of contestants and sticks with five remaining ones. Finally, the benchmarks pits annoy against FLANN. Although FLANN seems to have roughly 4x better performance, somewhat surprisingly, Radim concludes annoy is the “winner”.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 20, 2014

'If you ask any leader for the right way to handle a screw up, you’ll likely hear the following advice. 1. Admit the screw up 2. Apologize 3. Do what you can to make it right. Try it. Tell a few leaders you just screwed up and ask for advice. Let me know if […] The post The Screw Up Post I Shouldn’t Have to Write appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Toptal

JANUARY 7, 2014

More often than not, the software we write directly interacts with what we would label as "dirty" services. In layman's terms: services that are crucial to our application, but whose interactions have intended but undesired side-effects—that is, undesired in the context of an autonomous test run. For example: perhaps we're writing a social app and want to test out our new 'Post to Facebook feature', but don't want to _actually_ post to Facebook every time we run our test suite.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 6, 2014

'We''ve Moved! Update your Reader Now. This feed has moved to: [link] If you haven''t already done so, update your reader now with this changed subscription address to get your latest updates from us. [link].

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JANUARY 9, 2014

'The New Year brings with it the energy to get things done and the intention to make a difference. When that difference is to implement change at work, where should you focus your energy? One area to work on is increasing your influence. Increasing your influence may seem like a long-term undertaking, but there are some simple things you can do to bolster your influence, and you can even start today.

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CTOvision

JANUARY 16, 2014

'By Prayson Pate When discussing innovation, most people focus on advances in technology. Technology is important, but it is only one of three key components required for innovation. In order to maximize the opportunity for successful innovation, one must combine the following: A customer problem or opportunity. Domain knowledge. Advances in technology.

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