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5 Behaviors That Keep You From Getting Promoted

Let's Grow Leaders

I run into them in every company I work with. Solid managers with real contributions. They work hard, they’re incredibly loyal, and they’ve been on the succession planning list forever. Much of the time they even have an MBA…AND they’re stuck. The promotions come and go. They’ve heard the pep talk so many times they can recite it in their sleep. 5 Behaviors That Keep You From Getting Promoted.

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Idealism: Is it Dead or Alive?

General Leadership

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. “An idealist is a person who helps other people be prosperous.” Henry Ford. Is idealism dead or alive in America? According to Merriam Webster, idealism is the attitude of a person who believes that it is possible to live according to a very high standard of behavior and honesty.

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The State of Digital Currency: A discussion with Ed Scheidt

CTOvision

Roger Hockenberry. A few weeks ago I had the pleasure of sitting down for a regular breakfast with Ed Scheidt , former head of CIA’s Cryptographic Center and the designer of the cyrpto systems used in the Kryptos Sculpture at the Agency. He and I get together and typically it’s a free-ranging discussion that covers a lot of topics, math, current events, technology and life in general.

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How to Build a Multitenant Application: A Hibernate Tutorial

Toptal

In the realm of enterprise software, especially for software provided as a service, multitenancy ensures that data is truly isolated for each client within a shared instance of software. Among its numerous benefits, multitenancy can greatly simplify release management and cut down costs. In this article, Toptal Freelance Software Engineer André William Prade Hildinger shows us how Hibernate, a persistence framework for Java, makes implementing a multitenant Java EE application easier than it sou

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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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Authenticity and Gender

Women on Business

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How to choose between Native Apps or the Responsive Web?

CTOvision

Sunil Thomas. In the second article of how CTO’s can create a framework for enterprises to adopt mobile for growth we look at one of the early decisions to be made - that is choosing to build native apps or adopt the responsive web. In case you missed it, the previous article in the series discusses why a CTO makes or breaks your enterprise mobile strategy and discusses briefly the decisions that need to be taken within an enterprise to embrace mobile as a key part of its growth.

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Design In A Remote Setting: A Toptal Design Talk

Toptal

For remote workers, it is essential to design a working environment that allows for a balance between life, fun, and getting work done. Learn some strategies for designing the perfect remote setting.

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Work Performance and the Perils of Comparison

N2Growth Blog

Let me take you back in time. You’re in 8th grade. You’ve signed up for your first guitar lesson and the teacher plays Led Zeppelin’s “ Stairway to Heaven.” She offers it up as an example of a great song that you can learn to play. You’re motivated to learn, right? Wrong! She no sooner finishes her sentence about “ you can learn how to play ,” when you hear Jimmy Page rips into his classic solo and you decide then and there that it’s t

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Leadership and The Art of Effective Listening

QAspire

There is no leadership, personal or organizational, without listening. In fact, ability to truly listen (and not just hear) is the foundation of having a conversation, building trust, influencing others, resolving conflicts, driving your vision, building relationships, implementing change and learning. Yet, many of us equate listening with absorption of what the other person is saying.

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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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Developing influential leadership

Lead on Purpose

How do you effectively motivate others to do their best work? One of the keys to becoming an influential leader is learning the skills—you can practice every day—that will establish your leadership.

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Managing the Employees on the Move

Women on Business

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The Best Practices Enterprise: A Guide to Achieving Sustainable World-class Performance

N2Growth Blog

There are seven best practices that are indispensable in this era of rapid change, increasing customer demands, and intense global competition. These seven best practices address the people, processes, and technology elements of which every enterprise is comprised. Without them firmly in place, an organization will eventually flounder. When driven by top management, instituting 15 business principles based on these seven best practices will transform an organization from mediocrity to a powerhou

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Thinking About “Data Program Governance”

CTOvision

Dennis D. McDonald. Elevator pitch. One phrase in regular rotation in my elevator pitch is “data program governance." What does that mean? The individual words are straightforward: Data includes any kind of data such as numeric, financial, textual, image, or meta. Program means an organized set of activities designed to accomplish a defined set of objectives.

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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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Developing influential leadership

Lead on Purpose

How do you effectively motivate others to do their best work? One of the keys to becoming an influential leader is learning the skills—you can practice every day—that will establish your leadership.

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Developing High Performing Talent

Women on Business

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The Best Practices Enterprise: A Guide to Achieving Sustainable World-class Performance

N2Growth Blog

By: Jim Kerr. There are seven best practices that are indispensable in this era of rapid change, increasing customer demands, and intense global competition. These seven best practices address the people, processes, and technology elements of which every enterprise is comprised. Without them firmly in place, an organization will eventually flounder.

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Your Energy Is Contagious (So Make Sure It’s Positive)

Steve Farber

Like it or not, as a leader you have a significant impact on the energy around you at work. You’re either generating passion, enthusiasm and drive in people, or you’re sucking it out of them. Your ideal, therefore, is to display positive energy in everything you do. I know it’s a tall order; but, ultimately, the success of your company will depend on whether you can share this energy with others and foster consistent enthusiasm among your peers.

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

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.

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Resting and Digesting in a Beautiful Place or Wherever You Are

Next Level Blog

With everything that’s gone on and is going on in the world this year, it’s completely understandable if your fight or flight response has been on overdrive lately. As I’ve written here many times over the past couple of years, the fight or flight response is the effect of your body’s sympathetic nervous system working to protect you from a perceived threat.

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Is “Culture” Just a Buzzword?

Nathan Magnuson

“What we really need around here is a culture.” I’ve heard this dozens of times. You probably have too. In most cases, the blank is filled with “leadership” or “accountability,” but it can be all sorts of other things too: communication, collaborative, engaging, development-oriented, execution, work-life balance-friendly – you name it.

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Stress free ways to ask for a Promotion

Career Advancement

“Either you run the day, or the day runs you.” ~ Jim Rohn. Bob wanted to step up. He felt it was time to earn more money. But how should he ask for a promotion ? What steps would make it most likely he’d get a “Yes”? He knew good managers want to see their employees move up the ladder. So he decided to approach his boss.

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Netflix Closed Their Last Data Center – Should You Do The Same?

The Accidental Successful CIO

Netflix now runs everything in the cloud, should you be doing this? Image Credit: Televisione Streaming. The Netflix announcement back in August of 2015 wasn’t a very big deal. In fact it probably went unnoticed by most people. However, from the point of view of those of us with the CIO job, it was sorta like a bomb had gone off. The company sent an email out that announced that in a month they planned on shutting down their very last operational data center.

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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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Unearthing the Value of Network Traffic Data with Big Data Network Analytics

Kentik

Seeing Beneath the Surface with Post-Hadoop Big Data. Not long ago, the New York Times published a fascinating article about a rug designer named Luke Irwin who lives in Wiltshire, England. Irwin needed to run some electrical cables under his yard. While digging the trench, his contractor revealed an intricate mosaic floor of red, blue, and white tiles just 18 inches down.

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Innovation – Individual or team effort – “Collective Leadership”

Rapid BI

Collective Leadership - the next step in ensuring innovation in organisations? Innovation is no longer about individuals but team approaches. his piece explores innovation as a behaviour rather than just a process. The post Innovation – Individual or team effort – “Collective Leadership” appeared first on RapidBi.

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How to Migrate From DataStax Enterprise to Instaclustr Managed Apache Cassandra

If you’re considering migrating from DataStax Enterprise (DSE) to open source Apache Cassandra®, our comprehensive guide is tailored for architects, engineers, and IT directors. Whether you’re motivated by cost savings, avoiding vendor lock-in, or embracing the vibrant open-source community, Apache Cassandra offers robust value. Transition seamlessly to Instaclustr Managed Cassandra with our expert insights, ensuring zero downtime during migration.

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5 Ways to Simplify Your Day & Get More Done

Strategy Driven

Nowadays, most kids—and maybe some adults—probably don’t recognize the old tradition of tying a string around your finger to remind yourself of something important. That’s because reminders, while still as valuable as ever, have evolved with technology (in most cases, for the better). However, even with all the tech options we have to help us remember things today, it can often still feel like daily life isn’t getting any easier or simpler.

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20 Essential Terms that You Need to Know to Transform Your Business

N2Growth Blog

Whenever you begin business transformation work, it’s important to establish a common vocabulary that everyone in the organization can grasp and incorporate into their respective vocabularies. It improves communication and encourages engagement and buy-in. Here are the 20 most essential terms that you’ll want your team to understand and to use.