Let's Grow Leaders
OCTOBER 2, 2012
Questions are powerful. They can motivate, and inspire deeper thinking. Great questions empower. Questions can also intimidate, frustrate and shut down people down. The most dangerous are those where the leader already ”knows” the answer… and is looking to see if the person will “get it right.” Closed ended questions can have a similar impact, [.
Terry Starbucker
SEPTEMBER 30, 2012
(Note: While I’m at SOBCon NW this weekend, I wanted to repeat one of my favorite past posts (from June of 2009), that is also featured in my free e-book “ Leadership From a Glass Half-Full “ ). After doing something for 27 years, you’d think that you could figure it all out and know how to “do” it really, really well, and gain fulfillment too.
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Next Level Blog
OCTOBER 4, 2012
Almost immediately after the first U.S. presidential debate on Wednesday, practically every major news outlet from Fox News to MSNBC to the Financial Times of London declared Mitt Romney the outright winner over Barack Obama. Having watched it myself, I have to agree. Romney cleaned Obama’s clock. As I was watching it, I thought of that scene in The Untouchables where Kevin Costner’s Eliot Ness says to Sean Connery’s Malone, “I want to get Capone.
Women on Business
OCTOBER 2, 2012
Guest Post by Grayce Belvedere Young, president of the Organization Development Practice at Prouty Project (learn more about Grayce at the end of this post). Women in leadership are well positioned to influence and guide their team members for greater success. How can they tap into their team members’ intrinsic motivations to fully engage them for both personal and professional success?
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Let's Grow Leaders
OCTOBER 4, 2012
“Let us nourish beginnings. Not all things are blest, but the seeds of all things are blest.The blessing is in the seed.” Muriel Rukeyser How we begin a new project or an important day matters. Preparing your team for the day is vital– reinforcing the vision, energizing the plans, refreshing the excitement. A Sweet Story [.] The post Beginning Well to End Strong: Stories and Tips for Successful Starts appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.
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Next Level Blog
OCTOBER 4, 2012
My friend and colleague Dan McCarthy recently shared this finding on his Great Leadership blog. According to a 2012 Corporate University Xchange Leadership study, 81 % of surveyed organizations have “significant” concerns about their leadership bench strength and their ability to support future growth. That’s a pretty stunning number when you think about it.
Women on Business
OCTOBER 2, 2012
NEWS AND INSIGHTS UPDATE: Women have unique skills and abilities that make them innately great leaders, but women are still very much in the minority in the world of business leadership. Susan M. Heathfield, the About.com Guide to Human Resources, interviewed Susan Lucas-Conwell, global chief executive officer at Great Place to Work, to gain perspective on how women can build careers as business leaders.
Let's Grow Leaders
SEPTEMBER 29, 2012
Great leaders connect with, influence and inspire those around them. Bill Gessert, who has served as President of the International Customer Service Association since 2007, has spent his career creating forums and opportunities for leaders to connect and grow. And so, on the eve of Customer Service Week, first founded by the ICSA in 1988, I [.] The post Connect, Influence, Inspire: A Growing Leaders Salute to Bill Gessert appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.
Change Starts Here
OCTOBER 2, 2012
Facing challenges as you implement change in your organization? Feeling a little bit stuck? Sometimes all it takes is a new insight that you didn’t see before. Or one more thing to try. Or even a little reassurance that what you think you should do really will work. Join me for an Open Q&A Session for Change Agents on Thursday, October 18, 2012 at 12:00 p.m.
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Next Level Blog
OCTOBER 2, 2012
As I talk with leaders, I hear a lot of stories about overwhelm and the perception that there’s not much that can be done about it. Recently, for example, I found myself in a conversation with a management team that was feeling overwhelmed by all of the stuff that’s been added to their plate without anything coming off. Earlier that same day, I was talking with an executive who recognized that he needs to take more regular time to step back and define what he’s really trying to do but couldn’t i
Women on Business
OCTOBER 1, 2012
NEWS AND INSIGHTS UPDATE: To be a successful business woman, you need a focused To-Do list, but you should also create a Do-Not-Do list and stick to it at all times. On the She Takes on the World blog, Fauzia Burke of FSB Associates shares five things you should put on your Do-Not-Do list to ensure you’re positioned for success in your business career rather than failure.
Let's Grow Leaders
OCTOBER 3, 2012
As leaders, getting enough feedback on your leadership can sometimes be a challenge. Of course, it’s important to know what your boss thinks. What is equally important are the broader impressions your leadership is making up down and sideways. Today I share some formal and informal tools to get the conversation started. Who Are You [.] The post Feedback: Getting Great Insights From People Who Matter appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.
The Recovering Engineer
OCTOBER 2, 2012
At different times and in different roles, I have had the opportunity to observe, work on, plan, and implement projects of various sizes and types. They include construction, computer system, computer software, marketing, web development, book writing, process improvement, and plant expansion projects. I have also attended workshops and read books on project management.
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.
Mills Scofield
OCTOBER 2, 2012
Two weeks ago, a few of us adults got to play! We sat in on ENGN 0930 - Design Studio at Brown University , taught by Ian Gonsher and played with duct tape. My friends, Annie Kahl and Dan Festa had sent up a flock- load of duct tape to the class to play with. The following post is by Addie Thompson, '12.5 describing the collaborative creative process - iterations, failures and successes.
Women on Business
OCTOBER 1, 2012
Guest Post By Sylvia Browder, founder of National Women on the Rise and CEO of Browder Consulting Group (Learn more about Sylvia at the end of this post). If you are like most women in business, you are looking for new strategies to stimulate growth. Whether solutions to better communicate or how to best manage employees, here are 5 Proven Strategies to Accelerate Business Growth: Expand thru Alliance Partnership.
Let's Grow Leaders
OCTOBER 1, 2012
“The number one difference between a Nobel prize winner and others is not their IQ or work ethic, but that they sit with the questions longer.” -Peter Drucker I’ve been thinking a lot about the value of big questions. As leaders, our days can become so full of questions which we feel immediate pressure to [.] The post Hold that Question: The Art of Big Questions, Held Long appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.
QAspire
SEPTEMBER 29, 2012
Organizations are made up of us, humans, who often goof up. How often do we offer/see a heartfelt apology in corporate world? As leaders, we find it too difficult to apologize. We take the route of excuses and self-justification. For issues with new Maps, Apple’s CEO Tim Cook offered a public apology and showed once again why Apple is so admired. Seeking apology is a sign of strong character.
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The Agile Manager
SEPTEMBER 30, 2012
On time. On scope. On budget. The holy grail of industrial, cost-center IT. Plan your work and work your plan. Be predictable. As a set of goals for software development, this troika is incomplete because it neglects quality. That is a costly omission. Poor quality will ultimately steamroll the other three project variables: we'll be late, we'll remove features, and we'll spend a lot more money than we want to when we are forced to chase quality.
Women on Business
SEPTEMBER 30, 2012
Guest Post By Meghan Hall, Business Management Blogger (Learn more about Meghan at the end of this post). For a seemingly multitude of reasons women have failed to gain a foothold in the growing industries of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, or more commonly known as STEM jobs. Even though there are more women in higher education than ever before and 60% of bachelor degrees are going to women, only 20% of computer science degrees are going to women.
Coalfire
OCTOBER 4, 2012
October is Cyber Security Awareness Month: Get Informed and Get Involved on Cyber Legislation. Every October, the National Cyber Security Alliance sponsors National Cyber Security Awareness Month, and a growing number of businesses and institutions are joining the chorus. The White House got in on the act, too, with this Presidential Proclamation. To celebrate the month, Coalfire will be blogging on topics of interest to our customers and business partners, and we invite you to join the discussi
The Accidental Successful CIO
OCTOBER 3, 2012
'Image Credit Dashboards aren't just for cars anymore…. Every once in awhile a new idea comes along that is actually a pretty good idea. The tsunami of data that every company is currently trying to deal with has resulted in CFOs coming to the IT department and asking for help. Since in many cases the CIO works for the CFO, you had better be able to solve this data overload problem and do it quick!
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Ruminations of a Programmer
SEPTEMBER 30, 2012
A couple of days back I was thinking how we could improve the state of IDEs and let them give rich feedbacks to users focusing on code improvement and refactoring. When you write Java programs, IntelliJ IDEA is possibly the best IDE you can have with an extensive set of refactoring tools. But most of these are targeted towards reducing boilerplates and do refactor based on structural changes only (e.g. replace constructor with builder or use interfaces wherever possible etc.).
Women on Business
OCTOBER 4, 2012
Time to revisit some statistics that put the gender wage gap into perspective. According to the August 2012 Women’s Earnings and Income report from Catalyst, the following statistics are accurate: The median annual earnings for full-time, year-round women workers in 2010 was $36,931 compared to men’s $47,715. In 2011, the median weekly earnings for full-time working women was $684, compared to $832 for men.
The Programmer's Paradox
SEPTEMBER 30, 2012
For the purposes of this post I’m going to over-simplify things considerably by saying that all of the stuff that people learn get stored in their brains as a series of ‘models’. A model in this case is essentially a large set of ‘symbols’ and a whole lot of ‘interconnections’ (relationships) between them. Structurally we could view this as a graph (from graph theory), or we could see it as a relative multidimensional mesh of some sort.
QAspire
SEPTEMBER 30, 2012
Each time I pass through that huge building, I think of its past glory. It was one of the first multiplexes of the country, a trend setter of the sorts. Today, it stands empty with a warning on its walls, “Under Demolition”. I see that building as an epitome of change. How can a pioneer go down in less than 10 years? How can they fail at responding to change when their aggressive competitors were innovating in delivering superior consumer experience?
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Strategy Driven
OCTOBER 4, 2012
The Pocket Small Business Owner’s Guide to Negotiating. by Richard Weisgrau. About the Reference. The Pocket Small Business Owner’s Guide to Negotiating by Richard Weisgrau provides readers with a complete set of practices and strategies for successfully negotiating through numerous situations. Richard explores both the psychology and activities occurring before, during, and after a negotiation.
Women on Business
OCTOBER 4, 2012
The economy has drastically changed over the past decade. With companies loosing revenue, and many shutting down entirely, employers have had to lay people off and many temporarily stopped hiring. While these knee jerk reactions were often warranted to save companies from financial failure – a business cannot sustain long term without appropriately staffing itself to meet the needs of its customers.
N2Growth Blog
OCTOBER 1, 2012
By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth . How are your leadership skills? Likely not as good as you think. There’s no shortage of independent empirical data generated over the years supporting the fact most people tend to overrate their leadership ability. The best leaders the world has ever known had room for improvement – so do you. I’ve always said leaders need to get over themselves and get on to the practice of leadership.
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