Let's Grow Leaders
DECEMBER 16, 2015
Darth Vader wasn’t always a mysterious meanie, the Grinch’s heart didn’t start out two sizes too small, and as legend has it, Mr. Scrooge was once a charming and likable fellow. Chances are that jerk in your office didn’t start out as a horse’s behind either. So why do so many managers move to the dark side–putting their Winning Well common sense aside and becoming a destructive force for their teams?
General Leadership
DECEMBER 18, 2015
GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. “Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.” Sun Tzu. After a short, violent air-to-air combat engagement, the good guys wind-up flying back towards their base.
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CTOvision
DECEMBER 12, 2015
I think it is safe to say that many people would like to have a C3PO in their lives, I know I would. Today, not in a time long ago, there is a robot called Olly. Emotech, a London-based startup, is behind the creation of Olly, a voice-controlled robot assistant, kind of like Amazon Echo, but this one emulates a human personality. . The idea behind Olly is that it will be doing some auto piloting of individual's lifestyle needs, as it gets to know it's user better and their habits.
Terry Starbucker
DECEMBER 13, 2015
You’ve worked really, really hard to build a great team. You’ve put in a ton of hours process-building, training, goal-setting, motivating, and inspiring. But the wheels still aren’t turning. Productivity is lagging. Something’s wrong. There’s an undercurrent of dissatisfaction that is palpable. So you try pushing harder –and it only gets worse. Key members of your team start leaving.
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Let's Grow Leaders
DECEMBER 14, 2015
The room was filled with successful, competent, middle-aged women. We’d just finished a powerful workshop where each of them had identified ways they could make a bigger impact in the their organizations, in the world and in the women leaders coming up behind them. Then over lunch, Laura turned to me and confessed, “Karin, I’m still having trouble with your confident humility model.
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Change Starts Here
DECEMBER 16, 2015
This month’s guest, Marnie Green, is Principal Consultant at Management Education Group, Inc. and author of both Painless Performance Evaluations and Painless Performance Conversations. Listen in as she shares examples of organizations who have seen shifts in culture as a result of a new performance management process and supporting technology.
Toptal
DECEMBER 15, 2015
REST APIs have become a common way to establish an interface between web back-ends and front-ends, and between different web services. The simplicity of this kind of interface, and the ubiquitous support of the HTTP and HTTPS protocols across different networks and frameworks, makes it an easy choice when considering interoperability issues. Bottle is a minimalist Python web framework.
Let's Grow Leaders
DECEMBER 18, 2015
Welcome back to the Let’s Grow Leaders Frontline Festival. This month is co-hosted with my Winning Well co-author, David Dye. In honor of the new Star Wars movie, we begin with Star Wars-themed posts and then wrap up the year with our “Best Of 2015” posts from our contributors Thanks. to Joy and Tom Guthrie of Vizwerx Group for the great pic and to all our contributors!
General Leadership
DECEMBER 14, 2015
GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. “My own definition of leadership is this: The capacity and the will to rally men and women to a common purpose and the character which inspires confidence. “ General George S. Patton. .
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CTOvision
DECEMBER 16, 2015
This is the second post in this series. For the first see: Going 100% SaaS. As I mentioned before, SAAS is not just a software product, but also a service. In addition, due to the fact that the product is constantly enhanced and upgraded, it requires more active management than a traditional COTS product. I have found that SAAS implementations are most successful when the business function and IT teams work together to select, deploy and operate SAAS products.
Women on Business
DECEMBER 14, 2015
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Toptal
DECEMBER 17, 2015
Processing makes prototyping visual apps a breeze. With its easy to use programming constructs and some mathematics, building a simple game is a lot easier than one may think. In this article, Toptal engineer Oguz Gelal provides a step-by-step tutorial to building a game using Processing and porting it to the web.
General Leadership
DECEMBER 15, 2015
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. 6 April 2014. “Slow Down… You Will Get There Faster”. Fighter Pilot Saying. Too often, leaders choose to be “ Humvee leaders.” They are so worried about quickly making progress that no regard is given to intent, probability of success or the hazards encountered along the way.
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CTOvision
DECEMBER 14, 2015
There are seven key megatrends driving the future of enterprise IT. You can remember them all with the helpful mnemonic acronym CAMBRIC, which stands for C loud Computing, A rtificial Intelligence, M obility, B ig Data, R obotics, I nternet of Things, C yberSecurity. In this post we dive deeper into the Internet of Things. Today's Internet connects people, governments, academia and business.
Women on Business
DECEMBER 17, 2015
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Toptal
DECEMBER 18, 2015
Smooth animations and flawless transitions are key to perceived performance in modern mobile applications. Without the right tools, tuning iOS animation for efficiency can be a challenge in itself. In this article, Toptal engineer Stefan Progovac demonstrates the role of Instruments, a sophisticated set of performance profiling tools for iOS, discussing how they can help you understand animation performance bottlenecks and some strategies for working around them.
CoachStation
DECEMBER 17, 2015
Many of us are reflectors. We take time to think about what is happening in our worlds and understand that self-awareness and development matter. Reflection: to think through the implications of action, or non-action; what went well; and the things we might have changed or may alter in the future provides opportunity for growth and change. Developing as a person and leader requires this type of reflection and consideration.
Speaker: Tony Karrer, Ryan Barker, Grant Wiles, Zach Asman, & Mark Pace
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CTOvision
DECEMBER 16, 2015
DHS issues a national terrorism advisory system bulletin on 16 Dec 2015 advising all that: We are in a new phase in the global threat environment, which has implications on the homeland. Particularly with the rise in use by terrorist groups of the Internet to inspire and recruit, we are concerned about the “self-radicalized” actor(s) who could strike with little or no notice.
Women on Business
DECEMBER 13, 2015
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Next Level Blog
DECEMBER 14, 2015
Back in the summer of 2010, I wrote a post called The Business Travel Diva’s Guide to Summer Vacations. I meant it to be tongue-in-cheek when I wrote it but you know that saying that there is truth behind every joke? When I re-read it for the first time in several years this morning, my thought was “Wow, the guy who wrote that was an a **e!”. The thing about it was there was no way I could have come up with all of those tongue-in-cheek rules for my family unless I had actually practiced them mys
Toptal
DECEMBER 14, 2015
Talking about proximity marketing will get you varying reactions, from concerns about privacy issues to the idea that your phone is going to spam you with annoying ads non-stop, but if you boil down the idea, there are some really compelling concepts here. When you clear away all the buzzwords, what exactly is this shift we’re seeing? It’s the world customizing itself to you.
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As a SaaS leader, you know that the more metrics, insights, and analytics you add to your products, the more engagement you’ll have – and the stickier your product will become with customers. At what point do you decide to keep building your analytics in-house or invest in an embedded analytics solution? Read our Build vs. Buy Analytics guide to learn: Top 4 benefits of embedded analytics A quick cost comparison of in-house analytics development vs embedded analytics 10 considerations to help yo
CTOvision
DECEMBER 18, 2015
The following are some of the hot topics in the federal technology ecosystem (from FedTechTicker.com and TopTechTicker.com ): "Fed Tech Ticker". Battelle Names Suzanne Vautrinot, Kirkland Donald to Board; Jeff Wadsworth Comments. The Life-Saving Train Technology That Congress Isn't Fully Funding - The Atlantic. Battelle pleased with PNNL federal grade - Tri-City Herald.
Rapid BI
DECEMBER 15, 2015
Can we really say Goodbye Change Management Hello Navigating Flux? In this piece we will look at the The 3 new competencies of success in modern business and society. In the last 10 years there has been a lot written and spoken about change and change management. The fact that change is here and here to […]. The post Goodbye Change Management Hello Navigating Flux appeared first on.
Strategy Driven
DECEMBER 15, 2015
It is a competitive market in today’s economy. After 26 years since the creation of the businesses now have a number of methods and channels to distribute marketing and information about their products and services and are able to reach a varied and broad audience. While this may be an effective marketing approach, it generates an almost cutthroat atmosphere of competition.
Nutanix
DECEMBER 15, 2015
Phillip Beal recently sat down with us to discuss IFC’s transition from on-premises IT to a managed service from Nutanix partner, Advantage Technology Solutions.
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Software is complex, which makes threats to the software supply chain more real every day. 64% of organizations have been impacted by a software supply chain attack and 60% of data breaches are due to unpatched software vulnerabilities. In the U.S. alone, cyber losses totaled $10.3 billion in 2022. All of these stats beg the question, “Do you know what’s in your software?
CTOvision
DECEMBER 17, 2015
The following are some of the hot topics in the federal technology ecosystem (from FedTechTicker.com and TopTechTicker.com ): "Fed Tech Ticker". FITARA: Progress at the 1-Year Mark // December 16, 2015 - Nextgov. Going 100% SaaS: Deploying and Operating. Congress grants the National Labs a FITARA exemption in omnibus - FCW.com. Info-sharing bill's advance is a landmark for DHS - FCW.com.
The Accidental Successful CIO
DECEMBER 16, 2015
Just how secure do we need to keep our data? Image Credit: Michelangelo Carrieri. Guess what: there’s been another hacker break in. This time it happened at the big U.S. healthcare provider Anthem. Nobody’s quite sure how big of a breech it was, but initial guesses are saying that tens of millions of customer records may have been copied by hackers.
Strategy Driven
DECEMBER 18, 2015
There might be a ton of things that distinguish those who are successful and those who miss the boat, but I also do notice one common denominator… “Drive”: a willingness to succeed… and to fail. That’s right, I said to fail. I notice a few things that fuel this drive, activities they do that foster success and here they are: They are willing to fall on their face and fail.
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