General Leadership
FEBRUARY 9, 2016
GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. “Nobody wants to hear how rough the water is, just get in the boat and start rowing.”. …At least that’s what my little league coach used to tell us kids. We were the original Bad News Bears, but we ended up in first place anyway.
Let's Grow Leaders
FEBRUARY 8, 2016
“Laura,” a senior exec working to build leadership throughout her team, looked up from her salad and confided. “Karin, the truth is I have so many things going on in any given day, I may not remember the exact decision I made if it was a trivial matter, and I may not even remember exactly what I said about something important. But what I DO KNOW is what I WOULD HAVE SAID in any given circumstance.
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CTOvision
FEBRUARY 9, 2016
Bob Gourley. Time for another clear and unambiguous warning on the growing cyber threat, this one in testimony to Congress by the leader of the U.S. Intelligence Community: Security of Information systems: Allow me to turn now to a transnational threat that is, at present, difficult to measure -- the threat of attack against our information systems and information-based infrastructures.
Terry Starbucker
FEBRUARY 7, 2016
Can a company really “measure its heart”? As more human leaders, we instinctively know that there’s a strong correlation between a caring, connected and happy team and successful financial performance, but we also know that finding a way to measure and confirm that correlation is an essential part of sustaining (and even tightening) it over the long haul.
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
FEBRUARY 10, 2016
GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. “Remember one thing…. you screw up just this much and you’ll be flying a cargo plane full of rubber dog-doo out of Hong Kong.”. Commander Tom “Stinger” Jordan. For me, one of the best scenes in the whole Top Gun movie is the dressing down that Commander “Stinger” Jordan gives Maverick as he sends him off to Top Gun with the admonition that if he mes
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CTOvision
FEBRUARY 10, 2016
Bob Gourley. DARPA funded research has produced a device, called the "stentrode," capable of direct recording of brain activity, right from neurons. This amazing technology repurposes stent devices to enable this breakthrough. . From the DARPA announcement : A DARPA-funded research team has created a novel neural-recording device that can be implanted into the brain through blood vessels, reducing the need for invasive surgery and the risks associated with breaching the blood-brain barrier.
QAspire
FEBRUARY 9, 2016
Disruptive forces compel organizations to undertake large scale transformation initiatives to stay relevant. The speed of executing these transformations is as crucial as the initiatives itself and a lot is at stake. In such situations, it is easy to get carried away by the enormity of task at hand and lose the sight of what could go wrong. If you are undergoing a large scale transformation or planning for one, I highly recommend ThoughtWorks article titled “ Seven Pitfalls to Avoid During Organ
General Leadership
FEBRUARY 8, 2016
GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. “The arrogance of success is to think that what you did yesterday will be sufficient for tomorrow.” William Pollard. We’ve all heard some version of the famous axiom “I have arrived!” Whether it was landing the job you always wanted, finishing an educational program or even winning a game of Monopoly, that phrase seems to ent
Women on Business
FEBRUARY 8, 2016
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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.
CTOvision
FEBRUARY 12, 2016
Bob Gourley. InterConnect 2016 is 21-25 February at the MGM Grand & Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas (side note: this event attracts so many forward thinking technologists and business leaders that there are very few venues large enough to hold it). This event is a great way to learn from peers in the business and technology community, with plenty of sessions designed to share best practices in implementing scalable enterprise IT.
Toptal
FEBRUARY 9, 2016
With approximately one billion people using Microsoft Office, the DOCX format is the most popular de facto standard for exchanging document files between offices. While DOCX is a complex format, you may want to parse it manually for simpler tasks such as indexing, converting to TXT and making other small modifications. I’d like to give you enough information on DOCX internals so you don’t have to reference the ECMA specifications, a massive 5,000 page manual.
CoachStation
FEBRUARY 7, 2016
One of the biggest challenges for any manager or leader is the relationship they have with their team members. We often read about the need for leaders to be open, self-aware, honest and possess similar traits. But what about the employee? What is their responsibility? Managing people and teams is challenging, there is no doubt. Understanding why people do what they do and behave in certain ways can reduce the challenge and assist in managing situations as they arise.
Women on Business
FEBRUARY 9, 2016
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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
FEBRUARY 11, 2016
Bob Gourley. The Whitehouse released a plan on 9 Feb 2016 that should be read and understood by cybersecurity professionals everywhere. Here is my take on the most important point: Whoever you are, wherever your are, you need to understand you are responsible for defending your technology. Do not think that you can abdicate or delegate this responsibility.
The Accidental Successful CIO
FEBRUARY 9, 2016
Bank Of America is slowly moving into the cloud Image Credit: Mike Mozart. Just imagine if you were David Rilly, chief technology officer at Bank of America. There you are, in charge of the IT infrastructure for one of the biggest banks around when all of a sudden the IT world starts to undergo yet another one of its transformations. What would you do – stand by and stick with the tried and true solution that you have in place or would you dare to change things up?
Toptal
FEBRUARY 10, 2016
Hackathons often inspire engineers to create amazing software. By blending various technologies together, really useful and often fun projects can be realized in a short period of time. In this article, Toptal engineer Radek Ostrowski shares his experience participating in the IBM Sparkathon, and walks us through how he elegantly combined the power of Apache Spark and Docker in IBM Bluemix to build a weather app.
Women on Business
FEBRUARY 11, 2016
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Speaker: Liran Meir Frenkel, Performance Management and RPA Sr Product Marketing Manager at NICE; Harpreet Makan, Practice Director at Everest Group; & Santhosh Kumar, Practice Director at Everest Group
As contact centers navigate the challenges of delivering excellence within budget constraints and adapting to evolving employee expectations, optimizing agent tasks becomes crucial. Discover a holistic approach across three pillars - people, process, and technology - that is essential to excel in this dynamic landscape, and explore how next-gen technologies such as generative AI, performance analytics, and process intelligence play a pivotal role in transforming contact centers into advanced CX
CTOvision
FEBRUARY 10, 2016
Katie Kennedy. The following are some of the hot topics we are tracking in the technology ecosystem: Technology Ticker. Paying Incentives for Federal User Research. REDLattice Names E. Don DeSanto Vice President of Operations. Donald Carty, Anthony Bates Join VMware Board; Pat Gelsinger Comments. Gina Gallagher Joins AOC Key Solutions as President.
Lead on Purpose
FEBRUARY 8, 2016
You know successful people when you see them. They move forward as if there’s nothing that can stop them. What motivates them? What are the core attributes that drive them to climb higher?
Toptal
FEBRUARY 12, 2016
Today, a massive amount of data is available in the form of networks or graphs. For example, the World Wide Web, with its web pages and hyperlinks, social networks, semantic networks, biological networks, citation networks for scientific literature, and so on. A tree is a special type of graph, and is naturally suited to represent many types of data.
Women on Business
FEBRUARY 9, 2016
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“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.
CTOvision
FEBRUARY 9, 2016
Dennis D. McDonald. M att Turck has some interesting things to say about “big data” in “ Is Big Data Still a Thing? (The 2016 Big Data Landscape).” Focusing on the technology, he seems to be saying that expectations for big data’s game changing disruption haven’t been met but that what we are seeing is maturation of the field brought about partly by steady improvements in applying Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques to help manage and make sense of big data.
Next Level Blog
FEBRUARY 8, 2016
It wasn’t a great game, but it was a win. For Peyton Manning, it was, in all probability, his last as an NFL quarterback. After 18 years of the sacks, injuries and surgeries that come with a career in the League, the soon to be 40 year old Manning managed the Broncos’ offense well enough to enable its defense to win the 50 th Super Bowl. There are Peyton Manning fans and Peyton Manning haters.
LeanEssays
FEBRUARY 10, 2016
Over the last two decades, the software technology stack has undergone a rapid evolution, as this diagram from Docker.io lays out. The evolution continues. Today’s world of smart phones is giving way to tomorrow’s world of smart devices with sensors and actuators and not much more. The app layer will only get thinner. If you think this trend will not affect your organization, think again.
Strategy Driven
FEBRUARY 8, 2016
The word accountability elicits a threat response from most employees, who interpret the word ‘accountability’ to be synonymous with punishment. Let’s face it, any time there’s a disaster, mistake, or misfortune on the news, the first thing out of the mouth of the officials is, “Who is to be held accountable?” The tone is always one of shame and blame and fingers always start to point before facts are given.
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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
CTOvision
FEBRUARY 8, 2016
Katie Kennedy. The following are some of the hot topics we are tracking in the technology ecosystem: Technology Ticker. Dow futures slip triple-digits as growth fears grip markets - CNBC. Nextgov: OPM Eyes Added Security Requirements for Contractors Handling Fed Personnel Records - ExecutiveGov. STAR EnviroTech Wins Federal Patent Appeal From Competitor Redline Detection - Business Wire (press release).
Next Level Blog
FEBRUARY 9, 2016
When you think back on the best bosses you’ve ever had what stands out about those people? What do they all have in common? What makes a good boss great and a great boss a super boss? What does it take to be a super boss? Those are the kinds of questions that have intrigued Sydney Finkelstein, Steven Roth Professor of Management at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth, for much of his professional career.
Nutanix
FEBRUARY 9, 2016
Drones introduce a host of new security concerns that governments aren’t readily prepared for! Remember this visual, whereby the White House perimeter security was breached.
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