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A 3 Step Process to Increase Your Confidence

Let's Grow Leaders

'“Oh the minute they made the announcement, I knew she’d be down on the field,” my husband told my parents over wine and brie. My parents both just smiled. As wacky as it sounded, they weren’t shocked either. In hindsight it was an audacious move, but I’d always wanted to sing the National Anthem over the microphone in a big stadium.

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Strength through Difference

General Leadership

'Strength lies in differences, not in similarities. Stephen Covey. Modern aircraft are often made of a composite material. Fiberglass is a thick, flexible fabric…hardly something that can support thousands of pounds and withstand the extreme forces of flight. However, combine it with a sticky, syrup-like compound called resin, let it cure and the resulting combination becomes one of the strongest materials for its weight used in aviation.

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How Just A Little Zen Can Make a Huge Difference In Your Leadership

Terry Starbucker

'There are days when I can get in serious “auto-pilot” mode – the state of being where things are happening so fast and furiously that all I do is react, instead of think. It’s during those times that my leadership suffers. Because I’m “ not all there “. I become a mile wide and an inch deep. My teammates don’t get the benefit of any fully developed and reasoned thought and analysis.

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Ten Types of Organizational Change

Change Starts Here

'Organizational change, or the change that happens at work, encompasses many different types of projects. While the general approach to influencing change is similar across projects, the specific details of how you implement each project will depend on what you’re trying to change. The first step towards customizing your change management approach is defining your change.

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Get Better Network Graphs & Save Analysts Time

Many organizations today are unlocking the power of their data by using graph databases to feed downstream analytics, enahance visualizations, and more. Yet, when different graph nodes represent the same entity, graphs get messy. Watch this essential video with Senzing CEO Jeff Jonas on how adding entity resolution to a graph database condenses network graphs to improve analytics and save your analysts time.

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5 Mistakes to Avoid During a Restructure

Let's Grow Leaders

'Times of downsizing and restucture require every ounce of confident humility you can muster. Your team is starving for information, reassurance, guidance and support. And quite frankly, I’m amazed at how many leaders totally screw this up. In part I blame lawyers that scare the humanity and common sense out of otherwise sensible human beings.

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Great Global Brand Seeks Mission Focused CISO: Please help with networking

CTOvision

'By Bob Gourley. One of America''s most recognized brands, a firm that touches people around the globe, is conducting a confidential search for a CISO. A friend has asked me to keep my eyes and ears open to send names along if I know of a good fit. I love to be helpful to both sides of the relationship in networking like that. If I can find a good match for a CISO I know and trust that is good for them personally and of course good for the firm that they join.

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5 Things to Do After a Job Interview

Women on Business

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Why Can’t I Fix Him?

Let's Grow Leaders

'My heart sunk as I heard all Kathy had done attempting to fix the scene. Actually, despite the reason for her call, the “scene” was progressing remarkably. They’d come so far in such a short time: a clear vision for 2015; a strong action plan on the biggest rock; a shared leadership model for execution; and Kathy had stepped up to lead her peers in coordinating the action plan.

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Ask GeneralLeadership – 1

General Leadership

'You ask, and we listen—and this article is the first in a series to address our primary mission of providing “Leadership Advice from America’s Most Trusted Leaders!”. Justin, a reader from California, wrote us with the following question: “ I will be joining a team that is already formed and will be their Director. It is a team of 15 that is operating off site at a large client’s place of business.

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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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Federal Cyber Security Best Practices Session with Rick Howard, CSO, Palo Alto Networks

CTOvision

'By Charles Hall. Palo Alto Networks is sponsoring a Federal Cyber Security Best Practices session on Thursday, March 19, 2015, from 11:30 AM to 1:30 PM ET, with Rick Howard, Chief Security Officer for Palo Alto Networks. The event will be held at Arrow Electronics, 7067 Columbia Gateway Drive, Suite 100, Columbia, MD 21046. This is a chance to join your Federal cyber security peers and discuss cyber security best practices, collaborate on challenges, and discuss what''s needed for the future

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Working Women Make Business Happen

Women on Business

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6 Ways to Choose the Best Employees

Lead on Purpose

'Guest post by Jon Spivey The best employees help your company to thrive and achieve its greatest potential. So to reach your potential, you must put effort into finding and choosing the best employees for your company.

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Tune in Tonight! – 9pm Eastern – SiriusXM Patriot Channel 125!

General Leadership

'It’s that exciting time of the month again when you have the opportunity to interact with us LIVE on SiriusXM Patriot Channel 125 at 9pm Eastern (8 Central, 7 Mountain, 6 Pacific) Wednesday, 4 Mar 2015. Tonight we kick off our newest initiative — Mentors Matter ! This special “12-Talents” broadcast will feature David Webb , General John E.

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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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Control your Hyundai from your Smartwatch

CTOvision

'By Katie Kennedy. Editor''s note: Do you remember the movie Jurassic Park? Remember how you thought it might be a bad idea to put people on an island full of man eating dinosaurs? I wonder if Hyundai is setting themselves up for their own Jurassic Park moment.-bg. Hyundai owners with the a smartwatch now have more remote control over their vehicles.

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5 Lessons You’ll Learn in Your First Job

Women on Business

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Are We Creating An Insecure Internet of Things (IoT)? Security Challenges and Concerns

Toptal

After a couple of years of bullish forecasts and big promises, security seems to be the biggest IoT concern. The first few weeks of 2015 were not kind to this emerging industry, and most of the negative press revolved around security. Was it justified? Was it just “fear, uncertainty and doubt” (FUD), brought about by years of hype? It was bit of both; although some issues may have been overblown, the problems are very real, indeed.

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LeaderView™ Leader Profile: Chief Master Sergeant of the Air Force #5 Robert Gaylor

General Leadership

'GeneralLeadership enjoys the opportunity to highlight leaders who our readers believe provide excellent examples worth taking note of. Through our LeaderView™ Leadership Profile series, we reach out to identified candidates and ask for their insights as to what makes them tick as a leader. In our latest LeaderView™ Leadership Profile, we caught up with Robert D.

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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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The Cybersecurity Framework in Action: An Intel Use Case

CTOvision

'By Bob Gourley. On 3 March 2015 I participated in a deep dive into some key policies and processes used by Intel to continue to reduce the business risk of cyber threats. This review was presented by Malcolm Harkins, Intel’s Chief Security and Privacy Officer. Malcolm was briefing how Intel corporation leveraged the NIST-coordinated Framework for Improving Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity to create a more mission-focused cyber security effort across their corporation.

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The Success and Challenges of Women Entrepreneurs – Lara Galloway

Women on Business

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Video Game Physics Tutorial - Part II: Collision Detection for Solid Objects

Toptal

In Part I of this three-part series on game physics, we explored rigid bodies and their motions. In that discussion, however, objects did not interact with each other. Without some additional work, the simulated rigid bodies can go right through each other. In Part II, we will cover the collision detection step, which consists of finding pairs of bodies that are colliding among a possibly large number of bodies scattered around a 2D or 3D world.

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Do you expect to win?

Lead on Purpose

'The people I consider successful all have at least one thing in common…they expect to win. They see themselves as winners and whatever they put their minds to they accomplish.

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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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Japan Approved The Largest Military Budget Since World War II: What are they spending it on?

CTOvision

'By Chris Ward. Japan has recently approved the largest military budget since World War II. The regional security concerns are the natural drivers of this investment, but interestingly, the US DoD budgets cuts seem to be having the biggest impact. US forces are scrimping and pulling back resources wherever they can; meanwhile encouraging the coalitions to pick up the slack.

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The Day Our CEO Told The Head of HR Her Ovaries Were Shriveling

Women on Business

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Mindful Mondays: Considering Spock’s Legacy and Ours

Next Level Blog

'When I looked earlier this morning, more than 1,000 people had left comments on The New York Times obituary of Leonard Nimoy, the actor who played Mr. Spock. Obviously, I haven’t read all of them, but I have looked at a few dozen. Many of them are quite moving in the way that they describe the impact that Nimoy’s portrayal of Spock had on their lives.

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Los Angeles CTO / VP Engineering Job Searches

SoCal CTO

'As the organizer of the LA CTO Forum , I get lots of inquiries by job seekers and people looking for CTO / VP Engineering talent. I’ve written quite a bit about aspects of this topic, especially from the perspective of startup founders looking for talent – you can find these in: Startup CTO. This includes links to CTO Salary and Equity Trends, Technology Roles in Startups , Initial Conversation with a CTO or Technical Advisor , Finding a Technical Cofounder for Your Startup , Hiring a CTO for Y

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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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The 2015 K-12 STEM Symposium Will be held 7 March in Herndon VA

CTOvision

'By Michael Johnson. CTOvision is a proud media sponsor of the 2015 STEM Symposium, which will be held on March 7th at the Nysmith School in Herndon, Va from 9:00 am to 3:00 pm. This year''s theme. The Parent Factor: How to Engage your Kids in STEM. There are many exciting activities for the day, including a drone demonstration, flight stimulators, robotics, medical research showcases and cyber security demonstrations.

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Inquiring Minds Want to Know About Board Evaluation

Women on Business

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Thank God for Bosses!

Nathan Magnuson

'You don’t have to look far to look far to see the verbal abuse bosses take. Whether it’s water cooler gossip, happy hour banter or social media posts, people aren’t happy with their leader and don’t hold back when telling why. Some are more politically savvy and only think what others say out loud. Forbes reported recently that as many as two million employees quit their jobs each month.

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