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Words With Teams: A Simply Insightful Teambuilding Exercise

Let's Grow Leaders

Words uncover meaning. Words inform. Words create community. I’m always looking for ways to keep my remote team connected, growing, and thinking. So, I sent a quick email off to my organization: “what’s one word that inspires your leadership?” The responses came pouring in… within 24 hours, over 40% of my organization had whittled [.

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It’s Not Impossible – It Just Hasn’t Been Done Yet

N2Growth Blog

By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth. How many times in your career have you witnessed someone say, “that’s impossible – it simply can’t be done.” Perhaps you’ve even been guilty of uttering such a phrase yourself. Here’s the thing – leaders don’t accept impossibility as a valid thesis. If you think I’ve lost my mind, or that my optimistic nature has crossed over into a state of irrational exuberance or delusion, I’d encourage you to read on as I challenge the logic of impossibility.

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The Peril of Looking Over Shoulders (And 3 Ways To Keep It From Happening)

Terry Starbucker

You can feel it. And it’s not a very comfortable feeling. There’s this presence hovering over you, watching your every move. There’s tension in the air, and it permeates your thinking. Every action, every word on a page, and every utterance is tainted by that tension. They get over analyzed, over scrutinized, over thought and over processed by that tension.

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Work and Being Productive

Women on Business

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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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3 Reasons Your Meeting is a Waste of Time

Let's Grow Leaders

“Okay, we need everyone’s full attention… so here are the meeting rules. No texting. No sidebars. Full participation…” If you have to start your meeting with ultimatums, something is wrong. Sure you could scold the team into paying attention. Better yet, figure out why they don’t want to. 3 Reasons Your Meeting is a Waste [.

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Web Framework Performance - Startup Founders Need to See These Numbers

SoCal CTO

In Web Framework Benchmarks , there are some very interesting and surprising numbers around the performance of various web frameworks. Startup Founders really need to see these numbers. And I hope you are not running on Cake PHP when you see these numbers. Many of us are putting more into the front-end and having the application logic and back-end exposed through JavaScript (JSON) APIs.

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Great Expectations and the Entrepreneur

Women on Business

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Trolls in Chelsea: How to Manage Meanies

Let's Grow Leaders

Being agnostic to trolls, I took a day off work for growth and adventure. As I stepped off the train in Manhattan, my phoned beeped of a “tweetup” at the “Black Door.” A Tweet Walks into a Bar I got to the hotel and asked the concierge for directions. He looked at me… “change your [.] The post Trolls in Chelsea: How to Manage Meanies appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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The Main Reasons Strategic Planning Fails

Nathan Magnuson

When I was a college student, my New Venture Studies class had the opportunity to advise a local resident starting his own coffee shop. As an aspiring entrepreneur, I was excited to be involved – that is, until I realized the capital came from an inheritance. I was further perturbed when one of his first [.].

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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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How Do You Deal with an Abusive Leader?

Next Level Blog

Five years ago, I wrote a blog post that recapped reporting from The New York Times on just how tough mayoral aspirant Congressman Anthony Weiner was to work for. (Yes, the same Anthony Weiner who resigned from Congress a couple of years later for sending risqué direct messages to select followers on Twitter.) And this week the Times profiles the leadership stylings of another candidate for mayor, New York City council speaker Christine Quinn.

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Business Women – Who Do You Want To Be?

Women on Business

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Optimistic Hearts on a Disappointed Road

Let's Grow Leaders

I had lunch with some old friends– the kind you miss deeply without even knowing. I was once their leader. Now, I feel powerless to help. I am grateful for the heavy, important hearts entwined in conversation. Their frustrated hearts continue to survive the downsizing. Other friends have not made out as well. Perhaps… So [.] The post Optimistic Hearts on a Disappointed Road appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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The Main Reasons Strategic Planning Fails

Nathan Magnuson

When I was a college student, my New Venture Studies class had the opportunity to advise a local resident starting his own coffee shop. As an aspiring entrepreneur, I was excited to be involved – that is, until I realized the capital came from an inheritance. I was further perturbed when one of his first [.].

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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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Mindful Mondays – Stretch and Breathe

Next Level Blog

Is your calendar racked and stacked with one meeting after another five days a week? Are your weekends filled up with even more commitments to family, organizations or work? Are you wondering how to build in a break that will allow you to relax, refresh and recharge? Can you find two minutes in your busy day? If you can (and most everyone can), I’ve got something for you.

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Read to Succeed: A-List Business Books

Women on Business

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Cleversafe's Dispersed Storage Platform vs RAID - CTOvision

CTOvision

'This post summarizes Cleversafe's Whitepaper ?Why RAID is Dead for Big Data Storage?. You can find the paper here. Find Cleversafe on the web, here. IT professionals are beginning to consider different approaches to.

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Leaders take action

Lead on Purpose

Great leaders understand the responsibility of doing things right, making sure they’re accomplishing the goals they’ve set out for themselves and their organizations. Doing things right is a core to success. However, if you focus too much on planning, and don’t get to work making things happen, you might miss the bigger opportunity. General George S.

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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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It's Time We Develop A New Relationship With Work

Mills Scofield

I've been following award winner, internationally acclaimed writer and speaker Tanveer Naseer for a while. His wisdom and insight, put into language we can all understand and act upon, is a gift. He generously let me post on his site earlier this month and I'm privileged to return the favor. You can find more of Tanveer's sagacity on leadership and the workplace here , follow him on twitter @TanveerNaseer , and keep up on what he's thinking here.

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Women on Corporate Boards Are Better Decision Makers Than Men

Women on Business

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Organization

The Programmer's Paradox

“A place for everything, everything in its place.” Benjamin Franklin As Benjamin Franklin pointed out there are two parts to organization. The first is that absolute everything needs to fit somewhere. With software this really translates to having a solid 'reason' for every little bit in the system, be it config files, methods, data etc. and a reason for its location.

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Learning change techniques from roadworks

Rapid BI

This past week I have seen practical change management open and fail right in front of me. Where I live over the last few weeks, we have been subjected to many, many changes to the flow of traffic and accessibility of certain roads and accesses. This is due to significant utilities works in the area. None [.].

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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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How To Stay Relevant & Have Impact

Mills Scofield

We are in an age of immense disruption: industries, societal codes, politics, demographics, you name it. If we are going to handle this continually changing the world, we have to adapt ourselves. All we can really control is how we react, and more importantly, pro-act to our world. While we should hold our principles and values dear, we need to reinvent the how, where, and why we live those out.

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Selling to the Social Customer

Women on Business

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Excellence

Six Disciplines

Excellence, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder. Different people have different standards of excellence. If you’re serious about pursuing excellence, you must decide what excellence means for your organization. You also need to be prepared to have your definition change, because as you learn and grow, your expectations will change as well. For businesses, it’s useful to think of excellence in terms of two broad categories.

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It’s not all about social media

Rapid BI

Social media is what it is all about. But is it? Today on twitter someone was asking for ideas to promote a local food business on facebook. Now don’t get me wrong, I use social media a lot. But are we using it as an excuse to avoid doing “real” marketing too? I’m beginning to [.].

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How Embedded Analytics Helps Product Managers Exceed Their KPIs

Embedded analytics can help you deliver cutting-edge analytics experiences to your end-users that align with KPIs that are critical to the growth and success of your business. Read this eBook to learn how an embedded analytics platform, like Qrvey, can help PMs exceed the following KPIs: Growing revenue while improving customer retention rate Delivering rapid time to value Earning a high net-promoter score Increasing Gross Margin / Profitability Conversion rate from trial to paid Don’t just meet

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Greg Gaskey Named StrategyDriven Enterprises Chief Operations Officer

Strategy Driven

Executive leader brings hands-on management and operational experience to StrategyDriven’s Power & Utilities focused advisory services. Increasing demand for clean, affordable electricity combined with an aging infrastructure, retiring workers, growing regulations, rising capital costs, and intensifying budget pressures challenge utility executives and managers now more than ever before.

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Top 5 Small Business Deductions and a Few You May Have Missed

Women on Business

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Effective Listening: Necessary, But Not Sufficient

Let's Grow Leaders

Why aren’t we better at listening? Is it really skills or something deeper? I’ve been intrigued by a 6 month, Leadership LinkedIn Discussion asking leaders to give “one piece of advice” for new leaders. With over 1300 comments, the discussion was skewed heavily toward one topic: effective listening. How leaders “listen” trumped all other discussion threads including [.