N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 16, 2012

By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth. Can leaders be blinded by their own success? You bet…While success is what all leaders strive for, unless you’re prepared to handle it, success can quickly complicate your life. As strange as it may sound, success can often times be the precursor to failure. So my question is this: Is your success serving as a springboard toward significance, or is it merely a temporary state, precariously positioned and ready to implode with the slightest change

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Steve Farber

JANUARY 14, 2012

This declaration, written with the input of a team of passionate educators around the US, lies at the heart of the conversation we’ll be launching on February 2, 2012 aboard the USS Midway in San Diego. ( See my previous post ). It is, of course, closely related to the broader Declaration of Extreme Leadership that I posted a while back, but focused on the specific mission of lifting up our kids to magnificent heights.

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Change Starts Here

JANUARY 17, 2012

On this episode of The Change Agent’s Dilemma, you’ll hear my interview with Al Pittampalli, author of Read This Before Our Next Meeting. On the show, we talk about how to host effective meetings that drive change. Tune in to hear why the way we conduct meetings is so bad, and learn a new format for meetings that will bring about results and use time, our most limited resource, more effectively.

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Next Level Blog

JANUARY 20, 2012

Based on the observable evidence, passenger accounts, his own statements and audio transcripts with an Italian coast guard officer, it sure looks like Captain Francesco Schettino is a very strong early contender for worst leader of 2012. By now you’ve probably seen the pictures and read the stories of the tragedy with the Costa Concordia cruise ship just off the Italian coast.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 19, 2012

I talk a lot about how to be irresistible online, to attract your ideal customers and make more money. But the fact is that most of us really don’t feel very irresistible, and it can feel like a big stretch to imagine ourselves actually being irresistible to potential customers. If you don’t feel irresistible inside and out, then it’s going to be difficult to figure out how to be irresistible online.

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QAspire

JANUARY 15, 2012

If process is a vehicle, purpose is the compass. Purpose gives a definite direction to processes. People (and their expertise) are the drivers. Technology acts as an accelerator. Most system implementation or change initiatives focus enough on the P-P-T – People, process and technology and somewhere along the lines, the focus on purpose blurs. I have seen improvement experts who are always on the quest to find the next new thing, a fancy template or a complex matrix document that they can includ

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Next Level Blog

JANUARY 16, 2012

On this Martin Luther King Day, I’m going into The Next Level Blog archives for this post on what we can learn from the speaking virtuosity of this great leader. Several years ago I was given the gift of the recordings of the sermons and speeches of Martin Luther King, Jr. The sermon set is called “A Knock at Midnight,” and the speeches set is titled “A Call to Conscience.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 20, 2012

Last night I read a wonderful article in Entrepreneur about giving praise to your staff. It was wonderfully written, but I thought the article was missing the most important element of praising your staff-sincerity. So with that in mind I wanted to highlight the reasons why sincerity should be included in your praise package. A sincere thank you is a million times better than a well-crafted one.

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The Accidental Successful CIO

JANUARY 16, 2012

'[link]. When your IT employees aren’t complaining, that means that you’re doing a good job as CIO, right? Actually, it turns out that the answer is no. Dr. Anderson identifies why having quiet employees may be a bad thing for CIOs. He identifies who in your IT department is going to speak up first and who isn’t. Finally, Dr. Anderson shares his tips for how a CIO can get his or her employees to start talking to you!

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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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Coalfire

JANUARY 20, 2012

This month the GSA announced an IT security mandate for government prime- and sub-contractors that requires them to have a formalized IT security plan that includes periodic audits. Many government sub-contractors, large and small, will benefit from a third-party compliance program review so they can meet the intent of the rule but more importantly, they can promote an IT risk audit as a benefit to their customer base in their business development efforts.

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Next Level Blog

JANUARY 18, 2012

A new year brings with it the promise of change, but desire quickly gets crowded out by reality. Lists of resolutions are made and then fade. Part of the problem is the length of the lists themselves. When it comes to making meaningful change in how you show up as a leader this year, less is more. You can improve your odds of success by reducing the number of items on your leadership improvement list down to the one or two things that would make the biggest difference.

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Ruminations of a Programmer

JANUARY 15, 2012

I blogged on Event Sourcing and functional domain models earlier. In this post I would like to share more of my thoughts on the same subject and how with a higher level of abstraction you can make your domain aggregate boundary more resilient and decoupled from external references. When we talk about a domain model, the Aggregate takes the centerstage.

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The Accidental Successful CIO

JANUARY 18, 2012

'Get over your excitement about clouds and start asking questions. I love clouds, you love clouds, we all love clouds. It seems like everyone in IT is talking about cloud computing and how it’s the next big thing. Cloud computing has almost become a part of the definition of information technology. Look, I think that there’s a lot of good things about cloud computing, but I’m not convinced that it’s the right solution for everyone.

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Coalfire

JANUARY 17, 2012

It’s been quite a season in the world of IT security as we move into 2012. As experts in our field, we are often asked to comment on current trends and recent stories.

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Rapid BI

JANUARY 17, 2012

RapidBI in top 100 Tweeters on Management Many of you may know Evan Carmichael’s site. Using a range of tools Evan measures and publishes top blogs and tweeters on a range of business related topics. I am pleased to say that @RapidBI is not only in the top 50, but we are number 26. Looking at the list (only [.].

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 20, 2012

Comedian Steve Martin once said that if you want to be a millionaire, the first thing you have to do is get a million dollars. Most advice for positioning yourself for executive positions mirrors Martin’s sentiments: If you want to land in the executive chair, the first thing you need to do is get executive experience. I’ll counter with my own observation: If you want to land in the executive chair, start planning to do so when you’re in high school.

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Terry Starbucker

JANUARY 15, 2012

Someone once asked me to use a single word to describe a “ secret to leadership ” – without hesitation, I replied, “Relentlessness” If there is one thing I learned in my nearly 25 years in the executive chair, it’s this: Leaders cannot achieve their grand visions and strategies without a relentless push to execute brilliantly.

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Rapid BI

JANUARY 14, 2012

Disruptive Innovations that have impacted B2B Marketing Disruptive Innovations that have impacted business & B2B Marketing Looking through some of this data raises some interesting thoughts. Especially that some firms just seem to keep being there. The question is what will be the next disruptive technology or application that will change the way we do [.].

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Rapid BI

JANUARY 19, 2012

#blog #ceo Linkedin Dropping twitter integration Linkedin Dropping Twitter Integration So it seems that the twitter integration is being dropped from LinkedIn It seems that unlike integration of tools and apps – this could be the start of re-positioning of networks to be isolated from each other. If you don’t have it yet – here [.].

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Rapid BI

JANUARY 18, 2012

#blog #ceo Is Amazon the best kept secret, a social media platform Is Amazon the secret social media platform? Looking at the statistics of Amazon we forget just how much many of us trust and use the platform – for that is what it is. Its nolonger just a “store” but a marketplace. So Amazon [.].

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Rapid BI

JANUARY 17, 2012

#blog #ceo Getting results from social media as a PR tool Getting results from social media as a PR tool Hi all there has been a lot of talk about social media, is it worth the time? What is the point? Does it really drive business? A little (short) personal story I have been blogging [.].

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Rapid BI

JANUARY 15, 2012

Who are you on-line – which ID do you use? Who are you on-line – which ID do you use? Many of us are increasingly using an “api” or other ID to sign in to other sites using our identity on another. We think its safer – but who are we giving what information to? [.].

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Rapid BI

JANUARY 20, 2012

Who are you going to call – Management training by GhostBusters Who are you going to call – Management training by GhostBusters Bosses – many of us are one – most of us have one. Many of us have seen the film Ghostbusters at one time or another (maybe even several times), without realising how [.].

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Rapid BI

JANUARY 19, 2012

#blog #ceo Linkedin Dropping twitter integration Linkedin Dropping Twitter Integration So it seems that the twitter integration is being dropped from LinkedIn It seems that unlike integration of tools and apps – this could be the start of re-positioning of networks to be isolated from each other. If you don’t have it yet – here [.].

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Rapid BI

JANUARY 16, 2012

RapidBI at #5 in Evan Carmichaels top 100 people on twitter on human resources for Jan 2012!

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Rapid BI

JANUARY 20, 2012

Who are you going to call – Management training by GhostBusters Who are you going to call – Management training by GhostBusters Bosses – many of us are one – most of us have one. Many of us have seen the film Ghostbusters at one time or another (maybe even several times), without realising how [.].

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Rapid BI

JANUARY 20, 2012

Who are you going to call – Management training by GhostBusters Who are you going to call – Management training by GhostBusters Bosses – many of us are one – most of us have one. Many of us have seen the film Ghostbusters at one time or another (maybe even several times), without realising how [.].

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Rapid BI

JANUARY 20, 2012

Who are you going to call – Management training by GhostBusters Who are you going to call – Management training by GhostBusters Bosses – many of us are one – most of us have one. Many of us have seen the film Ghostbusters at one time or another (maybe even several times), without realising how [.].

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