Sat.Jun 08, 2013 - Fri.Jun 14, 2013

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In Defense of Professional Intimacy

Let's Grow Leaders

'The professional distance thing has always been tricky for me. I get the rules. I’m a SHRM certified HR professional and spent years in HR roles. I also understand the logic of keeping professional distance, particularly between men and women. I’ve seen the disastrous consequences of inappropriate relationships. There’s nothing more awkward than firing a [.

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A Leadership Trait that Saved America

N2Growth Blog

'By Brian Layer , Chair, Organizational Development, N2growth. Today the U.S. Army celebrates its 238 th birthday. Looking back, its growth into comfortable old age seems inevitable but in its youth that outcome was far from certain. In 1783 on the Ides of March, the inseparable fates of our Army and Republic were very much in doubt; disgruntled officers of the fledgling Army were gathered in a secret meeting in Newburgh, New York to discuss insurrection.

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Why “I” Is The Least Important Word

Terry Starbucker

'There’s a pesky pronoun out there that leaders need to be contstantly aware of. It’s a slippery one because it’s so short and sweet. One letter. It’s pesky because of the messages it sends to those who hear it. It could be simple. “It’s about me” Or a mixed message. “Well, it could be about you too, but how could you know, given the use of this particular pronoun” Or, a message with absolutely no ambiguity. “Hey ,it’s ALL about m

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Author of Microsoft Business Intelligence End-user Tools Provides.

CTOvision

'Editor's note: Markus Ehrenmueller-Jensen is the author of Microsoft Business Tools, and is well positioned to provide context on ways users can better leverage these tools. -bg.

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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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Why You’re Not Getting Hired

Let's Grow Leaders

'I get frustrated and sad when I see highly qualified people unable to sell themselves in a job they deserve. It happened again, perhaps you know someone who can benefit from this story and actions that followed. Meet Me in St. Louis The sweet woman next to me on the flight from Denver to St. [.] The post Why You’re Not Getting Hired appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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The Right Way to Converse With a Virtual Team

Steve Farber

'In this series of posts about leading virtual and unconventional teams, I’ve suggested some important conversations you should facilitate across the distance. That’s the “what.” Now, let’s talk about the “how.” Truth is, we can’t talk about connection without addressing technology and its offerings and shortcomings.

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DoD's New Air Sea Battle Concept: An overview - CTOvision

CTOvision

'airseabattle The recently released summary of the Air-Sea Battle: Service Collaboration to Address Anti-Access and Area Denial Challenges provides interesting reading on how DoD is preparing to meet evolving threats.

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June Frontline Festival: Conflict Edition

Let's Grow Leaders

'This month’s Frontline Festival is all about conflict and conflict resolution. I am grateful to all the wonderful contributors for sharing their insights on this important topic. If you have written a post on conflict, feel free to add a link to it in the comments section. Root Causes of Conflict I like this post [.] The post June Frontline Festival: Conflict Edition appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Never Let Your Enemy Get The Upper Hand

N2Growth Blog

'By John Baldoni , Chair, Leadership Development, N2growth. Does a leader need an enemy to succeed? While fear of an enemy is always a great unifier, it does pose risks. Essentially you are calling people to come together for a negative rather than a positive. Case in point might be Abraham Lincoln in the Civil War. While the Confederacy always considered Lincoln the enemy, Lincoln as president viewed it differently.

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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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5 Ways to Reduce Workplace Distractions, Boost Productivity and Recoup Personal Time

Women on Business

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So what was all the WWDC fuss about? - CTOvision

CTOvision

'apple-logo Apple held their annual Worldwide Developer's Conference this week. Most of the internet is abuzz, everyone with an opinion of their own. They released details on new versions of OS X (now called Mavericks).

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Unintended Consequences: Fix This, Break That?

Let's Grow Leaders

'Results lag in a key area. You energize the team to fix it. Results improve. Fantastic. Now other results are plummeting. Beware of unintended consequences. Improve customer service, reduce efficiency Improve efficiency, damage morale Improve morale, increase costs Results don’t improve in vacuums. Unintended consequences lurk around every corner. 4 Ways to Avoid [.

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Should Leaders Ever Lie?

Next Level Blog

'News stories don''t get much bigger than this week''s revelation that government contractor Edward Snowden revealed classified information to The Guardian and the Washington Post that the National Security Agency has a program that collects and analyzes the phone records of millions of Americans. This post isn''t a commentary on the NSA program or what Snowden did (although I agree with Jeffrey Toobin''s argument on why he should be prosecuted).

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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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2 out of 3 Americans Believe the Glass Ceiling Exists

Women on Business

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DISA collapsing wired networks, expanding wireless, Coasties don't.

CTOvision

'NSA Here are the top cyber news and stories of the day. Coasties don't want expensive TISCOM laptops ? According to a recent DHS audit, the Coast Guard is sitting on over 5,000 laptops in Coast Guard Telecommunications.

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The Benefits of Deeper Questions

Let's Grow Leaders

'Why don’t you ask deeper questions? Are you more afraid of the questions or the answers? Deeper questions… Uncover concerns Shift the conversation Invite transparency Shift the mood Provoke deeper thinking Asking Deeper Questions “Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers.” -Rainer [.

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So… What Do Consultants Actually Do?

Nathan Magnuson

'“So Nathan, tell me what you do for a living?” “Well, I’m a consultant.” “A consultant? But what do you actually do?” This is typical conversation whenever I meet anyone new – and not just me, but for most folks in my profession. I don’t know why, but it’s always been a little tricky to [.].

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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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Social Media Marketing in 10 Steps

Women on Business

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leaked cyberwar policy ppd20 - CTOvision

CTOvision

'The leaked PPD-20 provides valuable insights about U.S. cyber war policy and perhaps even a small measure of consolation for cyber war critics.

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Mindful Mondays: Three Reasons to Consider Dialing It Back a Bit

Next Level Blog

'A lot of leaders end up in the roles they’re in because their Type A people who don’t settle. They have high expectations of themselves and others and give everything 100%. That’s a good thing until it’s no longer a good thing. In the interest of mindful leadership, I want to raise the question of whether or not you should consider dialing it back a bit.

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Dancing Your Way Through A Revolution

Mills Scofield

'Again I''m privileged to host the insights of an 21yr-old - Emily Goldman (Brown ''14) gives us life-time learnings on discernment, judgement, critical thinking and getting the facts for yourself. She has been studying Arabic and the impact of local rap movements on the revolution in Alexandria, Egypt for the past year - just your average American Female Jew in Egypt!

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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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Women of Innovation – Jen Grisanti

Women on Business

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Cybercrime Is The Other Guys Problem, Right CIO?

The Accidental Successful CIO

'Do CIOs have to worry about the other guy when it comes to cybercrime? Image Credit. Whew! Your IT department staff who are in charge of securing the company’s network have just reported to you that all patches are up-to-date and so the latest worm / trojan / virus that everyone is talking about shouldn’t affect you. However, when you stop for a moment and think about all of the companies that you do business with , maybe it will affect you….

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Messaging a person requesting to connect on LinkedIn

Rapid BI

'On LinkedIn many users say that they cannot message people that request to connect, so generally accept the request. What many people do not realise is that you can message them. Here is a piece that many help you communicate with people requesting to connect without you actually accepting the connection first. I would [.].

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Great Quotes: Luc de Brabandere on Change, Innovation and Perceptions

QAspire

'When we encounter a change, we first perceive ourselves in a changed situation. So, our perception of the changed situation actually precedes the actual change and shapes our response. In the same context, I read two quotes by Luc de Brabandere. The first quote comes from Forbes India article by NS Ramnath about N. R. Narayana Murthy being re-instated as Infosys Executive Chairman , where he quotes Luc: “We believe that to really make change happen, changing the reality is of course necessary –

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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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50 Year Anniversary of the Equal Pay Act

Women on Business

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Recognizing vExperts as Evangelists

Nutanix

Almost 600 VMware gurus were chosen for the coveted vExpert award this year. We are proud to announce that six of our own Nutanix employees are on that list: Jason Langone, Raymon Epping, Dwayne Lessner, Craig Waters, Steve Kaplan, and Bas Raayman.

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Four types of leadership learning

Rapid BI

'Four types of leadership learning.