Let's Grow Leaders

JUNE 9, 2014

'Why do some people really give a damn, while others do just what they can to get by? Going the extra mile– doing more than is necessary –creates memorable magic. If it feels so good, why is it hard to come by? The HR term for this is “discretionary effort,” a close cousin of employee engagement. Discretionary effort is the level of effort people could give if they wanted to–above and beyond what is “required.” Such efforts are often done behind the scen

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General Leadership

JUNE 13, 2014

'“The person who sends out positive thoughts activates the world around him positively and draws back to himself positive results.”. Norman Vincent Peale. A positive attitude is contagious! Do you believe that? I certainly do as I’ve seen it in action throughout my life. So we arrive at our fifth stop on our journey through SERVANT leadership. As a leader, it is amazing the impact you can have on your organization with your attitude; either positive or negative, you set the tone.

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Terry Starbucker

JUNE 8, 2014

'Photo by Mike Shur. Yesterday I was honored to once again be the emcee at the Oregon Entrepreneurs Network (OEN) 2nd Annual Summit , featuring 15 successful Oregon entrepreneurs sharing their stories in 12-minute “TED-style” speeches. The theme was the “School of Hard Knocks” – apt because the event was held in Portland’s cool and unique Kennedy School hotel and event center.

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CTOvision

JUNE 10, 2014

'By Bob Gourley. Enterprises everywhere have been seeking improved ways to make use of their data. Federal agencies have in many ways out on finding w enterprises and their leaders have been on the cutting edge of community efforts at big data, with most all agencies either executing on a comprehensive big data strategy or empowering technologist to explore and prove out possible solutions so a strategy can be developed.

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Change Starts Here

JUNE 10, 2014

'Recently, I was going through some old boxes and found a journal from 2004 when I worked as an internal change agent in the role of Director of Organizational Effectiveness. Most of the notebook was filled with observations and ideas for how to implement that new role. Within its pages, I found a great list of questions I had used to increase employee engagement.

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Women on Business

JUNE 12, 2014

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CTOvision

JUNE 9, 2014

'By Bob Gourley. The reference below was provided by friends at Altamira. If you are an analyst, enterprise architect, CIO, CTO, CISO, CFO or even a business executive seeking insights into the nature of modern data solutions you will find the poster below to be a fantastic resource. Click to expand it to full view. Download and print and post on your wall to periodically review and to continue to ensure you are thinking of the many related elements of analytical solutions.

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Lead on Purpose

JUNE 7, 2014

'I’ve been thinking lately about how to motivate people and inspire them to step up, to take action, to do great things. I see so much opportunity for people, and yet so little motivation to make a difference.

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General Leadership

JUNE 11, 2014

'“An army of a thousand is easy to find, but, ah, how difficult to find a good general.”. Chinese Proverb. In 1904, France and Britain signed the Entente Cordiale (the friendly understanding); shortly thereafter, Russia also agreed to join this alliance. As a result, the German military began to fear the possibility of a combined attack from France, Britain and Russia.

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Women on Business

JUNE 11, 2014

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CTOvision

JUNE 7, 2014

'By George Romas. We’re seeing a glimmer of the future – the Internet of Things (IoT) – where anything and everything is or contains a sensor that can communicate over the network/Internet. The underlying technology enabling IoT is Machine-to-Machine (M2M) communications. Your running shoe tracks your workouts, sending the data to a mobile app. Your wristband tracks your daily activities, including sleep patterns.

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Toptal

JUNE 10, 2014

Web services and their APIs abound. Unfortunately, the vast majority are difficult to use. Reasons range from poor design, to lack of documentation, to volatility, to unresolved bugs, or in some cases, all of the above. Follow the guidance in this post to help ensure that your web API is clean, well-documented, and easy-to-use. Such APIs are truly rare and are therefore much more likely to be widely adopted and used.

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General Leadership

JUNE 12, 2014

'Colonel Chris P. Levy You explains you can learn almost as much about leadership from losers as you can from heroes. The good leaders in a person’s history are usually the ones that spring to mind when considering how to lead. I ask you to break from this habit and consider the leaders you would rather forget, the ones that still give you that feeling in the pit of your stomach or cause you to have nightmares.

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Women on Business

JUNE 10, 2014

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CTOvision

JUNE 10, 2014

'By Bob Gourley. Threat actors are increasingly automating their attacks, making defense harder and overwhelming incident response teams. Defenders have long looked to automated discovery as a means to mitigate this threat, but until recently, mass automation and response/threat removal hasn’t been a viable option. With changes in technology, enterprise cyber security professionals can now leverage automated in-line response and recovery to enhance security.

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Next Level Blog

JUNE 9, 2014

'I had been working in my hotel room in Wilmington, DE most of the day last Wednesday and decided to head up to the concierge lounge to see if they had anything I could eat for dinner. As I got on the elevator, there was already a gentleman in the car who seemed a little stressed out. You know, some heavy sighs, comments of “What a day,” and things like that.

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General Leadership

JUNE 10, 2014

'Cruise over to PodBean to hear our latest 200-Second Soundbite entitled “The Secret to Leadership” or subscribe to our PodCast directly via iTunes at the following link. Associate Curator and GeneralLeadership.com CGO, Col Chris R. Stricklin shares the secret to leadership…Dynamic Followership. Dynamic Followers, simply, are followers who take charge of both their personal and professional development, ensure complete competency at their primary duty, actively manage their relationships

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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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Women on Business

JUNE 13, 2014

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CTOvision

JUNE 7, 2014

'By Bob Gourley. If you are a technologist you no doubt have thoughts about security and how to improve your approach to enterprise-wide defense. Odds are you have concluded that the only way to mitigate the threat is through automation. Right? Please join us for a discussion on automated removal of cyber threats on Thursday June 12 at 11am eastern for a webinar that will provide insights on how to execute on automating for defense.

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Toptal

JUNE 12, 2014

Which Ruby implementation is right for your project? While the reference implementation (Ruby MRI) remains the interpreter of choice, an alternate Ruby implementation may be right for your project, depending on your operational goals and constraints. This article showcases the Ruby interpreter implementations and runtimes available today, discussing the advantages and disadvantages of each.

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The Accidental Successful CIO

JUNE 11, 2014

'Existing Information Technology Resources Can Be Reused Image Credit. I’m sure that you know that you shouldn’t throw things that can be recycled away. Save the planet and all of that. So this brings up an interesting question: as CIO how committed to recycling technology are you when the company is preparing to start up a brand new project?

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Mills Scofield

JUNE 9, 2014

'Mali Health Given the great comments on last week’s post and a Huffington Post article on the subject by Matt Murrie , I thought a follow-up was in order. The comments centered on two themes: Investment funding’s acceptance of “Social” as a viable type of business. Business Modeling – social vs. regular. Investment: Venture capitalists have traditionally funded for-profit businesses with a strong focus on ROI – Return on Investment vs.

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CTOvision

JUNE 12, 2014

'Industries that are interested in helping SPAWAR System Center Atlantic (SSC LANT) improve a bloated old legacy system will be interested in the Global Command Support System Marine Corps (GCSS-MC). SSC LANT has been hired by Marine Corps to make this system faster. This includes modernization of GCSS-MC’s engineering, infrastructure, logistics and program management.

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Rapid BI

JUNE 8, 2014

'Written by Thomas H Gray, this book aims to give tools and techniques for smaller business owners. Book Structure: Motivation – self and others Compensation – for the owner and their team, Incentive plans and non financial rewards Improving Employee performance – a series of tools and techniques to improve the productivity and engagement of […].

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Coalfire

JUNE 11, 2014

This ransomware has hit not only personal computers, but also organizations, including a town in New Hampshire. This particular attack was carried out when an employee opened a seemingly legitimate email attachment, once again reminding us of the ever-present danger of social engineering.

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Six Disciplines

JUNE 13, 2014

'"A brilliant strategy, blockbuster product, or breakthrough technology can put you on the competitive map, but only solid execution can keep you there. ". So begins the Harvard Business review article "The Secrets to Successful Strategy Execution" written by executives from management consulting firm, Booz Allen Hamilton, Inc. According to the authors, "Execution is the result of thousands of decisions made every day by employees acting according to the information they have and their own self

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CTOvision

JUNE 12, 2014

'By Shannon Perry. In early May, eBay discovered that its network had recently been compromised, and on May 21 st a banner appeared on eBay.com acknowledging the breach and recommending that users change their passwords. Later that day, however, the banner disappeared, and throughout the week many users responded with frustration and disappointment at what many perceived to be a lack of transparency.

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Rapid BI

JUNE 11, 2014

'This is a perennial question, and from time to time the ownership and drive moves from one area to another. As a Training Manager I have operated within HR and Operations. And without doubt the best impact comes when Operations owns and indeed demands training. This does not mean to say that HR or a […].

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