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What I Learned From Marshall Goldsmith: A Simple and Effective Technique

Let's Grow Leaders

When Marshall Goldsmith sent me his new book, Triggers, I read it cover to cover on my flight to Vegas. Great read. But what makes a good book a great book is when it leads you to action. This one did. The Power of Daily Questions. It’s so simple. Goldsmith recommends asking yourself a few “easy” questions each day. Of course, I say easy because they should be straightforward.

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Expanding Professional Development

General Leadership

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. “The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership.” Harvey S. Firestone. Professional development is one of the most critical areas for an organizational leader to remain focused on.

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Google, like Samsung, is eavesdropping on your private conversations

CTOvision

If you use Google Chrome , you could be subject to eavesdropping by Google. Similar to what Samsung's TVs are doing, the Chromium browser listens to conversations in the vicinity of your laptop, PC, or tablet, and transmits it back to Google. Ostensibly, this is part of the " Google Now " voice activation feature of Chrome. Privacy campaigners and some developers think it's more nefarious.

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So You Want To Be A Leader? How To Unlock Your Leadership Destiny

Terry Starbucker

I remember the day I knew I really wanted to be a leader. Funny thing was, it was 5 years after I “accidentally” became one. I started my career as an accountant, right out of college. I obtained my CPA certificate, rose quickly through the ranks and within 5 years I was a Manager on the fast track to partner. Then, I got a phone call that would change my life.

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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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5 Ways to Ignite Your Summer Leadership Fitness

Let's Grow Leaders

If you’re like me, you think more about getting fit when the days start to require less clothes. What if you also used summertime as a time to pay a bit more attention to your leadership fitness? Similar strategies apply. In fact, they work all year round (I put that in for my many Aussie subscribers in the midst of Winter). 5 Ways To Ignite Your Leadership Fitness.

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The Digital Risk Reduction Act of 2015

CTOvision

Are you looking for ideas on how to improve the security of federal systems? Cognitio’s founders have been responsible for guarding some of the world’s hardest-to-penetrate networks, including the classified systems that lets case officers in hostile countries communicate with headquarters in the United States, and the networks that provide real-time information to battlefield commanders so they can help save lives in conflict zones.

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What Successful Female Entrepreneurs Know

Women on Business

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Leaders Share about New Beginnings, Fresh Starts, and Project Launches: A Frontline Festival

Let's Grow Leaders

Welcome back to the Let’s Grow Leaders Frontline Festival. Our June Festival is all about new beginnings, fresh starts, and project launches. Thanks to Joy and Tom Guthrie of Vizwerx Group for the great pic and to all our contributors! Next month’s Festival is all about leading through influence. How do you lead when you don’t have direct authority?

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Time Machine Tuesday: Leading with Moral Courage

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. 10 Oct 2013. “Knowing what’s right doesn’t mean much unless you do what’s right.”. Theodore Roosevelt. When I think of the term, “Moral Courage,” I recall a presentation I heard many years ago by a former Commandant of the Marine Corp, Gen Charles Krulak.

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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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Oracle’s Big Data Integration Now Certified on Hortonworks HDP 2.2

CTOvision

In late 2014, Hortonworks and Oracle teamed up to provide comprehensive data integration capabilities and technologies. Together, they deliver on the promise of big data for customers of all sizes and scale. Oracle and Hortonworks are continuing to work together to bring the latest ETL and real-time transactional data streaming capabilities to the Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP).

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Navigating the React.JS Ecosystem

Toptal

In this article, I'll go through some of the interesting features and libraries that are available to use with React. Even if you don't plan on using React, taking a look at its ecosystem is inspiring. You may want to simplify your build system using the powerful, yet comparatively easy to configure, module bundler Webpack, or start writing ECMAScript 6 and even ECMAScript 7 today with the Babel compiler.

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4 Effective Ways to Build an Online Brand

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]. “ In the military, they give medals for people who are willing to sacrifice themselves so that others may survive. In business, we give bonuses to people who sacrifice others. “ George Washington. .

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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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Cyber Security in Aviation

CTOvision

With the public inundated with reports of an alarming number of computer hacks, the question in everyone’s mind is “what is next?” The aviation industry was the center of media attention when Chris Roberts, a controversial computer researcher, was detained by FBI agents after boasting that he had hacked systems while a passenger and took control of key aircraft systems.

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How a Disengaged Workforce is Costing You Money

Lead on Purpose

Guest post by Jüri Kaljundi As a CEO, I make sure that at the end of the week I know what every member of my team is up to and they know that I know. Why?

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3 Tips to Prepare for a Job Interview

Women on Business

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Mindful Mondays: What I Learned About My Emotions from Pixar’s Inside Out

Next Level Blog

Last Friday night was movie night for our family and I got to pick. The fact that I chose the new Disney/Pixar movie, Inside Out, instead of Jurassic World probably tells you all you need to know about me. In case you’re not familiar with the premise, Inside Out is an animated tour through the mind of an 11 year old girl who’s struggling with her family’s move from Minnesota to San Francisco.

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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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Verisign’s Q1 2015 DDoS Trends Report: Mitigating More DDoS Attacks This Quarter than in 2014

CTOvision

Verisign's Q1 2015 DDoS Trends Report reveals some interesting trends we should all be aware of. The report captures analysis and insights from Verisign including information derived from mitigations enacted on behalf of, and with cooperation with, customers of Verisign's DDoS Protection Services. Key contributing analysts include the security research team at Verisign’s iDefense.

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This Could Be a Transformational 4 Days for You

Steve Farber

I know that sounds like hyperbole; I know a lot of people use the word “transformational” to describe their programs and events–so, I don’t use it lightly. But now that we’ve had several Extreme Leadership Certifications under our belt, I offer you this proposition in confidence: This could be a transformational 4 days for you.

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4 Ways to Deal with Negative Employees

Women on Business

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How CIOs Can Boost Staff Skills Without Increasing Headcount

The Accidental Successful CIO

CIOs need to find ways to teach their department staff new skills Image Credit: Peter Dutton. Staffing an IT department is easily a full-time job in of itself. As the person with the CIO job, you’ve probably already realized this. However, in addition to staying on top of the importance of information technology, just filling all of the open spots in your IT department is not the only task that you have to accomplish.

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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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Naval Intelligence Professionals (NIP) and the International Spy Museum announce a joint presentation: Tracking the Elusive Pueblo

CTOvision

Naval Intelligence Professionals (NIP) and the International Spy Museum announce a joint presentation: Tracking the Elusive Pueblo, on Wednesday 1 July 2015 at 630pm. Location is the International Spy Museum, 800 F St NW, Washington DC. Here is more on the event: In January 1968, at the height of the Vietnam War, North Korea captured the USS Pueblo.

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I Don't Know

Mills Scofield

Mike Cohea / Brown University. The freedom to ask questions and admit when you don't know is one we take for granted and our society tends to shun as a sign of weakness, yet it is how we learn, grow, create and have impact. Michelle Bailhe 's commencement address is one we need to read, re-read and live. Please read this and be grateful for her generation that will help make this world better.

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3 Tips to Build a List of Email Subscribers

Women on Business

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How to Tune Microsoft SQL Server for Performance

Toptal

To retain its users, any application or website must run fast. For mission critical environments, a couple of milliseconds delay in getting information might create big problems. As database sizes grow day by day, we need to fetch data as fast as possible, and write the data back into the database as fast as possible. To make sure all operations are executing smoothly, we have to tune Microsoft SQL Server for performance.

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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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ThreatBrief: Daily context on cyber threats to enterprise mission needs

CTOvision

There are threats to your business and mission needs. Tracking them can give you insights that drive your decisions. This is the operating thesis behind ThreatBrief , our daily report on business risks (with a focus on cyber risks). Our analysts and experienced executives are collaborating to ensure this newsletter captures the insights you need. Our goal is to make this product your most anticipated read of the day.

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Hidden Strengths – Unleashing The Leadership Skills You Already Have

QAspire

Most people ascend to leadership positions based on their areas of natural strengths. Tools like SWOT analysis also focus excessively on two things: strengths and weaknesses. So, our natural response as leaders is to leverage our strengths and improve on areas of our weakness. Yes? But there is a large space between our strengths and weaknesses that which is hidden.

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Fun Friday – weekly office cartoon #283 #ff

Rapid BI

Some office fun for a Friday afternoon Office Cartoon 283 “Because my generation cares about the planet!” Office cartoons Office based cartoons, funnies and humor can help to communicate important messages or tips in a non threatening way. See more office humor Take a look at some of our products to help develop […]. The post Fun Friday – weekly office cartoon #283 #ff appeared first on.