Let's Grow Leaders
SEPTEMBER 4, 2013
'Many readers write to me and disclose, “I hate my job.” You’ve gone from skipping to work, to dragging your butt. Little annoyances mushroom in the dung of frustration. Reasons vary: a witchy boss, unrealistic expectations, downsizing pressures, stagnating gifts, unrecognized contributions. You’ve considered quitting, but that’s a bold move and another post.
Terry Starbucker
SEPTEMBER 15, 2013
'I believe leadership shoud be more human, because it paves the way for an atmosphere of trust and a culture of accountability, two absolute essentials for success. To put it even more simply, a leader needs to be two things that are seemingly at opposite ends of the spectrum: Tough, AND Nice. Nice , in the ablility to nurture, coach, inspire, respect, and truly care for those you lead.
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Change Starts Here
SEPTEMBER 3, 2013
'The path to implementing change in an organization isn’t always smooth. Obstacles along the way prevent the change from happening. Despite your best intentions, you and your change initiative can get stuck. To reduce this drag on your initiative, the solution is to make your change IRRESISTIBLE. In this 5-part webinar series, you will learn the steps and gain the tools to design and influence change without getting stuck.
N2Growth Blog
SEPTEMBER 9, 2013
'By John Baldoni , Chair, Leadership Development, N2growth. One question I hear from executives is this: How can I tell if people want to follow me? The answer to that question lies in your example. The way you communicate, challenge, plan and evaluate. Here are five questions to ask yourself to check if you are on track. Thoughts? Follow me on Twitter @JohnBaldoni.
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Erik Bernhardsson
SEPTEMBER 15, 2013
A lot of people these days know about collaborative filtering. It’s that Netflix Prize thing, right? People rate things 1-5 stars and then you have to predict missing ratings. While there’s no doubt that the Netflix Prize was successful, I think it created an illusion that all recommender systems care about explicit 1-5 ratings and RMSE as the objective.
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Let's Grow Leaders
SEPTEMBER 20, 2013
'I’m delighted to present the September edition of the Frontline Festival. This month’s focus: Leadership Development. I encourage you to read the insights and share your perspectives. Namaste. Leadership Development Jon Mertz of Thin Difference offers, You Are Born to Be Brave: How Do You Sustain It? “To be an effective leader, we need to understand where our [.
Terry Starbucker
SEPTEMBER 29, 2013
'I fell in love with road maps when I was 4 years old, paging through my dad’s Rand McNally atlas in the backseat of our Oldsmobile Jetstar 88 as we made our annual trips to northern Minnesota to visit my grandparents and extended family. (Quick aside – it was quite a cool car for its day, check out the pic). It was a two day trip, so I had plenty of time to do my version of “route planning” Even then, it didn’t take me long to start looking for short cuts that my
Change Starts Here
SEPTEMBER 5, 2013
'The uncertainty and extra work of organizational change can be stressful enough for employees without you unintentionally making things worse. Yet change agents sometimes cause additional frustration with the tactics they use to influence change. Here are three things to avoid so you don’t create more employee angst about change: Sugarcoat the bad stuff.
N2Growth Blog
SEPTEMBER 30, 2013
'By Mike Myatt , Chief Executive Officer, N2growth . In this leadership interview, Mike Myatt of N2growth interviews Brad Lomenick of Catalyst. They discuss Brad’s latest book, “The Catalyst Leader,” Catalyst Conferences, Leader Cast, and other leadership topics.
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
SEPTEMBER 15, 2013
A lot of people these days know about collaborative filtering. It’s that Netflix Prize thing, right? People rate things 1-5 stars and then you have to predict missing ratings. While there’s no doubt that the Netflix Prize was successful, I think it created an illusion that all recommender systems care about explicit 1-5 ratings and RMSE as the objective.
Nathan Magnuson
SEPTEMBER 30, 2013
'Today’s post was guest-written by my brother Lt. Cale Magnuson, a U.S. Marine currently assigned to the Marines Aviation Program. You can connect with Cale on LinkedIn or Twitter. If you would like to be featured on this site, click here. I distinctly remember the first time I ever heard Captain Tucker tell us that […].
Let's Grow Leaders
SEPTEMBER 23, 2013
'The secret to moving and shaking is stirring. Anyone in power can shake and intimidate. Real leaders stir hearts and minds toward powerful possibility. Growing leaders long to be stirred, not shaken. Shaken Not Stirred Joe was visibly shaken as he left the readout with the senior eam. His results were solid, and he was [.] The post Shaken Not Stirred appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.
Terry Starbucker
SEPTEMBER 1, 2013
'You’ve put in your time, done all the work, and you’re ready to climb up to the next rung on your career ladder. It’s time to get that promotion, and move up to a leadership role. A role that will give you a new title, a raise in pay, and something much more valuable – a chance to make a difference, and show the way. The question is, are you ready?
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Next Level Blog
SEPTEMBER 27, 2013
'Yesterday I found what is already one of my all time favorite New Yorker cartoons. I pulled the current issue out of the mailbox, started flipping through it and saw the classic guy on a therapist’s couch. The caption was “I did seize the day. But then it seized me back and used some kind of jujitsu move to flip me on my ass.”. Click headline to continue.
N2Growth Blog
SEPTEMBER 6, 2013
'By Brian Layer , Chair, Organizational Development, N2growth. The U.S. response to Syrian chemical weapons dominates this week’s news. Thankfully, most of our problems are simpler than the President’s, but the Syria puzzle exposes the risk of one leadership tactic–leaders who draw red lines are likely to get stained in the process. We draw these lines for a variety of reasons but mostly because it’s easy.
Erik Bernhardsson
SEPTEMBER 3, 2013
If you have a few minutes, you should check out mine and Chris Johnson ‘s panel proposal. Go here and vote: [link]. Algorithmic Music Discovery at Spotify. ** Spotify crunches hundreds of billions of streams to analyze user’s music taste and provide music recommendations for its users. We will discuss how the algorithms work, how they fit in within the products, what the problems are and where we think music discovery is going.
Women on Business
SEPTEMBER 3, 2013
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Let's Grow Leaders
SEPTEMBER 6, 2013
'I’m sick of being told how to win the hearts and minds of millenials. I’ve never bought into the notion that an entire generation of human beings falls into a prototype we can master. I’ve been brewing this sentiment for decades. I thought the HR meetings I attended as a young HR leader (charts [.] The post How to be a Successful Intrapreneur (Even If You’re Old) appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.
Terry Starbucker
SEPTEMBER 8, 2013
'“You are beaten. It is useless to resist.” Man, Darth Vader was a bad dude. I remember sitting in the movie theater back in 1980, watching the Empire Strikes Back for the 15th time, and still getting riled up as this classic villan was standing over young Luke Skywalker, trying to turn him to the “Dark Side” In fact, to this day, Vader’s theme music, that ” da-da-da, da-ta-da, da-ta-da “, still runs in my head when there is trouble ahead, or a nemisis
Steve Farber
SEPTEMBER 16, 2013
'I’d like to give you a free, signed copy of my book, The Radical Edge: Stoke Your Business, Amp Your Life, and Change the World. Why? I wrote Edge , which was originally published in 2006, to help deepen your mastery of Extreme Leadership by showing you how to renew your passion and excitement, and become even more committed to improving your piece of the world.
N2Growth Blog
SEPTEMBER 3, 2013
'By John Baldoni , Chair, Leadership Development, N2growth. Try to leave out the parts that readers tend to skip. That is Rule No. 10 that Elmore Leonard , a gifted storyteller and author of some 46 novels, posited in an essay on writing for the New York Times in 2001. Leonard died this month and since his passing has brought forth boatloads of praise for this gifted storyteller.
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Erik Bernhardsson
SEPTEMBER 3, 2013
If you have a few minutes, you should check out mine and Chris Johnson ‘s panel proposal. Go here and vote: [link]. Algorithmic Music Discovery at Spotify. ** Spotify crunches hundreds of billions of streams to analyze user’s music taste and provide music recommendations for its users. We will discuss how the algorithms work, how they fit in within the products, what the problems are and where we think music discovery is going.
CTOvision
SEPTEMBER 4, 2013
'By Ryan Kamauff Right now, students are going back to school, summer is winding up and people need new devices. Many people want to start the new season with a slick new phone or tablet, but the fact of the matter is that few of these are worth your money. Right now, the only device out there I can unequivocally sponsor is the new Nexus 7, all of Apple’s offerings are close to a year old, HTC and Samsung’s top devices are four months old, and Sony, Motorola and LG all have new devic
Let's Grow Leaders
SEPTEMBER 13, 2013
'What do you appreciate most about each member of your team. Have you told them? The other night I heard a fantastic leadership best practice. Every time the leader has someone new join his team, he takes the time to write down “why I hired you,” frames it, and gives it to the new team [.] The post What I Appreciate Most About Your Leadership appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.
Nathan Magnuson
SEPTEMBER 16, 2013
'I remember when I first started getting interested in leadership years ago. I’d find myself in conversations with friends and invariably a leadership challenge they were experiencing would come up. Sometimes, I’d even know how to solve it. I’d usually reference a book or an idea I had recently studied. Sometimes in my enthusiasm, I’d […].
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Change Starts Here
SEPTEMBER 17, 2013
'Last week, I hosted a free webinar called “How Change Gets Stuck.” In the webinar, I shared ten ways change gets stuck – that is, ten things we do or things we let happen as change practitioners that make our initiative lose traction. Watch the webinar to see which of the ten ways may be impacting your own initiative. You can watch the recording here: How Change Gets Stuck Webinar.
N2Growth Blog
SEPTEMBER 26, 2013
'By Mike Myatt , Chief Executive Officer, N2growth . Leadership not deeply rooted in a foundation of truth is leadership destined to fail. The reality is the best leaders are also absolutists when it comes to truth – they view truth as a non-negotiable. However in the wake of some of the recent, and highly publicized business, financial, and political scandals, it’s not too difficult to understand how some may actually question the existence of truth in business or government.
Steve Farber
SEPTEMBER 10, 2013
'The powerful Net Promoter Score system started out by asking a very simple question: What is the likelihood that you would recommend Company X to a friend or colleague? And if you think about what that question really asks, we end up with the significant conclusion that NPS essentially measures the degree to which your customers love your company. In a post on the Net Promoter blog , Intuit CEO, Brad Smith, says that their product guys call NPS the “love metric.
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