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10 Ways to Be Easy to Follow

Let's Grow Leaders

'Are you easy to follow? Before you say “Of course!” please know that every where I go these days, I ask this question. “Is your boss easy to follow?” The #1 response is just a belly ache laugh. The #2 usually contains some expletive. I’ve also heard some great metaphors, like how understanding what their boss thinks is like putting together Ikea furniture.

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The Three Pillars of Morally Courageous Leaders

General Leadership

'“Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.”. Ralph Waldo Emerson. Paul H. O’Neill, the former CEO of aluminum company Alcoa, was on his second day on the job as the company’s new leader when his secretary, a twenty-five-year Alcoa veteran, approached him to inquire when he was planning to join the local country club.

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PRINCIPLES OVER PROCESS

N2Growth Blog

'By Mark Hefner. Global Practice Chair, Strategy N2Growth. ADVANTAGE STRATEGY. Five Paradigm-Shifting Principles. Repeatable processes and procedures add great value in stable and predictable times. Those are not the times we live in today or likely in the future. Strategy that works has got to be based on something that proves successful in unpredictable, fast moving, and changing times.

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25 Feb Cloudera Federal Forum in Tysons Corner: Amazing agenda filled with lessons learned and best practices

CTOvision

'By Bob Gourley. CTOvision is very proud to be a media sponsor of the 4th annual Cloudera Federal Forum. If you are into technology and government and want to find ways to enhance your ability to serve big missions you need to be at this event, 25 Feb at the Hilton McLean Tysons Corner. The Cloudera Federal Forum, now in its 4th year, has always been filled with lessons learned, best practices and informative glimpses into what is coming from the big data tech community.

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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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How Good Can You Stand It?

Let's Grow Leaders

'A Guest Post from Lisa Hamaker, Kaliday Consulting, and author of Creating Joyful Work. The first time I heard this question I had just accepted a new position with a nice bump in salary, and responsibilities. I was expressing to a friend that I was nervous about meeting the expectations of my new manager. The minute my friend asked, “Lisa, how good can you stand it?

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Five Key Responsibilities of a Change Manager

Change Starts Here

'When you find yourself responsible for managing a change project at work, you might wonder what you’ve gotten yourself into. It quickly becomes clear that the task is not as simple as letting people know what they should do and then standing back to let it happen, especially when you don’t have authority among those who need to change. Influencing change across even a subset of an organization takes a deliberate and continual effort by the individual or team that is trying to make it happen.

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SAS and the Feb 17-20 Strata Hadoop World in San Jose

CTOvision

'By Bob Gourley. We previously posted on the Feb 17-20 Strata Hadoop World in San Jose (see here for a 20% discount off registration fees ). Today we learned of three interesting SAS and Hadoop sessions we believe will be of use to anyone seeking enhanced predictive models at scale. From the SAS site they are : Two-Day Training: Machine Learning and Exploratory Modeling With SAS ® and Hadoop.

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Why Competitors Will Make You Question Everything

Let's Grow Leaders

'In business school we teach SWOT analysis. Know what your competitors are doing so you can outsmart them. There’s power in benchmarking, and many a company has met their demise by a sudden competitive surprise. But any time your energy is focused on what OTHER people are doing instead of honing your craft, you’re at risk. Watching your competition puts you in the passenger seat of their story, instead of blazing your own trail.

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Tune in Tonight! – 9pm Eastern – SiriusXM Patriot Channel 125!

General Leadership

'It’s that exciting time of the month again when you have the opportunity to interact with us LIVE on SiriusXM Patriot Channel 125 at 9pm Eastern (8 Central, 7 Mountain, 6 Pacific) Wednesday, 4 Feb 2015. This special “12-Talents” broadcast will feature David Webb , General John E. Michel , Colonel Matthew T. Fritz and our special guests: Lieutenant General Michelle D.

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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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How does Shazam work? Music Recognition Algorithms, Fingerprinting, and Processing

Toptal

You hear a familiar song in the club or the restaurant. You listened to this song a thousand times long ago, and the sentimentality of the song really touches your heart. You desperately want to heart it tomorrow, but you can't remember its name! Fortunately, in our amazing futuristic world, you have a phone with music recognition software installed, and you are saved.

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The Youngest Female Billionaire, College Dropout and Medical Genius

CTOvision

'By Katie Kennedy. Elizabeth Holmes decided in 2003 at Stanford University to drop out of college and pursue her dream: revolutionizing healthcare. Holmes has made medical history with her technology that makes blood tests easier. Holmes has created hardware and software that allow for blood tests to be done by pricking someone’s finger and storing the blood in a tiny vial called a nanotainer.

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How to Get Ahead: Advice from a Female’s Perspective

Women on Business

'We''ve Moved! Update your Reader Now. This feed has moved to: [link] If you haven''t already done so, update your reader now with this changed subscription address to get your latest updates from us. [link].

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Would You Buy a Membership From This Man? 3 Big Lessons From One Big Pitch

Terry Starbucker

'My “MTM moment” Before The Show. For the last 3 years I was the one getting pitched by startup founders – on this particular day, it was different. I was the one getting up on stage and pitching. This role-reversal happened a couple of weeks ago in Portland, when I made a big pitch on behalf of our new startup venture, Built Oregon.

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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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Coach K: Mike Krzyzewski on Teamwork

Nathan Magnuson

'As a University of Kansas basketball fan, I’ve never rooted for Duke. But there is a Duke moment that stands out in my memory. It occurred probably 10 or 15 years ago. Duke was in the process of getting upset in the NCAA Tournament. They were playing hard that day but not well. Near the end of the game, the senior star player fouled out, highlighting the frustrating day for everyone.

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Washington Business Journal Reports SineWave Ventures Is Launching A $100 Million Fund for Tech WYanev Suissa, formerly a venture capitalist with New Enterprise Associates and a senior investment officer in the Bush and Obama administrations, is launching a new venture firm with a focus on companies doing business with the public sector

CTOvision

'By Bob Gourley. The Washington Business Journal has published an article based on an interview of Yanev Suissa, a former venture fellow with Washington D.C. based New Enterprise Associates which indicates a new venture firm is being launched with a focus on companies doing business with the public sector. Here is some of what they had to say: Yanev Suissa, formerly a venture capitalist with New Enterprise Associates and a senior investment officer in the Bush and Obama administrations, is launc

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Top 8 Questions About Video Marketing Answered

Women on Business

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If You Can’t Be Confident in Your Knowledge, Be Confident In Your Ignorance

Next Level Blog

'The title of this post comes from a comment made at a global leadership team meeting I was facilitating earlier this year. The purpose of the meeting was to review 360 degree feedback on the team and its members. In the format we were using, each team member had around 15 minutes in the spotlight to share what they learned from their feedback, what they are working on to take their game to the next level and to get advice from their colleagues on simple things they could do that would make a di

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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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Ruby Concurrency and Parallelism: A Practical Tutorial

Toptal

A thorough and practical introduction to concurrent and parallel programming in Ruby, presenting and contrasting a number of techniques and options available, from the standpoints of both performance and complexity. Discusses forking, multithreading, the Global Interpreter Lock (GIL), and more.

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The Strategic Value of Social Business: What We’ve Learned

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

'Recently, I had the need to gather our latest research from research, clients, and case studies on the established performance of social business for the Future of Work master class I delivered in Paris at Enterprise 2.0 SUMMIT 2015 this week. The intent was to answer this question: What specifically is the business value in social-based ways of working today and tomorrow?

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10 Things a Virtual Assistant Can Do Better, Faster and Cheaper than You

Women on Business

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Mindful Mondays: Reflections from a Sunday Morning at Dachau

Next Level Blog

'As I write this, I''m in Munich, Germany on a business trip. Last night, I was tagging a photo of a classic German Biergarten meal and noticed that Dachau came up on the list of geotag options. This is a very quick trip that I''m on and, to be honest, I did zero research on what I might see or do in Munich before I came over. When I saw Dachau on my smartphone screen, though, I immediately knew how I was going to spend my Sunday.

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business. That’s what drove the five companies in this e-book to change their approach to analytics. Download this e-book to learn about the unique problems each company faced and how they achieved huge returns beyond expectation by embedding analytics into applications.

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Predicting Likes: Inside A Simple Recommendation Engine's Algorithms

Toptal

The Internet is becoming “smarter” every day. The video-sharing website that you frequently visit seems to know exactly what you will like, even before you have seen it. The online shopping cart holding your items almost magically figures out the one thing that you may have missed or intended to add before checking out. It’s as if these web services are reading your mind - or are they?

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How CIOs Can Use Words To Boost Their Power And Credibility

The Accidental Successful CIO

'Being a CIO is all about having the power that you need to do your job Image Credit: Frédéric BISSON. As the person with the CIO job, because of the importance of information technology your company expects a great deal from you. However, if you have not managed to gather the power and the credibility that you are going to need in order to successfully accomplish your job, then it’s going to be very hard for you to accomplish what you need to get done.

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9 Tips for Launching Your Freelance Business

Women on Business

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The Success Principles

Steve Farber

'Jack Canfield (of Chicken Soup for the Soul fame) is a significant mentor to more thought-leaders, authors, and entrepreneurs than anyone else I know. 10 years ago, Jack founded The Transformational Leadership Council “so leaders of personal and organizational transformation could support each other in their contributions to the world.” I’m proud to say that I’m a member of that inspiring group of CEOs, trainers, facilitators, thought leaders, authors, movie producers, d

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A Tale of Two Case Studies: Using LLMs in Production

Speaker: Tony Karrer, Ryan Barker, Grant Wiles, Zach Asman, & Mark Pace

Join our exclusive webinar with top industry visionaries, where we'll explore the latest innovations in Artificial Intelligence and the incredible potential of LLMs. We'll walk through two compelling case studies that showcase how AI is reimagining industries and revolutionizing the way we interact with technology. Some takeaways include: How to test and evaluate results 📊 Why confidence scoring matters 🔐 How to assess cost and quality 🤖 Cross-platform cost vs. quality tr

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How GWT Unlocks Augmented Reality in Your Browser

Toptal

In our previous post on the GWT Web Toolkit, we discussed the strengths and characteristics of GWT, to mix Java and JavaScript libraries seamlessly in the browser. In today's post, we would like to go a little deeper, and see the GWT Toolkit in action. We'll demonstrate how we can take advantage of GWT to build a peculiar application: an augmented reality web application that runs in real time, fully in JavaScript, in the browser.

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Anthem Data Breach - A Message from Coalfire's Healthcare Practice Director

Coalfire

Several weeks ago I had the opportunity to speak on a panel at a healthcare conference. In attendance were CIOs, CISOs, VPs of IT, and members of legal counsel. The individuals attending the session represented organizations ranging from small- to medium-sized business associates all the way up to large, multi-networked hospitals defined as covered entities under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA).

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5 Secrets to Improve Your LinkedIn Profile to Gain a Corporate Board Seat

Women on Business

'We''ve Moved! Update your Reader Now. This feed has moved to: [link] If you haven''t already done so, update your reader now with this changed subscription address to get your latest updates from us. [link].