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The Critical First Step For Great Leadership: The Journey From “I” to “We”

Terry Starbucker

There comes a time in a more human leadership journey where something radically changes. The focus of our effort makes a major progression forward that, once accomplished, propels us to greatness. On the other hand, if this progression is NOT made, we’ll be doomed to mediocrity or outright failure. And, I can assure you, this is something that is applicable all generations, from a baby boomer like me to the millennials now stepping up into leadership roles.

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Lessons on Leadership from Fishing (part I)

General Leadership

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. “Many go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after”. Henry David Thoreau. Not too long ago I was fortunate enough to go on a guided fishing trip with a great group of men.

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Defining Your Unique Value Proposition: A LGL Virtual Meet and Greet

Let's Grow Leaders

What is your unique value proposition? What unique set of experience, skills, and style do you bring to the your work? If you’ve never tried this before I challenge you to give it a shot and share it with our community. That’s not bragging, that’s confidence. Why I’m Writing About Unique Value Propositions Today. When I recently published a post on the Lead Change Group Website, How to Promote Yourself Without Being Annoying , my first tip was “be confident in your

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5th Annual FedCyber Summit: Attend to learn and share lessons on defeating the most advanced cyber threats

CTOvision

Ladies and Gentlemen, FedCyber Conference co-chair Matt Devost and myself are pleased to announce the newly updated agenda for the 10 Nov 2015 FedCyber Summit and Threat Expo. The agenda has turned out to be one of the most incredible events we have pulled together. It includes a talk by the only member of Congress who has been a cyber analyst (Will Hurd), sessions on China and Russia by one of the US Army's greatest strategic thinkers on cyber (Tim Thomas), a panel of senior government official

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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Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business.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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How to Get Teams to Discuss Undiscussible Topics

Change Starts Here

In the last post, Five Signs Your Team is Avoiding the Truth (Or Other Uncomfortable Topics) , I shared some of the ways you can tell if you team is hiding an undiscussible topic. If the topic is one that needs to be addressed in order for the change to move forward, then you especially need to get people to talk about it! Now, I’d like to share some tips for how to get your team to discuss those undiscussible topics.

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Are All Trends Worth It? Top 5 Most Common UX Mistakes That Designers Make

Toptal

There are many modern web trends which offer a lot of visual appeal, while largely ignoring user experience. Let's look at some of the most common UX mistakes and discover a more balanced equation.

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Thursday, November 5: Real-Time Data Triage and Immediate Insights

CTOvision

Join us for an interesting breakfast discussion examining how to gain real-time insight into huge volumes of data. We will discuss proven methods for analyzing, large real time data sources like network logs for intrusion detection, correlating social media data to identify insider threats, and sifting through activity data. We will show how to do that to detect fraud and better serve the mission.

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3 Ways to Increase Productivity and Profit

Women on Business

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Strategic Professionalism Series

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 a way of life. From the way you dress, to your demeanor, to the organization with whom you spend more of your life than you do with your family. From the action you deliberately take to the reactions you subconsciously display.

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A Tale of Two Case Studies: Using LLMs in Production

Speaker: Tony Karrer, Ryan Barker, Grant Wiles, Zach Asman, & Mark Pace

Join our exclusive webinar with top industry visionaries, where we'll explore the latest innovations in Artificial Intelligence and the incredible potential of LLMs. We'll walk through two compelling case studies that showcase how AI is reimagining industries and revolutionizing the way we interact with technology. Some takeaways include: How to test and evaluate results 📊 Why confidence scoring matters 🔐 How to assess cost and quality 🤖 Cross-platform cost vs. quality tr

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Win a Celebrity Experience Trip to New York

Steve Farber

Jeffery Hayzlett is a great guy with a personality and mindset to match the title of his new book, Think Big Act Bigger: The Rewards of Being Relentless. To wit, he’s giving away a free VIP trip to NY and other prizes to celebrate the publication. What does “VIP” mean? For starters, how about two first class plane tickets, luxury hotel, a Broadway show, helicopter, and limo?

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The CTOvision Mobile App: Tech news and context on any mobile device

CTOvision

An upgrade for The CTOvision Mobile Application is available for iPhone , iPad and Android users. The app began as a way to serve our readers with content from CTOvision and that remains a key capability. But we now include feeds from all other major tech blogs, letting you use our mobile app to track all the technology news, analysis and context you need.

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Why You’re Overqualified and Not Hired

Women on Business

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Strategic Professionalism Series

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 a way of life. From the way you dress, to your demeanor, to the organization with whom you spend more of your life than you do with your family. From the action you deliberately take to the reactions you subconsciously display.

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“Build vs Buy Analytics?” The Question ALL SaaS Leaders Need to Answer in 2024

As a SaaS leader, you know that the more metrics, insights, and analytics you add to your products, the more engagement you’ll have – and the stickier your product will become with customers. At what point do you decide to keep building your analytics in-house or invest in an embedded analytics solution? Read our Build vs. Buy Analytics guide to learn: Top 4 benefits of embedded analytics A quick cost comparison of in-house analytics development vs embedded analytics 10 considerations to help yo

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Mindful Mondays: What Makes it So Hard to Let Go and Move On?

Next Level Blog

What is that you’re holding on to that keeps you from moving on to something new? What makes it so hard to let go and gracefully transition into the next chapter of your leadership journey or, for that matter, your life? That’s what I talked about last week in a conversation with Pamela Dennis. (audio).

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Fed Tech Roundup October 19

CTOvision

The following are some of the hot topics in the federal technology ecosystem (from FedTechTicker.com and TopTechTicker.com ): Fed Tech Ticker. HII SN3’s Frazer Lockhart Named to DOE’s Environmental Mgmt Advisory Board. AP Exclusive: Under Clinton, State's cybersecurity suffered - Centre Daily Times. Spotlight: BioTrackTHC a tech leader in legal marijuana industry - Miami Herald.

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Happiest Jobs for Working Moms

Women on Business

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CIOs and CMOs: What’s Going On With This Relationship?

The Accidental Successful CIO

Just exactly how well do the CIO and CMO get along? Image Credit: Melissa. Making a company be successful is tough work. For this to happen, it’s going to take a great deal of work on everyone’s part and, tougher yet, everyone is going to have to find ways to work together. As a CIO this means that you are going to find yourself having to work with the company’s Chief Marketing Officer (CMO).

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Addressing Top Enterprise Challenges in Generative AI with DataRobot

The buzz around generative AI shows no sign of abating in the foreseeable future. Enterprise interest in the technology is high, and the market is expected to gain momentum as organizations move from prototypes to actual project deployments. Ultimately, the market will demand an extensive ecosystem, and tools will need to streamline data and model utilization and management across multiple environments.

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What Makes it So Hard to Let Go and Move On?

Next Level Blog

What is that you’re holding on to that keeps you from moving on to something new? What makes it so hard to let go and gracefully transition into the next chapter of your leadership journey or, for that matter, your life? That’s what I talked about last week in a conversation with Pamela Dennis. She’s the author of a new book called Exit Signs: The Expressway to Selling Your Company with Pride and Profit.

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Cloud – Get on Board or be left Behind

CTOvision

Cloud – Get on Board or be left Behind. By: Brandee Daly, Founder C2S Consulting Group. Trigg Borgerson, CTO. Cloud is not just for your IT Department. If you look at IT leaders 10 years ago you will see companies like IBM, Oracle, HP, and Motorola leading the Fortune 500. Today’s IT leaders are companies that are able to move quickly, fail fast, and leverage the cost savings and innovation the cloud offers.

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Coaching and Mentoring – The Need For Accountability

CoachStation

To genuinely succeed in business, leaders must know their role, continuously develop their skills and be constantly supported to achieve the best they can as a leader and employee. Finding your own development pathway takes ownership, effort and clarity. However, it is not something you need to do on your own. Whether it is developing yourself or your team, coaching and mentoring can be a powerful tool to enable change and growth, both personally and professionally.

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New Book: Growing Your CIO Career – How CIOs Can Work With The Entire Company In Order To Be Successful

The Accidental Successful CIO

Grow Your CIO Career. Just becoming your company’s CIO is not enough. Once you reach this lofty point, you are going to have to take on the responsibility of growing your career so that it can truly become the challenging opportunity that you’ve been seeking. The good news is that this can be done. The bad news is that it’s never easy.

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Monetizing Analytics Features

Think your customers will pay more for data visualizations in your application? Five years ago, they may have. But today, dashboards and visualizations have become table stakes. Turning analytics into a source of revenue means integrating advanced features in unique, hard-to-steal ways. Download this white paper to discover which features will differentiate your application and maximize the ROI of your analytics.

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Fun Friday – Corporate wellness – weekly office cartoon #332 #ff

Rapid BI

“In the next phase of our corporate wellness campaign, all office machines shall be lubricated with omega-3 fish oil” Fun Friday – Corporate wellness – weekly office cartoon #332 #ff 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 […].

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The Perfect and Continuous Storm: Understanding the Cyber Implications of the Regulatory Governance For Security Advisors

CTOvision

Founder and Chief Security Strategist at eSentire Eldon Sprickerhoff recently penned a blog post titled " The Perfect Storm: Understanding the Implications of the Regulatory Governance Spotlight." In this piece he underscored the compliance regime around registered investment advisors (RIA), a key descriptor used by the Security and Exchange Commission and other regulatory bodies to refer to those that give advice about securities.

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First Annual LogicMonitor Hackathon

LogicMonitor

. A couple weeks ago we had a company Hackathon where employees hacked, or attempted to hack, various objects that expose data (think smart lights, drones, a Tesla, etc.) and integrate the data into LogicMonitor. Because LogicMonitor is a very customizable monitoring platform, you can write a custom datasource to monitor and alert on just about anything that reports data.

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The Clock is ticking for EU and US to Negotiate New Safe Harbor Deal: What You Can Do to Stay Out of Legal Limbo

Coalfire

European authorities have given the European Union and US officials three months to come up with an alternative to the Safe Harbor agreement after the European Court of Justice (ECJ) declared Safe Harbor laws invalid earlier this month. The new agreement must protect the personal data of European citizens from ‘massive and indiscriminate surveillance conducted by the U.S. government’, the authorities said.

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Software Composition Analysis: The New Armor for Your Cybersecurity

Speaker: Blackberry, OSS Consultants, & Revenera

Software is complex, which makes threats to the software supply chain more real every day. 64% of organizations have been impacted by a software supply chain attack and 60% of data breaches are due to unpatched software vulnerabilities. In the U.S. alone, cyber losses totaled $10.3 billion in 2022. All of these stats beg the question, “Do you know what’s in your software?

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Retrospection & Full PCAP Reveal Instances of XcodeGhost Dating Back to April 2015.

ProtectWise

Last month when news broke of XcodeGhost , the iOS malware that infected apps on the Apple App Store, we retrospected our haystack for evidence of this malware across our customers. We quickly discovered that more than half of our customers had affected devices on their networks, with infections dating as far back as April 25th, 2015 (much earlier than reported by several news outlets).

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Data Lake Phenomenon Among Enterprises

CTOvision

Over the past few years, there has been an explosion in the volume of data. To tackle this big data explosion, there has been a rise in the number of successful Hadoop projects in enterprises. Due to the large volumes of data, the emergence of Hadoop technology, and the need to store all soloed data in one place, has prompted a phenomenon among enterprises called: Data Lake.

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State of Employee Training 2015 according to #Intercall #infographic

Rapid BI

Today I came across this interesting summary of the State of Employee Training 2015. It has been published by Intercall. In their article State of Employee Training 2015 they include the data and graphic shown below. We all know that when done well, training can add a lot of value both to organisations as well as […]. The post State of Employee Training 2015 according to #Intercall #infographic appeared first on.