Let's Grow Leaders
MAY 19, 2014
'Go into almost any company and ask employees what annoys them most about the leaders in charge, and the list is unlikely to vary all that much. I love this Harvard Business Review video, The Biggest Mistake a Leader Can Make. Watch it, and I guarantee you’ll be singing along. . In fact, you may even think, See that! I’m a great leadership thinker too.
General Leadership
MAY 7, 2014
'The Silent Power Behind Emotional Intelligence. “The emotional brain responds to an event more quickly than the thinking brain.” Daniel Goleman. If our skills, competencies and judgment get us our leadership roles – it’s our Emotional Quotient (EQ), or Emotional Intelligence , that keeps us there and propels us forward into greater leadership scope, work footprint, scale and reach.
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Terry Starbucker
MAY 29, 2014
'It wasn’t hard to like Sarah Young as soon as we walked into her downtown store back in 2010, when we first moved to Portland. It was a welcoming place, full of what I’d soon know as “super cute” women’s clothing and accessories from independent makers from Portland and around the world. The lighting was great, and the music was cool, but not loud.
CTOvision
MAY 5, 2014
'As a technologist I have long respected Symantec and their many capabilities (they do far more than antivirus, see the list here). But the hottest firms in cyber security, those growing because they make real, measurable, virtuous differences in enterprise security, are growing because they realized that Symantec''s core antivirus features just are not sufficient.
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N2Growth Blog
MAY 22, 2014
'By Grant Wattie. President, N2Growth Australia. There is a new definition of leadership in our lexicon. The seagull leader is someone who flies in, s**t’s over everything, and leaves. I’m constantly amazed when working inside organizations that the names and examples of such people come up constantly in the conversation. Yet rather than being weeded out, they seem to survive and thrive in an institutional ethic that values by choosing short term greed over longer-term value and culture.
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Let's Grow Leaders
MAY 14, 2014
'Credibility is hard to establish and even easier to lose. The sad truth is I’ve seen really good leaders lose the confidence and credibility of their teams by making well-intentioned and innocent mistakes. I’m not talking about the big stuff like lack of follow-through or breaking commitments, but the subtle shifts that undermine all the trust you’re working to build.
General Leadership
MAY 4, 2014
'Do you lead like a rich person? –Or—. Do you lead like a poor person? An Afghan Air Force General asked recently through his translator…. Do you lead like a rich person or a poor person? My western mind immediately wandered to visions of Bill Gates and Steve Jobs and tried to compare their leadership styles with that of members of lower income brackets.
Terry Starbucker
MAY 11, 2014
'“Why aren’t you satisfied? We hit the target you set. You raised it. We hit it again. Isn’t that enough? Why do you have to keep raising the bar? Is there no end to this?” I used to get this a lot in the workplace. I never liked hearing it. But I never gave any quarter to it either. To put in the terms of my old stats class in college (I knew I’d find some use for it eventually), I (not) affectionately called it “regression to the mean” That is
CTOvision
MAY 9, 2014
'By Bob Gourley. Students of history know what happens when adversaries learn how the good guys collect intelligence on them. They change their tactics, techniques or procedures and it gets much harder to know their intentions. Most of us knew this is what would happen with the disclosures by Edward Snowden. And testimony by intelligence community professionals indicates they have had evidence this was occurring.
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N2Growth Blog
MAY 13, 2014
'By Grant Wattie. President, N2Growth Australia. Leadership is nothing without action. Every leader needs to identify what they are good at and act on it! With the amount of people being added to today’s marketplaces, you can’t afford to sit back and watch them work with your competition. At N2Growth, we would love the opportunity to help identify your strong areas and come up with a strategy as to how to make the most of our growing world.
Change Starts Here
MAY 15, 2014
'In this episode, Ankit Patel, Managing Partner of The Lean Way Consulting, discusses how to use the natural information flows in your organization to influence change. Listen in to learn the different types of conversations that happen in organizations, and how to tap into them to get people talking about the right things. Listen to the show here (30 minutes): Be sure to visit the radio show page to listen to past episodes and subscribe to the show.
Let's Grow Leaders
MAY 4, 2014
'I’m sure many someones warned me and share their wisdom. But, sadly, most of my career lessons I learned the hard way. When you’re totally immersed it getting it done, it’s easy to lose perspective. Today I share my biggest career lessons- learned from years of angst and my fair share of stupidity. Looking forward to hearing your number 10s. 9 Career Lessons I Wish I’d Learned Sooner.
General Leadership
MAY 8, 2014
'Overcoming the boundaries between the military community and society requires a deliberate effort to open our world. It is tempting to stay on our military bases, live in military communities and only talk to those we know. For the curators of The General Leadership Foundation, it is our mission to bring the experiences, principles and stories amassed through war and military life to the public.
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.
Terry Starbucker
MAY 15, 2014
'Today I felt like a lost lamb who had returned to the fold after an extended absence. It was a simple little visit to my “namesake” business, where I hadn’t ordered a certain espresso drink in many moons. I loved this place back then, enough that when it was time to put a name on this blog, I used “ Starbucker ” (yep, that’s where it came from).
CTOvision
MAY 19, 2014
'By Bob Gourley. If you are a professional in technology, government and/or business you have no doubt already been exposed to the very interesting Marc Andreessen. Odds are many of our readers are already tracking his thoughts closely via his blog, his media interactions captured on YouTube and his very dynamic and thought engaging Twitter Feed where you can now track the dynamics […].
Toptal
MAY 8, 2014
Python's simple, easy-to-learn syntax can mislead Python developers -- especially those who are newer to the language -- into missing some of its subtleties and underestimating the power of the language. In this article, Toptal's Martin Chikilian presents a "top 10" list of somewhat subtle, harder-to-catch mistakes that can trip up even the most advanced Python developer.
Change Starts Here
MAY 28, 2014
'Last week I presented “ How Change Gets Stuck ” at a webinar hosted by the Association of Change Management Practitioners. I shared 10 ways change typically loses momentum during implementation. As part of the presentation, I conducted a poll: “Which of the following likely hindered progress on your current or most recent change initiative?
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Let's Grow Leaders
MAY 23, 2014
'I’ve yet to meet a manager who admits to being a micromanager, but according to micromanagement expert Harry Chambers and other corroborating research , the majority of workers indicate that micromanagement has interfered with job performance. I imagine the disconnect is that it’s rarely an either/or situation. Micromanaging is a dysfunctional behavior that most leaders fall into from time to time.
General Leadership
MAY 2, 2014
'It is the responsibility of every employee to report back to his or her supervisors what they have learned and allow the organization to benefit from that experience. As military members, we work for the American taxpayer. It is our responsibility to generously share our lessons-learned and maximize opportunities to create mutually beneficial conversations.
Terry Starbucker
MAY 8, 2014
'I knew there was something about Tim O’Grady that I really liked, but I couldn’t put my finger on it. I was on the “I Am Small Business Proud” website (more on the reason why later) and Tim’s video, and his particular small business, caught my attention. Was it the fact that he was a foodiepreneur, a fascinating breed of entrepreneur I had become increasingly interested in here in Portland?
CTOvision
MAY 23, 2014
'By Bob Gourley. We previously wrote about the Pentaho Big Data Blueprints series, which include design packages of use to enterprise architects and other technologists seeking operational concepts and repeatable designs. With this post we provide more information from the blueprint on Optimizing the Data Warehouse: Optimizing your data warehouse can reduce strain on your existing systems and reduce overall project cost by offloading less frequently used data and corresponding transformation wor
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Women on Business
MAY 16, 2014
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Change Starts Here
MAY 13, 2014
'Do you need to take on any of the following challenges to implement change in your organization? Enlist the support you need for change. Get people to slow down and consider the impact of the change. Navigate organizational politics to ensure the right decisions are made. Mediate conflicts that the change ignites. Provide feedback when leaders send inconsistent messages.
Let's Grow Leaders
MAY 16, 2014
'For May’s Frontline Festival, I asked experts around the world to share their best career advice. It’s amazing how consistent the ideas are across cultures and contexts. Thanks to all the contributors. This great graphic below is from Joy and Tom Gurthrie, Vizwerx Group. Follow Joy @VizwerxGroup. Holding Career Conversations. Jennifer V.
SoCal CTO
MAY 13, 2014
'Bob Dorf just published a post Where are the Hackers? Solving the Founder-Tech Gap that came out of some fun conversations that Bob and I have been having. A large part of this conversation is what kinds of advisors startups should be looking for. A little while ago, I suggested that Every Web/Mobile Startup Should Have a Technical Advisor. The conversation with Bob was about what the composition of advisors should look like.
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Terry Starbucker
MAY 25, 2014
'“Abrasive never works. Demanding is sometimes required.” - Carly Fiorina. Making demands on a team is a very slippery slope – push too hard, and progress screeches to a halt. Push only a little, and progress also screeches to a halt. The fact is, leaders need to have the ability to push their feet on the accelerator with a deft and considered touch.
CTOvision
MAY 28, 2014
'By Eugene Borukhovich. Verner Vinge, in his 1986 sci-fi novel, Marooned in Realtime , explored his ideas about exponentially accelerating technology. The novel was set in, “a world of rapidly accelerating progress leading to the emergence of more and more sophisticated technologies separated by shorter and shorter time intervals, until a point beyond human comprehension is reached.” Certainly, his vision in 1986 is almost a reality today, but with the hope that we will never reach b
Women on Business
MAY 20, 2014
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