Let's Grow Leaders
MAY 8, 2015
Let’s be real. The biggest mistake managers make when developing their people is that they don’t spend enough time doing it. Or, even worse, aren’t spending any time at all. The fact that you’re reading this indicates that you care, and are trying. Even imperfect development beats what many employees telling me they’re getting–nada.
General Leadership
MAY 29, 2015
GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. “A team is not a group of people who work together. A team is a group of people who trust each other. Simon Sinek. I recently wrote an article discussing building your “trust bank” with people in your organization to create change in an efficient manner ([link] ).
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N2Growth Blog
MAY 22, 2015
My guess is that your answer is less than half or at least “not enough of them.”. Delivering on strategic initiatives on time, every time, is the hallmark of organizations that are best in the world at executing strategy, and they’re rewarded with a premium put on the value of their company. Organizations that can’t deliver on their strategic initiatives fail at executing their strategy, and organizations that fail at executing strategy will not survive.
Terry Starbucker
MAY 31, 2015
Note: Today I’m pleased to present a preview excerpt from my book manuscript of “More Human: A Journey To The Heart Of Great Leadership” It’s a personal story illustrating the importance of knowing the time for leaders to “let go” of control, and to pass the torch to new and deserving leaders, a process I call “leading your way out of a job” Names have been changed for the privacy of those involved in the story.
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Many organizations today are unlocking the power of their data by using graph databases to feed downstream analytics, enahance visualizations, and more. Yet, when different graph nodes represent the same entity, graphs get messy. Watch this essential video with Senzing CEO Jeff Jonas on how adding entity resolution to a graph database condenses network graphs to improve analytics and save your analysts time.
CTOvision
MAY 2, 2015
Friend and CTOvision reader Sean Moore of Centripetal Networks is a proven engineer with experience developing technologies and leading tech focused businesses. He is highly regarded for his mastery of network cyber security, IP communications technology and TCP/IP networking. At Centripetal he leads product development on solutions proven to scale to the size of the Internet itself.
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Let's Grow Leaders
MAY 22, 2015
My client, Laura, had invited me in to observe the spectacle. I watched as she carefully articulated her research findings and presented her “no brainer” suggestions to Mark. Each time Laura’s ideas were met with a similar response, “thanks so much,” followed by a bogus reason of why the idea wouldn’t work. The conversation was the equivalent of Laura saying, “I’d like to give you 100 bucks.
General Leadership
MAY 25, 2015
GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. On this memorial day, the curators and authors of GeneralLeadership.com pause to honor the men and women who died while serving in the U.S. Military. We reflect upon their sacrifices, as well as the sacrifices of the thousands of soldiers who serve in harms way around the globe on this day.
Erik Bernhardsson
MAY 25, 2015
Sometimes you have these awesome insights. A few days ago I got an idea for how to improve index building in Annoy. For anyone who isn’t acquainted with Annoy – it’s a C++ library with Python bindings that provides fast high-dimensional nearest neighbor search. Annoy recursively builds up a tree given a set of points. The algorithm so far was: at every level, pick a random hyperplane out of all possible hyperplanes that intersect the convex hull given by the point set.
Terry Starbucker
MAY 17, 2015
Now that you’ve absorbed the 8 basic principles of More Human Leadership , learned the 10 immutable laws that go with them, and truly know the difference between a boss and a leader , it’s now time to dig a little deeper. Let’s get beyond those basics and into a little leadership fine-tuning – those refinements and adjustments that keep that wheel of success turning without too much friction.
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CTOvision
MAY 20, 2015
We recently had the opportunity to interview the Director for Intelligence (J2) for the Joint Chiefs of Staff, RADM Paul Becker, USN. RADM Becker has served in this position since September 2013. The Joint Staff J2 is a position requiring a constant awareness of the day-to-day threats to the nation. Becker had the perfect background for this position, having served in a similar capacity at the United States Pacific Command, the combatant commander with the largest area of responsibility in the U
Change Starts Here
MAY 19, 2015
This month’s guest, Dee Daley, is a business leader with a 20-plus year record of leading organizational change initiatives for corporations including GE Healthcare, GE Capital and Office Depot. She recently presented on the topic of How to Deal With Difficult People at the ACMP Change Management 2015 Global Conference. As change management professionals our success often depends upon our ability to influence without authority and to influence “difficult” people.
Let's Grow Leaders
MAY 18, 2015
I was deeply worried that my Dad was right, there would be no way I could hold it together to sing at my Mom’s funeral. I envisioned myself as a weepy mess at the front of the church. But for me, singing is a prayer, and after the hundreds of concerts my parents attended to support me over the years, not singing felt wrong. I’m normally not a stage fright kind of girl, I always love a good microphone.
General Leadership
MAY 1, 2015
GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. This article is Part 2 of a 3-part series by Colonel Albers on traits that can make or break a leader. Steadfastness During Trials. In the first part of this series we looked at humility – and how true humility is a critical trait that involves right thinking about oneself.
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
MAY 2, 2015
Annoy is a C++/Python package I built for fast approximate nearest neighbor search in high dimensional spaces. Spotify uses it a lot to find similar items. First, matrix factorization gives a low dimensional representation of each item (artist/album/track/user) so that every item is a k-dimensional vector, where k is typically 40-100. This is then loaded into an Annoy index for a number of things: fast similar items, personal music recommendations, etc.
Terry Starbucker
MAY 3, 2015
A Par 3 Over Water In Palm Springs Brings Back a Powerful Lesson. I’m in Palm Springs California this weekend at the beautiful La Quinta resort, on an annual golf vacation with friends I have known for as many as 40 years. It’s been a relaxing and fun experience, but walking up to a par 3 hole that features a water hazard always brings back memories, not of a hole-in-one or a long holed putt, but a huge leadership (and life) lesson.
CTOvision
MAY 26, 2015
Wearers and users of medical devices may not be aware of their risk of having their device hacked. The software used to operate medical devices is vulnerable to malicious attacks. According to one recent report in particular, the attacks might: impede or alter a device’s function, leak sensitive data, or otherwise cause the device to depart from its specified behavior.
Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog
MAY 4, 2015
These days it’s still pretty common to talk about social business, mobility, analytics (especially when it’s called big data), cloud, and the Internet of Things — SMACT is the current acronym for all this — as on the agenda of key digital improvements underway in the typical enterprise. While many organizations have executed solid starts against these fronts, and are usually just at the end of the beginning overall in incorporating these technologies into their business,
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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.
Let's Grow Leaders
MAY 29, 2015
“The other day, a customer tweeted at me, ‘are you a bot?’ At first I was really offended and wanted to tweet back “I AM NOT A BOT!” But when I thought about it some more, I got kind-of sad. I realized that by following the scripts and all the rules, I sounded very robotic. That’s not what our customers want or need. They come to social media because they want some upbeat and friendly interaction.
General Leadership
MAY 22, 2015
GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. “ Smart phones and social media expand our universe. We can connect with others or collect information easier and faster than ever. ”. Daniel Goleman. They say, “You can’t teach an old dog new tricks!” If the “new tricks” are related to social media, “they” are wrong!
Erik Bernhardsson
MAY 27, 2015
Saw this link on Hacker News the other day: The Highway Lane Next to Yours Isn’t Really Moving Any Faster. The article describes a phenomenon unique to traffic where cars spread out when they go fast and get more compact when they go slow. That’s supposedly the explanation. There’s a much simpler explanation that works for any queue. Let’s consider a supermarket checkout with two lines.
Terry Starbucker
MAY 24, 2015
A current look at my (now closed) elementary school in Cudahy, Wisconsin – with my childhood playground in the foreground. This holiday weekend I’m visiting my hometown of Cudahy, Wisconsin to spend some time with my family. Cruising around the old neighborhoods, and past my old elementary school and playground, brought back some childhood memories that played a huge role in putting me on the path to business success.
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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.
CTOvision
MAY 3, 2015
HIPAA was enacted in 1996, and by April 2005 security standards were required to be in place for most covered entities. In 2013 key portions of this law were updated. This post provides an overview of key elements we believe security and technology professionals (and most citizens) should be tracking. The technology and security communities focus largely on Title II of HIPAA, which provides changes to the law designed to reduce health care fraud and abuse while protecting privacy and enhancing s
Women on Business
MAY 25, 2015
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Let's Grow Leaders
MAY 13, 2015
I’m launching a new project that will significantly propel the LGL mission of growing leaders with the confidence and humility to make a deeper impact on the world. It’s a strong team, and I found us organically asking one another questions to frame our mission and set us up for success. There was no checklist, but I thought, “Wow, wouldn’t it be helpful for others in such scenes if there were?
General Leadership
MAY 10, 2015
GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. On the eve of another Mother’s Day , as I’ve unfortunately done a few times in my history, I needed a not-too-subtle prompt, this time from an internet ad, to get me moving on buying my mom something for the day.
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Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business. That’s what drove the five companies in this e-book to change their approach to analytics. Download this e-book to learn about the unique problems each company faced and how they achieved huge returns beyond expectation by embedding analytics into applications.
Erik Bernhardsson
MAY 27, 2015
Saw this link on Hacker News the other day: The Highway Lane Next to Yours Isn’t Really Moving Any Faster. The article describes a phenomenon unique to traffic where cars spread out when they go fast and get more compact when they go slow. That’s supposedly the explanation. There’s a much simpler explanation that works for any queue. Let’s consider a supermarket checkout with two lines.
Toptal
MAY 4, 2015
AngularJS is a very powerful framework. It is the third most starred repository on GitHub. It is not difficult to start using, but the goals that it is intended to accomplish demand comprehension. No longer can we ignore memory consumption, because it will not reset on navigation anymore. This is the vanguard of web development. Let’s embrace it!
CTOvision
MAY 10, 2015
As we have noted in the past, “The nice thing about standards is that you have so many to choose from” teaches Andrew S. Tanebaum in his classic text on Computer Networks. This adage is especially true when it comes to cybersecurity. We encounter so many standards in the corporate world that in so many cases they become totally ineffective. This is an area requiring continued technical leadership or it will have little impact.
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