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Riots in Baltimore: Why I Need You to Help Me Write My Next Post

Let's Grow Leaders

I don’t usually write on Tuesdays, but it would be irresponsible to not write in the midst of the chaos brewing in my hometown, Baltimore. For my international viewers, Baltimore has joined the cities featured on CNN and the morning shows due to their looting and protest-related violence as a response to the Freddie Gray tragedy. As I write this, the sun hasn’t even set.

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Character in Leadership: Part 2 of 3

General Leadership

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. This article is Part 2 of a 3-part series by Colonel Albers on traits that can make or break a leader. Steadfastness During Trials. In the first part of this series we looked at humility – and how true humility is a critical trait that involves right thinking about oneself.

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Ping the world

Erik Bernhardsson

I just pinged a few million random IP addresses from my apartment in NYC. Here’s the result: Some notes: What’s going on with Sweden? Too much torrenting? Ireland is likewise super slow, but not Northern Ireland. Eastern Ukraine is also super slow, maybe not surprising given current events. Toronto seems screwed too, as well as part of NH and western PA.

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Interview: Communicating Change With the Results Map

Change Starts Here

Caroline Kealey, Owner and Principal at Ingenium Communications, joins the show this month to share the Results Map, her tool for developing communications. Listen in to hear the key elements of the Results Map and how to use it to communicate change, including how to evaluate whether your communication is working. Listen to the show here (30 minutes): And get your Results Map Handbook here: www.resultsmap.com.

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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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5 Leadership Priorities During Times of Crises #BaltimoreRiots

Let's Grow Leaders

“It was only a matter of time before Baltimore exploded,” Michael Fletcher explains in his excellent Washington Post article digging a level deeper into the rioting and destruction in Baltimore this week. He stated, “Baltimore is not Ferguson and its primary problems are not racial.” There’s a huge economic divide that has been eating away the infrastructure of our city for years.

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Ping the world

Erik Bernhardsson

I just pinged a few million random IP addresses from my apartment in NYC. Here’s the result: Some notes: What’s going on with Sweden? Too much torrenting? Ireland is likewise super slow, but not Northern Ireland. Eastern Ukraine is also super slow, maybe not surprising given current events. Toronto seems screwed too, as well as part of NH and western PA.

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The One Thing Leaders Cannot Alter or Change (No Matter How Hard They Try)

Terry Starbucker

Five years ago this week I released my free e-book, “Leadership From A Glass Half-Full: The 5 Lessons You Need To Learn Before You Jump Into the Pool” It sprung from a wish to pay forward what I had learned the hard way: “I wish I had some kind of guidebook that at the very least warned me about the things I just absolutely had to know before I got started (as a leader)” It’s been downloaded nearly 14,000 times, and I am truly grateful that it has been read, and hop

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5 Ways to Ensure Your Voice is Heard

Let's Grow Leaders

In the Q&A after my keynote the other day, a woman (ironically after refusing to use my microphone) asked, “You know that part where you talk about Professor Lupin and facing your fears? What if your biggest fear is that you won’t be heard… how do you make that feel ridiculous?” We chatted for a moment about really considering what “the worst thing that could happen” was in this scenario.

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Champions Don’t Take Shortcuts

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 price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand. Vince Lombardi. I’ve been an athlete my entire life.

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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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Cloud Security Alliance Federal Summit 5 May in DC

CTOvision

The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) is the world’s leading organization dedicated to defining and raising awareness of best practices to help ensure a secure and highly functional cloud computing environment. CSA harnesses the subject matter expertise of industry practitioners, associations, governments, and its corporate and individual members to offer cloud security-specific research, education, certification, events and products.

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3 Key Steps When Transitioning to Full Time Entrepreneur

Women on Business

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Azure Tutorial: Predicting Gas Prices Using Azure Machine Learning Studio

Toptal

Machine learning has changed the way we deal with data. Data driven problems, that are difficult to solve using standard methods, can often be tackled with much more ease using machine learning algorithms. In this article, we will explore Azure Machine Learning features and capabilities through solving one of the problems that we face in our everyday lives.

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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, as in any organization, giving the order might be the easiest part. Execution is the real game.” Lt Gen Russel L. Honoré. . How did you enjoy today’s post?

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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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Palo Alto Federal Forum 20 May 2015 at Newseum

CTOvision

Are you responsible for network security? Or do you manage security projects for your organization? You may want to check out the 2015 Palo Alto Federal Forum on 20 May 2015 at the Newseum in Washington, DC. This event is suitable for newcomers to Palo Alto Networks, as well as seasoned experts responsible for their organization's security, and will provide insight into the latest products.

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Is It Time to Change the Definition of Project Success?

Women on Business

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Top 10 Most Common C++ Mistakes That Developers Make

Toptal

C++ is a general purpose programming language that offers great flexibility when it comes to system programming and application development. The language, however, comes with some pitfalls requiring attention from developers to ensure quality programming. This article explains how ten of the most common C++ developer mistakes can be avoided.

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Mindful Mondays: What Do You Have to Share?

Next Level Blog

The news from the devastating earthquake in Nepal this past weekend is tragic and heart rendering. It’s a natural impulse at times like this to want to help. Most of us, of course, are not qualified to offer help on the ground. Fortunately, there are organizations with volunteers who are. If you want to contribute to their efforts by sharing some of your own resources, this link provided by the New York Times will provide you with the donation links for over two dozen organizations that are movi

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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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About WayIn: A Social Media Intelligence Company

CTOvision

This post is part of our series providing background and context on sponsors of Cognitio's 30 April Synergy Forum. We are very pleased to help bring WayIn into the DC tech ecosystem by introducing them at our Synergy Forum. This social intelligence company integrates content into new experiences for consumers and also provides enterprises with new ways to deliver value from social media.

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Reducing Workplace Stress with Mindfulness Practice

Women on Business

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Who’s In The Driver’s Seat When It Comes To Analytics Projects

The Accidental Successful CIO

When it comes to analytics projects, somebody has to be driving Image Credit: Leslie Wong. You know, for years and years we’ve talked about trying to align business and IT and yet we never seemed to make much progress. Well I’ve got some good news for you: the arrival of analytics projects where large amounts of business data has to be crunched in order to get the answers that the business needs is driving IT and the rest of the business closer together than ever before.

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The New Wave of Entrepreneurship

Toptal

We will see technology push its way forward and society will be the better for it. The exciting question is who will lead this wave of disruption?

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How Embedded Analytics Helps Product Managers Exceed Their KPIs

Embedded analytics can help you deliver cutting-edge analytics experiences to your end-users that align with KPIs that are critical to the growth and success of your business. Read this eBook to learn how an embedded analytics platform, like Qrvey, can help PMs exceed the following KPIs: Growing revenue while improving customer retention rate Delivering rapid time to value Earning a high net-promoter score Increasing Gross Margin / Profitability Conversion rate from trial to paid Don’t just meet

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The Synergy Forum is 30 April: Here is how to engage from a distance

CTOvision

There really is nothing like getting 350 great, mission-focused brains in a room to work collaboratively on big ideas, and that is exactly what we are doing at the 30 April Synergy Forum. Some things just can't be done from a afar. With that as a disclaimer, there are things you can do to track the activity at our Synergy Forum if you can't be there in person.

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Top 50 Companies for Diversity in 2015

Women on Business

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SHRM Top 25 Indian HR Influencers on Social Media 2014

QAspire

Last week, SHRM India published a list of “ Top 25 Indian HR Influencers on Social Media ” for the year 2014-15. I am glad to be ranked amongst top 5 influencers for the third consecutive year. Each year, SHRM India raises the bar and changes evaluation method. This year, they considered activity/interactions beyond Twitter to cover Blog , LinkedIn , Klout and Quora.

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Why training fails – time for a new approach?

Rapid BI

I have looked at a number of blogs and articles across the internet and in various LinkedIn groups. Many of these are about management, leadership and developing people for the future. There seems to be a common theme… new ways of doing things. A reinforcement of the message that the old ways did not get […]. The post Why training fails – time for a new approach?

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How to Migrate From DataStax Enterprise to Instaclustr Managed Apache Cassandra

If you’re considering migrating from DataStax Enterprise (DSE) to open source Apache Cassandra®, our comprehensive guide is tailored for architects, engineers, and IT directors. Whether you’re motivated by cost savings, avoiding vendor lock-in, or embracing the vibrant open-source community, Apache Cassandra offers robust value. Transition seamlessly to Instaclustr Managed Cassandra with our expert insights, ensuring zero downtime during migration.

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CTOvision Readers Eligible For 20% Discount Off Solid Conference June 23-25 San Francisco

CTOvision

The Solid Conference dives deep into Hardware, Software and the Internet of Things, June 23-25 in San Francisco, CA. You have been tracking the trends and realize the traditional boundaries between hardware and software are falling. Whatever you choose to call this disruption—the Internet of Things, new hardware, the Industrial Internet—it’s the same exciting revolution: a perfect storm of opportunity for a software-enhanced, networked physical world.

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Tips for Building Brand Awareness

Women on Business

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Reporting LIVE from the HIMSS 2015 Cybersecurity Command Center

Coalfire

Well, it’s not exactly live anymore but it certainly was worth tweeting live from the brand new Cybersecurity Command Center (CCC) at HIMSS 2015 in Chicago a couple weeks ago given all the excitement. The CCC was the place to be at HIMSS this year with standing room only at the educational sessions. HIMSS staff members were busy adding rows of seating to the session area to fit all the attendees who were clamoring for valuable information delivered by numerous speakers from the FBI to the

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