Sat.Mar 21, 2015 - Fri.Mar 27, 2015

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How to Stop Having Stupid Staff Meetings

Let's Grow Leaders

'I asked the crowd, “Raise your hand if you’ve been to a really stupid staff meeting.” Every hand in the room went up. “Keep your hand up, if you find most staff meetings in your career could have been more efficient.” Nearly all hands stayed raised, with the exception of the new kid, who’s in his first job, sitting next to his current boss.

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Encourage TRUST in Your Workplace

General Leadership

'“The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.”. Ernest Hemmingway. Recently, a friend shared a story that moved me. His grandfather was grieving the loss of his wife. When she died, his grandfather was overcome with grief and inconsolable. Desperate, his grandfather asked my friend if the Air Force could bring his dead wife back to life.

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A Leadership Manifesto: 10 Keys To Living Courageously

N2Growth Blog

'By Grant Wattie. President, N2Growth Australia. You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor” ~Aristotle. The word manifesto can be traced back to the Latin root manifestum , which means clear or conspicuous. A manifesto is defined as a declaration of beliefs, opinions, motives, and intentions.

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Fighting The Good Startup Fight (Without a Unicorn In Sight)

Terry Starbucker

'Kjell van Zoen and his wife, Kim. Kjell van Zoen isn’t looking for unicorns. The founder and CEO of Portland company Plywerk , Kjell has been fighting the good startup fight for nearly 8 years, handcrafting beautiful wood photo displays with his crew in a warehouse on the east side of the city. It is a classic startup story. When Kjell’s wife Kim, a photographer, needed to mount a photo, she simply took some wood glue to the photo and pasted it on a piece of wood.

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How to Migrate From DataStax Enterprise to Instaclustr Managed Apache Cassandra

If you’re considering migrating from DataStax Enterprise (DSE) to open source Apache Cassandra®, our comprehensive guide is tailored for architects, engineers, and IT directors. Whether you’re motivated by cost savings, avoiding vendor lock-in, or embracing the vibrant open-source community, Apache Cassandra offers robust value. Transition seamlessly to Instaclustr Managed Cassandra with our expert insights, ensuring zero downtime during migration.

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5 Ways to Become a LinkedIn Ninja

Let's Grow Leaders

'Building a strong LinkedIn network takes time. Scrambling to build a profile and connections when your current position has suddenly become “qualified manager seeking opportunities” is not attractive. I hear this again and again from my speaking audiences– stories of folks who waited too late and then had to scramble. And if you think LinkedIn really doesn’t matter, know that Pew Research found that 98% of Recruiters and 85% of hiring managers use LinkedIn.

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Facebook Eats The World With Free Global Internet Via Drones

CTOvision

'By Katie Kennedy. Facebook is planning on launching a drone program they call Aquila. Launch will be in three months time, and from then they will continue to expand till they provide internet to every person in the world. The program is designed for: beaming high-speed data from 60,000 to 90,000 feet to some of the world’s remotest regions via laser.

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Staying Objective in Sales Meetings

Women on Business

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Introduction to Apache Spark with Examples and Use Cases

Toptal

In this post, Toptal engineer Radek Ostrowski introduces Apache Spark -- fast, easy-to-use, and flexible big data processing. Billed as offering "lightning fast cluster computing", the Spark technology stack incorporates a comprehensive set of capabilities, including SparkSQL, Spark Streaming, MLlib (for machine learning), and GraphX. Spark may very well be the "child prodigy of big data", rapidly gaining a dominant position in the complex world of big data processing.

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In The News!

General Leadership

'GeneralLeadership made the news! Check out the article by Military Times Staff Writer, Oriana Pawlyk, entitled “Seeking ways to bridge ‘civilian- military gap''” . Read the full article HERE. An excerpt follows: “Some new programs and resources are popping up that could help foster deeper understanding. Retired Brig. Gen. John Michel , former commanding general of the NATO Air Training Command in Kabul, Afghanistan, feels that after well over a decade of continuous com

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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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E-ink: Taking Fashion to a New Level

CTOvision

'By Katie Kennedy. Today we are just beginning to see what e-ink has to offer. With e-readers, e-ink multi-cards, the Pebble smartwatch, and more devices on the market, e-ink can be used in a variety of ways due to its flexibility. Now, e-ink is transitioning to the fashion world. A new Lithuania-based start up company, iShüu Technologies, has created Volvorii Timeless peep-toe heels that incorporates e-ink.

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Graphic Designs for Women Entrepreneurs – How Crowdsourcing Can Help

Women on Business

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The Top 10 Most Common Mistakes That Node.js Developers Make

Toptal

Node.js, the cross-platform runtime environment, has seen its fair share of praise and criticism for what it offers to developers. Often, reasons for such criticisms are rooted in how developers use/misuse the language. This article explores ten common mistakes that Node.js developers make and how to avoid them.

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Throwback Thursday: Simulated Leadership

General Leadership

'GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America''s Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. From Our Early Files: Originally Published. 18 April 2013. “No enemy bombs will ever land on Berlin, or my name is not. Hermann Goering.” the leader formerly known as. Hermann Goering. In most organizations, leaders live in an environment of respect, rules, professionalism, and obedience.

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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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Self-service Reset Password Management Solutions Mean Helpdesks Save Time

CTOvision

'By Dean Wiech. Helpdesks are overwhelmed, it’s no secret, often by mundane and repetitive tasks that can, or should, be automated. By taking steps, that are usually simple and financially efficient, much time can be saved for employees and organizations managing this process. By automating processes that have remained manual and out of date, technology leaders within their organizations are able to take steps to help their teams and their departments – like the helpdesk – focus on more pressing

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How to Get Your News Covered in a National Newspaper

Women on Business

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BYOD: Is This A Good Thing Or A Bad Thing For CIOs?

The Accidental Successful CIO

'Sure BYOD seems like a good idea, but is there a down side? Image Credit: Jeramey Jannene. Who’s responsibility is it to make sure that a company’s employees have proper communication tools? In the past, the answer to this question was simple – these tools were complicated and expensive and because of the importance of information technology it was the company’s job to properly equip their employees so that they could stay in touch.

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Check Out Today’s Tuesday Soundbite!

General Leadership

'[link]. GeneralLeadership Co-Founder and Senior Curator, Brigadier General John E. Michel, was a recent guest on Transformational Leadership. In this broadcast, he shares how transformation truly works within organizational structures beginning with investing in the relationship with others, and then realizing to go fast, we must go slow. .

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A Tale of Two Case Studies: Using LLMs in Production

Speaker: Tony Karrer, Ryan Barker, Grant Wiles, Zach Asman, & Mark Pace

Join our exclusive webinar with top industry visionaries, where we'll explore the latest innovations in Artificial Intelligence and the incredible potential of LLMs. We'll walk through two compelling case studies that showcase how AI is reimagining industries and revolutionizing the way we interact with technology. Some takeaways include: How to test and evaluate results 📊 Why confidence scoring matters 🔐 How to assess cost and quality 🤖 Cross-platform cost vs. quality tr

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Basis Technology Hosts 9th Annual Human Language Technology Conference

CTOvision

'By Bob Gourley. One of the key sponsors of our 30 April Synergy Forum is Basis Technology. Basis is a company we have tracked for years, and have watched as they have become part of the fabric of solutions now serving billions of people. We are honored to have them as a sponsor but even more honored that they decided to engage with our event two days after their own Human Language Technology Conference.

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Interior Design Tips for Your Business

Women on Business

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Mindful Mondays: Are You the Firehose or the Nozzle?

Next Level Blog

'As you enter into countless live and virtual conversations this week, here''s a question to consider. Are you the firehose or the nozzle? Here''s a quick description of each and a few ways to tell the difference. To get the mental picture of a firehose, imagine the real thing hooked up to a fire hydrant on a summer day. The water is turned on full force and is just gushing everywhere and in no particular direction.

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Meteor Tutorial: Building Real-Time Web Applications with Meteor

Toptal

Meteor makes developing web applications simple. It’s easy to learn, and comes with a pre-built arsenal of powerful functionalities. In this article, we will walk through a detailed tutorial for building a simple real-time web application.

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“Build vs Buy Analytics?” The Question ALL SaaS Leaders Need to Answer in 2024

As a SaaS leader, you know that the more metrics, insights, and analytics you add to your products, the more engagement you’ll have – and the stickier your product will become with customers. At what point do you decide to keep building your analytics in-house or invest in an embedded analytics solution? Read our Build vs. Buy Analytics guide to learn: Top 4 benefits of embedded analytics A quick cost comparison of in-house analytics development vs embedded analytics 10 considerations to help yo

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NapaTech’s Pandion: Optimized, high-speed packet capture

CTOvision

'By Bob Gourley. NapaTech has just announced Pandion, a powerful, highly-optimized high-speed packet capture solution. NapaTech has a history of fielding high speed devices and they applied their talent here in ways that enable incredibly fast, reliable, real-time packet capture, then indexing and search of network data. By combining packet capture with an integrated server and engineering for speed, enterprises are provided with new capabilities to look for security anomalies and network issues

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Your Business Productivity Is Down and It’s All Your Fault

Women on Business

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What is the Creator’s Code?

Next Level Blog

'What do Tesla and SpaceX founder Elon Musk, Spanx founder Sara Blakely and Under Armour founder Kevin Plank all have in common? Amy Wilkinson has done the research and knows the answer. She shares it in her new book, "The Creator''s Code". (Audio).

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Light the Fire and Clear the Path

Mills Scofield

'In Jon Mertz’s new book, Activate Leadership: Aspen Truths to Empower Millennial Leaders , Jon talks about Soul Sparks: “Soul sparks are those small ignitions of inspiration that fan into big changes, new directions, or fresh works. They come from deep down inside. Make your body and mind shake with excitement. These are soul sparks.” I am blessed to have had bosses who saw soul sparks in me and gave me opportunities to develop and spread them.

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Addressing Top Enterprise Challenges in Generative AI with DataRobot

The buzz around generative AI shows no sign of abating in the foreseeable future. Enterprise interest in the technology is high, and the market is expected to gain momentum as organizations move from prototypes to actual project deployments. Ultimately, the market will demand an extensive ecosystem, and tools will need to streamline data and model utilization and management across multiple environments.

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Red Owl Analytics: Next generation analytic platform

CTOvision

'By Bob Gourley. This is an update of our write-up on Red Owl Analytics. We cover them in our special reports on Analytical Tools , Big Data , and Security. We have followed Red Owl analytics from their beginning as a concept to a stealthy startup to their current award winning/mind-share-grabbing status. Something special is happening here that is far more than technology.

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The Need for 2-in-1 Hybrid Talent

Women on Business

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Great Quotes: We Are Made of Star Stuff, Carl Sagan

QAspire

'“The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of star stuff”. – Carl Sagan. From – “ That “we are” – The Connective Tissue of Humans Being ” by Bernie Nagle which is a must read. Here’s one more: But it all begins with acknowledgment and profound appreciation for the most rudimentary fact of human existence: “we are”.