Sat.Mar 03, 2012 - Fri.Mar 09, 2012

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5 Ways Leaders Can Teach Instead of Tell

Terry Starbucker

“Just get it done” I was 16, and working in a gas station. A customer had come in to get his flat tire fixed. It was a busy day, and my boss was busy handling other customers, so he told me to fix the tire. The trouble was, I had very little experience doing that, and I especially feared the machine that took the tire off the rim – I had merely one chance to watch someone do it a week or two before.

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Leadership and Resourcing

N2Growth Blog

By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth. It’s not what you have, but what you’re able to make out of what you have that matters. Every great leader understands the importance of creating leverage via proper resource allocation. The best leaders possess an innate understanding of how to create resources where none exist - they know how to deploy and redeploy resources to maximize opportunities and to minimize risk.

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The Success of Failure

Women on Business

Entrepreneurs are created for a variety of reason, but the most pressing question is ‘have you been successful because of skill or luck?’ Most entrepreneurs will be very offended at this question, but it has merit and whether we like it or not every story of success is tinged with the luck. You were at the right place, with the right product and you met the right person.

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What GE Aviation Knows About Inspiring Workers

Next Level Blog

Last week, I wrote a post that asked if your organization is ready for the era of connect and collaborate. Today, I want to go a little deeper on the connection part. In particular, I want to talk about how leaders can accomplish big things by connecting their people with the higher purpose of their work. You’ve probably heard the. Click headline to continue.

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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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The Three-Dimensional Change Agent Balancing Act

Change Starts Here

As a change agent, you probably feel pulled in multiple directions. The reason? Implementing change in organizations is a delicate balancing act. There are (at least) three dimensions that must continually monitor. Go too far in any one direction, and your initiative may topple. As you design and implement change in your organization, consider the following factors carefully: Amount of Change.

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Why CIOs Can't Pay Attention And What To Do About It (a chief information officer needs an IT strategy to create IT alignment)

The Accidental Successful CIO

'Why Can’t CIO’s just keep their minds on the task at hand? How’s that job going CIO? Do you find yourself and your IT department more and more often with too much to do and too few hands with which to do it? If so then maybe both of you are suffering from “CIO Attention Deficit Syndrome” What can you do about it? The Madness Of Trying To Do Too Much.

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Ken Blanchard and Chick-fil-A’s Mark Miller, on What It Takes to Grow as a Leader

Next Level Blog

Ken Blanchard is the co-founder and chief spiritual officer of The Ken Blanchard Companies, an international management training and consulting firm. One of the most influential leadership gurus in the world, he is the author or co-author of dozens of books, including the international bestseller “The One Minute Manager.” Mark Miller is vice president of training and development for Chick-fil-A. .

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Enjoy the Process – 2

QAspire

In 2010, I wrote a post titled “Enjoy the Process”. The central idea of the post was: “My point is – if we constantly keep our goal in perspective (and get overwhelmed by it), we become less efficient. Anxiousness (and sometimes fear) kills creativity. We rush through the process to see if our efforts are [.

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Social Contagion

CO2 Business Leadership

Leadership of Teams. Leaders want to stand out. They want to separate themselves from other leaders, their coworkers, and their predecessors. It’s helpful for leaders to remember, however, the importance of fitting in with the group and the power of social contagion. In order to maintain our social bonds, we mimic others. We buy what they buy, watch what they watch, and talk like they talk.

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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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Housekeeping Infection Control Checklist

Rapid BI

Housekeeping Infection Control Checklist On this weeks The Food Inspector on BBC1, we were shown even more reasons to be careful about the food that we eat & buy. The management of infections and illness can also be helped by the cleaning of public and private areas in a range of establishments, especially where food [.].

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On Leadership - What Makes A Great Leader?

Six Disciplines

"Want to be a leader? It's different than being a manager, or even an entrepreneur.". So says Dan Bobinski, Executive Director for The Center for Workplace Excellence. In his most recent article "What Makes A Great Leader?", Dan references one his favorite books "Six Disciplines Execution Revolution, by Gary Harpst. "If you desire to be a great leader and these skills do not come naturally to you (and very rarely do they come naturally to anybody), may I recommend becoming a student of these ski

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StrategyDriven Podcast Video Edition 4 – Employee Engagement: Untapped bottom line potential

Strategy Driven

StrategyDriven Podcasts focus on the tools and techniques executives and managers can use to improve their organization’s alignment and accountability to ultimately achieve superior results. These podcasts elaborate on the principle, best practice, and warning flag articles found on the StrategyDriven website. Episode 4 – Employee Engagement: Untapped bottom line potential explores the principle components of employee engagement, mechanisms for achieving it, and quantifiable benefits

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Supporting the Mission with Nutanix

Nutanix

I've spent the last several years helping to implement cost-saving technologies, such as virtualization, at various Federal agencies.

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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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Common Human Resources (HR) Metrics

Rapid BI

Common Human Resources (HR) Metrics One of the most common questions around Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and other metrics for HR is "what should I measure". This is a common question found on many HR groups and forums. Increasingly in organis.

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Marketer’s Guide to Pinterest – Pin It to Win It

Women on Business

Pinterest is the hot social media marketing tool that enables anyone (including businesses and brands) to pin images and video content to virtual pinboards. Users can follow each other or specific pinboards. They can also like each other’s pins, repin each other’s pins, and comment on each other’s pins. With “Pin It” buttons being added to websites at record speeds, all brands and businesses are looking to visual social bookmarking as the next big thing in marketing

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Organizational Accountability Warning Flag 1 – Equality of Outcomes

Strategy Driven

No two individuals are exactly alike; therefore, each uniquely contributes to the organization. Subsequently, it is reasonable to expect that each individual’s efforts will result in a unique value contribution to the organization. In the accountable organization, this value is proportionately rewarded. Thus, no two individuals should expect to consistently receive the same reward outcomes.

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Complimentary Resource – Beyond the Facebook Business Page: How to Generate Traffic & Leads with Facebook

Strategy Driven

Beyond the Facebook Business Page : How to Generate Traffic & Leads with Facebook. by HubSpot, Inc. You’ve set up your Facebook Page, you post and interact regularly – now what? Now you need to capitalize on these efforts. In HubSpot’s new eBook, Andrea Vahl, co-author of Facebook Marketing All-in-One For Dummies, reveals insights on how Facebook can turn into a driver of real business results.

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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.