Let's Grow Leaders

MARCH 21, 2017

According to Gallup’s recent 2017 study, 70% of employees are not engaged at work. And countless studies have shown that the number one predictor of employee engagement and satisfaction is the relationship they have with their supervisor. So what do the best managers know about disengaged employees? Today I share a story from one of the most disengaged times in my life, and how my leader helped me get through.

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General Leadership

MARCH 22, 2017

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. “If you don’t act, irrelevance is where you are headed” Miles O’Brien. I was sitting in Church recently listening to our Pastor deliver his homily when I heard him say that many of you could be in the category of “ineffective and irrelevant” if you have not stood up and engaged what you believe in.

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CTOvision

MARCH 21, 2017

Brigg Patten. Public speaking is about turning even boring subjects into an inspiring experience. However, some speakers can make audiences cheer, while others put them to sleep. Genuine passion for the subject and good articulation can help, but successful public speaking engagements take something more. Analytics can actually tell us which elements can transform mere words into a unique experience.

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Change Starts Here

MARCH 21, 2017

In this episode, April Mills, Change Coach at Intel and author of Everyone Is a Change Agent, describes the difference between driving people and driving change, and how making the simple shift can make a significant impact in your organization. Listen in to hear why driving people doesn’t work, and how driving change is a […].

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Toptal

MARCH 24, 2017

Natural language is increasingly becoming a viable way of interacting with smart software. Google search, Apple’s Siri, Microsoft’s Cortana, etc. are all capable of understanding queries in natural language. In this article, Toptal Freelance Software Engineer Shanglun (Sean) Wang walks us through some useful concepts and techniques in natural language processing and shows how they can be used to build a simple NLP app.

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Career Advancement

MARCH 20, 2017

“Leadership is intentional influence.” ~Michael McKinney~. Client Brianna asks: People often talk about the importance of influencing internal and external stakeholders. What makes a successful influencer, in your eyes? Coach Joel answers: Successful influencers do these five things better than anyone else. These five strategies foster strong relationships that make others see those influencers as people they can rely on.

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CTOvision

MARCH 22, 2017

Rick Delgado. Opening an unknown email, clicking a new link, or accessing a malicious document: it doesn’t take much to fall victim to a cyber attack. There are a variety of attacks that can greatly hurt your company and lead to a loss of finances and sensitive information, but ransomware attacks are increasing in frequency and severity for a number of companies. .

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Women on Business

MARCH 22, 2017

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 21, 2017

By definition, your IT infrastructure includes the work processes that you perform in your business, the information needed to support the execution of your processes, the applications required to manipulate and manage the information and the technology platforms (including hand-held devices, laptops, desktops, servers and the cloud) required to run the applications.

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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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Toptal

MARCH 22, 2017

Although CSS was meant to deal with styling, creating extraordinary layouts on the web has always been a unique challenge and almost always required the developer to resort to JavaScript. However, Flexbox is here to change that. In this article, Toptal Freelance Software Engineer Diego Díaz walks us through the basics of Flexbox and some cool examples of how Flexbox can be used to build smart CSS-only layouts.

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CTOvision

MARCH 24, 2017

Bob Gourley. O'Reilly Media is looking for speakers to share lessons learned at several of their upcoming conferences. Presentations could be a success story, cautionary tale, hard-won lesson, or perhaps even a worthy failure. Here are some of the upcoming events to consider speaking at: O'Reilly Artificial Intelligence Conference in San Francisco. The O’Reilly AI Conference is coming to San Francisco September 17-20, 2017 to explore the most essential and intriguing topics in intelligence engin

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Women on Business

MARCH 20, 2017

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Steve Farber

MARCH 20, 2017

The entertainment industry has mastered the art of self-recognition, but it’s not exactly a model for the rest of the world. It costs more than $20 million, for instance, to put on the annual Academy Awards shindig. Those little golden statues they give away? Roughly $45,000 each. And this weekend the music industry will celebrate itself by taking over the Staples Center, handing out Grammy Awards, and jamming along with the likes of John Legend, Lady Gaga, Adele, Bruno Mars, Beyoncé, and

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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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Toptal

MARCH 23, 2017

Many problems have optimal algorithms developed for them, while many others require us to randomly guess until we get a good answer. Even an optimal solution becomes slow and complex at a certain scale, at which point we can turn to natural processes to see how they reach acceptable results. In this article, Toptal Freelance Software Engineer Eugene Ossipov walks us through the basics of creating a Genetic Algorithm and gives us the knowledge to delve deeper into solving any problems using this

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CTOvision

MARCH 20, 2017

Carol M. Evenson. Far too often, companies don’t start to worry about digital security until after they experience an attack. If they’re lucky, the first attack won’t cause too much damage, but an even better situation would be if the people responsible for the attack walked away from the encounter empty-handed. The best way to ensure that ‘s what happens is to start planning for such an event now, before it’s even an issue.

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ShepHertz

MARCH 24, 2017

Insurance, ever since it began, has always been a seller’s market. It has enjoyed complete control of the buyer and provider relationship for over hundred years. Until the past few years, when digitization disrupted the market completely everything started to […]. The post How Omni-Channel Digitization is Transforming Insurance Industry appeared first on ShepHertz App42 Blog.

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Women on Business

MARCH 24, 2017

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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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Toptal

MARCH 22, 2017

A leading eCommerce site was losing customers and asked: How do you build a loyal customer base, boost engagement and reduce app uninstalls? The solution was designing a habit-forming experience.

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Professor Beekums

MARCH 19, 2017

Job hopping is not considered an admirable trait, at least by employers. There is not much for them to like about a developer that leaves after a short tenure. Hiring people is an expensive process since it requires the expense of recruiters as well as time spent by the existing development team for interviews. Time spent in interviews is time that could be spent building software.

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ShepHertz

MARCH 24, 2017

Insurance, ever since it began, has always been a seller’s market. It has enjoyed complete control of the buyer and provider relationship for over hundred years. Until the past few years, when digitization disrupted the market completely everything started to […].

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Women on Business

MARCH 23, 2017

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Toptal

MARCH 20, 2017

In apps, the next big thing is almost always initially dismissed as a toy. Things like Snapchat and VR, initially targeting the gaming industry and teen markets, ended up blossoming into disruptive technologies.

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Michal Komorowski

MARCH 24, 2017

Have you ever heard or used AutoMapper ? What a question, of course you have. And in the very unlikely scenario that you haven't, it's the object to object mapper that allows you to map probably everything. In short no more manual, boring, tedious, error-prone mapping. However, the great power comes with great responsibility. In the recent time, I had an occasion to fix 2 difficult to track bugs related to improper usage of AutoMapper.

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The Accidental Successful CIO

MARCH 22, 2017

Studies show that what you wear to work may impact how effective you are Image Credit: Matthew Kenwrick. When you go into the office, how do you dress? Do you put on a suit, find just the right tie, and make sure that your shoes are polished? Or do you slide on that pair of jeans that you’ve been wearing for a couple of years now, grab the shirt that’s hanging over the back of the chair in the bedroom, find your car keys and you are off?

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Women on Business

MARCH 21, 2017

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“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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Toptal

MARCH 23, 2017

Pricing strategy is one of the most important financial levers that companies have at their disposal to influence the financial success of their business. However, it is not an easy task. This article analyzes SaaS software pricing strategies and finds that several of the operational characteristics of the business model generate some very useful pricing advantages that can help drive financial performance.

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Akana

MARCH 23, 2017

To take advantage of the wide array of things that APIs can do for your company, you need to provide the right kind of supporting infrastructure for your API and app developers, architects, and operations and security teams. The post Getting the most out of API management appeared first on API Management Blog - Akana.

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Rapid BI

MARCH 23, 2017

The project management triangle as it is sometimes known is a valuable tool for prioritizing and decision making. It is often used as a throw away tool on training courses. But it is a powerful tool in the hands of a competent leader or professional. You can pick any two, but you can’t have all […]. The post Time, Quality, Cost – you can have any two appeared first on RapidBI.

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