Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 13, 2014

'Shortly after joining a new church, the council president enthusiastically revealed that I was part of their “volunteer leadership succession plan.” I politely declined and spent the next month working to act less “leader-like” at church. Plus, I figured if I skipped coffee hour, I could dodge the recruiters. Busy people freak out when asked […] The post How to Recruit Leaders in Your Volunteer Organization appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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General Leadership

JANUARY 17, 2014

'When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt. Honore de Balzac. Visualize you are an ice skater in a competition. You are in first place going into the final round. If you perform well, the gold medal is yours. You are nervous, anxious and frightened. Then, mere minutes before it’s your turn to take the ice, your trainer rushes over to you with incredible news: “You’ve already won!

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Change Starts Here

JANUARY 14, 2014

'Last week I attended the Association for Strategic Planning Atlanta chapter’s monthly meeting for a presentation called, “Zero to Strategy in 12 Months.” It was the story of how the presenter led the development of an Office of Strategy and Solutions in his organization over the course of the last year. He started with nothing, and now his group of internal consultants numbers 12 people.

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Erik Bernhardsson

JANUARY 11, 2014

Radim Rehurek has put together an excellent summary of approximate nearest neighbor libraries in Python. This is exciting, because one of the libraries he’s covering, annoy , was built by me. After introducing the problem , he goes through the list of contestants and sticks with five remaining ones. Finally, the benchmarks pits annoy against FLANN. Although FLANN seems to have roughly 4x better performance, somewhat surprisingly, Radim concludes annoy is the “winner”.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 15, 2014

'Maybe it’s a side effect of passion, intensity, or commitment, but some of the most interesting people I know have a moody dark side. Moody at any level is tough to be around. If it’s your boss it’s even trickier. It’s tempting to avoid the mood (and the person who wears it) and […] The post Dealing with Moody People at Work appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 16, 2014

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Erik Bernhardsson

JANUARY 11, 2014

Radim Rehurek has put together an excellent summary of approximate nearest neighbor libraries in Python. This is exciting, because one of the libraries he’s covering, annoy , was built by me. After introducing the problem , he goes through the list of contestants and sticks with five remaining ones. Finally, the benchmarks pits annoy against FLANN. Although FLANN seems to have roughly 4x better performance, somewhat surprisingly, Radim concludes annoy is the “winner”.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 17, 2014

'Trying to describe effective collaboration is a bit like describing true love. You know when you’re in it. It feels wonderful, but … it’s hard to describe to anyone outside the relationship. And like love, you can get burned by sexy potential collaborators who don’t play straight. Unfortunately, such scenarios leave scar tissue that scares […] The post Unlikely Collaboration: The Secret to Success appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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CTOvision

JANUARY 16, 2014

'By Bob Gourley Editor’s note: I’m very proud to be serving on the Haystax Technology advisory board. This firm is absolutely one to watch. For more see their website at [link] – bg. Haystax Technology Names Advisory Board Members. Six Advisors with Defense, Intelligence and Commercial Experience to Deliver Strategic Guidance to Haystax.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 17, 2014

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Steve Farber

JANUARY 12, 2014

'Legendary speaker and business author, Bob Burg , has just released his new book, Adversaries Into Allies. In it, he offers lots of great, bite-sized insights into how to become an Ultimate Influencer–which is, in many ways, deeply akin to being an Extreme Leader. For example, here’s what Bob says on the subject of Growing From Your Mistakes : Even top influencers make mistakes.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 17, 2014

'The Frontline Festival went on the road this month. It’s hosted by David Dye of Trailblaze. It’s all about Leading Up and Sideways. “Your leadership success depends on your ability to get things done with a wide variety of people – most of whom are not members of your team. Your boss, your peers in […] The post Frontline Festival, Trusted Resources, and Your Vote appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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CTOvision

JANUARY 15, 2014

'By Bob Gourley. Editor’s note: My sense is this relationship will have important and positive impacts on many clients leveraging Hadoop in enterprises, especially those that would like to leverage Apache Accumulo. – bg. PALO ALTO, CA and SEATTLE, WA–(Marketwired – Jan 15, 2014) - Cloudera , the leader in enterprise analytic data management powered by Apache Hadoop ™ and Koverse, the company that separates signal from noise for data-driven organizations, today announced

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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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Women on Business

JANUARY 16, 2014

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Next Level Blog

JANUARY 13, 2014

'New research summarized in the New York Times recently suggests that your brain cells need the same kind of opportunity to clear out all the waste they generate in the course of a day of thinking. The research shows that 20% of a brain’s total volume is dedicated to channels that remove the toxins that accumulate over the course of thinking all day.

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Lead on Purpose

JANUARY 11, 2014

'<Ad> I used Grammarly’s online plagiarism checker because leaders better get their letters right. This post is sponsored by Grammarly, but the content and opinions are my own. </Ad> Now that the hype of the New Year is behind us it’s a bit easier to look forward through a more realistic lens. Many resolution and goal-setting plans exist, and in that late December period, the number of offers can make your head spin.

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CTOvision

JANUARY 17, 2014

'By Bob Gourley Editor’s note: The release below from the Defense Information Systems Agency points to progress enabling several key DoD missions with mobility solutions. I’m on the advisory board of Fixmo , a firm enabling this progress-bg. FORT GEORGE G. MEADE, Md. – The new year will bring new mobile capabilities to as many as 100,000 DOD users.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 12, 2014

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Next Level Blog

JANUARY 15, 2014

'In her Golden Globes acceptance speech last weekend, Jennifer Lawrence talked about how, as a teenager in Kentucky, she loved a movie called I Heart Huckabees. She wanted to know more about the movie so she Googled it and found out its director was David O. Russell and that he had directed three of her other favorite movies. Less than ten years later she was on stage in Hollywood expressing her amazement that David O.

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Mills Scofield

JANUARY 14, 2014

'This is one of most honored posts I''ve ever ever hosted. Lt. Col. Matthew Fritz is Director, Commander''s Action Group of NATO''s Air Training Command in Afghanistan. Training a newly formed Afghan Air Force is the epitome in complex continual change management. Matt has become a very dear friend, thanks to Angela Maiers , and fellow blogger at Switch & Shift.

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CTOvision

JANUARY 13, 2014

'By Sheri Harrison The US Office of Foreign Assets Control sets regulations for economic practices between the United States and other countries. It ensures that all interactions between domestic companies and foreign companies maintain U.S. national security. What does this organization have to do with wireless providers? It has a say in what kinds of customers they can work with.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 13, 2014

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Toptal

JANUARY 16, 2014

I've been an Engineer at Toptal for just about one year now, working on the same project since I joined the network: Ondello, a service that connects doctors and patients over WebRTC. When I first joined Ondello, I was hired as a Senior Ruby on Rails Developer, tasked to build a service up from scratch. These days, we're a team of multiple developers working on a fairly large, complex system.

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Six Disciplines

JANUARY 17, 2014

'Are strategic thinking and strategic planning - the same thing ? While they certainly related and complementary, thinking strategically and planning strategically are two different concepts. Let''s first consider strategic thinking , which involves viewing your organization from a holistic perspective. . Research has determined that strategic thinking can be explained through seven dimensions: A vision of the future.

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Rapid BI

JANUARY 17, 2014

'This week I came across this post, which neatly summarises some of the difficulties you can get into using LinkedIn. Did you know for example that making a “mistake” in one LinkedIn group can cost you your ability to post in ANY group? Interestingly there are some site wide implications for actions, and its worth […].

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Women on Business

JANUARY 15, 2014

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Coalfire

JANUARY 14, 2014

Information Week’s Matthew Swartz published an article on the recently- confirmed payment card breaches at Target, Nieman Marcus and three other unnamed retailers. This article and many others reveal that these attacks involve sophisticated malware and some even suggest it is the work of the same gang. To be clear, Coalfire and the Coalfire Labs group that I lead are not involved in these investigations.

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QAspire

JANUARY 15, 2014

'Looking back at 2013 fills me with gratitude. It was a remarkable year – both personally and for this blog. I did a lot of writing here and elsewhere, participated in some enlightening conversations with folks in-person and virtually, signed a new book deal (details soon), contributed photograph clicked by me on a book cover and did speaking at various respected forums.

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