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Expert Advice on Values and Vision: A Frontline Festival

Let's Grow Leaders

'Delighted to offer an expert collection of thoughts on values and vision. Inspiring and practical advice. Thanks to all who shared their wonderful insights. Values Amazing stories and practical advice related to defining, articulating and living your leadership values. Skip Prichard, Leadership Insights shares Learning From the Legacy of Johnny Cash Johnny Cash had a powerful set of values […] The post Expert Advice on Values and Vision: A Frontline Festival appeared first on Let's

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The Silent CEO Addiction Killing Productivity And Talent Development

N2Growth Blog

'By Mike Myatt , Chief Executive Officer, N2growth . Corporate America’s dependency on consulting firms is nothing short of substance abuse in the purest form. The fact is most CEOs suffer from this very dangerous addiction and they don’t even know it – they are clearly in need of an intervention. Addicts don’t often admit they have a problem. They tend to rationalize and justify their behavior as normal.

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statself.com

Erik Bernhardsson

Btw I just put something up online that I spent a couple of evenings in my couch putting together: it’s a website where you can track any numerical data on the web. Want to know how many Twitter followers you have? Temperature in NYC ? Go to statself.com and start tracking it. Actually statself.com was just a domain name I had lying around for something else, but it turned out to fit pretty well.

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Interview: Bankable Leadership: Happy People and Bottom-Line Results

Change Starts Here

'My guest this month is organizational psychologist, speaker and best-selling author Dr. Tasha Eurich, who shares insights from her new book, Bankable Leadership. In this episode, you’ll learn why you don’t have to choose between happy people and getting results – and how Bankable Leaders are able to achieve both. Listen to get practical leadership tips for yourself and gain insight into how to help others be Bankable Leaders as well.

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Streamlining Database Compliance with CI/CD Integration

IT leaders know the importance of compliance at every level, but the database often gets left behind as other environments are automated for robust protection. This whitepaper emphasizes the importance of robust, auditable, and secure database change management practices for safeguarding organizational compliance. Learn how automating database compliance: Mitigates risk Protects against security vulnerabilities Helps avoid regulatory penalties Aligns database workflows with app lifecycle Turns d

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5 Reasons Your Emails Don’t Work

Let's Grow Leaders

'You’re way past email blunder basics… replying to all with snarky remarks, sending the note intended for you wife to your boss…emailing in anger. Your emails aren’t obviously stupid, so why aren’t they working? 5 Advanced Email Blunders 1. The barrage effect I was preparing the senior leader for an impromptu meeting on an unfamiliar […] The post 5 Reasons Your Emails Don’t Work appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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statself.com

Erik Bernhardsson

Btw I just put something up online that I spent a couple of evenings in my couch putting together: it’s a website where you can track any numerical data on the web. Want to know how many Twitter followers you have? Temperature in NYC ? Go to statself.com and start tracking it. Actually statself.com was just a domain name I had lying around for something else, but it turned out to fit pretty well.

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Analyst One Announces Top Analytical Technologies List

CTOvision

'By Bob Gourley Editor’s note: This list first appeared on our site Analyst One. -bg. In March 2011 Businessweek quoted Cloudera’s Mike Olson describing a “Cambrian explosion” of corporate analytical technology. Mike really nailed it with that one. With the continuous development of advanced infrastructure based around Apache Hadoop there has been an incredible amount of innovation around enterprise “Big Data” technologies, including in the analytical tool sp

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3 Secrets to Sharing Secrets

Let's Grow Leaders

'Don’t keep secrets. Keeping secrets creates short-term advantages and long-term costs. You gain the edge, but lose the relationship. The world could use less secrets and more sharing. I wish you would share more. Annoying Secret #1: Bad News I was happy when he brought me bad news. His eyes matched his words,”I’m really worried.” […] The post 3 Secrets to Sharing Secrets appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Extreme Leadership Summit, 2014!

Steve Farber

'I’m thrilled to announce our speakers for The Extreme Leadership Summit 2014, coming April 11-13 in Chicago (Please note the new dates.). I’ve personally assembled a team of incredible leaders, most of whom will be in attendance for the entire Summit. As you’ll see, these people bring a vast spectrum of remarkable life and business experience, deep expertise, and a hands-on knowledge of how to apply Extreme Leadership to everything you do.

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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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Silvia Pellegrini Joins the Women on Business Contributor Team

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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Efficient IT Modernization Strategies Summit 21 Nov 2013

CTOvision

'By Bob Gourley Federal Computer Weekly, Government Computing News and SoftwareAG have crafted an event I believe every enterprise technologist in government should be tracking. It is the 21 November 2013 Efficient IT Modernization Strategies Summit , which will be held at the Grand Hyatt Washington. If you work in IT security, design, or strategy, or if you are responsible for ensuring technology aligns with business/mission objectives, you will want to be at this event.

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The Three Variables of Leadership

Next Level Blog

'There are a lot of theories on what it takes to be an effective leader. Here’s an interesting one that I heard recently from an experienced senior executive who was a guest speaker in one of our Next Level Leadership® group coaching programs for high potential leader. This executive’s perspective is that effective leadership is about getting things done and that getting things done boils down to the effective management of three variables – time, money and resources.

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How do leaders deal with change?

Lead on Purpose

'Change is one of the inevitable aspects of business, and life in general. Some people find it difficult to deal with change, and their attitude towards it limits their growth. Others embrace change and deal with it in positive ways. Leaders have to deal with change personally and also help their people stay positive. Here are three simple, yet powerful ways leaders deal with change effectively: Be flexible: Don’t get set in your ways.

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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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What Apps Do You Use Everyday?

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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For Java Developers: Sign up for two hour Enterprise Ehcache workshop in DC 7 Nov

CTOvision

'By Bob Gourley If you are going to be in DC 7 Nov and are a technologist that fields solutions into federal agencies here is a great opportunity to dive into the in-memory capabilities of Enterprise Ehcache. This two hour workshop is a great way to accelerate your own technical understanding of this topic and that in return can help your agency better accomplish its mission.

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How Do You Diagnose an Organization?

Nathan Magnuson

'You’ve just been assigned to fix a problem or design a solution for an organization, department or team. Maybe you’ve been brought in as a consultant or joined a cross-functional task force. Regardless, management wants results. Where do you start? Just like in medicine, the last thing a change practitioner should do is prescribe before […].

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Mindful Mondays: What’s Your Saber Tooth Tiger?

Next Level Blog

'Let’s play caveman or cavewoman. You’re walking along, minding your own business, when all of the sudden you spy a saber tooth tiger lurking around the next big rock. At that moment, the part of your brain called the amygdala activates your fight or flight response. Adrenalin and other neurochemicals and hormones surge through your body as you make split second decisions about standing your ground or getting out of there as fast as you possibly can.

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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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Easy Twitter Promotion on Eventbrite

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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FedCyber, The Video

CTOvision

'By Bob Gourley Some things we all love about video: Video is easy to watch, everyone likes to click on the play button. Video is easy to share, especially YouTube video. Video can convey lots of info in a memorable way. We are working with one of the nation’s best video production teams, SecureNinjaTV , to capture some of the technologies of note that will be on the expo floor of the Third Annual FedCyber Summit.

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CIO Lessons From The Rollout Of The U.S. Healthcare Software

The Accidental Successful CIO

'The Healthcare.gov web site is now almost open…. As CIOs we can always be learning about the importance of information technology by watching what other IT organizations are doing. A fantastic opportunity has just shown up in the U.S. As part of the Obamacare overhaul of how healthcare is provided to U.S. citizens, a new web site has been set up to allow every U.S. citizen an opportunity to register for healthcare insurance coverage.

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Introduction to Responsive Web Design: Pseudo-Elements, Media Queries, and More

Toptal

Nowadays, your website will be visited by a wide variety of devices: desktops with large monitors, mid-sized laptops, tablets, smartphones, and more. To achieve an optimal user experience, your site should be adjusting its layout in response to these varied devices (i.e., to their varied screen resolutions and dimensions). The process of responding to the form of the user's device is referred to as (you guessed it) responsive web design (RWD).

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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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Business the Carmelo Anthony Way

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]. Female Entrepreneurs blogs for women business business blog Business Development businesswomen Businesswomen Bloggers businesswomen organizations Female female business owners female CEOs female COO Female Entrepreners Female Executives female leaders female leadership female leadership tip

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Trust Principles for Creativity and Innovation

Mills Scofield

'I''m honored to have Jon Mertz (known to many of us @ThinDifference ) guest post. Jon is VP of marketing in the healthcare software industry. He has an MBA from The University of Texas at Austin and has worked for companies like Deloitte, IBM, and BMC Software. Outside of his professional life, Jon brings together a terrific community to inspire Millennial leaders (you should join) and close the gap between two generations of leaders.

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Out of Control

The Programmer's Paradox

The complexity of modern software systems has gotten out of control. Decades back, computers served very well-defined roles. They computed specific values, or they kept track of manually entered data. It was all very constrained. Nice and simple. These days, technical ability has embedded itself deeply into many industries; they need their computers to remain competitive.

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Embracing Modern Technology: How Much is Too Much?

Rapid BI

'Tablet computers, cloud storage, smartphones and super-slim laptops are everywhere in the modern age and it seems that the only way to get ahead, remain on trend or get the job done to the highest quality is to invest in the latest and greatest gadgets that the technology world has to offer. In order to […].

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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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CapitalWorks - A Six Disciplines Client Case Study Part 1

Six Disciplines

'CapitalWorks, a private equity firm located in the Cleveland suburb of Beachwood, has found its niche in the Midwest market. Primarily focusing on acquiring manufacturing and distribution companies in the lower end of the middle market, CapitalWorks learned it needed to offer a management program to help these acquired companies achieve growth and success.

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Lessons The Avengers Can Teach About Leadership

Strategy Driven

'With the upcoming release of Thor Dark World and amid the success of The Avengers blockbuster movies overall, there are excellent parallel leadership lessons that can be learned from these Marvel Comics superheroes. Namely, knowing when to take the reins and when to call on others for their specialized skills and expertise. Although, in business, we might not necessarily have to restore order to the universe and face unimaginable foes, we do often have to recalibrate our organizations, face str

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Can You Invent Something New If Your Words Are Old?

Mills Scofield

'How does l anguage impact what we create? My newest post in Harvard Business Review.

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