Let's Grow Leaders
APRIL 12, 2013
'Darn-it. You screwed up. Or, perhaps you trusted your team and now you have empowerment run amok. You don’t want to blame… but you’re mad too. Your boss will be ticked. And worse, she might have to tell her boss. It’s time to come clean. How do you tell your boss the bad news? Bad News the [.] The post How to Give Your Boss Bad News (the D.A.R.N. way) appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.
N2Growth Blog
APRIL 9, 2013
'By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth. It’s not hard to lead talented people with an aligned vision who fall under the umbrella of an iconic brand that has a cult-like consumer following. This describes Ron Johnson’s role as head of Apple’s retail operation prior to assuming the CEO role at J.C. Penney. Johnson was fired today by JCP as his efforts to rebrand and turnaround the struggling retailer failed to get traction.
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Erik Bernhardsson
APRIL 12, 2013
I picked up an issue of Foreign Affairs while flying back to NYC from SFO. It features this long interview with U.S. General Stanley McChrystal and I thought it was pretty interesting how striking some of the similarities are between fighting in a war and developing software. On cycle time and how it’s important to learn and integrate quickly: In 2003, in many cases we’d go after someone, we might locate them and capture or kill them, and it would be weeks until we took the intelligence we learn
Terry Starbucker
APRIL 7, 2013
'“They just don’t have it. ” “ It’s not there.” “I can’t find it. ” “I’ve got it!” “He’s got it!” “She’s got it!” We’re all looking for this thing, this “ it “ The difference maker. The “je ne sais quoi” that gets a team, a company, and ourselves past the ordinary and into the rarified air of extraordinary.
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.
Let's Grow Leaders
APRIL 9, 2013
'Most performance management systems reward individual performance. Bell curves, stack ranks, 9 box succession planning grids… encourage selfish choices. In most cases, you can’t change the system. But you can build great teams within it. Bell curves frustrate. “My ‘innocent’ belief of bell curve is like listening to Mozart and trying to adjust my graphic [.
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Erik Bernhardsson
APRIL 11, 2013
Annoy is a simple package to find approximate nearest neighbors (ANN) that I just put on Github. I’m not trying to compete with existing packages, but Annoy has a couple of features that makes it pretty useful. Most importantly, it uses very little memory and can put everything in a contiguous blob that you can mmap from disk. This way multiple processes can share the same index.
Women on Business
APRIL 10, 2013
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Let's Grow Leaders
APRIL 11, 2013
'That guy with the job posting already has an “obvious choice.” He’s been grooming several mentees. Others have invested in informational interviews. HR told him he had to post the job, so he’s got a stack of candidates. You’ve got a slim chance. How will your resume stand out? Your resume must scream, “you [.
Nathan Magnuson
APRIL 8, 2013
'“Well it’s good to talk with you today, Nathan. Why don’t you tell me a little bit about your strengths.” Now replace my name with yours. How would you respond? When was the last time someone asked you to identify your strengths? Was it in an interview or an application? Were you joining a new organization, team, [.].
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Erik Bernhardsson
APRIL 12, 2013
I picked up an issue of Foreign Affairs while flying back to NYC from SFO. It features this long interview with U.S. General Stanley McChrystal and I thought it was pretty interesting how striking some of the similarities are between fighting in a war and developing software. On cycle time and how it’s important to learn and integrate quickly: In 2003, in many cases we’d go after someone, we might locate them and capture or kill them, and it would be weeks until we took the intelligence we learn
CTOvision
APRIL 10, 2013
'down All technology trackers have known the PC era is over. Of course old fashioned PCs will not disappear, but they are not the driving force they used to be. All projections have been for poor PC sales. But there was hope.
Let's Grow Leaders
APRIL 8, 2013
'Collaborative competition inspires. Seeing “them” inspires “us.” Competition makes work fun. Unless, it doesn’t. Stay on the right side of trash talk. Create collaborative competition to inspire your team. A New York State of Mind I ran a 2000 person sales team… so did the guys in New York. They were the “ones to catch” [.] The post Collaborative Competition: The Extraordinary Power of Trash Talk appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.
SoCal CTO
APRIL 9, 2013
'I''ve written before about finding Web Development Firms in Los Angeles. What I didn''t discuss was how you should go about selecting the right company. I just got an email asking about exactly this: I''m with a new company that needs some software built, but doesn''t need (or have the resources for) a large staff of software developers. They''ve been in talks with some consulting companies, but don''t quite the know the criteria for evaluating them and things like references(and where to get t
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Erik Bernhardsson
APRIL 11, 2013
Annoy is a simple package to find approximate nearest neighbors (ANN) that I just put on Github. I’m not trying to compete with existing packages, but Annoy has a couple of features that makes it pretty useful. Most importantly, it uses very little memory and can put everything in a contiguous blob that you can mmap from disk. This way multiple processes can share the same index.
CTOvision
APRIL 8, 2013
'bmd I watch with mixed horror and fascination the posturing of North Korea. This has been going on so long, it's hard to take it seriously. But of course, such blatant threats can't be completely ignored, and SECDEF's recent.
Let's Grow Leaders
APRIL 10, 2013
'“I don’t know how you do it all. How can you do this executive job, have a husband, raise good kids, and write this blog…it’s intimidating.” I heard that again today. The truth is, it’s messy. I do it because all those things feel so important. I find it hard to choose. Messy Tonight [.] The post Seasons, Messy, and Doing the Best You Can appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.
Steve Farber
APRIL 6, 2013
'Michael Strohl, CEO of Entisys Solutions, Inc. is a practitioner of Extreme Leadership (cultivate Love, generate Energy, inspire Audacity, provide Proof), and his passion, it appears, is taking hold in the company he leads. “Now,” says Michael, “we have people lining up to join us because this is the kind of place they have always wanted to work in.” (Michael shared more of his experience as a testimonial for the upcoming Extreme Leadership Intensive in Des Moines, Iowa
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Women on Business
APRIL 8, 2013
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CTOvision
APRIL 8, 2013
'Army Here are the top cyber news and stories of the day. Army defends its mobile device security plan ? ?The Department of Defense's inspector general has reposted and updated a report critical of the Army's shortcomings in.
Lead on Purpose
APRIL 6, 2013
'“Removing what does not matter is the first step in figuring out what does.” This statement sums up one of the key indicators to sustainable and effective leadership as taught in the book The Leader’s Climb: A Business Tale of Rising to the New Leadership Challenge by Bob Parsanko and Paul Heagen. The Leader’s Climb tells the story of how to lead more effectively and how to make a long-term, lasting contribution.
Next Level Blog
APRIL 11, 2013
'The title of this post was inspired by a conversation with Bill, (not his real name) a friend of mine who works in a well known company. We were talking recently about what he’s learned in a long and successful career that has spanned some of the top organizations in the private and public sectors. Even with all the great experience under his belt, Bill is still open to learning.
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Women on Business
APRIL 7, 2013
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The Accidental Successful CIO
APRIL 10, 2013
'CIOs need to take action before all of their best employees leave Image Credit. Let’s say that you’ve built up a great team of IT professionals to run your IT department. They must all be happy and are planning on sticking around for a long time, right? The answer to this question is “no” and there are some very good reasons why your best workers maybe preparing to tell you “goodbye”….
Mills Scofield
APRIL 7, 2013
'In the midst of getting back from Bangkok, heading to Las Vegas and officially launching her new book, Reinventing You: Define Your Brand, Imagine Your Future , Dorie Clark took the time to guest post! As I mentioned in my review, this is a Must Read book for anyone at any stage in their career. Please pay it forward and buy a copy for yourself and one to give away!
Next Level Blog
APRIL 8, 2013
'In this installment of Mindful Mondays, I’m sharing two resources brought to us by Google’s Jolly Good Fellow, Chade –Meng Tan. Even though he started out as an engineer at Google, Jolly Good Fellow is Meng-Tan’s job title today. He earned it by coming up with the most popular internal training course at Google, a program on mindfulness and meditation called Search Inside Yourself.
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Women on Business
APRIL 6, 2013
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QAspire
APRIL 8, 2013
'In one of the TED talks , James Surowiecki shares: “If army ants are wandering around and they get lost, they start to follow a simple rule: Just do what the ant in front of you does. The ants eventually end up in a circle. There’s this famous example of one that was 1,200 feet long and lasted for two days; the ants just kept marching around and around in a circle until they died.”.
Rapid BI
APRIL 7, 2013
'As you glance over the recent flyer you received in the mail for another professional marketing conference you think to yourself, “Not another conference. Should I even bother going? What will I get out of it?” The answer is you will get out of it what you put into it. As a marketing executive you [.].
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