General Leadership

FEBRUARY 19, 2016

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. “People ask the difference between a leader and a boss … The leader works in the open, and the boss in covert. The leader leads, and the boss drives.” Theodore Roosevelt. Many times when I am called in by an organization it is to “fix” an employee who is not meeting the expectations of the boss and the organization.

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Let's Grow Leaders

FEBRUARY 19, 2016

Welcome back to the Let’s Grow Leaders Frontline Festival. This month’s festival is all about building productive workplace relationships. Thanks to Joy and Tom Guthrie of Vizwerx Group for the great pic and to all our contributors! Next month, we turn our focus to fresh perspectives for leaders. Give us your best fresh insight! Submissions due March 11th– new participants always welcome, please use this form.

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Toptal

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Unlike most front-end web frameworks, React's aim is to solve the various challenges of building user interfaces that rely on changing data. Although React is a simple JavaScript library and is easy to get started with, it is still possible to misuse it in ways that deny the web app from reaping the benefits that React has to offer. In this article, Toptal engineer Ivan Rogic demonstrates the synergy of React, Redux and Immutable.js, and shows how these libraries together can solve many performa

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CTOvision

FEBRUARY 19, 2016

Katie Kennedy. Bob Flores is a highly regarded enterprise technologist with proven performance helping enterprises across multiple industries make optimal use of their information resources. Bob's background includes strategic planning, big data, cybersecurity and leveraging those for business outcomes. Bob is participating in Australia's Connect Expo 19-20 April 2016.

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Many organizations today are unlocking the power of their data by using graph databases to feed downstream analytics, enahance visualizations, and more. Yet, when different graph nodes represent the same entity, graphs get messy. Watch this essential video with Senzing CEO Jeff Jonas on how adding entity resolution to a graph database condenses network graphs to improve analytics and save your analysts time.

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General Leadership

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. “It is the capacity to develop and improve their skills that distinguishes leaders from followers.” Warren Bennis & Burt Nanus. Successful 21 st century leaders clearly recognize the continuous need to grow in their professional knowledge, skills, and abilities to remain effective.

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Toptal

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

Python is a powerful, object-based, high-level programming language with dynamic typing and binding. Due to its flexibility and power, developers often employ certain rules, or Python design patterns. What makes them so important and what do does this mean for the average Python developer? In this post, Toptal Senior Software Engineer Andrei Boyanov explains why Python is great for design patterns, and how they can be used to unlock even more potential, or to streamline development and make code

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Change Starts Here

FEBRUARY 19, 2016

As I sat on a plane yesterday on my way to facilitate a client workshop, I remembered the saying about how a plane has to take off against the wind. Rather than ponder the nature of aerodynamics while flying, instead I wondered – could there be change with no resistance? As a fun exercise, I tried to envision what the conditions would be for a resistance-free change.

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General Leadership

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. “Men and women want to do a good job. If they are provided the proper environment, they will do so.”. Bill Hewlett. As leaders, we are always looking for leadership strategies that work. A successful leadership experience can lead us to assume that these strategies will work at our next assignment if we impose it on the new organization.

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CTOvision

FEBRUARY 19, 2016

Rick Delgado. Big data, no doubt, is big right now. When it blasted on the scene, businesses jumped at the chance to use a massive amount of data to gauge what their customers wanted and needed, tailoring their services to offer the perfect experience. However, with so many businesses taking hold of this advantage, it becomes unmistakably clear that no real advantage can be found unless you offer something that your competition does not.

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Toptal

FEBRUARY 18, 2016

The Art of War is an ancient military treatise, but despite its age, the text is still included in the syllabus at many military schools. Sun Tzu’s principles and teachings also have practical applications in politics, business, sports, and, believe it or not, software development. In fact, you might just be applying some of these principles in your daily routine, without even knowing.

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Women on Business

FEBRUARY 13, 2016

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General Leadership

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

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. 23 March 2014. “I am not concerned that you have fallen; I am concerned that you arise.”. Abraham Lincoln. “99% of excuses come from people who make excuses”.

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CTOvision

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

Bob Gourley. Cybersecurity and business risk professionals have watched ransomware evolve from a minor nuisance to a major threat capable of holding multiple systems at risk. Evidence of the rapidly evolving ransomware threat now includes an ongoing attack against Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center in Los Angles. The attack was so bad the hospital has had its operations disrupted.

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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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Nathan Magnuson

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

In the past, I’ve shared the value of being a “Kamerman teammate” – that is, going the extra mile to make your teammate look good. It’s a mindset shift for most of us, and a complete game-changer at that. I’d like to take this concept a step further and share some practical ways to get started. Over the course of my career thus far, I’ve found that these twelve strategies for extraordinary teamwork not only make your team stronger, they have the power to

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Women on Business

FEBRUARY 19, 2016

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The Accidental Successful CIO

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Public speaking is a skill that technical leaders need to master Image Credit: Brain POP. One of the most important parts of your job is communicating with the people who are looking to you for guidance. Just exactly how to go about doing this in an effective way is a big challenge that every CIO faces every day. The great thing about living and working in the 21st Century is that we have a number of different ways to accomplish this task: email, phone calls, text messages, and making presentati

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CTOvision

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

Brigg Patten. Li-Fi is a cutting edge technology that some predict will soon overtake Wi-Fi as the primary source of wireless communications. As it continues to grow and make an impact, learn about the pros and cons of this unique new technology below. Li-Fi vs. Wi-Fi. The term Li-Fi was originally coined by a German scientist named Harald Haas during a TED Talk in 2011.

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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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Next Level Blog

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

What does it mean to really listen? As I’ve written here before , I’ve been focusing a lot on that question in my talks and workshops on mindful leadership. When I ask colleagues to sit with each other for just a few minutes to listen to each other speak about something important in their lives or something they’re grateful for, the process feels transformative for them.

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Women on Business

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

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QAspire

FEBRUARY 14, 2016

Research says that the rapid pace of work is taking a huge toll on our ability to focus, be productive, remain engaged and be creative. A majority of people at workplace today seem to be struggling to cope with severe stress resulting from conflicting work priorities, hyper-connectedness, onslaught of notifications and information overload. How do we cope up with this stress?

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CTOvision

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Katie Kennedy. Our own Bob Gourley was featured in a post by IT World Canada which examined ways that CIOs, CTOs, CISOs and other technologists can better serve their own enterprises, learn emerging technology and even enhance their careers by leveraging social media. The piece provided insights on ways to help others via social media. Bob underscored the important role that senior executive technologists can play in helping deliver context from noise: Interpreting insights from others can hel

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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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Lead on Purpose

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

Why do we sometimes drift off course and get caught up in meaningless activity? We see people wandering at all levels, even CEOs at times.

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Women on Business

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

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Toptal

FEBRUARY 19, 2016

With Microsoft’s no-brainer shift towards open source and interoperability it was only a matter of time before we started seeing alternatives to some of their key products, like Visual Studio. Enter Project Rider: the code name for IDE guru JetBrains’ competition to Visual Studio. Here’s the lowdown on Project Rider, the newest member of the IntelliJ platform family.

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CTOvision

FEBRUARY 19, 2016

Katie Kennedy. The following are some of the hot topics we are tracking in the technology ecosystem: Technology Ticker. 29th Annual Leukemia Ball Preview with Event Co-Chairman Ed Offterdinger. Apple-FBI fight over iPhone encryption pits privacy against national security - Los Angeles Times. Apple likely to invoke free-speech rights in encryption fight - Reuters.

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Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

FEBRUARY 18, 2016

Sponsored: Meet TulaCo. Trusted Development Partner. From Start-Ups to Enterprise.

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Women on Business

FEBRUARY 18, 2016

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

Leaving the corporate world behind and becoming an entrepreneur is an exciting venture, but it can also put a lot of pressure on you – especially in the first six months. You’ll spend a lot of time learning new things, making adjustments and reacting to situations as they arise. The “bumps” in the road you are likely to encounter are a common occurrence on the entrepreneurial journey, so don’t get bogged down by thinking you’re doing something wrong.

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