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6 Simple Ways to Answer Tough Questions

Let's Grow Leaders

'Joe’s a bright guy and his idea was solid. His data seemed right intuitively, but we had a few questions. My peer started with a softball. Joe responded with a stutter, swing, and a miss. He made the cardinal sin of answering tough questions– he made stuff up. He wasn’t exactly sure of the answer, and he took a chance that we were dumber than he was on the topic.

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The Transformative Power of Positive Leadership

General Leadership

'“It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult undertaking which, more than anything else, determines its outcome.”. William James. On 16 October 2005, an incredible feat was achieved sixteen miles West of Denver, Colorado. What was once considered one of the most contaminated and environmentally dangerous locations on earth, was reopened to the public as a pristine wildlife refuge in one-sixth the time and less than one-sixth the cost of original clean-up estimates.

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10 Life Lessons Essential To The Making Of The More Human Leader

Terry Starbucker

'In this space I usually write about the “ leading ” part of my philosophy of More Human Leadership. Today, I’d like to chat about the “ More Human ” part. Bur first, a little history: I started this blog on December 25, 2005. It was a lark, really - a friend of mine had showed me his Blogger account a few days before and I thought “ cool, a place to put your thoughts “.

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The 2014 FedCyber Event will be 5 November 2014: Register now to ensure your seat

CTOvision

'By Bob Gourley. FedCyber is an annual cybersecurity event hosted by Matt Devost and Bob Gourley that brings together several hundred attendees to advance the dialogue on critical enterprise and federal government challenges. This event us unique in the DC ecosystem. We are focused on enabling people who make a difference in things cyber. We serve the community of practitioners who really get things done.

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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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How Not to Screw Up When You’ve Been Screwed Over

Let's Grow Leaders

'When I heard his story, I wanted to scream with him and for him. But screaming at water under the bridge just brings more rapids. I paused for what was an uncomfortably long time. Then, I whispered, “I know this hurts. But you have to stop. Kick and scream and get it all out, and then take a deep breath and take off on the high road.” It’s true that John didn’t deserve this.

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Three of the Most Common Delegation Ah-ha’s

Next Level Blog

'One of the biggest shifts that most rising leaders have to make is the shift from being the go-to person to someone who builds teams of go-to people. As you take on more and more scope in your leadership role, you can’t continue to operate as the go-to person who acts as if you’re personally responsible for everything that happens. You need to be accountable and own the results but you can’t expect yourself to do everything that leads to the results.

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MYCIN, Watson, and AI History

CTOvision

'By AdamElkus. Over at Wired , a headline blares “Artificial Intelligence Is Now Telling Doctors How To Treat You.” Sounds unique, novel, and even scary. Those AIs are replacing humans, to the point where even the detailed knowledge of the physician is superseded by a Dr. HAL! The article talks about Modernizing Medicine database and IBM’s Watson supercomputer.

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How To Lead With Guts (and Have Their Backs)

Let's Grow Leaders

'More than anything, your team wants to know you have their backs. They want to know they matter–to you–not just to the company. They want to believe you’d walk through fire for them and to take the proverbial bullet coming from above. Of course you would, but do they know it? A Short Story on Having Guts and Backs. We all cringed when this particular leader, let’s call him “Simon,” would walk into the store and start interacting with customers.

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Check Out Today’s 200-Second Soundbite™ Video Spotlight!

General Leadership

'A supertanker leader is one who pushes aside the normal procedures and looks at a problem from a completely different perspective. He chooses to embrace the discomfort of change and reacts by pushing through that discomfort towards a goal on the other side. The disruption in the organization causes ripples that spread behind the leader and force change rapidly to compensate for the imbalance.

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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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Why Your Clients Dictate Which Social Media Platforms Work Best For You

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].

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Discuss Big Data With NASA Experts at 9 Oct Big Data Forum

CTOvision

'By Ron Kaese. Editor’s note: This looks like one of the most relevant data analytics events of the season. Hear real use cases from real professionals serving critical missions. – bg. Who : Who should attend? Company representatives that want to meet the NASA experts on Big Data should attend. NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) is a secure facility so this is open to.

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Fuel your project with the Design & Influence Irresistible Change™ online course – Starts September 17

Change Starts Here

'Looking for new ways to keep your change project going when the going gets tough? Would you prefer it if it weren’t so tough to begin with? Starting on September 17, join me for the Design & Influence Irresistible Change™ webinar series. You’ll learn a practical, straightforward methodology with exercises, templates and tips to help you keep your change project moving forward.

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CIOs Need To Start To Create The New Face Of IT

The Accidental Successful CIO

'CIOs need to prepare for the day that traditional IT comes to the end of the line Image Credit. The era of IT as we’ve come to know it is coming to an end. The IT department functions that have gotten us this far are now coming to an end. Keeping the company’s email systems up and running, implementing an big ERP project, and securing the corporate network from the bad guys is no longer what the company needs us to do for them.

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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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Unstable Organizations Can’t Grow

Women on Business

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We Love It When Mission Focused Providers Like Cloudera and Pentaho Work Together

CTOvision

'By Bob Gourley. Cloudera and Pentaho work well together and I’ve seen that first-hand in the marketplace. One very interesting way they are working together is through a deep integration of the two capabilities in ways that can deliver fast analysis to users. Pentaho can provide analytical tools that take advantage of the holdings and power of the enterprise data hub (EDH).

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Check Out Today’s “200-Second Soundbite™” Podcast!

General Leadership

'Cruise over to PodBean to hear our latest 200-Second Soundbite entitled “Tossing Out the Rulebook” or subscribe to our PodCast directly via iTunes at the following link. Senior Curator and GeneralLeadership.com CEO, Brigadier General John E. Michel shares his insight into the power of believing there is a better way. He discusses that the positive effects of people’s actions were never realized by fearing change.

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Mindful Mondays: What If We All Hugged It Out?

Next Level Blog

'Because I fly a lot for my work, I get upgraded to first class a good bit. Sometimes, it’s just a happy surprise and other times, I’ll use frequent flyer miles to secure a seat up front at the end of a long week of travel. Last week was one of those long week of travel scenarios. I had a connection at Washington Dulles to catch a late afternoon flight to Los Angeles.

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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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6 Reasons Women Have Problems Getting Loans

Women on Business

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Computers and History: Beyond Science Fiction

CTOvision

'By AdamElkus. A recent BBC article asks the provocative question: can computers replace historian s? But here is the biggest claim so far – crunching through the big data of history can help us spot patterns and work out where the world is heading next. That is what Kalev Leetaru, a data scientist at Washington’s Georgetown University, believes may be possible.

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A Guide to Scientific Computing with Open Source Tools

Toptal

Scientific computing is hard. But thanks to an ever-growing landscape of open source tools, really tough problems are becoming easier to solve. Toptal engineer Charles Cook provides an in-depth example, leveraging open source tools to solve a problem in computational fluid dynamics.

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3 Simple Words to Revolutionize the World

Mills Scofield

'Wow! TIME magazine ( online )!! Thank you Nicha Ratana-Apiromyakij & Saul Kaplan for this honor and story about BIF10. I am so privileged and blessed to be a part of BIF. "How many people end business meetings with an “I love you” and a hug? Venture capitalist and former AT&T Labs scientist Deb Mills-Scofield does. To Mills-Scofield, to do business is to negotiate diverse personalities to get things done — and she has the gift for it.

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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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Best Jobs for Women Who Love to Travel

Women on Business

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David Bray of FCC @FCC_CIO Discusses Public Service and Data Analytics at 2014 Analyst Forum 

CTOvision

'By Shannon Perry. On July 30 th in northern Virginia, some of the greatest minds in analytics for business, outcomes, and mission impact gathered to share their lessons learned and experiences with data analytics. Academia, government, and industry came together to provide a comprehensive approach to investigating how we can better extract knowledge from information ( see our recap here ).

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RapidBI Daily Business Cartoon #153

Rapid BI

'“I appreciate the effort, but need you to be more flexible.” Office based cartoons, funnies or humor can help to communicate important messages or tips in a non threatening way. see more office humor.

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A New Cold War – with Many Sides

Coalfire

A New Cold War – with Many Sides There’s a lot we still don’t know about the FBI’s investigation of the data theft at JP Morgan Chase & Co. Criminal hackers based in Russia were targeting U.S. financial institutions long before Russia annexed Crimea or the West responded with sanctions. Is this truly a state-level act? Is it more than a coincidence that the attacks on our financial institutions follow a series of relatively effective sanctions against Russian financia

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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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Paula Deen, an Amazing Comeback Of A Woman Entrepreneur

Women on Business

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Embrace DBaaS to Speed Up Mobile App Development

CTOvision

'By Chip Childers. As enterprises work to rapidly embrace the mobile revolution, both for their workforce and to engage more deeply with their customers, the pressure is on for IT to support the tools needed by their application developers. Mobile application developers are working with a massive variety of technologies and platforms, but one trend that stands out is the rapid adoption of NoSQL database engines and the use of Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) platforms and services to run them.

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Installing multiple versions of Ruby using RVM

Federico Cargnelutti

Ruby Version Manager (RVM) is a tool that allows you to install multiple versions of Ruby and have multiple versions of the same interpreter. Very handy for those who have to maintain different applications using different versions of Ruby. To start, download RVM and install the latest stable version of Ruby: $ echo insecure >> ~/.curlrc $ curl -L [link] | bash -s stable --ruby $ source ~/.bash_profile.

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