Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 22, 2014

'Welcome back to the Let’s Grow Leaders Frontline Festival. Our August Festival is all about Humor in the Workplace. Thanks to Joy and Tom Guthrie of Vixwerx for the great pic. “Everything is funny, as long as it’s happening to somebody else.” - Will Rogers. Humor and Leadership. “A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.” – Dwight D.

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Terry Starbucker

AUGUST 17, 2014

'Once it was built, great progress became inevitable as tomorrow. Once all the pieces were in their right place, it became a leadership juggernaut destined for success. And it was a wonderful ride. I was lucky to have been part of something pretty special – a team that blossomed into one of the highest performing groups in our industry. But it wasn’t all luck.

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General Leadership

AUGUST 22, 2014

'“Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.” Aristotle. Few leaders it seems, especially those serving in politics, are able to live up to the lofty ideal of being considered a stalwart of character and integrity. However, Abraham Lincoln most certainly qualifies as one such man. Most people are aware of Lincoln’s numerous failures before he became president as the stories are widely circulated: Failed romantic relationships, failed business ventures,

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CTOvision

AUGUST 21, 2014

'By Bob Gourley. The Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias manifesting in unskilled individuals suffering from illusory superiority , mistakenly rating their ability much higher than is accurate. This bias is attributed to a metacognitive inability of the unskilled to recognize their ineptitude (from Wikipedia ). . The phenomenon was first tested in a series of experiments published in 1999 by David Dunning and Justin Kruger of the Department of Psychology, Cornell University.

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 18, 2014

'Your body might sabatoging your career. Not on purpose, your heart’s in the right place. In fact, you’ve mastered the basics. You’re way past avoiding eye contact, wussy handshakes, and the proverbial fig leaf arms. Beware of 3 more subtle nonverbal cues that I see seriously damage credibility. 3 Subtle Nonverbal Mistakes Leaders Make. “I speak two languages, Body and English”-Mae West.

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General Leadership

AUGUST 22, 2014

'“ Knowledge will give you power, but character respect. ”. Bruce Lee. Anyone who thinks about September 11, 2001 , will likely remember exactly where they were when they heard the news on that fateful fall morning. It is an event forever seared into our collective national and global conscious – a date that marks the end of one era and the start of another.

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CTOvision

AUGUST 21, 2014

'By Bob Gourley. We have previously written about Wayin (I am proud to be one of their advisors). Their capabilities continue to evolve to enable organizations to continually improve how social media is used to both understand and engage. Wayin’s success in the marketplace has centered around sensemaking over social data in ways that can improve the value delivered to consumers and clients.

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 20, 2014

'Chances are, unless you ask, most people won’t tell. People are holding back their best thinking on how you can improve. In fact, research consistently shows that people rate themselves higher than others do. When it comes to self-assessment, our confidence seems to out-weigh our humility. This is partly because we know our own context, and therefore give ourselves the benefit of the doubt.”Sure, I slacked off a bit on that project, but, I’m only human for Pete’s sake.

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Erik Bernhardsson

AUGUST 18, 2014

Inspired by Sander Dieleman’s internship at Spotify, I’ve been playing around with deep learning using Theano. Theano is this Python package that lets you define symbolic expressions (cool), does automatic differentiation (really cool), and compiles it down into bytecode to run on a CPU/GPU (super cool). It’s built by Yoshua Bengio’s deep learning team up in Montreal.

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General Leadership

AUGUST 21, 2014

'“Success is not final, failure is not fatal; it is the courage to continue that counts.”. – Winston Churchill. Senior Curator and GeneralLeadership.com COO, Lt Col Mathew T. Fritz discusses why courage is a skill. Each of us has the ability to find within ourselves a motivation and a drive which can compel us to face adversity and grow through an obstacle.

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CTOvision

AUGUST 18, 2014

'By Bob Gourley. Enterprises everywhere have been seeking improved ways to make use of their data. Federal agencies have in many ways been on the cutting edge of community efforts at big data, with most all agencies either executing on a comprehensive big data strategy or empowering technologist to explore and prove out possible solutions so a strategy can be developed.

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Change Starts Here

AUGUST 19, 2014

'I was at the post office recently to mail a package. The postal worker at the counter was friendly and made funny voices at my 6 year old daughter to make her laugh. He was the picture of good customer service. Then, as he nearly completed the transaction to add postage to the package, he accidentally touched a button on the screen that apparently canceled the whole transaction.

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Toptal

AUGUST 22, 2014

Let's face it, robots are cool. In this post, Toptal Engineer Nick McCrea provides a step-by-step, easy-to-follow tutorial (with code samples) that walks you through the process of building a basic autonomous mobile robot.

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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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Women on Business

AUGUST 19, 2014

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CTOvision

AUGUST 22, 2014

'By Bob Gourley. The inaugural Intelligence and National Security Summit will occur September 18-19 2014 at the Omni Shoreham Hotel in Washington DC. Two of the most highly regarded professional organizations in the national security ecosystem have combined to facilitate this event: the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association ( AFCEA ) and the Intelligence and National Security Alliance ( INSA ).

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Change Starts Here

AUGUST 21, 2014

'Like many change agents, this month’s guest had a unique career path that brought him to that role. Danny Peterson was CEO of a large nonprofit organization. When he retired, he went back to work — this time as the Manager of Global Continuous Improvement within a Fortune 500 company. In this episode, we’ll explore Danny’s experience with influencing change as CEO and how it compared to leading change from the middle of a large company.

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General Leadership

AUGUST 19, 2014

'Cruise over to PodBean to hear our latest 200-Second Soundbite entitled “Tearing Down the Walls of Leadership?” or subscribe to our PodCast directly via iTunes at the following link. If you are an insulated leader, you are missing the big picture. As a result, you are making decisions based upon poor—sometimes misleading—information. In today’s climate, you cannot afford to misinterpret the variables that make up your opportunity for a winning equation.

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Women on Business

AUGUST 16, 2014

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CTOvision

AUGUST 16, 2014

'By Bob Gourley. CTOvision Pro is a subscription based research and analysis service that provides information you can not get from any other source (if you have not tried it yet you may sign up for a free evaluation trial here ). . This post provides tips on how to make the most of this information resource. We start with some general advice then provide info based on the two key user roles in our domain: technology creator and technology consumer.

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Career Advancement

AUGUST 18, 2014

“Financial rewards follow accomplishment; they don’t precede it.” ~ Harry F. Banks. A client of mine, Lance, has been with his company for ten years. He works hard and gets his work done. Management knows he is consistent, reliable, and loyal. They’re happy with the status quo. Unfortunately, my client is not. He is ready to make the change.

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The Accidental Successful CIO

AUGUST 20, 2014

'Avon made a big mistake when they designed their new software Image Credit. As CIO we have a number of different tasks that the company is expecting us to do. However, there is one task that takes priority over all of these other takes: implementing large software projects. Over at Avon they just did one of these big projects and it has ended in failure.

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Women on Business

AUGUST 21, 2014

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CTOvision

AUGUST 21, 2014

'By Katie Kennedy. What you did not know about your personal data? Reddit, Imgur, Twitch, and a couple other major internet portals are about to hand over reams and reams of user data to university professors to do research on. How can the sites do it while still maintaining users’ trust? Earlier this summer, Facebook ran into trouble with just that, when it came out that the company was altering users’ newsfeeds in order to experiment on them.

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Next Level Blog

AUGUST 20, 2014

'One of the things I talk a lot about with my executive coaching clients is the highest and best use of their time and attention. When they think about what they really need to accomplish and how they should be spending their time to do that they often see a gap. The gap is between what they should be spending their time and attention on and what they actually are spending it on.

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Coalfire

AUGUST 22, 2014

The news this week that hackers from China compromised 4.5 million customer records held by Community Health Systems is just the latest indication that companies are not adequately protecting the information of the consumers they serve.

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Women on Business

AUGUST 20, 2014

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CTOvision

AUGUST 21, 2014

'Data breaches have captured the attention of the American media several times this year. The compromise of Target’s systems and the resulting media coverage cost the corporation hundreds of millions of dollars in the first half of 2014, and the repercussions are far from over. In a recent report, the company actually lowered its earnings forecasts for the second half of the year.

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Next Level Blog

AUGUST 22, 2014

'If you’ve been reading this blog the past few months, you know that I’ve been working on my next book, "Overworked and Overwhelmed: The Mindfulness Alternative". There are two questions that people usually ask me when they hear the title of the book. The first is, “When can I read it?” The second is “How does the new book relate to what you’ve been doing?

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