Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

'Welcome back to the Let’s Grow Leaders Frontline Festival. Our September Festival is all about Bold and Innovative Leadership. Thanks to Joy and Tom Guthrie of Vixwerx for the great pic and to all our contributors! Self Leadership . “Freedom lies in being bold.” – Robert Frost. No one has the words “Bold” or “Innovative” printed on their business cards; but Bill Benoist of Leadership Heart Coaching shares that when you look, these leaders are all aro

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General Leadership

SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

' “The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don’t play together, the club won’t be worth a dime.” Babe Ruth. The summer of 1992 marked the first time the United States would present a basketball team to the Olympics composed of current players from the National Basketball Association (NBA).

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

'NFL commissioner Roger Goodell has not spoken publicly since Sept. 9. Bob Ley talks with ESPN NFL business analyst Andrew Brandt and John Baldoni, Chair of N2Growth’s Leadership Development Practice about the commissioner’s recent lack of presence. Watch the Interview.

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Change Starts Here

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

'In my 2010 book 99 Ways to Influence Change , one thing I did not include was to Hide It. Yet, I’ve heard recent examples of people doing just that – implementing change even when it’s been explicitly shot down or repeatedly unsupported at the top. In one case, a presenter at a PMI event shared a number of ways to implement Agile software development practices in an organization, and one of the approaches she called “Black Market Agile.” In the example she cited, t

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Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

'John’s frustration had turned to exacerbation. He’d done everything he could to position himself for the next promotion. His results were amazing. He’d taken on several cross-functional projects and nailed those too. He was delegating more and growing the competence of his team. He’d become far more open to feedback and had truly become a team player, even navigating the tricky inter-departmental dynamics.

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CTOvision

SEPTEMBER 13, 2014

'By Bob Gourley. In what could be a very virtuous trend, four of the cyber security industry’s leading tech vendors (Fortinet, Palo Alto Networks, McAfee and Symantec) have established a consortium focused on the furtherance of the art and science of cyber threat intelligence. This alliance, started in May and expanded in September, aims to help industry entities coordinate and collaborate in new ways against the high end adversaries attacking the corporate world.

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Women on Business

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

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Nathan Magnuson

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

'The term “coaching” has been trending as a corporate buzzword for some time now. We’re all familiar with athletics coaches. But when someone advises us to find a coach to learn a new skill or solve problem, it’s usually in a professional context. What does it actually mean to coach someone? The interesting thing about coaching is how dynamic of a leadership role it is.

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General Leadership

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

'“Feedback is the breakfast of champions!”. Ken Blanchard. Sadly, the following is a true story: I had been tasked to provide a briefing to a leader whose reputation had preceded him by a wide margin. This particular leader was extremely powerful in his area of performance, and was widely known for a brash personality. When my colleague and I had been appointed to share our briefing with this leader, the enmity he was rumored to feel towards our branch of the organization was at an all time hi

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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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CTOvision

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

'By Bob Gourley. For the next two days in DC over 1000 key leaders from the national security community will be converging in a dynamic examination of intelligence and national security issues at the Intelligence and National Security Summit. This event, a collaboration of the intelligence committee of AFCEA and the Intelligence and National Security Alliance (INSA) is a first of its kind session that brings together over 70 national thought leaders from public, private and academic sectors to e

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Women on Business

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

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Lead on Purpose

SEPTEMBER 13, 2014

'One of the quickest, simplest approaches to performing root cause analysis (finding the answers for why something happened the way it did) is to use the 5 whys technique.

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General Leadership

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

'Cruise over to PodBean to hear our latest 200-Second Soundbite entitled “Growing New Leaders” or subscribe to our PodCast directly via iTunes at the following link. Colonel Chris Levy discusses the importance of growing new leaders. by. … Read the rest. The post Check Out Today’s “200-Second Soundbite™” Podcast! appeared first on General Leadership.

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CTOvision

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

'By Shannon Perry. On July 30 th in northern Virginia, some of the greatest minds in analytics for business, outcomes, and mission impact gathered to share their lessons learned and experiences with data analytics. Academia, government, and industry came together to provide a comprehensive approach to investigating how we can better extract knowledge from information.

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Women on Business

SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

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The Accidental Successful CIO

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

'Knowing what you are looking for is the key to finding innovation Image Credit. As the person with the CIO job, you are probably under a lot of pressure to have your IT department be more innovative. CEOs everywhere are telling the press that in order for their company to be successful, innovation is going to have to happen within the company. This is all fine and good, I mean who doesn’t want to be more innovative?

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General Leadership

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

'A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, …and shows the way. John Maxwell. by … Read the rest. The post Monday Quote: appeared first on General Leadership.

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CTOvision

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

'By Bob Gourley. If you are in or know people in government, non-profits or NGO’s that have leveraged Hadoop in service to missions please nominate them for recognition as part of the 2014 Data Impact Awards presented by Cloudera. Here is more on this activity: The 2014 Data Impact award, presented by Cloudera, is a great way of helping the community learn best practices by highlighting mission-focused solutions.

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Women on Business

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

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Next Level Blog

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

'My work requires a lot of travel to meet with and present to clients. As the recent news stories about high altitude disputes over reclining seats on airplanes suggest, business travel can be stressful. That stress can eat you alive if you let it. Over the years, I’ve adopted some routines that have helped me stay healthy and sane when I travel for business.

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Mills Scofield

SEPTEMBER 14, 2014

'Innovation requires rethinking how we do business. My guest post on ZDNet (Thank you, Michael Krigsman! ), shares an approach for HR to re-examine how it serves the needs of Millennial workers, using the Business Model & Value Proposition Canvases. ". HR is in desperate need of a new business model. The combination of boomers retiring, Millennials expanding their presence in the workplace, intense competition for top talent, confusing and changing regulations, and new technology make HR rip

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CTOvision

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

'By Bob Gourley. The video at this link and embedded below was produced by PBS’ NOVA. The video does a great job explaining some very complex topics in an easy to understand way. It is the kind of video that I recommend sharing broadly, especially with people who do not yet realize that there is no such thing as a 100% risk-free or secure computer.

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Women on Business

SEPTEMBER 14, 2014

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Next Level Blog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

'The speed and volume of the emerging fiasco facing the NFL has been breathtaking. In the first football weekend after the League’s response to the video of Ray Rice punching his fiancé, there were players with similar charges against them scheduled to play on Sunday. One was pulled just before game time; the other played.

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Rapid BI

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

'Did you know…facts about training? The cost of training is expensive – but the cost of gaining a new customer is a lot more! A 2% increase in customer retention has the same effect as decreasing costs by 10% – Leading on the Edge of Chaos, Emmet Murphy & Mark Murphy A customer is 4 […].

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CTOvision

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

'By Shannon Perry. On July 30 th in northern Virginia, some of the greatest minds in analytics for business, outcomes, and mission impact gathered to share their lessons learned and experiences with data analytics. Academia, government, and industry came together to provide a comprehensive approach to investigating how we can better extract knowledge from information.

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Women on Business

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

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Coalfire

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

Last week I attended The Chertoff Group’s Security Series on Building Resiliency for Financial Services Sector. They provided insight into what they’re doing to protect their organizations, how they see the industry evolving, and firsthand knowledge about emerging threats.

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