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Dynamic Dozen: Know Your People and Look Out for Their Welfare

General Leadership

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions. Harold S. Geneen. During the 1950-1953 Korean War, American fighter pilots dominated the skies, even though the Soviet-made MiG-15 jets were faster and more nimble than the American F-80 and F-86s.

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The Best Secret To Managing Up

Let's Grow Leaders

Have you ever been in a scene like this? Your team is working hard. Results are solid. But nobody seems to notice. Or worse, any skip level visits turn out so poorly, you begin to dread the very thought of a well-intentioned executive stopping by to talk with your team. An important part of Winning Well is helping your team showcase their results. Here’s my favorite approach.

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The 10 Qualities That Make A Great Leader (and a more human one too)

Terry Starbucker

What are the 10 qualities that make a great leader, and a more human one too? What are those attitudes and attributes that reside deep in the hearts and souls of those who step into the arena and lead their teams to the More Human success trifecta – a great business, a happy team, and a fulfilled leader ? In my view it boils down to these 10 things – together, the essence of great leadership.

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A Conversation With Marc Andreessen: AI, Robotics, Jobs and Accelerating The Future

CTOvision

Bob Gourley. If you are an enterprise technologist or if you love thinking about the incredible future we can build for ourselves you no doubt already track the very interesting Marc Andreessen. His open sharing of views and context via his blog , on YouTube and his Twitter Feed are a great source of information for those seeking insights into the emerging tech scene and we recommend following him there for continuous context.

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Streamlining Database Compliance with CI/CD Integration

IT leaders know the importance of compliance at every level, but the database often gets left behind as other environments are automated for robust protection. This whitepaper emphasizes the importance of robust, auditable, and secure database change management practices for safeguarding organizational compliance. Learn how automating database compliance: Mitigates risk Protects against security vulnerabilities Helps avoid regulatory penalties Aligns database workflows with app lifecycle Turns d

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Strategic Professionalism Series: Commitment

General Leadership

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. Commitment. As a leader, you must realize no one is as committed to success of the organization as you. Your challenge is to motivate those you lead, those who do the work and enable success of the organization, to be truly committed to success of the mission as well as their individual success.

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6 Ways to Effectively Work from Home

Women on Business

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Supercomputing Predictions for 2016

CTOvision

Katie Kennedy. Wondering where supercomputing is heading in 2016? Here are some well informed assessments brought to you by Cray. New Processor Technologies. The leader of this technology is currently Intel, with their next generation Xeon Phi coprocessor, which is a hybrid between an accelerator and general purpose processor. This innovative design combines many-core architect with general purpose productivity.

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Tuesday Time Machine: Creating a Strategy for Limitless Success

General Leadership

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. From Our Early Files: Originally Published. 23 April 2014. “ A goal without a plan is just a wish.”. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. Growing up, one of my favorite television series was Mission: Impossible. The immensely popular program chronicles the adventures of the Impossible Missions Force (IMF), a team of government spies and specialists who are re

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Leadership: Start With Trust

QAspire

Leadership starts with influence and influence starts with trust. Ability to truly connect with others is vital for leaders to build an environment where a leader is trusted for the intentions before being respected for competence. I once worked with a new CEO who came on-board, took charge and immediately got into action. I remember when he first met a group of senior folks, he started with his introduction and talked at length about his past experience, competence and all the great things he h

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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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How to Run Your Own Business Successfully

Women on Business

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Crypto-currencies and their promise for enterprise technology professionals

CTOvision

Bob Gourley. Bitcoin is hot right now. It is known as a crypto-currency, but has the potential to be applied to far more than exchanging value. Bitcoin is a protocol, one that many consider the next great protocol for the Internet and the emerging Internet of Things. As advanced applications are developed that leverage the capabilities that make Bitcoin possible, enterprise technologists will be able to tap into new capabilities for security and functionality.

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3 Actions to Help You Lead Your Team Despite the Fear

General Leadership

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. “He has not learned the lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.” Ralph Waldo Emerson. Here’s a topic not often discussed in the offices of the majority of leaders: fear. We will talk about risk or name it something else like “potential problem” or “minor setbacks”.

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A Life Changing Decision to Feel and Perform Better

Next Level Blog

What if there were an inexpensive pill with no side effects that would cure many of your aches and pains, spark weight loss, give you more energy, leave you in a better mood, increase your mental focus, help you get more done and extend and improve your life? You’d line up for that, right? So, first the bad news and then the good news. The bad news is, to my knowledge, there is no such pill.

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Top 5 Challenges in Designing a Data Warehouse for Multi-Tenant Analytics

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.

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Why true leaders sacrifice

Lead on Purpose

“Leadership is not a license to do less, it’s a responsibility to do more.” What makes leaders different from everyone else? How do they build trust with the people they serve?

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Ultimate Data Protection – Leveraging the Power of Quantum

CTOvision

Katie Kennedy. QuintessenceLabs , the Australian cybersecurity company whose products leverage quantum science as well as deep security expertise, has received global recognition for their game-changing cyber security systems. Their products include high speed random from a quantum source, powerful key and policy management with embedded secure key store, as well as flexible encryption modules for a range of applications.

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Ashley Logan Joins the Women on Business Writers Team

Women on Business

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Eliminating the Garbage Collector: The RAII Way

Toptal

Manual memory management is a nightmare that programmers have been inventing ways to avoid since the invention of the compiler. Programming languages with garbage collectors make life easier, but at the cost of performance. In this article, Toptal engineer Peter Goodspeed-Niklaus gives us a peek into the history of garbage collectors and explains how notions of ownership and borrowing can help eliminate garbage collectors without compromising their safety guarantees.

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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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Does Your Company Need A Chief Safety Officer?

The Accidental Successful CIO

Twitter has a problem on their hands and they think that they need a Chief Safety Officer Image Credit: Twitter. As more and more companies create online communities for our customers to interact with us and each other in, CIOs are starting to see a need for a new type of employee. In any online community, there are a lot of things that can happen. I can’t quite explain why some people behave like they do, but the anonymity of being online and not having to confront people face-to-face see

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Where Websites Live

CTOvision

Katie Kennedy. The article below was produced by Hosting Facts. The total number of websites is expected to exceed 1 billion in the coming year. At the time of this writing, the number was estimated at around 970,864,745, and increasing by about 2 websites per second (Source: [link] /). According to Internet research company Netcraft , as of this past spring there were around 177 million active websites among the hundreds of millions of existing hostnames.

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David Bowie’s Innovation Lessons for Leaders

Next Level Blog

Like many, I was moved earlier this month by the news of David Bowie’s death and what he accomplished in his life. Last week, I shared some of my thoughts on Bowie’s innovative career and life on the Huffington Post. Thought you’d like to read them here in case you missed them there. While few of us possess the raw talent of a David Bowie, there are lessons about the practice and application of innovation that all leaders can learn from him.

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Guide To Budget Friendly Data Mining

Toptal

Although database programming does not evolve at nearly the same pace as traditional application programming, recent advancements in several fields are bringing new techniques and technologies within the reach of small and independent developers. In this guide, Toptal Freelance Software Engineer Jeffrey Shumaker explains how developers can quickly and easily tap these methods to identify database issues they may not even be aware of, and how they can build excellent data mining tools without spe

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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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7 Leadership Questions That Will Move Your Needle in 2016

The Empowered Buisness

The Secret Weapon of Great Leaders. Have you ever experienced in a meeting where a seasoned leader listened intently and then, with exquisite timing, asked one question that shifted the direction, focus and thinking of the entire team? That is the magic and power of questions! To move the needle in your organization in 2016, the first place to start is by asking thought-provoking questions.

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Using Defense Within the O-Line of Security

CTOvision

Barry Strauss. The NFL Conference championship games wrapped up this weekend to set the stage for Super Bowl 50, which will take center stage Feb. 7 at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, CA. The game will be a battle of offensive and defensive forces – with the winning team ultimately lifting the Vince Lombardi Trophy. Throughout the Big Game, coaches will be breaking down and dissecting the playbooks and game plans as the action unfolds.

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Visualizing a Successful Attack Progression From Angler Exploit Kit to CryptoWall Infection.

ProtectWise

Understanding the steps an attacker takes as time progresses can often be slow, tedious, and sometimes leave an analyst with impossible questions to answer. As many know, exploit kit and malware authors constantly evolve their tactics to avoid detection by security products. At ProtectWise, we work hard to put all the pieces together for our customers to clearly show each step of an attack.

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Caching in Spring with EhCache Annotations

Toptal

EhCache is a widely-used, pure Java cache that can be easily integrated with most popular Java frameworks, such as Spring and Hibernate. It is often considered to be the most convenient choice for Java applications since it can be integrated into projects easily. EhCache Spring Annotations allows seamless integration into any Spring application by simply adding annotations to cacheable methods, without modifying the method implementations.

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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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Data Tells and Stories Sell

The Recovering Engineer

Early in my career, I worked in the plastics industry as a process and product development engineer. At the time, I had a degree in chemical engineering, and I had just completed service as a nuclear engineering officer in the U.S. Navy. I had a pretty good technical background, and I knew almost nothing about polymers. This lack of knowledge created a bit of a problem for me.

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Fed Tech Roundup January 29

CTOvision

Katie Kennedy. The following are some of the hot topics in the federal technology ecosystem (from FedTechTicker.com and TopTechTicker.com ): Fed Tech Ticker. These ideas need to be retired: Technology practices that are stifling public sector success - Brookings Institution (blog). Deadline approaches for recording qualified emails as federal records - The Hill (blog). iPhone Wireless Charging Technology Being Developed By Apple For 2017: Report - International Business Times.

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Value of LinkedIn Groups – Why do some professionals use them? #hrblog

Rapid BI

Many of us are on LinkedIn. many of us use the groups on LinkedIn. But what is the value of LinkedIn groups and what do people use them for? Earlier in the month I ran a survey with my group members. the group has just over 40,000 members. Most of the members are in the […]. The post Value of LinkedIn Groups – Why do some professionals use them?

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