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To All the (Jerky) Managers I’ve Known Before

Let's Grow Leaders

I had asked the group to share their teachable point of view on leadership in the form of a TEDdy Talk (e.g. learn to improve your speaking Karin Hurt style). Ultimately everyone would have their 5 minutes of TEDdy Talk fame, but tonight we were just practicing “Wow” openings. “Carrie,” who hadn’t said a heck of a lot before this, stood up and gave the most impassioned imitation of a horrible boss I’ve ever heard– as her “wow” opener. “

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Changing Organizational Culture Revisited: Dysfunction Junction

General Leadership

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. “A dysfunctional company culture does not improve with transparency…it just gets exposed.” Harold Jarche. In my April 9, 2015 blog post, “ Changing Organizational Culture ”, I promised to offer some pointers in a future post on recognizing a target within organizational culture that needs a fix.

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Stakeholder Engagement – Inform, Influence or Involve?

Change Starts Here

A change in one area radiates out to the rest of the organization. Some groups are affected more than others. How do you determine whether you need to communicate or collaborate? Once you identify your stakeholders (see Three Main Impact Zones of Change ), it’s time to determine if you need to inform, influence, or involve them. Inform. For those whom the change has minimal impact, they may just need awareness that something new is happening.

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Future Crimes: Everything Is Connected, Everyone Is Vulnerable and What We Can Do About It

CTOvision

Marc Goodman's Future Crimes: Everything Is Connected, Everyone Is Vulnerable and What We Can Do About It is a fantastic examination of good and evil in cyberspace. Marc really knows his material and on top of that writes incredibly well. I've been in and around the cybersecurity community for so long I find myself getting numbed by the constant news and really valued Marc placing so much threat information into a context anyone can understand.

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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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Who are you? Who Who?

Let's Grow Leaders

You used to be sick? Or you ARE a survivor? You used to be a marathon runner? Or you KNOW the power of endurance? You used to be an artist? Or you have the ABILITY to create something beautiful? You used to be successful? Or you understand what it FEELS like to win? You used to be a screw up? Or you UNDERSTAND the importance of mentors? You are what you’ve learned.

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The 6 Most Effective Lessons For The On-The-Job Leadership Teacher

Terry Starbucker

I always thought it was strange how great leadership was always thought to be vitally important to a businesses success, but yet it was quite often the least discussed thing in the meeting rooms, and the budget money allocated to “leadership training” was always limited (or the first thing to get cut back). Why is this the case? It’s a question that has banged around in my head for a long time.

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Tamr: Connect and enrich all your data for analytics and decision making

CTOvision

With this post we are initiating coverage of Tamr. Tamr was founded in 2013 by a distinguished cadre of database industry veterans including Andy Palmer and Turing award winner Mike Stonebreaker. Tamr enables enterprises to make use of 100% of available data by unifying and enriching data holdings. Tamr's data unification platform catalogues, connects and curates internal and external data sources at scale through a combination of machine learning algorithms and human expert guidance, radically

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5 Benefits of Plants in the Workplace

Women on Business

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Tuesday Time Machine: Leadership – The Willingness to Fight the Right Fight

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. 15 February 2013. Everywhere you look today it seems as though many leaders are more intent abdicating responsibility than embracing it. The recent political wrangling’s over our countries numerous fiscal challenges certainly seems to bear this out.

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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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Unity with MVC: How to Level Up Your Game Development

Toptal

In this article I’ll relate my experience with the popular Unity game development platform and the Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern for game development. In my seven years of development, having wrestled with my fair share of game dev spaghetti, I’ve been achieving great code structure and development speed using this design pattern.

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CipherCloud: New approaches to cloud security

CTOvision

CipherCloud has a very unique approach to enhancing security of enterprise data in the cloud. CipherCloud is a pioneer in delivering cloud information protection and enabling you to overcome risks to data privacy, residency, security, and regulatory compliance and deliver better business results. Using ground breaking technology they protect the entire lifecycle of data including discovery, encryption ( FIPS 140-2 validated ), tokenization, data loss prevention, malware detection, and ongoing mo

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8 Tips for Improving Your Value Proposition

Women on Business

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Monday Quote

General Leadership

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. “ I know of no better reputation for an officer or noncommissioned officer to have with his team than he is a good manager and does not waste his soldiers’ time.”. General Bruce Clark. .

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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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How Organizations Can Address the Challenges of Modern Digital Collaboration

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

It’s now clear to me that we must take bold new steps if we are to truly improve the state of workforce collaboration in most organizations. As the majority of us are doing it today, digital collaboration is largely stuck in the doldrums. The known issues are numerous: The tools themselves are either too complex, specialized, or advanced, or worse, not a good fit for our organizations but are appealing due to unrelated reasons like vendor stability or wide adoption elsewhere.

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Vricon: The world in 3D

CTOvision

Defense and security company Saab and DigitalGlobe Inc., a leading global provider of high-resolution earth imagery solutions, launch the joint venture – Vricon Inc. – to produce photo-realistic 3D products and digital elevation models globally for enterprise and government geospatial markets with unmatched coverage and delivery timelines. The Viricon capabilities are incredible to interact with.

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Golf is the Ultimate Business Tool: Here’s Why

Women on Business

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Mindful Mondays: Three Easy Ways to Unplug on Vacation

Next Level Blog

One of the big reasons you need a vacation this summer is to take a break from the chronic state of fight or flight that an overworked and overwhelmed lifestyle generates. By doing some quick math based on email statistics collected by the Radicati Group, I’m ball parking that the average business person gets 113 emails per day. When I ask the people in my leadership workshops how many they get in a day the responses are usually in the range of 200 to 300.

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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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Sketch Note: How to Influence Without Authority

QAspire

My work in corporate quality functions in the past involved influencing cross-functional teams (as an internal consultant) on processes and methods when I had no direct reporting relationships with them. I knew that only technical expertise was not enough and I wished I had some guidance on how to influencing without authority. Jesse Lyn Stoner is one of my favorite leadership bloggers and her post “ How to Influence Without Authority ” offers useful guidance on the what she calls as “8 Portals

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The Startup Ecosystem Report

CTOvision

Compass , the startup data benchmarking company, has just released their second “ Startup Ecosystem Report ”. It has been three years since their prior report. In their new findings, New York City has risen to second place, leaving Tel Aviv (the previous second place holder) at fifth. At number one is Silicon Valley, which comes at no surprise. . Tel Aviv was not the only location to fall, Vancouver, Toronto and Sydney also fell, while Santiago, Melbourne and Waterloo dropped out of the top 20 e

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5 Procrastination Excuses You Use and How to Crush Them

Women on Business

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How Should A CIO Deal With An Employee Mutiny?

The Accidental Successful CIO

CIOs need to be aware that a mutiny may be happening right now! Image Credit: HoJo Anaheim. The CIO runs the show when it comes to all things having to do with IT because of importance of information technology, right? Well, it turns out that this is not always the case. Even as you are reading this, in your IT department a mutiny may be brewing. What has caused this to happen and what should you be doing to prepare for 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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Building an MVC Application with Spring Framework: A Beginner's Tutorial

Toptal

The Spring Framework is a powerful, feature-rich, and well-designed framework for the Java platform. It offers a collection of programming and configuration models that aim to simplify and streamline the development process of robust and testable applications in Java. In this article, Toptal engineer Stefan Varga challenges the popular notion of Java as a complicated platform for simple needs, and walks us through a step by step tutorial to building a simple MVC application with the Spring Frame

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Hackers Taking Over Your Car

CTOvision

A recent purchase of mine was a 2015 Jeep. Until now, I thought it was a safe and reliable car, but that is not the case anymore. As technology advances and cars become smarter and more technologically savvy, they become another target for hackers. Imagine speeding down the highway, zooming past 18-wheelers, SUVs and coupes, when all of a sudden, your brakes give out and your speed increases.

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5 Signs You’re Ready to Be Your Own Boss

Women on Business

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Sketch Note: 6 Leadership Lessons from Dr. A. P. J Abdul Kalam

QAspire

As Indians mourn the passing away of “People’s President”, Space Scientist, Teacher and Visionary Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam , I am reminded of having read an interview he gave to India Knowledge@Wharton in 2008 where he shared some very important leadership lessons. I decided to pay a small tribute in my own little way to someone who has not only taken India to newer heights but has kindled a fire of inspiration in thousands of young minds through his connect with students.

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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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Digital Nomads Can Manage Teams, And Manage To See The World

Toptal

Some people like the known and predictable. They freak out when their daily routine gets disrupted. But, I’ll bet if you are doing any kind of creative work like programming or design, you are not one of those people. Ordinary day-to-day office work will kill you. It will eventually strip your motivation, creativity or flare for what you do.

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DataGravity: Data aware storage

CTOvision

The DataGravity Discovery Series allows IT professionals and business users to unlock the value of their data through data aware storage. For an introduction see the video at this link and embedded below: For more see: datagravity.com. The post DataGravity: Data aware storage appeared first on CTOvision.com.

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Top 5 Ways to Effectively Manage a Public Relations Crisis

Women on Business

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