Let's Grow Leaders
APRIL 28, 2015
I don’t usually write on Tuesdays, but it would be irresponsible to not write in the midst of the chaos brewing in my hometown, Baltimore. For my international viewers, Baltimore has joined the cities featured on CNN and the morning shows due to their looting and protest-related violence as a response to the Freddie Gray tragedy. As I write this, the sun hasn’t even set.
General Leadership
APRIL 28, 2015
GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. From Our Early Files: Originally Published. 3 May 2013. “ Luck is of little moment to the great general, for it is under the control of his intellect and his judgment.” Titus Livins. The Allies just lost over 10,000 service members at the Chosin Reservoir in late 1950 and retreated back to the original positions they held before the batt
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N2Growth Blog
APRIL 2, 2015
'By Grant Wattie. President, N2Growth Australia. Below are my top 60 favorite leadership quotes of all time. “Leaders transform the quality of their lives’ by becoming aware of authentic choices, and living courageously towards a new more empowering future.” – Grant Wattie. “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, concerned citizens can change world.
Terry Starbucker
APRIL 19, 2015
'There’s a big return on investment for leaders who are willing to do the right thing, even when it’s very hard to do. A great example is letting someone go who you just know isn’t going to go gracefully or easily. Or, to change a policy or program midstream, knowing that it’s going to inconvenience a lot of people, people who have families and personal lives that will also be affected.
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Erik Bernhardsson
APRIL 21, 2015
There’s a bunch of companies working on machine learning as a service. Some old companies like Google , but now also Amazon and Microsoft. Then there’s a ton of startups: PredictionIO ($2.7M funding), BigML ($1.6M funding), Clarifai , etc, etc. Here’s a nice map from Bloomberg showing some of the landscape. As much as I love ML, I’m not super bullish on these companies.
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Let's Grow Leaders
APRIL 29, 2015
“It was only a matter of time before Baltimore exploded,” Michael Fletcher explains in his excellent Washington Post article digging a level deeper into the rioting and destruction in Baltimore this week. He stated, “Baltimore is not Ferguson and its primary problems are not racial.” There’s a huge economic divide that has been eating away the infrastructure of our city for years.
General Leadership
APRIL 24, 2015
GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. Nothing develops trust more than vulnerability…great leaders, authentic vulnerable leaders, require the ability to develop deep human connection. Dov Baron, Author of ‘ Fiercely Loyal ‘ Just be yourself.
CTOvision
APRIL 3, 2015
'By Katie Kennedy. Messaging is a critical function for any organization. This is especially true for the Military and Intelligence communities, where it is imperative that vital messages reach intended recipients as quickly as possible. The first messaging system was hand-written notes. While functional, these did not provide a timely way to get a message to a recipient quickly over a long distance, and could be intercepted.
Terry Starbucker
APRIL 26, 2015
Five years ago this week I released my free e-book, “Leadership From A Glass Half-Full: The 5 Lessons You Need To Learn Before You Jump Into the Pool” It sprung from a wish to pay forward what I had learned the hard way: “I wish I had some kind of guidebook that at the very least warned me about the things I just absolutely had to know before I got started (as a leader)” It’s been downloaded nearly 14,000 times, and I am truly grateful that it has been read, and hop
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
APRIL 6, 2015
I saw a bunch of tweets over the weekend about Peter Norvig claiming there’s a negative correlation between being good at programming competitions and being good at the job. There were some decent Hacker News comments on it. Norvig’s statement is obviously not true if we’re drawing samples from the general population – most people can’t code. It doesn’t necessarily even have to do with time allocation as this commenter alluded to: Being a champion at something requires excruciating narrow focus
Change Starts Here
APRIL 28, 2015
Caroline Kealey, Owner and Principal at Ingenium Communications, joins the show this month to share the Results Map, her tool for developing communications. Listen in to hear the key elements of the Results Map and how to use it to communicate change, including how to evaluate whether your communication is working. Listen to the show here (30 minutes): And get your Results Map Handbook here: www.resultsmap.com.
Let's Grow Leaders
APRIL 22, 2015
'You’ve tried everything, and the bad behavior continues. You don’t want to say “You need to change this behavior or else,” but the truth is–there will be consequences. Keep that “feedback-is-a-gift-and-I-care-about-you” loving feeling in mind, while having a direct conversation about specifically what must change.
General Leadership
APRIL 15, 2015
'GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America''s Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. “If I had an hour to solve a problem, I’d spend 55 minutes thinking about the problem and 5 minutes thinking about solutions.”. Albert Einstein. I often find myself binning leaders into one of two categories: those who are process-centric, and those who are problem-centric.
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CTOvision
APRIL 19, 2015
'Thanks to Amazon.com we are able to provide our readers with a free copy of the Kindle version of our book on The Cyber Threat during a special two day promotion running 23 and 24 April. The book was written to provide actionable insights into the cyber threat specially aimed towards the leader who should know more about threats to protect business objectives.
Terry Starbucker
APRIL 12, 2015
'How do leaders know if they’re building a sturdy and flourishing house, or a haunted and doomed one? All it takes is a good set of ears (ones that have been properly calibrated, of course), because there are 10 sentences that should cause nightmares for any leader, and push them towards the cold hard reality that their team is in trouble. Let’s step inside this haunted house, if you dare…. 1.
Erik Bernhardsson
APRIL 25, 2015
I just pinged a few million random IP addresses from my apartment in NYC. Here’s the result: Some notes: What’s going on with Sweden? Too much torrenting? Ireland is likewise super slow, but not Northern Ireland. Eastern Ukraine is also super slow, maybe not surprising given current events. Toronto seems screwed too, as well as part of NH and western PA.
Change Starts Here
APRIL 21, 2015
Recently, I posted Eight Telltale Signs of Resistance , in which I described some of the resistant behaviors people use to slow down or prevent change from happening. When we’re trying to implement change and we encounter these resistant behaviors, we often have three unhelpful responses that make it seem even more frustrating than it really is.
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Let's Grow Leaders
APRIL 20, 2015
'I was giving a keynote on Saturday to large group of administrative professionals. My speech followed the recognition lunch. In addition to their formal awards, they did one of my favorites, “stand up if __” “Stand up if you’ve received your certification (nearly everyone in the room stood).” “Stand up, if you’ve achieved another important professional milestone (again, the room looked like a standing ovation).” “Stand up if you made a signi
General Leadership
APRIL 22, 2015
'GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America''s Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. “The trouble is… you think you have time!” Unknown. When time becomes the transactional measure of merit you’d think the more we have of it the more valuable we become – to others and ourselves.
CTOvision
APRIL 15, 2015
'Who needs to go out for dinner, when you have a tireless master chef waiting at home to prepare a gourmet meal for you, any time, day or night? That''s the premise behind a new invention from Moley Robotics , a tech company based in London. Moley unveiled their new " robochef " prototype on April 14, 2015 at the Hannover Messe technology fair in Germany.
Women on Business
APRIL 18, 2015
'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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Erik Bernhardsson
APRIL 25, 2015
I just pinged a few million random IP addresses from my apartment in NYC. Here’s the result: Some notes: What’s going on with Sweden? Too much torrenting? Ireland is likewise super slow, but not Northern Ireland. Eastern Ukraine is also super slow, maybe not surprising given current events. Toronto seems screwed too, as well as part of NH and western PA.
Change Starts Here
APRIL 13, 2015
'I’m pleased to announce Enclaria recently gained the Qualified Education Provider™ status from the Association of Change Management Professionals® (ACMP®) for its upcoming Fundamentals of Change Management course. ACMP’s goal is to advance the discipline of change management, and Enclaria is eager to contribute its part in developing skilled practitioners who design and influence change at work.
Let's Grow Leaders
APRIL 14, 2015
'Kendra is late because she was at the hospital with her sick child and barely got home to take a shower… got it. Every now and then managers must make exceptions, no doubt. But now, John is late too, and you feel bad saying something to him, since you just let Kendra off the hook. Before you know it, late is the new black… to work, to meetings, and the envelope is being pushed in other arenas as well.
General Leadership
APRIL 29, 2015
GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand. Vince Lombardi. I’ve been an athlete my entire life.
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CTOvision
APRIL 6, 2015
'By Bob Gourley. New in the CTOvision Research Library: We have just posted an overview of an architectural assessment we produced laying out best practices and design patterns for the use of SAS and Apache Hadoop, with a focus on the government sector. Download this overview at: SAS and Apache Hadoop for Government. Here is more: Enterprises in government are awash in more data than they can make sense of.
Women on Business
APRIL 25, 2015
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].
Erik Bernhardsson
APRIL 21, 2015
There’s a bunch of companies working on machine learning as a service. Some old companies like Google , but now also Amazon and Microsoft. Then there’s a ton of startups: PredictionIO ($2.7M funding), BigML ($1.6M funding), Clarifai , etc, etc. Here’s a nice map from Bloomberg showing some of the landscape. As much as I love ML, I’m not super bullish on these companies.
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