Sat.Jul 04, 2015 - Fri.Jul 10, 2015

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5 Big Rules For Productive Conference Calls

Let's Grow Leaders

It’s easy to fool ourselves into the illusion that “just having a conference call,” instead of a face-to-face meeting or one-on-one, will save time. In fact, it’s that kind of thinking that leaves many managers moving from call to call with little time to connect with their team. In an attempt to salvage some productivity in their day, they put the phone on mute and try to get real work done at the same time—and don’t pay close attention to much as a result.

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About Saying “I Love You”

General Leadership

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. “ Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love. “ Mother Theresa. I think the story goes like this: Wife chides husband, “You never tell me you love me; you never say “I love you.” Husband replies, “What are you talking about?

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All United Airlines flights in US grounded: Computer “glitch” cited as cause

CTOvision

The entire U.S. travel system is under strain today causing a major disruption to business and pleasure travel on all carriers do to what United is calling a computer systems "glitch". What is a glitch? We have all seen those before. The most famous aviation computer glitch was Johnny in the movie Airplane. Was Johnny to blame this time? The fact is that these are very complex systems of systems and there are possibilities of cascading failures that can collapse the entire system.

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Why Great Leadership Can Always Use More Cowbell

Terry Starbucker

Note: This is the 3rd installment of excerpts from my book manuscript of “More Human: A Journey To The Heart Of Great Leadership” The first installment is here , and the second here. . It’s a story about how a fun employee recognition program pulled a team closer together in their quest to go from good to great, building and cementing a solid foundation of pride, respect, trust and goodwill.

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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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Effective Delegation: An Easy to Use Tool

Let's Grow Leaders

When you’re overwhelmed, stressed, and busy, you know the natural answer is to delegate more. But there’s a risk. When you’re moving fast it’s wasy to get sloppy or overbearing in your delegation: ( see 3 delegation mistakes you don’t have to make). That’s why I’ve created this easy checklist for you to use the next time your delegating an important task.

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Recorded Future Provides Awareness Into Issue of Government Credentials On The Open Web

CTOvision

Recorded Future provides real time threat intelligence to cyber defenders as well as business executives seeking insights to inform decisions. They leverage a patented Web Intelligence Engine over with billions of indexed facts (and more added daily) to analyze the open web to provide insights. One category of the many sites they ingest is paste sites.

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5 Ways to Sell Your Brand

Women on Business

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6 Secrets to a Successful Mentoring Program

Let's Grow Leaders

Mentoring, at it’s best, is a magical elixir which shaves years off your learning curve through mistakes unmade. Thank God, I’ve experienced the transformational spirit of amazing mentors. Please God, let my mentoring have made a difference for others. Ask anyone who’s ever had an amazing mentor where that experience ranks in their growth as a leader, and I’d bet money they’d put their mentor ahead of any keynote, consulting program, book they’ve read, and pot

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Time Machine Tuesday: Simulated Leadership

General Leadership

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. From Our Early Files: Originally Published. 28 Nov 2013. “No enemy bombs will ever land on Berlin, or my name is not. Hermann Goering.” the leader formerly known as. Hermann Goering. In most organizations, leaders live in an environment of respect, rules, professionalism, and obedience.

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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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What The Startup CEO Needs To Know About The Federal IT Ecosystem

CTOvision

One of our most important lines of business at Cognitio is helping high tech firms that can solve big problems for the federal government succeed in doing that. We are firm believers that advanced technologies, smartly tailored to address federal agency missions, are key to a better future. As realists we also know that many startup CEOs really wonder whether they should pursue the federal market.

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5 Steps to Create a Successful Email Marketing Campaign

Women on Business

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How React Components Make UI Testing Easy

Toptal

Testing back-ends is easy. But testing front-end code is kinda hard. In the ten years I've been a developer, I hadn’t found a decent way to test user interaction and view rendering until I started poking at React.

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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]. “Leaders touch a heart before they ask for a hand. “ John C. Maxwell. . How did you enjoy today’s post? If you liked what you read, sign up for our frequent newsletter by clicking HERE — and you’ll also receive our handy Leader’s Reference List. . … Read the rest.

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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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Hadoop Security: New book by Ben Spivey and Joey Echeverria Is Exactly What The Community Needs

CTOvision

We hold Ben Spivey and Joey Echeverria in the highest regard, and are very pleased to give this book our highest possible endorsement. Hadoop Security: Protecting Your Big Data Platform is packed with the protective strategies, tips and techniques you will want to build into your designs early in your data modernization efforts. Title: Hadoop Security.

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4 Tips to Strategize a PR Plan

Women on Business

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Mindful Mondays: Change It Up This Week

Next Level Blog

If you’ve been reading anything I’ve written over the past few years, you know what a big fan I am of routines. I’m especially fond of the routines – physical, mental, relational and spiritual – that help you show up at your best. Mindful routines help us groove the behaviors that lead to incremental improvement. Incremental improvement consistently achieved leads to big results.

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Organizational Problem Solving Made Simple

Nathan Magnuson

If you have a leadership role at work, solving problems is just part of the equation. It doesn’t take long to realize that problem-solving can be pretty complicated. What type of problem is it? What caused it? What is the best action to take? And on top of all that, often times we either feel unqualified or under-resourced to come up with the best solution.

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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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Fed Tech News Roundup

CTOvision

The following are some of the hot topics in the federal technology ecosystem: Senate advances secret plan forcing Internet services to report terror activity Ars Technica (Today) - Legislation modeled on 2008 law requiring Internet companies to report child porn.The legislation, approved 15-0 in a closed-door hearing, remains "classified." The relevant text is contained in the 2016 intelligence.

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How To Build Your Business By Writing Articles

Women on Business

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Leading Well: Listening is Meditation

QAspire

This post is inspired by a tweet from the legendary Tom Peters which deeply resonated with me. I once had such a major disconnect with the Head of HR that I had to walk out of his room. And the disconnect was not that of ideas because I could not even start the discussion for which we were meeting. Every time I attempted to start, a text message on his cell phone or something on his computer screen distracted him.

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OpenCV Tutorial: Real-time Object Detection Using MSER in iOS

Toptal

Detecting objects of interest in images has always been an interesting challenge in the realm of computer vision, and many approaches have been developed over recent years. As mobile platforms are becoming increasingly powerful, now is the perfect opportunity to develop interesting mobile applications that take advantages of these algorithms. This article walks us through the process of building a simple iOS application for detecting objects in images.

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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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Ask, Measure, Learn: Using Social Media Analytics to Understand and Influence Customer Behavior

CTOvision

You can measure practically anything in the age of social media, but if you don’t know what you’re looking for, collecting mountains of data won’t yield a grain of insight. This non-technical guide shows you how to extract significant business value from big data with Ask-Measure-Learn, a system that helps you ask the right questions, measure the right data, and then learn from the results.

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Lorien Strydom Joins the Women on Business Team

Women on Business

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Pain VS Gain: How to Best Motivate Buyers to Buy

The Empowered Buisness

Guest Article by Dan Seidman. Picture this, you’re 12 years old and you fly into the house after school. “Mom, Dad, guess what I decided today? I’m gonna be a doctor!”. Mom is always encouraging. “Honey, that’s great! Doctors are well respected. You’ll make good money, have a nice spouse and a nice house. I’m so glad you’re going to be a doctor.”. In contrast, how might Dad respond?

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How Staff Can Try Out New Roles With No Risk

The Accidental Successful CIO

IT staff can only grow in their jobs if the risk level is manageable Image Credit: epSos.de. As the person with the CIO job, you want to be in charge of the best IT department possible. It turns out that this means that in addition to getting the rest of the company to understand the importance of information technology, you want to have the best people working for you.

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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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Your Arm Can Now Be A Mobile Device

CTOvision

Imagine having your arm as your mobile device. Looking at texts, social media, news, phone and more on your forearm. No longer would you have to root in your purse to pick up your ringing phone, or find it buried in a pocket. With a quick flick of your wrist, your phone becomes visible on your arm. With the Cicret Bracelet , your skin becomes your new touch screen.

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Top Tips For Harnessing The Power Of LinkedIn To Get Your Next Role

Rapid BI

Let LinkedIn Find You a Job Ok so you have a profile but how do you go about Harnessing the power of LinkedIn? However, you need to help it before it can help you. If you took the time and effort to click a link that leads to this article, you’re either: a) unemployed and looking […]. The post Top Tips For Harnessing The Power Of LinkedIn To Get Your Next Role appeared first on.

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Windows - It's About Time!

LogicMonitor

A fairly frequent request our fabulous support engineers get is that LogicMonitor doesn't monitor time on Windows servers, as compared to the nice graphs and alerts we give on NTP offset and synchronization state for other devices. Why do we hate Windows? Our answer has always been that we love all our customer's devices equally. In the case of Windows, our answer to the above question was that: It's complicated to get the equivalent data out of Windows (more on this later) Windows does a good j

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