Terry Starbucker

OCTOBER 14, 2012

For the last 10 months I’ve been an investor in the Oregon Angel Fund (OAF). We invest in startups and early-stage growth companies in the Pacific Northwest, and as you can imagine, we hear a lot of pitches. Because there are many interested companies and applicants, and only a small number of actual annual investments (just a handful), that first 3 minute summation of “ why you should invest in us ” is absolutely critical.

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Let's Grow Leaders

OCTOBER 15, 2012

Time management techniques typically involve identifying priorities and scheduling well. There is also power in building in unscheduled time… leaving white space on the calendar for reflection and spontaneous magic. Adding some white space into your time management strategy can lead to better strategy, creative breakthroughs, and a more poised approach.

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Women on Business

OCTOBER 13, 2012

NEWS AND INSIGHTS UPDATE: A number of women entrepreneurs are included in the list of 50 of the most inspiring startup quotes from successful entrepreneurs that was published on Lifed.com. However, all of the quotes are worth reading. Some of the quotes from business women are: “Having a partner definitely allows you to take more risks.” - Arianna Huffington, Co-founder, The Huffington Post. “Don’t limit yourself.

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Change Starts Here

OCTOBER 17, 2012

Last week I participated in an author panel for the Association for Strategic Planning Atlanta chapter. I shared insights and answered questions about writing both 99 Ways to Influence Change and Irresistible: The Change Agent’s Guide to Design and Influence Change Without Getting Stuck. One of the questions they sent us to prepare was: “What is the biggest mistake you see people make?

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Next Level Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2012

Have you ever noticed what doing something for the first time does to your confidence level? If you’re like most folks, it gets a little shaky when you're doing something new. Especially if that something new has stakes that seem or actually are high. If you read this blog earlier this month, you might think this observation was inspired by President Obama’s performance in his first debate as an incumbent.

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Women on Business

OCTOBER 19, 2012

Yesterday as I watched an old episode of ‘How I Met Your Mother’ the story line was about how the kindergarten teacher enacted lessons in kindness using lessons from her Kindergarten class resonated with me. Leadership lessons at their core are taught in Kindergarten and here’s what I mean. Say Please and Thank You. When asking for cooperation, which is a key part of every entrepreneur’s life, saying please and thank you should go without saying.

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QAspire

OCTOBER 14, 2012

Photograph by Tanmay Vora. The best way to grow is to help others grow. In process of elevating others, you have to elevate yourself. However, you have to adopt a posture of generosity and abundance. In school, I heard a story of a farmer who was known for producing best crops and sharing his best seeds with other farmers in the vicinity. When asked why, he said, “It is a selfish act.

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Mills Scofield

OCTOBER 17, 2012

In watching the debate, if it can be called that, last night, 3 things hit me – Respect (or lack thereof), Power (or illusion of) and Knowledge (or lack thereof). Respect & Civility : Throughout the presidential, vice presidential and even the Ohio senate race debates, the candidates have shown little to no respect for each other, for the moderator and for the audience.

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Let's Grow Leaders

OCTOBER 17, 2012

Last week’s post, A Matter of Trust, generated some great conversation on the Center For Creative Leadership LinkedIn group. One interesting addition was a paradoxical question from Carol Ann Hamilton, “which comes first, trust or trust?” Indeed, trust is a complex two-way street. In a follow-up conversation she shared: I ask this paradoxical question to get [.

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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

OCTOBER 16, 2012

Using its huge data set, LinkedIn has researched and ranked the 2012 100 most “InDemand” employers in the world. At the top of the global list are Google, Apple, and Microsoft, Facebook, and Unilever, in that order. In the United States, the most sought after employers are Google, The Walt Disney Company, Facebook, Apple, and Salesforce.com, in that order.

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Lead on Purpose

OCTOBER 13, 2012

“When we learn how to cultivate a fearless mind, we can achieve whatever we set out to accomplish.” According to Dr. Craig Manning , author of The Fearless Mind: 5 Essential Steps to Higher Performance , a ‘fearless mind’ is achieved when we have cleansed ourselves of the barriers that prevent us from reaching our greatest potential. We do this by learning to accept what we have control over (and what we do not).

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CO2 Business Leadership

OCTOBER 14, 2012

Leadership Goals work on the principle of GPSing Leadership goals are the foundation of what makes great leaders. Great leaders use GPSing to make decisions. This is because they know that it is the goal that matters and that their current state is simply temporary. Leadership goals start by first asking GOAL questions: Whose decision is it and why?

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Let's Grow Leaders

OCTOBER 15, 2012

In most organizations an important part of leading is being able to articulate and “sell” the great work of your team to other key stakeholders. Strong results and quality thinking in bad packaging can be overlooked. A great presentation can quickly go south, when the team gives sloppy answers to obvious questions. In her book, [.] The post The Obvious Question: And How to Get It Right appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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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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Women on Business

OCTOBER 18, 2012

Guest Post By: Sheri Staak, Innovative Business Leader at Staak Report (learn more about Sheri at the end of this post). If the media’s constant bad news about company layoffs, overseas outsourcing, and a decreased availability of jobs isn’t getting you down, the attitude at work probably is. In industry today, we’re all operating in a pressure-cooker environment, laden with deadlines, quotas, and conflicting personalities.

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The Programmer's Paradox

OCTOBER 15, 2012

Does it really matter what the code looks like? The short answer is an emphatic ‘yes’. It matters because ultimately writing code is about discipline and details. If the code is just slapped together, really messy and there are issues like extra blank lines or extra variables laying all over, it reveals an awful lot about the author. Perhaps they were in a huge rush or even a panic.

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QAspire

OCTOBER 19, 2012

In 1982, University of Wisconsin researchers studying the human learning pattern videotaped two bowling teams during multiple games. When these tapes were shown to team, they were edited differently. One team was shown the video of all their mistakes and the other team was shown the video of their good performances. Both teams improved, but the team that focused on positive improved twice as much.

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Let's Grow Leaders

OCTOBER 16, 2012

When are you most productive? If you are like most people I know the answer is easy… when you really need to be. Most of us have great examples of crises and other urgent situations, where folks pull together and get more done. And yet, at other times, lots of stuff seems to get [.] The post Get More Done in Less Time: Learning From Crises appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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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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Women on Business

OCTOBER 17, 2012

NEWS AND INSIGHTS UPDATE: Diversity training formally debuted in the 1960s to ensure companies were policy compliant and protecting themselves. That’s according to the history of diversity training timeline from Elizabeth Lisican of Diversity Executive. In the 50 years that followed, diversity training shifted from reactive to proactive, but much still needs to be done.

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Lead on Purpose

OCTOBER 15, 2012

Just because you port or transition your product (software, hardware, etc.) to a model that is new/up-and-coming/exciting/proven/<fill in the blank>/ you have no guarantee it will succeed; technology is not enough to make a mediocre idea succeed. You must understand the market. If your product or idea is not what potential customers are looking it does not matter what technology you use to roll it out.

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Coalfire

OCTOBER 19, 2012

Yesterday, we were delighted to see our long-time client Firehost announce that they achieved Common Security Framework (CSF) “Certified” status from the HITRUST Alliance. Headquartered in Richardson, Texas, FireHost has made compliance a top priority, and we’ve enjoyed working with them to achieve this important designation.

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CO2 Business Leadership

OCTOBER 14, 2012

Leadership Goals work on the principle of GPSing. Leadership goals are the foundation of what makes great leaders. Great leaders use GPSing to make decisions. This is because they know that it is the goal that matters and that their current state is simply temporary. Leadership goals start by first asking GOAL questions: Whose decision is it and why?

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Women on Business

OCTOBER 19, 2012

NEWS AND INSIGHTS UPDATE: More and more highly experienced and talented business women are moving away from Corporate America and joining or starting small businesses. What’s motivating them to make the switch? Allison O’Kelly, founder and CEO of Mom Corps, shares the secret — flexibility. She writes on The Business of Flex Blog: “A recent McKinsey study shows that large companies are bleeding female talent at an alarming rate.

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Rapid BI

OCTOBER 14, 2012

Should I Dial Up VoIP for My Small Business? As any small business owner knows, keeping your revenue stream ahead of your expenditures means the difference between a successful business and one that is either just getting by or potentially going under. Should you find yourself looking to trim some costs in your company, and at the same time seeking to enhance productivity for your employees, dialing up Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) may be just the solution.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 18, 2012

Building Team Power : How to Unleash the Collaborative Genius of Teams for Increased Engagement, Productivity, and Results. by Thomas Kayser. About the Book. Building Team Power by Thomas Kayser examines the structural mechanisms and behavioral traits that combined to create highly collaborative teams. Thomas provides practical, detailed methods for leaders at every level of the organization to foster and enhance the collaboration between team members in six critical areas: Mutual Trust.

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Next Level Blog

OCTOBER 15, 2012

If you’re a sports fan, the week just ended was one of those that makes you wish you didn’t have to work for a living. Every one of the Major League Baseball divisional championship series went to five games and many of the games went into extra innings. Given the need to sleep and to actually be coherent when I meet with clients, I couldn’t follow every single story line.

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Women on Business

OCTOBER 17, 2012

NEWS AND INSIGHTS UPDATE: For the first time, a woman, Dedra M. Johanneson, has been appointed as the Board Chair for SCORE , a nonprofit association started in 1964 and supported by the U.S. S mall Business Administration (SBA) that is dedicated to helping small businesses succeed by offering education and mentorship from thousands of volunteer experts around the country.

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Rapid BI

OCTOBER 15, 2012

Leaders can: 1. Focus their own attention. 2. Attract the right attention to themselves. 3. Direct the attention of those that follow them. 4. Maintain the attention of their customers and clients. Beck and Davenport.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 16, 2012

From birth, we as human beings have an insatiable desire to understand our surroundings. Regardless of one’s background, we tend to group and categorize things so to help establish order in our personal world. Such is the case in our business lives as well. There, like everywhere else, we attempt to assign a reason for why decisions are made, for why people act as they do, for why things are the way they are.

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