Sat.Jul 20, 2013 - Fri.Jul 26, 2013

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Change Your Mind, Engage Their Hearts

Let's Grow Leaders

'“If you never change your mind, why have one?” -Edward de Bono You’ve taken a strong stand, rallied people around your vision, and worked hard to engage their hearts and minds. You’ve got momentum. But life’s messy. Circumstances change. New information. Changing dynamics. Competing pressures. You can change your mind without looking foolish. [.

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Design & Influence Irresistible Change Atlanta Workshop – Early Bird Registration Ends July 31

Change Starts Here

'Change gets stuck when your organization finds a way to resist it. The key to successful implementation, then, is to make your initiative irresistible. As a change agent, your job is a combination of designing change in advance to reduce obstacles and then personally influencing others as you go. After this 1-1/2 day workshop you will: Understand a model of how change works.

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Before you start making changes…

N2Growth Blog

'By John Baldoni , Chair, Leadership Development, N2growth. Change is part of organizational life — inevitable, unsettling and necessary. Too often when managers are pushed to improve, they make changes without taking stock of the situation and their talent. So, before you embark upon a change process, learn to ask yourself and your team five critical questions.

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More Luigi: Presentation from OSCON

Erik Bernhardsson

I was in Portland, OR for a few days hanging out at OSCON. Was fun. I also talked a bit about Luigi : Next week I’m presenting at the NYC Predictive Analytics meetup together with Blake Shaw from Foursquare. The topic is ML + Hadoop. Will be fun!

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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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Everyone Hates the Boss (and other opportunities)

Let's Grow Leaders

'Knowing “everyone’s in the same boat” paralyzes instincts to adjust the sails. Commiserating creates false teams. Misery with company is miserable. Solve problems instead. The more painful the situation, the easier it is to believe that everyone is right. “This can’t be fixed.” “The guy’s a jerk.” “The system is flawed….” Everyone knows it. Become [.

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Are ‘Bright Shiny Objects’ Worth Your Time (And Money)?

N2Growth Blog

'By John Baldoni , Chair, Leadership Development, N2growth. Beware of bright shiny objects! That could be a lesson contained in J.R.R. Tolkein’s Lord of the Rings trilogy when we see characters who find themselves in difficulty because they have strayed from their moral center. Today the term “bright shiny objects” is used in reference to organizations that cannot formulate a strategy, or if they do develop one, they fail to adhere to it.

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More Luigi: Presentation from OSCON

Erik Bernhardsson

I was in Portland, OR for a few days hanging out at OSCON. Was fun. I also talked a bit about Luigi : Next week I’m presenting at the NYC Predictive Analytics meetup together with Blake Shaw from Foursquare. The topic is ML + Hadoop. Will be fun!

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The Problem with Short-Cuts

Let's Grow Leaders

'I was her old boss, but it was more than that. She emailed, “I was offered a new job, I can’t decide.” I knew we needed to talk. I tried calling a few times that day. We’re both busy. Finally, I left an enthusiastic short-cut message with answers. I shared my best “heartfelt, short-cut” [.] The post The Problem with Short-Cuts appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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The Backlash Against Female Negotiators

Women on Business

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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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Business Combustion: How The 1% Spark Lights The 100% Flame

Terry Starbucker

'“A mighty flame followeth a tiny spark” – Dante Alighieri. It’s amazing what a spark can do. That concept was reinforced with me on 3 different occasions in the past week – in 3 different business situations. When something is banged up against your head that many times in a week, it stands to reason that the universe is trying to tell me something.

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Optimizing over multinomial distributions

Erik Bernhardsson

Sometimes you have to maximize some function where and. Usually, is concave and differentiable, so there’s one unique global maximum and you can solve it by applying gradient ascent. The presence of the constraint makes it a little tricky, but we can solve it using the method of Lagrange multipliers. In particular, since the surface has the normal , the following optimization procedure works: Go one step in the direction of the gradient.

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Christmas in July: How to Make Everyday Magic

Let's Grow Leaders

'It was a sweltering July day, the heat wave had been going on for weeks. We only had a window air conditioner in one room in the house. It was starting to feel crowded. My mom had used up her usual tricks to stay cool… the library… the movies…peppermint stick ice cream with chocolate sprinkles. [.] The post Christmas in July: How to Make Everyday Magic appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Some thoughts on this week’s Google Nexus event

CTOvision

'By Ryan Kamauff The Nexus breakfast promised a new tablet, but delivered so much more. On Wednesday AM Sundar Pinchai, VP of Android and Chrome at Google, held a “breakfast event” in which he detailed the new Nexus 7 tablet, the Chromecast, Android 4.3, and some other details. The galvanizing release were details on the new Nexus 7, to be sold June 30, but the most important piece (in my opinion) was the Chromecast.

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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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3 Digital PR Tools Every Business Owner Should Use

Women on Business

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Optimizing over multinomial distributions

Erik Bernhardsson

Sometimes you have to maximize some function where and. Usually, is concave and differentiable, so there’s one unique global maximum and you can solve it by applying gradient ascent. The presence of the constraint makes it a little tricky, but we can solve it using the method of Lagrange multipliers. In particular, since the surface has the normal , the following optimization procedure works: Go one step in the direction of the gradient.

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Begin with an Open Mind

Let's Grow Leaders

'It’s hard to argue with Stephen Covey’s 2nd habit ”begin with the end in mind.” Wise wisdom. But… Heads down, full steam ahead comes with risks. Chartered courses without open minds lead to missed opportunity. Sir Captain Don’s Story Last week I met Sir Captain Don Stewart on our vacation to Bonaire, in the Dutch Caribbean.

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Stretchable Gold Film for Electronics

CTOvision

'By Kimberly Kelly Stretchable Gold Film. Another page has been written in the science books that will lead us one step closer to countering diseases like Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s, Depression or even making flexible bionic limbs for amputee patients. The breakthrough comes in the form of ‘stretchy gold’. While researchers from all over the world have been working with different kinds of stretchable conductors, it was the University of Michigan that first came up with a solution to th

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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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Easy Tasks to Outsource and Why You Should Do It [Infographic]

Women on Business

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Tips for Motivating Employees

Lead on Purpose

'Guest post by Marcela De Vivo. Managers and team leaders alike want to create the best possible environment for their employees in order to have a high-functioning workplace, but exactly how to go about this is a bit of a difficult question. Each employee has a particular way they get things done, but it is your job as their leader to motivate them to work together.

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The 5 SOF Truths of Leadership

Nathan Magnuson

'From 2006-2012 I served as a part-time member of the U.S. Army’s Special Operations Forces (SOF) community. Some of our hardcore “green beret” colleagues operated as independent 4 man teams conducting unconventional warfare operations. My role in Civil Affairs had more to do with liaising with and advising local civilian leadership in foreign areas.

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Mindful Mondays: What Will Be Your Responsible “No” This Week?

Next Level Blog

'My wife has this great line that she sometimes uses when she’s asked to help with something that’s not as high a priority as other things on her calendar. She listens to the pitch and then politely says, “What you’re doing sounds great and really important. I’d like to be able to help but given everything else going on in my life, it wouldn’t be responsible of me to say yes.”.

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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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Business Planning and Social Media on The Social Marketing Hour with Susan Gunelius

Women on Business

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You Cannot Sell What You Do Not Own

The Recovering Engineer

'One day John, a newly promoted supervisor with Fictional Products, met with his boss, Bill, to discuss a new procedure recently mandated by a change to company policy. John was not happy with the change because he knew that his team would not like it. The new procedure added two documentation steps to an existing operation, and he knew that it would add both time and energy to an already cumbersome process.

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How to Build a Great Team and Culture? 60 Pointers

QAspire

'I recently delivered a talk at a local entrepreneurship forum on the topic “ How to Build a Great Team and Culture ”. It won’t be unfair to say that establishing a great culture and team is highest on priority of a business leader. And why not? A great culture enables success, builds team fabric and attracts talent too. We have all seen many talented teams failing simply because of a poor culture and human dynamics.

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Let Them Think Out Loud

Next Level Blog

'A few days ago, I got a call from a coaching colleague who was looking for some advice. He''s been working with the top executives of a company and has developed strong relationships with each of them. The challenge is that those executives are sorting through some disagreements with each other and each of them is confiding their points of view in my friend, the coach.

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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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Why New Mums are Going Into Debt When They Leave Work

Women on Business

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4 Ways For CIOs To Do A Better Job Of Interviewing

The Accidental Successful CIO

'Doing an interview correctly is an important job skill Image Credit. The person who has the CIO job (you) has a huge responsibility that is even bigger than the importance of information technology is to your company – you need to make sure that the right people are attracted to your IT department and that you hire the best of the best. The only problem with this responsibility is that far too few of us have ever been trained on just exactly how to go about doing interviews correctly….

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Scala Redis client goes non blocking : uses Akka IO

Ruminations of a Programmer

scala-redis is getting a new non blocking version based on a kernel implemented with the new Akka IO. The result is that all APIs are non blocking and return a Future. We are trying to keep the API as close to the blocking version as possible. But bits rot and some of the technical debt need to be repaid. We have cleaned up some of the return types which had unnecessary Option[] wrappers, made some improvements and standardizations on the API type signatures and also working on making the byte a