Sat.Oct 25, 2014 - Fri.Oct 31, 2014

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6 Ways to Create More Joy at Work

Let's Grow Leaders

'Great leaders are joy inducers. Not the giddy kind of joy, but deeply seeded joy that comes from inspired and meaningful contribution. Inspiring joy is a pragmatic pursuit. I’ve yet to encounter a truly joyful poor performer. Last week, I asked all my social media circles to identify 3 things they liked most about their job. There was a deep feeling of passion and joy throughout the comments.

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Inclusion: 8 Drivers of Employee Engagement

General Leadership

'“When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.” Joe Paterno. We have all heard the homily “There is no “I” in “Team. ” As any sports coach knows, a team’s results overshadow the individual. You do have to have some top talent on a first class team, but any team is more than the sum of its parts.

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Why Disruptive Ideas Need Equally Disruptive Leadership

Terry Starbucker

'Since I left the corporate world a little less than four years ago, I’ve been lucky enough to have the opportunity to be a startup investor. It’s been one of the most awesome experiences of my life. I’ve been exposed to multiple industries and multiple talents that have taken my brain on a fantastic learning journey. One of the core words that are kicked around in these circles as we evaluate possible investments is “ disruptive “ That is, put in the form of a que

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Our Freemium Future: Development teams take advantage of free, entry-level versions of software 

CTOvision

'CTOs should consider having their development teams take advantage of free, entry-level versions of software – known as freemium software – to test out the functions of commercial products. From the perspective of Michael Williams, BIRT Product Evangelist & Forums Manager at reporting and analytics leader Actuate, freemium software is a resource that can really help the enterprise.

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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 Costumes Work at Work

Let's Grow Leaders

'As luck would have it, this Halloween finds me in my home office. It hits on a Friday which typically means writing and development… no keynotes, no consulting gigs, no teaching the MBAs… sadly no reason to wear a costume. In fact the next few Halloweens are on weekends– great for kids, terrible for dressing up as your favorite leadership message (yes, that’s me on the left).

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Monday Quote:

General Leadership

'“Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it’s amazing what they can accomplish.”. Sam Walton. by … Read the rest. The post Monday Quote: appeared first on General Leadership.

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Lessons Learned: Are you one of the Fortune 500’s Unfortunate 221?

CTOvision

'The Recorded Future Special Intelligence Desk has just released a new Threat Intelligence Report we found to be full of important context and actionable information for enterprise cyber defenders. The report, titled The Fortune 500’s Unfortunate 221, is available for download here. This report is important for two key reasons: It shows a clear example of the strategic benefit of cyber intelligence to enterprise cyber defense.

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How to Encourage the Lazy and Disengaged

Let's Grow Leaders

'How can you encourage the lazy and disengaged? The short answer… roller skates, or their metaphorical equivalent. Stay with me as we flashback in time. I was arguably the most disengaged and “lazy” sorority pledge at Wake Forest University. I had rushed because I was warned that nearly all social life on campus centered around the Greek system.

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9 Tips For Giving A Free Consultation

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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What is the value in perseverance?

Lead on Purpose

'Throughout my life I’ve been a big believer in the value of hard work—it’s one of three lessons I was taught from my youth. Everyone who takes an idea and makes it into something valuable does it through hard work.

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The Importance of an Online Encryption Policy

CTOvision

'Benjamin Franklin once said, “If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.” This quote summarizes the importance of online encryption policy and hands-on implementation within an organization. Though you may have the best IT department in the world and advanced computing resources, if there are no written methodical steps that will serve as guidelines or Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) for computing and data storage, then all these hiring-sprees of IT talents and investments are doomed to fail.

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JavaScript Promises: A Tutorial with Examples

Toptal

Promises are a hot topic in JavaScript, and you should definitely get acquainted with them. They are not easy to wrap your head around, it can take a few articles, and a decent amount of practice to comprehend them. Aim of this article is to help you understand Promises, and nudge you to get more practice using them.

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As a Woman in Business, Can You Really Have It All?

Women on Business

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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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Three Short Videos for the Overworked and Overwhelmed

Next Level Blog

'A few weeks ago, I had the opportunity to sit down with Dave Summers and other great folks from the American Management Association to talk about Overworked and Overwhelmed: The Mindfulness Alternative. The AMA has a really cool little video series called Three Questions where authors give short answers to questions in their wheelhouse. If you’re feeling overworked and overwhelmed or know someone who is, these videos just might help.

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NIST Issues Draft Guide To Cyber Threat Information Sharing

CTOvision

'I love and respect NIST and I just want to come right out with that so you know where I am coming from. Now add on top of that the fact that they have just issued a draft document that discusses items at the intersection of three of my passions, Cyber Security, Technology and Intelligence, and you can see why I am so excited. So, with my bias in mind, I report the following: NIST has just produced a draft special publication that I believe is the best thing I have ever read from their organiza

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How CIOs Deal With Mobile Disruption

The Accidental Successful CIO

'Mobile disruptions can happen at any time Image Credit. As CIO, because of the importance of information technology, you need to get ready to deal with the disruptions that that arrival of even more mobile technology is going to create. The customers that your company serves are going to expect to be able to interact with the company using their mobile phones more and more.

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Are You in Business or Do You Just Own a Job?

Women on Business

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Monetizing Analytics Features

Think your customers will pay more for data visualizations in your application? Five years ago, they may have. But today, dashboards and visualizations have become table stakes. Turning analytics into a source of revenue means integrating advanced features in unique, hard-to-steal ways. Download this white paper to discover which features will differentiate your application and maximize the ROI of your analytics.

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Mindful Mondays: Take the Time

Next Level Blog

'When people ask me, as they often do, why my wife Diane and I moved from the Washington, DC suburbs to L.A., I tell them the truth. When Diane, who grew up outside of Philadelphia, was eight, her parents took her to Disneyland and she never got over it. She’s wanted to live in Southern California for most of her life. So, when we figured out how to do it, we moved.

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Software Defined Perimeter, Cloud Security Alliance: Coca-Cola Case Study

CTOvision

'On September 30 th Sierra Ventures hosted their 9th CIO summit in Palo Alto, CA. One of the many topics coved at the event was software defined perimeter and cloud security alliance. Coca-Cola was used as a case study. Alan Boehme , the acting CISO at Coca-Cola. Ed Steinike , the CIO at Coca-Cola, and Bob Flores , the former CTO of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and a partner at our parent firm Cognitio were the key presenters.

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A Guide to Rails Engines in the Wild: Real World Examples of Rails Engines in Action

Toptal

Why are Rails Engines not used more often? I don't know the answer, but I do think that the generalization of "Everything is an Engine" has hidden the problem domains that they can help to solve.

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5 New Leadership and Management Books You Can Read on a Plane

Women on Business

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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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Getting Up to Speed on A World Gone Social

Next Level Blog

'Whether you love it, hate it or are somewhere in the middle on it, social media can have a huge impact on your effectiveness as a leader. Whether you''re in the conversation or not, the chances are people are talking about your organization online. Why not search for your organization on Google, Yelp or Glassdoor and see what you find? The results might surprise you.

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Technology News and Hot Topics

CTOvision

'These are some of the hot technology stories we are following… The Mysterious Company That Has Tech Giants Dropping 2 Million. Magic Leap, a Hollywood, Florida, based start-up announced today it received a $ 542 million round of funding led by Google, along with Qualcomm Ventures, venture capitalist firm Andreessen Horowitz and a slew of other top technology investors.

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Life by Design

Mills Scofield

'I had the privilege to share a panel with New Yorker Staff Cartoonist Liza Donnelly and Social Entrepreneur Superstar Susan McPherson on October 8th at the Granoff Center''s Martinos Auditorium, Brown University, discussing our professional paths. This was the first Creative Mind Lecture of the 2014-2015 series. Many thanks to Ian Gonsher for using his iPhone as a video camera and to Nicha Ratana who made the video as ''followable'' as possible and has made the Creative Mind Lecture series a re

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Learning Swift Programming: Is it Ready for Prime Time?

Toptal

Since Apple's launch of Swift this past June, many iOS developers have been struggling with the question of if, how, and when to transition from Objective-C to Swift. This article explores some important points to consider before jumping into Swift development.

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Revolutionizing Contact Centers: Next-Gen Tech for Enhanced CX

Speaker: Liran Meir Frenkel, Performance Management and RPA Sr Product Marketing Manager at NICE; Harpreet Makan, Practice Director at Everest Group; & Santhosh Kumar, Practice Director at Everest Group

As contact centers navigate the challenges of delivering excellence within budget constraints and adapting to evolving employee expectations, optimizing agent tasks becomes crucial. Discover a holistic approach across three pillars - people, process, and technology - that is essential to excel in this dynamic landscape, and explore how next-gen technologies such as generative AI, performance analytics, and process intelligence play a pivotal role in transforming contact centers into advanced CX

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The PCI Enforcement Hammer is Ready to Drop

Coalfire

The time for nervous anticipation for PCI breach response is over … VISA has issued dramatic PCI Data Security Standard Compliance enforcement guidance for Level 1 and 2 merchants and all Service Providers. Effective January 1st, 2015, noncompliance costs will be applied sooner and will escalate quicker. For many merchants and service providers looking for a reason to improve compliance just got one.

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The Leapfrog Opportunity For Executing Strategy (Summarized)

Six Disciplines

'Occasionally, circumstance and progress in seemingly unrelated areas combine to create an opportunity for solving old problems in new and exciting ways. One of those breakthrough periods is upon us now, with regard to strategy execution. This inflection point has developed primarily because large corporations have made huge investments developing best practices for effective management, strong leadership and strategy execution.

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What The Boss Can Teach Us About Life, Harmony & Impact

Mills Scofield

'I grew up in Rumson, NJ using my fake ID to get into the Stone Pony with a $2 cover charge to hear Bruce Springsteen (before we knew how famous he''d be). Who knew? In his new book, Leading the Life You Want: Skills for integrating World and Life , Stew Friedman shares how The Boss has harmonized parts of his life to find a balance that works for him.