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The True Story of Thanksgiving

Let's Grow Leaders

'“To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do.” -Victor Hugo His Thanksgiving Story “That’s not my Thanksgiving story,” Sam confided as we watched the joyous reunions of families with kids returning from college. “I came home from […] The post The True Story of Thanksgiving appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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The 4 Things You HAVE To Do To Make Leadership Development Really Work

Terry Starbucker

'Every company has some kind of leadership development program, even if they don’t realize it. As soon as a supervisor, manager, director, vice president, senior vice president, executive vice president, or C-suite executive is hired, they “ develop ” as leaders – that is, from the moment they start working they are molded by the circumstances and people that they encounter.

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Metrics and Big Data: How to measure the value of big data for your business

CTOvision

'By Bob Gourley With the herald of innovative, personal, smart and targeted marketing, ‘big data’ offers enticing and varied advantages for businesses. The ability uncover and harness data, to tackle and tame the informational chaos presented, is increasingly expected of most organisations. But how do you know how useful and profitable data will be for your business uniquely?

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Women Small Business Owners Use Social Media for Marketing More than Male Counterparts [Infographic]

Women on 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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Culture Matters: Build Your Own Oasis (BYOO)

Let's Grow Leaders

'It’s tempting to blame your leadership problems on the bigger culture. You may even be tempted to let the “if onlys” creep it. My team would be… more engaged, “if only we paid our part-timers like Starbucks able to delight customers, “if only we had more lenient satisfaction policies like Zappos” more creative, “If only […] The post Culture Matters: Build Your Own Oasis (BYOO) appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Google Glass Feeds from CTOvision, Delphi Brief, Analyst One: stay informed through Google Glass

CTOvision

'By Bob Gourley We announced two weeks ago that we are now part of the Google Glass explorer program. Our view is that we need to dive into this technology for several reasons, including a need to track the impact of trends to wearable computers will have on enterprise IT. We also intend on writing more about Google Glass on our other web properties, including Analyst One (which focuses on analysts and analytics) and Delphi Brief (which has a national security focus).

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Women Business Owners Give Thanks for Support, Growth, and Ability to Impact Community

Women on Business

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12 Components of Trusted Strategic Partnerships

Let's Grow Leaders

'“But how do you KNOW they’ll do it, if we don’t put it in the contract?” I looked at him assuredly, “because they told me they would.” “But what if they DON’T?” “If they don’t do what they say, we’ve got much bigger problems than this metric. That would be a breach of our trusted […] The post 12 Components of Trusted Strategic Partnerships appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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What Does It Actually Mean to Be Generous?

Nathan Magnuson

'How will you spend Thanksgiving this week? As an American holiday, it usually includes time with family and ridiculous amounts of food and football. Talk about a great combination! As we prepare to celebrate the holiday, it’s important to note that thankfulness actually encompasses four different areas: gratitude, generosity, sharing and contentment.

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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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Five Points To Remember For Any Government Enterprise Modernization Project: Tips from Tod Weber of SoftwareAG

CTOvision

'By Bob Gourley On 21 November 2013 FCW and GCN hosted a day long summit focused on efficient Agency IT Modernization Strategies. First speaker was Tod Weber, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Software AG Government Solutions. Todd brings the experience and background of successful execution of IT based solutions from the perspective of a vendor ( SoftwareAG ).

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The Advantages of Building a Culture of Teamwork For Corporate Events

Women on Business

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Six Questions to Ask for Successful Collaboration

The Recovering Engineer

'The biggest problem with collaborative problem solving is the collaborative part. Many new leaders became leaders because they know how to get things done. This individual ability to solve problems, applied in a team environment, can become a weakness as the new leader pushes strongly for a solution that others resist. I have been that new leader who pushed too strongly too early in the process.

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Mindful Mondays: How to Give Thanks (Mindfully)

Next Level Blog

'As the Thanksgiving holiday approaches in the United States, I want to spend a few moments discussing how to give thanks. I’m not talking about how you get ready to eat more than you usually do, spend time with relatives you don’t see that often or veg out in front of football game after football game. I’m not even talking about giving thanks for all the things you’re grateful for (although that’s always a good idea).

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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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Please Contribute Your Thoughts on Best Practices in Government #BigData Solutions

CTOvision

'By Bob Gourley Dear readers, We are collecting best practices in Big Data Management for upcoming reports and webinars and would appreciate it very much if you give us your input on this topic. Please take our online survey at. https://www.surveymonkey.com/ s/S2ZH92M. We wanted to let you know we are also doing our homework on this topic. We promise to offer thoughts on Big Data Management back to the community based on your inputs plus research we have been doing from multiple sources.

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5 Ways to Get Your Employees Engaged

Women on Business

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Managing Aggression in a Team – A Short Tale

QAspire

'The cricket coach had some wise words for his team. This team was reeling under pressure to perform and was marred by penalties imposed on key players due to their overly aggressive behavior on the field. Coach knew that some course correction was required. “Aggression” he said, “is a double edged sword. If used correctly, [.

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Happy Thanksgiving — Take The Week Off!

The Accidental Successful CIO

'Image Credit Here's Hoping That This Week Is Special For Everyone. Loyal readers & subscribers, here’s hoping that this upcoming week is a great week for you — I’m taking it off! Blogging will resume next week… For my readers in the U.S., you know that this week is all about family, turkey, and of course football. I’m not sure what it is about turkey that always seems to make everyone fall asleep, but I’m hoping that when I wake up this year the glob

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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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Blogging for Leaders

Rapid BI

'Recently I have been involved in a number of discussions about blogging in the context of leaders and managers, and what it is and is not. This got me thinking on how many people should be blogging (internally or externally) but are not. I will start by saying that there are as many forms of […].

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Videos in Email Marketing – Getting Better [Infographic]

Women on Business

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What are You Grateful For?

Mills Scofield

'Thanksgiving - time to spend with family, eat, watch and play football, the Macy''s Day Parade, traditions - old and new. New studies scientifically show how an ''attitude of gratitude'' actually makes us healthier and happier ~ focusing on how being grateful is better for ''me'' instead of for ''you''. This season, forget that stuff. Start being grateful because it''s the right thing to do - for others, not for ourselves.

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What every CIO should know about the new ISO 27001:2013 framework

Coalfire

Originally released in 2005, the ISO 27001 standard has recently been updated with additional guidelines for assessing risks within information management systems. These changes constitute the first revisions to the standard in eight years and have major implications for organizational compliance. With greater focus on risk ownership and continuous improvement, ISO 27001:2013 will require companies to formulate new risk management processes that incorporate procedures to ensure compliance.

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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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Tip for Trainers – a recent compendium #trainingtip

Rapid BI

'Over the last few months I have been putting short tips for trainers up on twitter, I thought it was about time I collated them here. Not in any particular order, there I hope will provide some reflection in your training practice: #trainingtip Tips to be a more effective trainer [link] #storify #trainingtip #greatlearning […].

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Self Assessment Program Best Practice 9 – Continuous Monitoring and Periodic Assessment

Strategy Driven

'The value derived from performing self-assessments directly correlates to the effectiveness of the program itself. In order to maximize its value, the self-assessment program must be efficiently administered, the individual assessments insightful, and the follow-on improvements recommendations actually implemented. Shortfalls in any of these aspects diminish the program’s overall return on investment.

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Lean Startup Conference Pre-Workshop

Mills Scofield

'I''m excited to do a workshop on Business Model innovation before the Lean Startup Conference simulcast at Leandog in Cleveland on December 10th! Come join us on the boat !!!!

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The Ponemon Institute 2013 Cost of Cyber Crime Study is out

Coalfire

Before anyone else conjures up the image of Steve Martin (in the Jerk) running down the street with the new phone book and declaring the obvious to all around him, let’s put this study in perspective. There is nothing new or unexpected in the 2013 study. We have had it confirmed that cybercrime is still a big issue and it costs all of us a lot of time and money to combat a growing list of criminals and terrorists.

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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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Raising Awareness: Do Awareness Months Work?

Rapid BI

'There are a lot of fantastic events on the global calendar, some of which see people eating certain foods, doing strange things or wearing specific items of clothing to raise money for good causes. A lot of these events are beneficial in raising much-needed funds to aid development or cover the cost of medical treatments […].

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Giving Thanks to You, Our Listeners and Readers

Strategy Driven

'As we reflect on the past year, we have many things to be thankful for and in particular the trust and support you – our listeners and readers – have given us. Thank you for making our sixth year a very successful one. May you enjoy the happiest of Thanksgiving Holidays. Best Wishes Always, The StrategyDriven Team. You just finished reading Giving Thanks to You, Our Listeners and Readers !

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Deconstructing AngularJS Injector

NeverFriday

I was reading through Coders at Work and realized that I haven’t done much code reading lately, other than reading through code samples in tutorials and articles. The interviews in the book suggested that code reviews and code reading are one of the most important things you can do as a professional programmer. This gave me the idea to write this article on the Angular injector.