November, 2012

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Leadership for Kids: A Great Way To Teach Your Kids About Leadership

Let's Grow Leaders

If you are just tuning in to Let’s Grow Leaders, we are in the midst of a Saturday Series about developing young leaders. On weekdays we return to our regular leadership fare. What Does Your Mommy Do? I have never had one of those jobs they sing about on Sesame Street. As with most of us, [.] The post Leadership for Kids: A Great Way To Teach Your Kids About Leadership appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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The 3 Must-Dos of Great Leadership

Terry Starbucker

In the seven years I’ve been writing and talking about my concepts and lessons of personal leadership, I’ve often been asked, “What does it take to be a great leader?” That’s a BIG question, isn’t it? So big that there are thousands and thousands of books, articles, posts, podcasts, videos, and e-books that have tried to tackle it.

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Leadership And Making Choices

N2Growth Blog

By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth. Choice ; it’s a simple, yet critical aspect of leadership. Academics and business theorists often gloss over the basics of leadership preferring to trivialize their importance. It’s far too easy for those with an elitist approach to leadership to dismiss simple as sophomoric, and obvious as irrelevant – nothing could be further from reality.

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CMO CTO COO Equity and Compensation

SoCal CTO

I was just asked about a particular startup situation (seed stage, CMO hire, non-founder) and particularly what compensation and equity is appropriate. I know a lot more about CTOs specifically CTO Salary and Equity Trends 2009-2011 , Visualization of Startup CTO Equity and Salary Data , Startup CTO Salary and Equity Data , but I've previously written about the issues with Equity for Early Employees in Early Stage Startups.

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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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Tumblr’s awesome project names

Erik Bernhardsson

Not sure how I managed to miss this, but I’m watching this Tumblr presentation and they talk about their projects named after Arrested Development topics: Gob, Parmesan, Buster, Jetpants , Oscar, George and Motherboy. Still, the best software project name is probably still Apple’s BHA.

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Children’s Books on Leadership– Questions to Inspire Young Thinking

Let's Grow Leaders

What children’s books are the most helpful in teaching leadership to kids? I posed this question in my online leadership communities, as well as to parents, and a children’s librarian. The suggestions came pouring in. So many of us have fond memories of reading as a child and of reading with our own children. [.] The post Children’s Books on Leadership– Questions to Inspire Young Thinking appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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12 Ways Leaders Can Build a Winning Culture

Terry Starbucker

There’s a foundation to successful business execution that is undeniably critical – the workplace culture. Bad cultures can’t execute very well. Period. You might even say that they are doomed to failure, rich in dysfunction, seeped in mistrust, and (most often) guided by fear. Leaders have to face the culture building challenge straight on, and almost always in situations where the “nuts and bolts” side of the business still demands a majority of their time.

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10 Best Countries For Women In 2012 (Spoiler Alert: U.S. Did Not Make the Cut)

Women on Business

NEWS AND INSIGHTS UPDATE: Forbes released its annual list of the 10 best countries for women last week, and the United States is noticeably missing from the list. According to Forbes, the 10 best countries for women in 2012 are: Iceland: Taking the top spot for the third year in a row, Iceland is “lauded for its women in political and economic positions of leadership.” Finland: Up from the third spot on the list in 2011, Finland’s new position at #2 matches its jump in the WEC

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Find and Talk to other Startup Founders of Similar Startups

SoCal CTO

One of the recommendations I make all the time to startup founders, is to find other founders who have tackled similar problems as yours and talk to them about how they solved these problems. As an example, I'm working with two sets of founders who are both going to be dealing with Getting Started with a Two-Sided Market Business - they are variants of two sided markets, but have similar characteristics.

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How Embedded Analytics Helps Product Managers Exceed Their KPIs

Embedded analytics can help you deliver cutting-edge analytics experiences to your end-users that align with KPIs that are critical to the growth and success of your business. Read this eBook to learn how an embedded analytics platform, like Qrvey, can help PMs exceed the following KPIs: Growing revenue while improving customer retention rate Delivering rapid time to value Earning a high net-promoter score Increasing Gross Margin / Profitability Conversion rate from trial to paid Don’t just meet

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Tumblr’s awesome project names

Erik Bernhardsson

Not sure how I managed to miss this, but I’m watching this Tumblr presentation and they talk about their projects named after Arrested Development topics: Gob, Parmesan, Buster, Jetpants , Oscar, George and Motherboy. Still, the best software project name is probably still Apple’s BHA.

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How to Keep Your Change Initiative From Slipping Through the Cracks

Change Starts Here

By their very nature, organizational change initiatives tend to occur while everyone is also busy keeping the business running. Often, change agents themselves are responsible for other important activities while also implementing their initiatives. It’s hard enough to get other people to make time for working on the change initiative, but what if you are having a hard time squeezing it in yourself?

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Kid’s Books on Leadership For the Older Crowd: Insights from India

Let's Grow Leaders

Thanks for joining in for our continued Saturday series on developing leadership in kids. Today’s post builds on the exploration of Children’s Books on Leadership. On Monday, we return to our normal leadership fare. A guest post from Sandhya Varadharajan, Age 13, Chennai, India I connected with Sandhya through social media from our shared connections [.

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5 Leadership Roles To Get Your Team Walking Through Brick Walls

Terry Starbucker

“Wow, they would walk through a brick wall for that guy!” I’ve heard this sentence a few times in my career, spoken about great leaders I have known and respected. I’ve even uttered it myself on a couple of occasions. It’s one of the highest complements a leader can get, because of its underlying connotation – that person is an uppercase LEADER.

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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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Research Shows Startups Run by Women Are More Successful

Women on Business

NEWS AND INSIGHTS UPDATE: Venture-backed startups with women at the helm are more successful than startups led by men. That’s according to a study conducted by Dow Jones which analyzed more than 15 years of venture-backed company data and executive information to compare successful versus unsuccessful companies. The Women at the Wheel study revealed: A company’s odds for success (versus unsuccess) increase with more female executives at the VP and director levels.

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Leadership Lessons from Yoga: The Benefits of Staying in the Room

Next Level Blog

Over the past couple of years, I've been in one yoga class or another five or six days a week on average. That might sound like a lot, but it's pretty much the only form of exercise I do anymore so it's a good way for me to keep the lights on. As I've written here several times, I've made a number of connections between what I learn on the yoga mat and leadership development in general.

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Five Common Responses to Conflict

The Recovering Engineer

In my work with clients of all kinds, I have noticed five basic types of response to conflict. I see people who are… Conflict Rock Stars. Conflict Rock Stars are almost always in control of their responses. They know how to communicate calmly and assertively in nearly every situation. Their response seems easy and effortless to the outside observer.

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Three Keys to Product Management Success

Lead on Purpose

As product managers you have a significant responsibility for the success of your company. It’s easy to get bogged down in the countless tasks that are thrown your way every day. With all the meetings, floods of email, and requirements to manage, the thought of spending time on areas of strategic focus can seem overwhelming. However, with planning and a little effort you can make the difference.

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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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Making the Invisible, Visible For Our Children

Let's Grow Leaders

How do we make the invisible, visible for our children? The next in our Saturday Series in developing leadership in kids. On Monday we return to our regular leadership fare. A Guest Post from Sonia Di Maulo, Canada Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others. ? Jonathan Swift Samuel picks up [.] The post Making the Invisible, Visible For Our Children appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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The Achilles’ Heel Of Every Great Leader (and 3 Ways To Overcome It)

Terry Starbucker

If today’s great leader is known for their humanity and heart, it figures that a big potential weakness for that kind of leader is showing a little TOO much heart. That is, keeping someone as part of the team when it’s clear that they don’t belong. Showing a little compassion is surely a good thing when someone is struggling, because it can be for a wide-variety of reasons, some of which can be corrected.

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More Female Board Directors Equals Improved Sustainability Performance

Women on Business

NEWS AND INSIGHTS UPDATE: It’s been proven again and again that businesses perform better and stocks rise when women are on corporate boards , but did you know that the number of women on a corporate board directly correlates with a company’s sustainability performance? It’s true according to research from the University of California Berkeley’s Haas School of Business.

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Three Things That “No Drama” Leaders Do

Next Level Blog

As I write this, it's Election Day morning in the U.S. Looking back over the last four years, there's a lot that comes to mind. One specific thought is that in the 2008 campaign, the soon to be President's nickname was "No Drama Obama." I guess that comes to mind because there have been a number of data points about leadership and the drama factor that have hit my radar screen lately.

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Monetizing Analytics Features

Think your customers will pay more for data visualizations in your application? Five years ago, they may have. But today, dashboards and visualizations have become table stakes. Turning analytics into a source of revenue means integrating advanced features in unique, hard-to-steal ways. Download this white paper to discover which features will differentiate your application and maximize the ROI of your analytics.

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Why is The Radical Leap Re-Energized Free for Educators?

Steve Farber

www.LeapForEducation.com. Last week, I launched a campaign to give a free digital copy of The Radical Leap Re-Energized to every educator in the US (that’s somewhere between 4 and 5 million people!) and around the world, too. Why do such a thing? After all, Leap represents the core of my body of work, the pillars of my Extreme Leadership platform and the most significant element of my intellectual property.

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Authority’s Constant Companion During Change

Change Starts Here

I tend to make a major distinction between those people in an organization who influence change without authority – change agents – and those who influence change with authority – leaders. And, when I coach change agents , much of our time is focused on influencing leaders to do what they need to do to support the change initiative.

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Gratitude Parade: Great Posts on Gratitude and Thanksgiving

Let's Grow Leaders

In the spirit of Thanksgiving, there have been so many great posts on gratitude this month. Today, I offer you links to insights from fellow bloggers on the art of gratitude. Why Be Grateful? The Pursuit of Peace: Thanksgiving as a Lifestyle by Andy Tix Andy Tix shares the positive psychological benefits of gratitude and offers [.] The post Gratitude Parade: Great Posts on Gratitude and Thanksgiving appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Developing Leadership Skills Early in your Career

Lead on Purpose

Guest post by Caroline Ross. One thing that many young professionals don’t understand about the job market is that leadership plays a huge role in getting hired. As a former hiring manager and supervisor, I can say that the recent grads who have succeeded most in the workforce are those who’ve had intentional leadership experiences in college and after they’ve graduated.

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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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Women Named Presidents of the 3 Largest Organizations for Attorneys in the U.S.

Women on Business

Today, I received exciting news from DRI , the international membership organization of all lawyers involved in the defense of civil litigation. For the first time in history, women have swept the presidencies of the nation’s three largest organizations for attorneys. The women who hold these esteemed positions are Mary Massaron Ross, President of DRI – The Voice of the Defense Bar, Laurel Bellows, President of the American Bar Association, and Mary Alice McLarty, President of the Am

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How to Complete an Individual Development Plan | Thoughts for the.

Nathan Magnuson

Home About Coaching Contact Guest Posts Archives. Thoughts for the Everyday Leader. by Nathan Magnuson. Home / Human Resources / How to Complete an Individual Development Plan. How to Complete an Individual Development Plan. November 26, 2012. — 4 Comments. Perhaps you’ve heard of the professional growth tool called the Individual Development Plan (or IDP for short).

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Three Ways to Keep Your Meetings From Leaking

Next Level Blog

So, let me begin by explaining what I’m not talking about in the title of this post. I’m not talking about plugging leaks of confidential information. What I am talking about is the leakage of productivity that too often occurs in meetings. With 15 years of management experience and 12 years of executive coaching in my rear view mirror, I have no idea how many meetings I’ve been in.

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