General Leadership
JANUARY 14, 2015
'“ The first principle of architectural beauty is that the essential lines of a construction be determined by a perfect appropriateness to its use.”. Gustave Eiffel. (designer of the Eiffel Tower). Trying to Fly When the. Dashboard Gets in the Way. This article was co-written by Colonel Matthew T. Fritz (pictured here in the cockpit of a KC-135 at Edwards AFB, CA) and Ms.
Let's Grow Leaders
JANUARY 14, 2015
'I’ve been noticing a pattern with some of my clients when I utter the word “HR”–the proverbial eye roll. “What does HR say?” Queue the eye roll. “I think an important next step would be to bring HR on board.” An eye roll rapidly followed by, “Do we have to?” Now before I completely tick off the entire SHRM organization, please know I’m on your side.
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CTOvision
JANUARY 13, 2015
'By Bob Gourley. “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.”. ? Margaret Mead. Editor''s note: I''ve been in the position to observe both NGA and DigitalGlobe as organizations and have also been honored to meet both the two leaders referenced in this release, and I consider their work to be proof yet again that small teams of committed people can work wonders in the world.
N2Growth Blog
JANUARY 16, 2015
'By Damian D. “Skipper” Pitts. Chair, Organizational Development, N2Growth. Albert Einstein said; “We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking that we used when we created them.” In thinking about this statement and in light of the events across the nation regarding the crisis in law enforcement, there are five strategies Leaders in Law can adopt to elevate their agency to the next level.
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.
General Leadership
JANUARY 16, 2015
'“Tell me, if you had to go into battle, would you want him with you?”. Quote from “Top Gun” Every organization has a leader whose job it is to produce results: combat aviators, increased sales, on time deliveries, or increased profits. This position almost always comes with a title, “Commander”, Director of Marketing, Executive Vice President, Chairman, or CEO.
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CTOvision
JANUARY 11, 2015
'By Bob Gourley. We have previously reported on the great, community coordinated and extensively vetted work on cyber risks and governance by organizations like The Institute of Internal Auditors ( IIA ), The Information Systems Audit and Control Association ( ISACA ),The Internet Security Alliance ( ISA ), and The National Association of Corporate Directors ( NACD ).
Change Starts Here
JANUARY 13, 2015
'As a change agent at work, you have two primary roles: To design the change initiative to go as smoothly as possible, and. To influence it along the way when it doesn’t. When you do these two things well, your change seems irresistible. Starting on January 28, join me for the Design & Influence Irresistible Change ™ webinar series. You’ll learn a practical, straightforward change management methodology with examples, exercises, and tips to help you keep your change project movin
General Leadership
JANUARY 12, 2015
'“I cannot trust a man to control others who cannot control himself.” Robert E. Lee. … Read the rest. The post Monday Quote: appeared first on General Leadership.
Terry Starbucker
JANUARY 11, 2015
'Jim Collins, going Jim Collins (photo by dov.com). OK, it’s time to “ go Jim Collins ” on us. We can’t let any more days go by in the new year before we do it. Because it’s so important for great more human leadership. And it’s NEVER a bad idea to repeat it so it burns into our brains (and heart). What’s the “it”?
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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.
CTOvision
JANUARY 15, 2015
'By Bob Gourley. Eddie Garcia is regarded as one of the nation''s greatest Big Data security architects. At Gazzang he led engineering teams through successful fielding of secure hadoop deployments where security was provided without sacrificing performance. Now a security engineer with Cloudera, Eddie continues to work directly with clients from enterprises across multiple sectors of the economy.
Women on Business
JANUARY 12, 2015
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Toptal
JANUARY 13, 2015
Going from a software background, knowing nothing about electronics, to designing and building a powerful, marketable hardware device, is an interesting and fascinating experience. In this article, I'll describe the design of how this electronic masterpiece works.
Next Level Blog
JANUARY 15, 2015
'In fifteen years of coaching high potential and senior leaders, I’ve conducted thousands of hours of colleague feedback interviews. One of the themes that I hear a lot from senior executives talking about high potential leaders is that the client needs to play a bigger game. What the executives mean by that is that the high potential needs to start making an impact beyond their immediate function and start acting as a leader of the entire organization and not just their function.
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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.
CTOvision
JANUARY 13, 2015
'By Bob Gourley. One of our CTOvision Pro subscribers requested we provide more context on web based and mobile application security and referenced the good work underway by OWASP. Over the next few weeks we will be publishing more on this topic, but wanted to start with an introduction to OWASP itself. It is an open community we hold in the highest regard and you may want to consider contributing to their efforts yourself (or perhaps ensuring the right people in your enterprise are engaged with
Women on Business
JANUARY 16, 2015
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Erik Bernhardsson
JANUARY 12, 2015
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The Accidental Successful CIO
JANUARY 14, 2015
'Even the best laid plans can run into a stall if you don’t plan correctly Image Credit: roger g1. Every CIO has heard about the Cloud by now – computing services provided by a vendor that your company can lease and access via the Internet. All of the articles sure seem to indicate that moving enterprise applications into the cloud makes good economic sense and can enhance the importance of information technology to the company.
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CTOvision
JANUARY 14, 2015
'By Kord Davis. MIT Technology Review recently published a paper on an emerging discipline called "Human-Data Interaction (HDI). A nascent field of study, this paper can provide individuals and organizations a solid introductory framework to motivate discussion and action around the relationship between people and data. Summarizing the full paper, MIT comments: " The rapidly evolving ecosystems associated with personal data is creating an entirely new field of scientific study, say computer scie
Women on Business
JANUARY 15, 2015
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Erik Bernhardsson
JANUARY 12, 2015
Chris Johnson ‘s presentation from Data Day Texas :
Toptal
JANUARY 12, 2015
Bitcoin blockchain is the backbone of the network and provides a tamper-proof data structure, providing a shared public ledger open to all. This article provides insight in blockchain technology, current status and its potential.
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CTOvision
JANUARY 15, 2015
'By Randy Siegel. On January 14 th , Reuters broke an exclusive story purporting to have information that Samsung Electronics was in advanced talks to purchase Blackberry for ~$.75B. If true, such a deal would surely represent a game-changer for mobile security conscious government and private sector enterprises. Samsung has a strong impetus for purchasing Blackberry.
Women on Business
JANUARY 13, 2015
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QAspire
JANUARY 12, 2015
'Customers don’t always specify everything they want. Truth is, not everything can be specified. Lets say, you go to a restaurant and order a sandwich. You specify the type of bread, filling preferences, sauces etc. That’s what you want and it can be specified explicitly. But you also want the bread and veggies to be fresh. Preparation to be hygienic.
Toptal
JANUARY 15, 2015
In Java development, a typical workflow involves restarting the server with every class change, and no one complains about it. But is Java class reloading that difficult to achieve? And could that problem be both challenging and exciting to solve? In this article, I will try to address the problem, help you gain all the benefits of on-the-fly class reloading, and boost your productivity immensely.
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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.
CTOvision
JANUARY 14, 2015
'By Katie Kennedy. The video below and at this link was produced by The Verge to highlight one of the most interesting gadgets presented at the Consumer Electronics Show. It is a proof of concept not available for sale yet, but a developer kit has been built and will be released in March. Related articles. Sony''s $1,100 Walkman, Smart Homes, Highlight Consumer Electronics Show (mega949.com).
Women on Business
JANUARY 13, 2015
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Mills Scofield
JANUARY 14, 2015
'The Colonel and Deb! General Leadership is hosting a post by Col. Matt Fritz and me on why STEAM is so important - in the military, work, non-profits, and education - starting with education so it permeates our thinking. I''m so honored to be writing with a very dear friend and courageous leader.
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