Sat.Aug 30, 2014 - Fri.Sep 05, 2014

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3 Reasons Your Employee Engagement Program Isn’t Working

Let's Grow Leaders

'In conference rooms all over the world, well-meaning HR types are sitting down with well-meaning managers and possibly a well-meaning consultant or two to talk about how to fix employee engagement. “How do we get these millennials to be deeply committed to their work?” “The staff is so tenured, it’s hard to get them excited about something new.

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Frozen Leadership

General Leadership

'“That’s when you put someone else’s needs before your own. You know, like when Kristoff brought you back here and left you forever.” Olaf, Disney’s “ Frozen “ Day in and day out here at Walt Disney World, I continue to be impressed by impact of our latest animated hit, “ Frozen.” For those who have not yet seen it, I won’t attempt to summarize or play spoiler.

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The Next Great Leadership Experiment: Built Oregon

Terry Starbucker

'It’s been almost 4 years now since my cable TV company was sold, and my wife and I packed up and moved from Stamford, Connecticut to Portland, Oregon. We came to Portland not because of business opportunity or proximity to family & friends – we came because of what we felt during several vacations we had taken there. It was a vibe, a sense, an instinct.

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Tis the Season for Wearables Releases

CTOvision

'By Shannon Perry. On August 28 th , Samsung and LG announced their latest generation of smartwatches in separate press releases. The Samsung report flaunts its Gear S, a smartwatch with a curved screen that measures a full two-inches long. Capabilities of the watch include providing notifications from social networking websites, GPS, improved S Health features, turn-by-turn directions, a touch keyboard, and 3G connectivity.

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Peak Performance: Continuous Testing & Evaluation of LLM-Based Applications

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.

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7 Ways to Build Trust When Your New Team is Skeptical

Let's Grow Leaders

'You’ve got a long track record of leading well. You just wish your new team would talk to your last team. That would save a heck of a lot of precious time. If they would just trust you, you could get on to making your usual magic. But it’s never as simple as that. If you’re good, at this stage of the game you may feel you deserve a better reception from your new team.

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6 Strengths to Cultivate as an Entrepreneur

Women on Business

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Exchange Lessons Learned and Use Cases for Big Data at Hadoop World 2014

CTOvision

'By Bob Gourley. The best minds in data gather at Strata + Hadoop World to learn and connect—and explore the complex issues and exciting opportunities brought to business by big data, data science, and pervasive computing. Strata + Hadoop World 2014, happening October 15-17 at the Javits Center in New York, is where data’s most influential business decision makers, strategists, architects, developers, and analysts gather to shape the future of their businesses and technologies.

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LGL Labor Day: Be A Better Boss Challenge

Let's Grow Leaders

'It’s Labor Day in America, no better time for the LGL “Be A Better Boss Challenge.” Don’t worry, no ice buckets or donations necessary (although our porch was filled with buckets on Sunday). I’m just advocating for a bit of focused effort on taking your relationship with your team (and with your boss) to the next level.

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How to Be Heard When No One is Listening

Change Starts Here

'When implementing change in your organization, you may come to a point when you’re frustrated because your ideas don’t seem to go anywhere. Your suggestions are getting shot down or ignored, but no one seems to have any better ones for moving forward. How can you be heard when no one’s listening? The following tricks can open up dialogue when you’ve reached an impasse.

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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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The Myth of Multitasking

Women on Business

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Congrats, And Thanks, To Megan Smith U.S. CTO, Alexander Macgillivray Deputy U.S. CTO

CTOvision

'By Bob Gourley. Dr. John Holdren, Assistant to the President for Science and Technology and Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, and Co-Chair of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST), posted an announcement on the White House blog today naming Megan Smith as U.S. CTO (succeeding Todd Park) and Alexander Macgilliray as Deputy CTO.

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When I First Met Pops

Steve Farber

'In anticipation of the release of the 10th Anniversary Edition of The Radical Leap , here’s another entry from my hand-written notes on the original manuscript. (Read the previous post here ). This became the scene where I first meet the character, Pops Maritime, and he lectures me on the importance of Love as a business principle. And since these are my original notes, it’s not only the scene where I first met him, it’s when I actually first met him–in the world of my i

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What a Diverted United Airlines Flight Can Teach You about Conflict Resolution

The Recovering Engineer

'Shock and dismay are the best words I can use to describe my initial response to the news that a United Airlines flight from Newark to Denver had been diverted to Chicago due to a dispute between passengers over leg room. In the days that followed, I heard of two more similar disputes on other flights. Again, my initial response was much like the newscasters and commentators I saw reporting on the incidents… “Really!

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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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6 Tips to Build a Successful Crowdfunding Campaign

Women on Business

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Tapping Global Threat Intelligence To Secure Enterprise Networks

CTOvision

'By Katie Kennedy. On August 27, LogRhythm hosted a panel focused on “Tapping Global Threat Intelligence to Secure Enterprise Networks” at Ruth’s Chris Steakhouse in Crystal City. The panel participants included Sameer Bhalotra , COO of Impermium and former Senior Director for Cybersecurity at the White House; Bob Gourley , Partner at Cognitio; Todd G.

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Scala vs. Java: Why Should I Learn Scala?

Toptal

The popularity and usage of Scala is rapidly on the rise, as evidenced by the ever-increasing number of open positions for Scala developers. In this article, Toptal engineer Matt Hicks introduces you to the power and capabilities of the Scala language.

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You Have to Have a Goal to Achieve a Goal

The Recovering Engineer

'One January day about thirteen years ago, I stepped on the scales in my bathroom, and I did not like the feedback I received. I was at the highest weight I had ever been in my life. My clothes were starting to get a bit tight, and I was feeling uncomfortable in them. That day, I resolved to lose weight. I do not remember the exact timeline, but I do remember that before the week was over, I had written a goal weight, developed a weight loss plan, and started implementing it.

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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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10 Tips to a More Positive Outlook

Women on Business

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Photograph Leak Demonstrates Importance of Good Hygiene

CTOvision

'By Shannon Perry. Over the Labor Day weekend, a heap of sensitive pictures of celebrities found their way onto online forums 4chan and Reddit , and the leak has since made headlines across the country. The Washington Post , The New York Times , and The Wall Street Journal have dedicated front-page links to the story, in a press wave that will contribute to the public’s increasing exposure to cybersecurity concepts and the growing importance of information security.

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What Any Leader Can Learn from Pope Francis

Next Level Blog

'Jeffrey A. Krames has been involved in publishing more than 400 business books over the course of his career and has written books on business and government leaders like Jack Welch and Donald Rumsfeld. As Krames describes himself, he is the son of Holocaust survivors and believes that Pope Francis is the most authentic leader he has ever seen. As he told me in a recent conversation, he felt moved to write a book on the Pope.

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What is the real driver of your success?

Lead on Purpose

'Every so often something happens that brings into question long, and sometimes closely held beliefs. One of those happened this morning.

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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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Sponsored Video: The Secret to Developing Relationships with Diverse Customer Audiences

Women on Business

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Self-service: From the living room to the enterprise

CTOvision

'By Robert Doswell. It’s now common practice to perform a variety of banking tasks from home. Individuals also can arrange insurance with one click. Health records can be viewed securely from any device in the world with a web connection. A multitude of variations of this type of self-service continue to be introduced within organizations and efficiencies and cost savings are the most significant drivers for doing so.

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Surviving Success

Nathan Magnuson

'Today''s guest post comes courtesy of Mark Miller, Vice President of Organizational Effectiveness at Chick-fil-A and bestselling author. Receive his updates by visiting his website Great Leaders Serve or following him on Twitter. Success is a lousy teacher. The best leaders know this and are always on guard against complacency. I recently received a question from a leader who has just completed a season of success.

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The Power of Your Network is the "Ask"

Mills Scofield

'Originally published in Harvard Business Review , this post needs to be reread since my friend Vala Afshar will be a storyteller at BIF1 0 and Sidney Kushner will be attending - in just two weeks! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~. One of the biggest assets in anyone’s life is a generous network. It is a gift that grows simply by sharing it. Think of it as the Law of Accelerating Returns — the more you share your network, the more people share it in return and the more the rate of sharing acceler

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

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.

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Top Communication Products Your Business Needs Now

Women on Business

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Home Deport Investigates Potential Breach

CTOvision

'The list of corporations affected by data breaches in 2014 continues to lengthen. UPS announced a breach a few weeks ago; eBay announced a breach in the Spring, and we still have not heard the last of the breach that affected Target at the end of last year. Brian Krebs’s cybersecurity blog KrebsonSecurity, which broke the story of the data breach at the California Department of Motor Vehicles in March, identified Home Depot as the latest corporate victi.

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RapidBI Daily Business Cartoon #160

Rapid BI

'We´re looking for someone with the wisdom of a 50-year old, the experience of a 40-year old, the drive of a 30-year old and the pay scale of a 20-year old.” Office based cartoons, funnies or humor can help to communicate important messages or tips in a non threatening way. […].

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