May, 2010

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How Dumb Is Your Business?

N2Growth Blog

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Communication Tips: Connecting With Outgoing, Task-Oriented People.

The Recovering Engineer

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Five questions to ask each week

Lead on Purpose

Home About the Blog Michael’s Bio Resources Lead on Purpose Entries RSS | Comments RSS Top Posts Lead on Purpose featured Five leadership practices for improving customer service Five factors of leadership Real-world examples of customer service Leadership and Product Management Five stages of problem solving Guest Post: The Yin-Yang of Product Management -- Market Sensing Book Review: The Leader Who had no Title Market sensing Product manager responsibilities Recent Comments Doug Tay

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Angel Investment Criteria

SoCal CTO

I’m planning on going to a Tech Coast Angels mixer tomorrow and the topic for me is whether there is angel funding out there for startups that don’t meet classic VC models. If there are, then who are they, what are the criteria, what does it typically look like? By way of background for the question, there’s a great post by Bob Aholt, a Pasadena Angel: An Angel Investor’s Thoughts on Valuation.

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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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31 Days of Difference

Steve Farber

Denise Baril , inspired by the Replicate Yourself/Pay It Forward message in Greater Than Yourself , issued a challenge to herself and others to strive to make a difference every day for a month. Well, it’s not entirely true that she was inspired by the words in my book. It was her boyfriend, Dan, that was the real inspiration. Here’s Denise’s account: “ My partner Dan, who is quiet and reserved by nature, was living this [Greater Than Yourself] principle in secret.

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Memorial Day Leadership Lessons

N2Growth Blog

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One Way To Guarantee That Your Suggestion Is Ignored

The Recovering Engineer

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Five championship strategies

Lead on Purpose

Home About the Blog Michael’s Bio Resources Lead on Purpose Entries RSS | Comments RSS Top Posts Lead on Purpose featured Five leadership practices for improving customer service Five factors of leadership Real-world examples of customer service Leadership and Product Management Five stages of problem solving Guest Post: The Yin-Yang of Product Management -- Market Sensing Book Review: The Leader Who had no Title Market sensing Product manager responsibilities Recent Comments Doug Tay

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Finding Developers is Tough Again

SoCal CTO

I’m seeing and hearing that it’s becoming tough finding good developers again, at least here in Los Angeles. On Friday, at the LA CTO Forum , I heard from a couple of CTOs having trouble finding good developers. My company, TechEmpower , recently added a few top notch developers, but it wasn’t easy to find just the right people. And it’s not just me, Ben Kuo just posted - Good news for developers (and jobs) We’ve been talking with a lot (and I mean a LOT) of people who are looking for developers

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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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When Wisdom Isn’t

Steve Farber

Many people in my line of work tend to get a little cynical over time. As I described in The Radical Leap , when I was new to the world of organizational and leadership development an older–and supposedly wiser–guy who had built a sterling rep as an executive coach and corporate change agent gave me the following bit of perspective and advice on my chosen career path: “No matter what you say or how you say it, no matter if you cajole or threaten, no matter if you provide overwh

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Webinar: Being an Activist Investor in IT Projects

The Agile Manager

Please join me on 26 May for a webinar on Activist IT Investing. An ounce of good governance is worth a pound of project rescue. Agile practices, with their emphasis on transparency, business alignment and technical completion, are enablers of better IT governance. But all the transparency and alignment in the world isn't going to do us any good if we're not equipped to pay attention and act on it.

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Laziness in Clojure - Some Thoughts

Ruminations of a Programmer

Some readers commented on my earlier post on Thrush implementation in Clojure that the functional way of doing stuff may seem to create additional overhead through unnecessary iterations and intermediate structures that could have been avoided using traditional imperative loops. Consider the following thrush for the collection of accounts from the earlier post. ( defn savings - balance [ & accounts ] ( ->> accounts ( filter # ( = ( : type % ) :: savings )) ( map : balance ) ( apply + )

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Communication Tips: Connecting With Outgoing, People-Oriented.

The Recovering Engineer

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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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Social media summit

Lead on Purpose

Home About the Blog Michael’s Bio Resources Lead on Purpose Entries RSS | Comments RSS Top Posts Lead on Purpose featured Five leadership practices for improving customer service Five factors of leadership Real-world examples of customer service Leadership and Product Management Five stages of problem solving Guest Post: The Yin-Yang of Product Management -- Market Sensing Book Review: The Leader Who had no Title Market sensing Product manager responsibilities Recent Comments Doug Tay

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Startup Founder Developer Gap

SoCal CTO

I was just interviewed by Frank Peters - Tony Karrer and the Founder-Developer Gap. It was a lot of fun for me. I’ve listened to Frank’s show for several years. And I always recommend it to people involved in early stage startups. I received a follow-up question from an early-stage startup about the Founder Developer Gap that I’ve described before and that was part of the interview with Frank.

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The Pioneers of GTY

Steve Farber

At the beginning of the school year, Jill Scheulen, Principal of Crestview Middle School in the St. Louis area, issued a Greater Than Yourself (GTY) challenge to her faculty by encouraging them to take on GTY Projects of their own. It wasn’t a mandate, and there were no requirements as to who’d qualify. In other words, they didn’t have to do it, but if they did, they could take on a student, another teacher, a parent in the community–anyone, really.

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Time to start blogging again.

Jeremiah Grossman

No doubt many have noticed that I’ve been on a blogging hiatus. Between attending to literally life and death personal matters, an overwhelming work schedule, and taking some much needed time off -- blogging was put on hold for a while. Now, finally, I can see some light at the end of the tunnel and responsibilities becoming more manageable. Over the last couple of weeks I’ve been putting a lot of time into our 9th WhiteHat Website Security Statistic Report , “Which Web programming languages are

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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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Leaders as Teachers: Two Things You Absolutely, Positively Must Do.

Terry Starbucker

Home About Me About This Blog Starbucker’s Amazon Store TerryStarbucker.com Ramblings From a Glass Half Full Leaders as Teachers: Two Things You Absolutely, Positively Must Do To Be Effective by Starbucker on May 9, 2010 As someone who loves to read, I can get leadership advice from the strangest places. Several years ago I was casually looking through one of my wife’s piano study books and came across Emil Liebling.

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Hear and Understand to be Heard and Understood

The Recovering Engineer

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Leadership and learning

Lead on Purpose

Home About the Blog Michael’s Bio Resources Lead on Purpose Entries RSS | Comments RSS Top Posts Lead on Purpose featured Five leadership practices for improving customer service Five factors of leadership Real-world examples of customer service Leadership and Product Management Five stages of problem solving Guest Post: The Yin-Yang of Product Management -- Market Sensing Book Review: The Leader Who had no Title Market sensing Product manager responsibilities Recent Comments Doug Tay

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Seven Great Startup CTO Posts so far in May

SoCal CTO

Continuing my series of posts that I’ve been collecting that live at the intersection of Startups, Startup Development and being a Startup CTO. Here are a couple of the other collections: 16 Great Startup Posts from March , Startup CTO Top 30 Posts for April. Some good ones already from May: "Authentic" is dead - A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks , May 3, 2010 Phrases that should be retired include - “Putting customers first” You Actually Did This?

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How To Package & Price Embedded Analytics

Just by embedding analytics, app owners can charge 24% more for their product. How much value could you add? This framework from Software Pricing Partners explains how application enhancements can extend your product offerings. You’ll learn: How to take a disciplined approach to pricing The three elements of the Packaging Decision Framework Ways to structure your new embedded analytics offering Download the White Paper to learn about How To Package & Price Embedded Analytics.

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The GTY Pledge

Steve Farber

Can you imagine yourself saying (and meaning) the following words to someone at work: a colleague, a client, a direct report, your boss? This, in effect, is the Greater Than Yourself Pledge. Words, as you will see, that are not to be taken–or given–lightly: I promise to pass along my knowledge, give my time, deliver to you my connections, life lessons, insights and counsel.

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Ceding the desktop security battle, almost the war

Jeremiah Grossman

Fresh from the FS-ISAC conference in lovely St. Pete Florida, one predominate theme was that Financial Institutions must assume the client, their customers rather, are compromised (infected with malware) and they must continue doing business anyway. Given the threat landscape this a reasonable operating parameter. The prevalence of man-in-the-browser attacks force FIs to make very tough business decisions.

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Those Dreaded Meetings and Why You Should Learn to Love Them

Terry Starbucker

Home About Me About This Blog Starbucker’s Amazon Store TerryStarbucker.com Ramblings From a Glass Half Full Those Dreaded Meetings and Why You Should Learn to Love Them by Starbucker on May 23, 2010 It’s the office equivalent of a four letter word – “ meeting ”. Why has this simple little gathering become such a bad thing in the workplace? I can imagine the scene in just about every office – the sound of that “ding” from the calendar software, followed by the feeling of approaching gloo

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Communication Tips: Connecting With Reserved, Task-Oriented People.

The Recovering Engineer

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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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Digital Squalor

The Agile Manager

In the not too distant past, storage was limited and expensive. As recently as 1980, 1 megabyte of disk storage cost $200. But this is no longer the case. Today, you can buy 8,000 megabytes (a.k.a. 8 gigabytes) for $1. Storage capacity is now so abundant and compact that you can record every voice conversation you’ll ever have in a device that can fit into the palm of your hand.

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Not Betting on Flash

SoCal CTO

On my eLearning blog, I recently predicted the Beginning of Long Slow Death of Flash. This got quite a lot of passionate response. I view the point of this blog to provide my thoughts and perspectives as an Acting CTO mostly concerned with Startup Development to entrepreneurs and other CTOs. The conversation around Flash is an important one for startups and CTOs.

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A Great Design for Greater Than Yourself

Steve Farber

This wonderful note from Avery Nubson is not only a great example of how terrific it feels to raise someone else up, but also a reminder of the fact that reaching out is a great way to uncover opportunities to expand ourselves. “Amy and I own Nubson Design , a graphic and web design studio in Moorhead, MN. We attended the Greater Than Yourself speech that Steve Farber presented in Fargo, ND with Lindsey, our intern at the time. “After reading Greater Then Yourself , we had decided th