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Super Leaders Open Doors

Let's Grow Leaders

'Great leaders open doors for other leaders. Great leaders also know when to knock. Be a door opener. Learn how to knock. Who’s opened doors for you? What have you done to open doors for others? Bill Treasurer, author of Leaders Who Open Doors, is collecting stories of leaders who have opened doors, or [.] The post Super Leaders Open Doors appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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10 Immutable Laws Of Leadership

Terry Starbucker

'There are some things about leadership that we cannot change, no matter how hard we try. They are the immutable laws of leadership, forming the backbone of any successful foray into this honorable vocation. Live by them, build on them, and lead by them, and you give yourself a fighting chance. Defy them, manipulate them, or ignore them, and the deck will be stacked against you.

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Don’t Leave a Dead Bird on your Doorstep!

N2Growth Blog

'By Brian Layer , Chair, Organizational Development, N2growth. Recently, I approached the entrance of familiar children’s store and saw a dead bird on their doorstep. Decay indicated the time for a proper burial had passed and while disturbed, I was not surprised the employees left it lying in state. The dead bird on the doorstep is a common symptom of a big organization problem and if you run one, you might have a few dead birds of your own.

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HubSpot’s Picture Shows how to Maintain Monocultures in the 21st Century

Erik Bernhardsson

I thought this article about the company culture at HubSpot is kind of funny. “HubSpot’s Awesome Presentation Shows how to Create a 21st Century Culture”. Just FYI: You’re not different. You’re a bunch of white hipsters aged 25-30 dressed up in the same theme. That’s not being different. On a more serious note, this represents one of the most challenging aspects of scaling a company culture.

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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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Tough on Results, Gentle on People

Let's Grow Leaders

'“Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.” -Franklin D. Roosevelt When all that matters are numbers, eventually, people don’t matter. Great leaders consistently focus on people and performance. Be tough on results, gentle on people. Set high [.

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30 Outdated Leadership Practices Holding Your Company Back

N2Growth Blog

'By Mike Myatt , Chief Executive Officer, N2growth . According to the American Society of Training and Development, U.S. businesses spend more than $170 Billion dollars annually on leadership-based curriculum. My question is this; to what end? Are we producing better leaders or just more people who hold positions of leadership? What makes a leader successful?

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ML+Hadoop at NYC Predictive Analytics

Erik Bernhardsson

I was just at the NYC Predictive Analytics meetup talking about how we build machine learning algorithms using Hadoop to power music recommendations. Great meetup, where we had two speakers, me and Blake Shaw from Foursquare. Blake talked about how they use machine learning at Foursquare, using Hadoop (and Luigi), and he uploaded his slides here ! Here’s the full video for the talk (both mine and Blake’s).

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Real Leadership: Defining Your Personal Leadership Paradigm

Let's Grow Leaders

'“Real isn’t how you are made,’ said the Skin Horse. ‘It’s a thing that happens to you…It doesn’t happen all at once,’ You become. It takes a long time. That’s why it doesn’t happen often to people who break easily, or have sharp edges, or who have to be carefully kept. ” - Margery Wiliams, The [.

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3 Simple Ways to Determine Hiring Fit

Nathan Magnuson

'I remember the first time I asked my supervisors if I could sit in on an interview they had scheduled with an outside candidate. I figured it would be a good learning opportunity as well as a break from crunching financial numbers. (This was during my first job out of college, before I got into [.].

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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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Values: Live Them And Others Will Follow

N2Growth Blog

'By John Baldoni , Chair, Leadership Development, N2growth. It’s always good to connect with individuals whose values are tangible. You can almost sense the spirit of higher purpose stirring within them as they speak. One group of folks whom I have found radiate such conviction are military officers, and recently I had the opportunity to lunch with one of the best of the best.

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ML+Hadoop at NYC Predictive Analytics

Erik Bernhardsson

I was just at the NYC Predictive Analytics meetup talking about how we build machine learning algorithms using Hadoop to power music recommendations. Great meetup, where we had two speakers, me and Blake Shaw from Foursquare. Blake talked about how they use machine learning at Foursquare, using Hadoop (and Luigi), and he uploaded his slides here ! Here’s the full video for the talk (both mine and Blake’s).

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Great Leadership Produces Great Results. But…

Let's Grow Leaders

'Great leadership produces great results. But, sometimes leadership qualities that should work, don’t. ”Good” leaders with weak results… spend so much time on people, they forget about the plan are over-using positive strengths worry too much about being liked give up too soon, and revert to command and control (what would you add?

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Interview: Implementing Change Management at ESPN

Change Starts Here

'My guest this episode is Tonya Cornelius, Vice President of Learning and Organizational Development at ESPN. In this episode, she tells the story of how they implemented a custom change management approach at the sports TV network. Listen to hear how she decided to develop a custom change management approach, what the approach entails, and how they implemented it.

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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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Research Finds Lack of Gender Diversity in Boardrooms Causes Dysfunction

Women on Business

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HubSpot’s Picture Shows how to Maintain Monocultures in the 21st Century

Erik Bernhardsson

I thought this article about the company culture at HubSpot is kind of funny. “HubSpot’s Awesome Presentation Shows how to Create a 21st Century Culture”. Just FYI: You’re not different. You’re a bunch of white hipsters aged 25-30 dressed up in the same theme. That’s not being different. On a more serious note, this represents one of the most challenging aspects of scaling a company culture.

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Fast Results: Accomplish More in Less Time

Let's Grow Leaders

'You’ve been asked to do the impossible. The clock’s ticking and there’s pressure to perform. Competing priorities complicate the scene. Pushing harder exacerbates stress. Stress leads to inaction. Time to move fast. The FAST Model F-Focus To move results quickly, focus is key. Resist the urge to fix everything. Identify and communicate the biggest [.

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Love It or Leave It: The Power of the Status Quo

Change Starts Here

'I regularly watch a show on HGTV called “Love It or List It.” The home makeover show features a couple who are tired of their current house and want to make a change. The show pits two professionals against each other: Hilary, the interior designer, and David, the real estate agent. Both Hilary and David set out to fix up the current house or find the couple a new one, respectively.

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Revolutionizing Contact Centers: Next-Gen Tech for Enhanced CX

Speaker: Liran Meir Frenkel, Performance Management and RPA Sr Product Marketing Manager at NICE; Harpreet Makan, Practice Director at Everest Group; & Santhosh Kumar, Practice Director at Everest Group

As contact centers navigate the challenges of delivering excellence within budget constraints and adapting to evolving employee expectations, optimizing agent tasks becomes crucial. Discover a holistic approach across three pillars - people, process, and technology - that is essential to excel in this dynamic landscape, and explore how next-gen technologies such as generative AI, performance analytics, and process intelligence play a pivotal role in transforming contact centers into advanced CX

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A look at the Hadoop Big Data Reservoir with Platfora’s Peter Schlampp

CTOvision

'By Ryan Kamauff Peter Schlampp, the Vice President of Products and Business Development at Platfora, explains what the Hadoop Big Data reservoir is and is not in this webinar that I watched today. Knowing what the HDR is and is not is key to pulling out business intelligence insights and analytics. Platfora arrived at these conclusions from interviews of over 200 enteprise IT professionals who are working in the big data space.

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Taking Pride in Your (small) Business

Women on Business

'We''ve Moved! Update your Reader Now. This feed has moved to: [link] If you haven''t already done so, update your reader now with this changed subscription address to get your latest updates from us. [link].

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Mindful Mondays: Five Questions You Should Be Asking Yourself On a Regular Basis

Next Level Blog

'How many decisions do you think you make in a day? The research I’ve seen says its anywhere from 600 or so to 10,000 on average. When I think about all of the relatively inconsequential decisions I make every day (e.g. what shirt to wear, what I’m going to have for breakfast, etc.), I’m inclined to go with the higher number. Any way you slice it, it’s a lot of daily decisions for most people.

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7 Ways To Rebuild An IT Department After A Global Recession

The Accidental Successful CIO

'After the global recession, the clean-up is only part of what IT has to do Image Credit. Ugg, nobody likes a global recession especially those of us who have the CIO job. However, now that it appears to pretty much be over, the big question is just exactly how are we supposed to go about rebuilding the IT department. Bad things happened during the recession and everyone in the IT department knows about these things.

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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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Bidding Open on DHS’ $6B Security Hub, House report stresses sharing

CTOvision

'By Ryan Kamauff Here are the top news and stories of the day. Vendors Question DISA’s Cloud Cost-Saving Claims – “Some contractors are questioning whether the Defense Department’s planned $450 million cloud-computing project will offer the most cost-effective solutions for its customers or merely resell industry products and services for a higher price.” The DISA cloud delivery project could offer shared services that increase the ability of the IC to meet their goals.

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Marketing Your Company, Not You

Women on Business

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The Signers of The Declaration of Extreme Leadership

Steve Farber

'I had the great honor of hosting The Extreme Leadership Intensive on July 18 and 19 in Des Moines, IA. It was a phenomenal opportunity for an intimate group of Extreme Leaders from several companies and entrepreneurial ventures to focus on the application of LEAP (Love, Energy, Audacity, and Proof) to our lives and businesses. In our closing ceremony, we all had the chance to put a stake in the ground by signing this poster of A Declaration of Extreme Leadership.

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“Brand You” Has Nothing to Do with Twitter

Next Level Blog

'While travelling this week, I’ve been reading This Town: Two Parties and a Funeral-Plus, Plenty of Valet Parking!-in America''s Gilded Capital by New York Times reporter Mark Leibovich. It’s a simultaneously entertaining and depressing account of the power elite in Washington, DC. The primary point of the book, which Leibovich illustrates with story after story, is that the players in D.C.

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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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Mozilla is joining the Mobile OS game

CTOvision

'By Kimberly Kelly. Mozilla’s mobile Firefox OS is up and running! It wasn’t until this past week that rumors about the Firefox OS were confirmed with the release of a new ZTE smartphone. A Spanish wireless network, Telefónica, has begun selling the Linux-driven smartphone that is called the ‘ZTE Open’ This phone runs the new Firefox OS, and can be purchased for only $90, it even comes with a pre-paid balance of $40 worth of phone calls.

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5 Things to Consider When Setting up a Home Business

Women on Business

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Are you building a great organization?

Lead on Purpose

'Whether you lead a classroom of school children or a major corporation, you should frequently ask yourself the question “am I building a great organization?” Why should you try to build a great organization? Because doing so is, for the most part, as easy as building a good one (see Good to Great chapter 9). Here are five posts from Lead on Purpose that will help you build a great organization: 1.