Sat.Apr 29, 2017 - Fri.May 05, 2017

article thumbnail

The Performance Appraisal that Really Matters (Marshall Goldsmith)

Let's Grow Leaders

Winning Well Connection. From his books that taught us and informed our early careers, to the selflessness he consistently demonstrates, to his embodiment of professional confident humility, Marshall has been a tremendous supporter of Winning Well. We were honored when Marshall wrote the foreword for our book. Thank you once again, Marshall for your unwavering commitment to blending the bottom line with the human spirit and your support of Winning Well.

article thumbnail

How to Become a Trusted Advisor to Leaders

Change Starts Here

As a change agent, to have the most influence in an organization, you need to have the ear of one or more people with power. Not only do you want the leaders of your organization to listen to what you say, ideally you want them to seek out your advice when they are trying to […].

How To 124
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Aurelia vs. Angular 2 — A Code Comparison

Toptal

Angular and Aurelia are fierce competitors developed and released at approximately the same time. They have a similar philosophy, but they differ in a number of key ways. This article does side-by-side comparisons of those differences in features and code.

article thumbnail

How to Drive Strategies By Assessing Your Company Capabilities

N2Growth Blog

Every company has a set of capabilities that, when properly leveraged, can serve to devastate the competition. So, it’s essential for leadership teams to pinpoint and honestly assess these capabilities. Once a solid profile is established, it can be used to inform the strategic planning processes used to build a winning strategic plan. Here’s a simple framework that I use with clients to form their company capabilities profile.

article thumbnail

Streamlining Database Compliance with CI/CD Integration

IT leaders know the importance of compliance at every level, but the database often gets left behind as other environments are automated for robust protection. This whitepaper emphasizes the importance of robust, auditable, and secure database change management practices for safeguarding organizational compliance. Learn how automating database compliance: Mitigates risk Protects against security vulnerabilities Helps avoid regulatory penalties Aligns database workflows with app lifecycle Turns d

article thumbnail

The Down-and-Dirty Truth about Humility (Eileen McDargh)

Let's Grow Leaders

Winning Well Connection Reflection. I first met Eileen when a mutual friend said “You two should really know one another,” and she was right. Eileen has a warm and generous spirit and is an amazing role model of confident humility. . Before you throw up your hands in horror, consider the root of the word “humility.” The term comes from the Latin humilitas, which may be translated as “humble,” but also as “grounded,” or “from the earth,” since it derives from humus (earth).

More Trending

article thumbnail

7 Steps to Boost Your Content Marketing Productivity

Women on Business

We've Moved! Update your Reader Now. This feed has moved to: [link] If you haven't already done so, update your reader now with this changed subscription address to get your latest updates from us. [link].

article thumbnail

The State of Fintech in 2017

Toptal

The financial services industry is seeing a wave of innovation that is bringing with it new technology, but also a need to attract and develop talent that have the skillset needed to operate in this changing environment. This article delves into some of the most important trends affecting the industry.

Fintech 75
article thumbnail

What We Can Learn From the Former Principal of Columbine High

Steve Farber

Even the most optimistic leaders among us are reminded almost daily that we live in a mixed up, messed up world. Indeed, that’s why Extreme Leadership is so vital–in our work, with our families, and in our communities. Frank DeAngelis is one of those leaders who reminds us our strength is not displayed by achieving great things in a perfect world, but by our resiliency in a world that brings storms.

article thumbnail

Care for a white-water ride?

N2Growth Blog

Change seems to occur at an ever-increasing speed, making forecasts – especially those concerning long term scenarios – an extremely risky business. Forecasts often lead to disappointments, both for management – employees – shareholders and other stakeholders. Because of the complexities, we can always find excuses: Organizational developments did not always have the impact as expected, or employees/leaders turned out to be less suitable for the job than hoped for.

Trends 60
article thumbnail

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.

article thumbnail

Getting a Legal Expert is More Important than Some Think

Women on Business

We've Moved! Update your Reader Now. This feed has moved to: [link] If you haven't already done so, update your reader now with this changed subscription address to get your latest updates from us. [link].

91
article thumbnail

The Gap Between Developers and Designers is Disappearing

Toptal

Not so long ago, implementing a design according to a designer’s final deliverable was a nightmare. Today, new prototyping tools are helping the gap disappear between designers and developers.

article thumbnail

Lessons from Love-focused Businesses

Steve Farber

Love has always been good business. No, I’m not talking about the world’s oldest profession. That’s not love. I’m talking about the kind of love that leads to wedding bells – businesses that cater to people who want to find true love or who have found it and want to celebrate it. But what can those types of love-focused businesses teach us about how we can use love as a principle that shapes any business?

article thumbnail

At Every Altitude, Attitude Makes the Difference

Next Level Blog

You know how it feels when you have an unexpected visit with a long-lost friend? That happened to me last week and it happened, of all places, on a United Airlines flight from O’Hare to LAX. And, if you’ve read my blog for a few years or more, you may well remember who I’m talking about. In the hyper-sensitive viral world we live in, it’s all too easy to become super-saturated in one way of looking at a situation.

article thumbnail

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.

article thumbnail

Feminism in the Business World

Women on Business

We've Moved! Update your Reader Now. This feed has moved to: [link] If you haven't already done so, update your reader now with this changed subscription address to get your latest updates from us. [link].

72
article thumbnail

Convince Your Team To Go Remote: FAQ

Toptal

Going remote can be a big decision. Julia Stanaro, Manager of Enterprise Account Solutions at Toptal, shares her responses to the most common questions posed by executives about the value of remote work.

article thumbnail

Refactoring is About Features

Code Simplicity

There’s a point that I made in the book but which I have had to point out to people a few times since then, and so I wanted to emphasize it a bit more. When you clean up code, you are always doing it in the service of the product. Refactoring is essentially an organizational process (not the definition of “organizational” meaning “having to do with a business” but the definition meaning “having to do with putting things in order”).

article thumbnail

Data Modeling Is Important For Product Managers

Professor Beekums

Data modeling has a prominent place in the course on high level software development fundamentals. There’s a big chunk of the introductory lesson devoted to it. The second lesson is devoted to it. A future lesson is planned on it. I will also be creating a full course on it at some point. It’s given such prominence because of how important it is in software development.

article thumbnail

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.

article thumbnail

Is Financial Literacy for Kids Important?

Women on Business

We've Moved! Update your Reader Now. This feed has moved to: [link] If you haven't already done so, update your reader now with this changed subscription address to get your latest updates from us. [link].

68
article thumbnail

Leading Older Employees with Confidence

Nathan Magnuson

When I think about what makes a great boss, one of my first items is someone who really knows what they are doing – a true expert. And when I think about what makes a true expert, in my mind it’s always an older person; someone with sage-like wisdom who has been were I am… but a long time ago. If you’ve worked for any length of time, you know that’s just not realistic.

eBook 48
article thumbnail

Internet2 Global Summit: Open Source Network Tools & DDoS Detection

Kentik

In my last post from the Internet2 Global Summit, I covered some of the less techie topics. In this post, I wanted to briefly cover a couple of interesting tidbits related to current open source network visualization and how Kentik can complement Internet2’s forthcoming DDoS scrubbing service offering. Open Source Projects for Network, Traffic and Performance Visualization.

article thumbnail

Webinar Recap: Eliminate One-Size-Fits-All Threat Intel with BYOI (Bring Your Own Intelligence).

ProtectWise

ProtectWise customers are in the unique position to realize value from commercially available threat intelligence while also customizing and tailoring intelligence that’s most relevant to their organizations. Last week we hosted the “ Eliminate One-Size-Fits-All Threat Intel with BYOI ” webinar, where we polled our audience a few times.

Cloud 40
article thumbnail

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.

article thumbnail

Big Data’s Big Three: Business Executives, Data Scientists and IT Leaders

SQream

It is the IT leaders’ responsibility to make sure that data scientists have the technology and infrastructure required for the latter to be able to deliver actionable insights to C-level executives. In turn, these business leaders will use this information to decide upon which strategies to pursue. The selection of analytics technologies is crucial - making speed a differentiator, not to mention cost, and exploiting value in all types and scales of data.

Data 40
article thumbnail

Meeting FedRAMP and Government Standards – Coalfire Securealities Report

Coalfire

Coalfire released the results of its first annual FedRAMP Marketplace report – Securing Your Cloud Solutions: Research and Analysis on meeting FedRAMP and Government Standards. The findings highlight many positives for cloud service providers and federal agencies, but also opportunities for both to improve. The report examined more than 500 FedRAMP assessment and advisory engagements that Coalfire conducted, analysis of FedRAMP.gov authorized and in-process csp listings and interviews with

article thumbnail

News in Networking: Transatlantic Typos, Money in the Cloud, and Pandora's New Visibility

Kentik

This week’s top story picks from the Kentik team. Digital transformation is underway. If you don’t believe it, read this week’s Wall Street Journal recap of a panel on how VCs are viewing this era compared to that of the Industrial Age. You can also look no further than the earnings reports released this week by the big-three public cloud providers, who all saw spikes.

Network 40
article thumbnail

Concrete Versus Abstract

The Agile Manager

Until a few years ago, enterprise software development was pretty easy to justify and execute because the income statement was the primary customer. Automating back office tasks, expanding market reach, creating customer self-service tools, even legacy technology replacements were all investments that could be explained in a straightforward manner as taking costs out or capturing revenue that would otherwise have been lost.

article thumbnail

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.

article thumbnail

Practical Ways to Implement the Law of Attraction

Lead on Purpose

Guest post by Harrish Sairaman The Law of Attraction, like many other laws is a law of the universe. The Law of Attraction (LOA) states that a person attracts situations that are aligned to his/her vibrations.

40
article thumbnail

Today's customer experience mandate: Avoid '50 first dates'

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

These days, digital channel proliferation is making it more complex than ever to connect with and satisfy customers, whose own expectations of service are growing rapidly. Maintaining a coherent digital experience appears to be an essential element of the solution.

40
article thumbnail

Modern Marketing – You don’t know what you don’t know

Rapid BI

The world of business, sales, marketing & communications is changing, the question is are you 'up' with the new strategies or will you be scampering around for the scraps after the main event. The post Modern Marketing – You don’t know what you don’t know appeared first on RapidBI.