Sat.Apr 20, 2013 - Fri.Apr 26, 2013

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4 Reasons Execution Breaks Down: and How to Fix It

Let's Grow Leaders

'When execution is broken, so is leadership. Teams that don’t execute are starving. They crave vision and direction. Carrots don’t improve vision. Execution breaks down when there’s. fuzzy vision lack of buy-in hidden agendas competing priorities confusion chaos apathy broken teamwork ? Don’t blame, punish, or make excuses. Lead better. 4 Reasons Execution Breaks Down [.

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Interview: Building a Remarkable Culture

Change Starts Here

'This month on The Change Agent’s Dilemma, guest Tim Kuppler and I discuss building a remarkable culture. Tim is former President of Denison Consulting and founder of The Culture Advantage. In this episode, you’ll hear the hallmarks of a remarkable culture and learn the steps you can take to build a remarkable culture in your organization.

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Stuff that bothers me: “100x faster than Hadoop”

Erik Bernhardsson

The simple way to get featured on big data blog these days seem to be. Build something that does 1 thing super well but nothing else. Benchmark it against Hadoop. Publish stats showing that it’s 100x faster than Hadoop. $$$. Spark claims their 100x faster than Hadoop and there’s a lot of stats showing Redshift is 10x faster than Hadoop. There’s a bunch of papers with similar claims.

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Boston Strong

General Leadership

'“Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived from unity.” Vince Lombardi. Several years ago the U.S. Army unveiled its newest advertising campaign. You may remember it. The TV commercial showed a soldier running alone across the desert, carrying a backpack but no rifle. Helicopters swoop overhead.

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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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Best Leadership Books for Frontline Leaders

Let's Grow Leaders

'I’m always being asked for recommendations on the best leadership books for frontline leaders. I share my favorites with you throughout my posts, so this time I thought I’d ask the Let’s Grow Leaders Community. I cast the best leadership book net in all my online communities, asking “what one book would you recommend for [.

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Stuff that bothers me: “100x faster than Hadoop”

Erik Bernhardsson

The simple way to get featured on big data blog these days seem to be. Build something that does 1 thing super well but nothing else. Benchmark it against Hadoop. Publish stats showing that it’s 100x faster than Hadoop. $$$. Spark claims their 100x faster than Hadoop and there’s a lot of stats showing Redshift is 10x faster than Hadoop. There’s a bunch of papers with similar claims.

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An Interview with Ron Yaggi of IO - CTOvision

CTOvision

'Podcast: Play in new window | Download. In this podcast I interviewed Ron Yaggi, SVP of IO Federal. IO is the leading provider of next-generation modular data center technology and services designs, engineers and delivers.

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Force Field Analysis as a Teambuilding Exercise

Let's Grow Leaders

'When you’re trying to fix a team… there are always factors working for you… and against you. Secret force fields undermine your efforts. Make the hidden forces known. Make the force be with you. Force Field Analysis is a well-tested change management technique developed by Kurt Lewin in the 1950s. It’s brilliant in its [.

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Shaping Tomorrow’s Women Through Mentoring

Women on Business

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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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Why Sports Builds Leadership

Lead on Purpose

'Guest post by Jordan Spindler. Leadership is a personal trait that often proves elusive to many people, however is intimately related to personal success. Leaders are at the forefront of their fields; they are respected and quite often wealthy. Leaders also foster social change, and most of our cultural, social and economic progress is the result of leadership.

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How I Answered The Call of Leadership – And Won A “Can’t Win” Election

Terry Starbucker

'It was the spring of 1981 – my junior year in college. I had just successfully completed my “core” courses in my selected major of accounting with “A”s across the board, and was sailing towards my senior year with a bright future of debits and credits ahead of me. Accounting seemed right for me. I was good with numbers, and had a knack for the fundamentals of business.

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Earth Day Leadership Challenge: How Will Your Garden Grow?

Let's Grow Leaders

'It’s Earth Day. Perhaps you’ll take out the recycling. Or, maybe you’ll sing a sweet song like these little leaders. Good start. Others are doing more. Ron Finley Guerilla Gardener I’m blown away by the leadership of Ron Finley, Guerilla Gardener. Ron’s leading dramatic change in South Central Los Angeles. He’s given new meaning [.

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The Two Sides of Trust

The Recovering Engineer

'Like so many words we use commonly, trust has many layers of meaning. While most of us have similar general perspectives about what it means to trust another person, there are some subtle differences in how we view this simple word. The words I often use to describe the two sides of trust are transactional trust and relational trust, and here is how I define the terms: Transactional trust refers to the trust we have that another person will do what they said they would do or complete and assign

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How to Migrate From DataStax Enterprise to Instaclustr Managed Apache Cassandra

If you’re considering migrating from DataStax Enterprise (DSE) to open source Apache Cassandra®, our comprehensive guide is tailored for architects, engineers, and IT directors. Whether you’re motivated by cost savings, avoiding vendor lock-in, or embracing the vibrant open-source community, Apache Cassandra offers robust value. Transition seamlessly to Instaclustr Managed Cassandra with our expert insights, ensuring zero downtime during migration.

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Fixmo Collaborates with U.S. Air Force to Enable Strategic Mobility.

CTOvision

'usaf I've written before about how proud I am to be associated with Fixmo. As an advisor to them I've been excited to see first hand the hard work and focused engineering they are putting into solutions with an ability to scale.

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Save The Date: Extreme Leadership Summit, 2014

Steve Farber

'presents… Extreme Leadership Summit, 2014. Save the Date: April 4 – 6, 2014 in Chicago! Our inaugural event in San Diego was a phenomenal success on every level–so we’re doing it again, and you’re invited! Once again, we’ve put together a line-up of incredible speakers and a very powerful mastermind process to help you apply everything you learn.

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Business Process Planning – 5 Mistakes to Avoid

Women on Business

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Three Ways to Know What You Need to Know

Next Level Blog

'A big part of my job as a coach is delivering colleague feedback summaries to my executive coaching clients. Sometimes the feedback is hard for them to hear. I have sympathy for them. I was once a corporate executive and, in one particular case, got some blistering 360 feedback that had me licking my wounds for a month or two before I finally gathered up the gumption to act on it.

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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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Browsers pose the greatest threat to enterprise, Microsoft reports.

CTOvision

'NISTcloudcomputing Here are the top cyber news and stories of the day. Browsers pose the greatest threat to enterprise, Microsoft reports ? ?Microsoft's latest security report has found that Web-based attacks pose the greatest.

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Building a Strengths-Based Leadership Development Program

Nathan Magnuson

'This is the third post of a three-part series on the leadership merits of Gallup’s StrengthsFinder 2.0 strengths assessment. In the first post, I shared the practical benefits of the assessment itself. Then last week, I explained how the each person tends toward one of four leadership styles and how each style significantly impacts team [.].

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The Business of Deceit

Women on Business

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Mindful Mondays: Presence in Boston When It Mattered Most

Next Level Blog

'What a week it was for the city of Boston. It’s hard to believe that the citizens there went from the attack at the Boston Marathon to a citywide lockdown as police hunted for the surviving suspect to the celebratory singing of Sweet Caroline with Neil Diamond himself in an afternoon game at Fenway Park all within the span of five days. When I wrote about the resilience of Bostonians last week, I had no clue just how resilient they would prove to be.

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Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI

“Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI” is an extensive guide for integrating generative AI into product strategy and careers featuring over 150 real-world examples, 30 case studies, and 20+ frameworks, and endorsed by over 20 leading AI and product executives, inventors, entrepreneurs, and researchers.

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Presentation about Luigi

Erik Bernhardsson

I like the editing!

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4 Ways CIOs Can Help The Company To Connect With Its Customers

The Accidental Successful CIO

'A CIO can have a big impact on how customers view your company Image Credit. In your company, whose job is it to make sure that your customers are happy? Sales? Marketing? The CEOs? It turns out that all of these people have a role to play, but in the end it is the CIO who may end up having the biggest impact on just exactly how the customer ends up feeling about your company.

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Statistics Mislead, but Your Paycheck Doesn’t Lie: End Gender Pay Gap by Starting Your Own Business

Women on Business

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Lessons in Cambodian Silk Supply Chains

Mills Scofield

'Marcelia Muehlke one of the great young entrepreneurs I get to hang out with. She''s just your ''average'' 20- something creating an international supply chain in the fashion industry, and succeeding. In the spirit of ''and/both'' instead of ''either/or'', Marcie doesn''t accept the 20th C cut throat culture of the Garment District. This is a wonderful story, with lessons for all of us!

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How Embedded Analytics Helps Product Managers Exceed Their KPIs

Embedded analytics can help you deliver cutting-edge analytics experiences to your end-users that align with KPIs that are critical to the growth and success of your business. Read this eBook to learn how an embedded analytics platform, like Qrvey, can help PMs exceed the following KPIs: Growing revenue while improving customer retention rate Delivering rapid time to value Earning a high net-promoter score Increasing Gross Margin / Profitability Conversion rate from trial to paid Don’t just meet

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Presentation about Luigi

Erik Bernhardsson

I like the editing!

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Quality: Ownership and Getting Better

QAspire

'Quality you deliver has everything to do with how much you own your work , your actions and its respective impact on the other parts of the system you operate in. When you produce work that is useful, qualitative and something that others find valuable, it feeds your self-esteem and makes you a better individual. By consistently delivering better than you did last time, you raise the bar and grow.

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228 More Years Until the Canadian Gender Gap in Business Closes

Women on Business

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