Sat.Nov 22, 2014 - Fri.Nov 28, 2014

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Really Important Interviewing Advice

Let's Grow Leaders

'Juan and I were sure this was the candidate of our dreams. His track record was solid. The awards plentiful. In fact, we’d already began to wonder if we needed to continue the search. Surely this interview was a formality and would support our intuition. Thank God. This was our guy. Ahh… that was easy. But as the interview continued, Juan’s face revealed the angst in my heart.

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Leading with I.C.E. Part III: Excellence

General Leadership

'“Desire is the key to motivation, but it’s determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal – a commitment to excellence – that will enable you to attain the success you seek.”. Mario Andretti. In Part I of this series we discussed Integrity and the concept of being “whole” as a leader. In Part II we discussed Commitment and the importance of leaders being committed to others as too often we see leaders more committed to themselves than their teams or their

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There Is No Time To Hurry Up And Wait

N2Growth Blog

'By Damian D. “Skipper” Pitts. Chair, Organizational Development, N2Growth. M aking any progress, process transformation or change across American communities and throughout the global business communities as usual is always hard and usually requires a significant investment of resources – people, finance and effort. So, whenever a leader or an organization adopts any new strategy, technology platform, methodology or approach, that adoption has to be driven by both a need and with

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ENIAC: The World’s First Computer Has Finally Been Resurrected

CTOvision

'By Vijay Prabhu. From Wired: Eccentric billionaires are tough to impress, so their minions must always think big when handed vague assignments. Ross Perot’s staffers did just that in 2006, when their boss declared that he wanted to decorate his Plano, Texas, headquarters with relics from computing history. Aware that a few measly Apple I’s and Altair 880’s wouldn’t be enough to satisfy a former presidential candidate, Perot’s people decided to acquire a more singular prize: a big chunk of ENIAC

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Get Better Network Graphs & Save Analysts Time

Many organizations today are unlocking the power of their data by using graph databases to feed downstream analytics, enahance visualizations, and more. Yet, when different graph nodes represent the same entity, graphs get messy. Watch this essential video with Senzing CEO Jeff Jonas on how adding entity resolution to a graph database condenses network graphs to improve analytics and save your analysts time.

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What Is Gratitude?

Let's Grow Leaders

'True gratitude begins wtih deep humility. True gratitude changes us. True gratitude transforms our relationships. True gratitude changes the game. Courtesies Aren’t Gratitude. And yet, as leaders, we spend much time on “Thanks for passing the gravy” kind of thanks. …thanks for this report. …thanks for the update. …thanks for coming to work on time. …thanks for returning my call. …thanks for dinner.

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How to Be a Great Mentor – 7 Key Steps that Work

Women on Business

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Will The Crash of Forge.mil Motivate A Move To The More Functional GitHub?

CTOvision

'Forge.mil provides some very important functionality that developers in the DoD ecosystem need and more importantly allow the technology leadership of DoD to ensure more appropriate influence over enterprise software projects. But it has been criticized by many in the community for not being as fully functional as GitHub. GitHub has achieved tremendous success in the commercial world and in key niches in governments as well.

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Do you run your organization by ideas or hierarchy?

Lead on Purpose

'One of the keys to a successful company is teamwork. When people to work effectivley together great things happen. Though it’s not recognized a key discipline in many organizations, companies that make it a top priority always come out ahead.

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Monday Quote:

General Leadership

'“A leader is the one who has the ability to get other people to do what they don’t want to do, and like it.”. Harry S. Truman. … Read the rest. The post Monday Quote: appeared first on General Leadership.

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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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3 Tips To Set Your Mind For Success

Women on Business

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Cyber Security and Corporate Governance: The five principles every corporate director should embody

CTOvision

'By Bob Gourley. This post is sponsored by the Enterprise CIO Forum and HP’s Make It Matter. The Institute of Internal Auditors ( IIA ) is an international professional association of more than 180,000 members recognized as the preeminent professional organization for internal auditors. They provide a venue for internal auditors from around the world to share lessons learned and best practices.

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Three Communication Strategies Guaranteed to Irritate Others

The Recovering Engineer

'In workshops and coaching conversations, I receive many questions about the right way to communicate an idea. Sadly, I cannot define the absolutely, most correct, “right” way to communicate an idea – particularly if the idea is communicated during a conflict conversation. I can, however, identify several definitively wrong ways to do it. In today’s post, I’m going to share three communication strategies that are virtually guaranteed to irritate other people, and I’ll tell you what to do instead

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Mindful Mondays: Consider The People You’re Grateful For

Next Level Blog

'As we approach Thanksgiving Day in the United States, I’m coming off an experience this past weekend that reminded me of what I’m most grateful for. It’s the people and the experiences I’ve been blessed with in my life. In the middle of doing a bunch of chores on Saturday, I got an email from Holmes Morrison saying he was in town and wondering if I could break away for a visit.

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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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10 Most Liveable Cities in the World

Women on Business

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NSA Releases A New Technology to Open Source Community

CTOvision

'By Bob Gourley. On 25 November NSA announced the release of an new technology called Niagarafiles or NiFi that enterprises can use to automate data flows among multiple computer networks. Here is their press release : NSA Releases First in Series of Software Products to Open Source Community. New technology automates high-volume data flows. The National Security Agency announced today the public release of its new technology that automates data flows among multiple computer networks, even when

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Three Ways to Deal with an Angry Person

The Recovering Engineer

'How do you like dealing with an angry person? If you’re like most of the people I know, you hate it. And, you occasionally have to do it. While some people seem to have a knack for helping others “back off the edge,” most people feel at least a little bit nervous or apprehensive about these situations. I happen to be one of those people.

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How Uncertainty Can Actually Build Trust

Mills Scofield

'Sometimes using what is ambiguous and unknown can build trust. By experimenting, learning, applying and iterating we build trust in ourselves and each other. Give it a try! Thank you Barbara Kimmel and Trust Across America - Trust Across the World for the opportunity to be part of #TRUSTGiving2014. " Taking risk requires trust – to discover, try, re-try, be okay with uncertainty, imperfection and even fail.

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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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Is Your Business Getting the Desired Results?

Women on Business

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What You Should Know About Big Data

CTOvision

'By Katie Kennedy. The visual below highlights use cases of Big Data and how industries can benefit from incorporating Big Data into their operations. Find more information on Datameer. Related articles. The rising importance of big data to big business (betanews.com). Big data could be the key to gaining a competitive edge (itproportal.com). Test your big data in the cloud expertise (searchcloudcomputing.techtarget.com).

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RapidBI Daily Business Cartoon #220

Rapid BI

'“Hair stylist, makeup artist, body double, stunt coordinator, best boy, gaffer, dolly grip… Will this be your first video conference?” Office based cartoons, funnies or humor can help to communicate important messages or tips in a non threatening way. see more office humor Tweets by @RapidBI See some of our products to help develop […].

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Why it Pays to be a Contrarian

Strategy Driven

'In his famous poem, Robert Frost declared that he preferred to take “the road less travelled by.” I take that idea not only as a useful philosophy for life, but also as an even better guide for business. When I began to buy and sell commercial real estate in 1968 I was told that the market had been weak for years, and I was foolish to even consider that kind of investment.

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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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5 Reasons You Should Consider a Career in Childcare

Women on Business

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Technology News and Hot Topics

CTOvision

'By Bob Gourley. Here is the latest technology news from across the tech community: Workers in Silicon Valley Weigh In on Obama’s Immigration Order. SAN FRANCISCO — Silicon Valley’s constant stream of new apps and services depends on hundreds of thousands of foreign-born engineers to help create them. So the technology industry has been pushing for changes to the nation’s immigration policy for … Read more on New York Times.

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RapidBI Daily Business Cartoon #217

Rapid BI

'“At Survival Camp, I learned how to make an iPod from mud and twigs!” Office based cartoons, funnies or humor can help to communicate important messages or tips in a non threatening way. see more office humor Tweets by @RapidBI See some of our products to help develop your people and your business: Coach […].

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Professional Women Still Marginalized

Strategy Driven

'Reports reveal painful truth despite ‘incontrovertible proof’ that women are key to business, economic & societal growth. It’s a painful revelation. “At the current rate of change, it will take until the year 2085 for women to reach parity with men in leadership roles in our country.” This staggering estimate, reported by the Center for American Progress (CAP), persists despite “over the past two decades, a considerable body of research has emerged to lend incontrovertible proof to the ide

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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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What to Look for in a Secure Cloud Storage Provider

Women on Business

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Please join us at LinkedIn for discussion

CTOvision

'By Bob Gourley. We exist, dear readers, for you. And we have noticed that you have been changing the way you interact with us. Fewer and fewer of you interact by leaving comments on posts. Increasingly you interact with us via Facebook , Twitter and LinkedIn. And some really interesting/cool people interact with us via Google Plus. We want you to continue interacting with us and sharing our content via all those channels.

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RapidBI Daily Business Cartoon #221

Rapid BI

'“If we provide great customer service, people will pester us with a bunch of stupid questions. Do we really want that?” Office based cartoons, funnies or humor can help to communicate important messages or tips in a non threatening way. see more office humor Tweets by @RapidBI See some of our products to […].

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