Sat.Nov 04, 2017 - Fri.Nov 10, 2017

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One Awful (but Common) Leadership Practice and What To Do Instead

Let's Grow Leaders

It’s nearly a leadership cliché: “Don’t bring me a problem without a solution.” You’ve probably been on the receiving end of a harried manager barking these words at you. You may even have said them yourself. I’ve delivered many keynote programs and […].

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Veterans Day – Solemnly Remember

General Leadership

Armistice Day parade – 1929 – Boston (Source: Boston Public Library). “…solemnly remember the sacrifices of all those who fought so valiantly on the seas, in the air, and on foreign shores, to preserve our heritage of freedom.”. President Dwight D. Eisenhower. On November 11, 1918–after more than four years of bloody fighting by over 70 million soldiers from as many as 100 countries, an armistice was signed in France between the Allies and Germany bringing World War I to

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3 Ways to Mitigate Insider Threat Risk Prior to an Employee’s Departure

CTOvision

We are seeing a disturbing insider threat trend impacting operations and causing reputational harm in the days leading up to an employee’s departure from an organization. For example, last week a Twitter employee deleted President’s Trump’s Twitter account prior to leaving the premises on his last day of employment. In September, a contractor was convicted […].

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The Cost Center Trap

LeanEssays

In the 1960’s, IT was largely an in-house back-office function focused on process automation and cost reduction. Today, IT plays a significant strategic and revenue role in most companies, and is deeply integrated with business functions. By 2010, over 50% of firms’ capital spending was going to IT, up from 10-15% in the 1960’s. [1] But one thing hasn't changed since the 1960’s: IT has always been considered a cost center.

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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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Want a Tighter-Knit Team? Look to the Family For Inspiration

Let's Grow Leaders

It’s our pleasure today to bring you a guest post from Scott Mautz, author of Find the Fire: Reignite Your Inspiration and Make Work Exciting Again. -Karin & David Believe it or not, we’re actually now spending more time with coworkers than family; […].

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Dashboard Design - Considerations and Best Practices

Toptal

Dashboards are a unique and powerful way to present data-based intelligence using data visualization techniques. This post looks at the fundamental principles that lie at the heart of every successful dashboard design.

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Happy 241st Birthday to the United States Marine Corps!

General Leadership

“Admiration of the Nation. We’re the finest ever seen. And we glory in the title. Of United States Marines” Early words to the last stanza of the first verse of the “Marines’ Hymn”. Happy 241st Birthday to the U.S. Marine Corps! On November 10, 1775, the Second Continental Congress met in Philadelphia, and passed a resolution stating that “two Battalions of Marines be raised” for service as landing forces with the fleet.

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Why To Explain Why, Again.

Let's Grow Leaders

Last week, we were wrapping up our final session of a six-month strategic management intensive with a group of engineering managers by helping them to synthesize what they’d learned. In addition to a number of more mainstream techniques, we asked them to […].

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Transparency – All Cards Face-Up

Lead on Purpose

Guest post by Paul Sean Hill Creating and leading high-performing teams in any setting requires a high-trust environment. A critical component in creating and keeping that trust is complete transparency across the team.

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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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Exploring the Bear Case of the Cryptocurrency Bubble

Toptal

The arguments for a cryptocurrency revolution can tend to sway toward appearing more like get-rich-quick schemes than balanced debates. The regulatory risk overhang, constant scams, and technological immaturity of the movement mean that long-term success is far from certain. In this article, Jonathan Sterling addresses the other side of the argument: the bear case for a crypto future.

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HR, Who’s Your Customer?

N2Growth Blog

Over the last 30 years I have worked for many organizations in HR positions with increasing responsibility. Regardless, I had discussions within each of those organizations about the concept of customer satisfaction. In my view, the only customer is those whom we sell our products or services to! They are the same who pay our salaries. HR staff, were routinely told, that they should view and interact with line managers as HR’s customers.

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Three Simple Tips to Start Solving Problems in Your Business Today

Steve Farber

David Conley found himself on a team of experts who were attempting to design satellite superstructures, a challenge not specifically covered while earning his college degree in nuclear engineering. As he succinctly put it: “What the hell do I know about satellite super structures?” So, when the team shared the key problems that were holding back progress, Conley turned to something he knew rather well: a method for innovation that originated in 1946 with Russian scientist and writer

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3 Positive Lifestyle Changes You Can Make Now

Women on Business

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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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Get Started with IoT Development: An ESP8266 Arduino Tutorial

Toptal

In this tutorial, Toptal Freelance Software Engineer John R. Kosinski will demonstrate a simple Amazon Alexa hack using quintessential Arduino skills and basic hardware.

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Time for a Brand Overhaul at Harley-Davidson

N2Growth Blog

Harley-Davidson announced its third quarter results last month and the news wasn’t great. Harley’s worldwide sales was down nearly 7%, while American retail sales slumped by over 8%. This all translated into about a 40% drop in profits as compared to the year-ago quarter. Prompting its CEO to comment in its earnings press release : “The continued weakness in the U.S. motorcycle industry only heightens our resolve and the intensity we are bringing to the quest to build the

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The Top 5 Trends for Digital Transformation in 2018

Loom Systems

Most companies today will tell you that it’s no longer “business as usual” in any area of the enterprise. The only constant is change and digital disruption is the norm. But it’s no wonder when you think about the benefits of digital transformation. Companies implementing smart digital transformation strategies generate better gross margins and realize more earnings and net income than companies that are slower to adopt.

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Your Guide to Proper Product Pricing and How to Tackle It

Women on Business

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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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Brand Illustration 101: Visualizing the Narrative

Toptal

A brand is a promise. This article outlines how illustrations are being used to express brand value and how businesses are investing substantial time and resources into extensive brand illustration systems.

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“Machine Washing” is a symptom of AI snobbery

DataRobot

After attending this year’s HR Tech World in Amsterdam, journalist Phil Wainwright made an interesting observation about a trend amongst product companies. He explained that they’re layering in a superficial layer of artificial intelligence (AI) — e.g., an Alexa skill — into their products just to be able to claim that their product uses AI. He calls this trend “Machine Washing.”.

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Learning Lambda

Mike Roberts

Learning Lambda is an ongoing series of articles that give you a deep dive into programming on the AWS Lambda Platform. We start from first principles, and we explain what is going on in the Lambda environment as we proceed. The aim of the series is not to give you cookie cutter examples but instead to give you a thorough understanding of the Platform and programming model so that you’ll have confidence building your own Lambda applications.

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How Do Marketing Influencers Use SEO?

Women on Business

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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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Broad vs. Narrow Skillsets: Software Engineering Skills Demystified

Toptal

In this article, Toptal Freelance Software Engineer Tiberius Florea outlines the difference between deep and broad skillsets and explains why broadening your skillset may further your career.

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Story Points and Time

Professor Beekums

One of the first things used to describe story points is a negative: story points do not equal time. 1 story point can not be equated with 1 hour, 3 hours, or any other unit of time. While it can be advantageous to have a unit of work that isn’t associated with time, it is important to note that story points will ultimately be a unit of time. Story points are used in conjunction with sprints.

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How Could Artificial Intelligence Enhance Your Event Experience?

Kash Shaikh - Dell EMC

What happens at the intersection of machine learning, deep learning and high performance computing (HPC)? Human progress, driven by an intelligent ecosystem of predictable analytics and devices! The era is upon us, and now we can train machines to use data to sense, learn, reason, make predictions and evolve. We are at the forefront of this revolution with the Dell EMC HPC Innovation Lab, recognized as one of the TOP 500 supercomputers in the world.

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What To Do When You Are The Interim CIO

The Accidental Successful CIO

What you do when you are in between positions matters a lot Image Credit: Istvan. Congratulations, you’re now the CIO. Well, maybe not quite. You’re actually the interim CIO. What does this actually mean? What it means is that the company understands the importance of information technology and needs somebody to fill the role of CIO while they go looking for the person that they want to fill it permanently.

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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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Intro to Magento: Navigating the Top eCommerce Ecosystem

Toptal

In this article, Toptal Freelance Magento Developer Daniel Cuevas Zamora gives a broad overview of one of the most popular eCommerce platforms and how to get started with it.

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News and Updates from the PCI Europe Community Meeting

Coalfire

In September, Hurricane Irma forced the PCI SSC to cancel the North America Community Meeting; and the uncertainty of Catalonian independence from Spain may have led some to stay home from the Europe Community Meeting held in Barcelona last week. Nevertheless, the Coalfire team was well-represented in Barcelona. Because there were so many valuable updates, we offer this summary to keep you informed of these important developments in the world of PCI.

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How Could Artificial Intelligence Enhance Your Event Experience?

Kash Shaikh - Dell EMC

What happens at the intersection of machine learning, deep learning and high performance computing (HPC)?