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The Simplest Way to Hear the Best Stories

Let's Grow Leaders

'Everyday your team is doing great work. Sometimes you miss their stories. Some folks will go home and tell their stories around the dinner table. Others can’t, or won’t. Don’t let stories go unheard, or untold. Find ways for them to share impactful adventures. Story Listening Made Easy I lead a remote team, scattered […] The post The Simplest Way to Hear the Best Stories appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Leadership Interview | Brad Lomenick

N2Growth Blog

'By Mike Myatt , Chief Executive Officer, N2growth . In this leadership interview, Mike Myatt of N2growth interviews Brad Lomenick of Catalyst. They discuss Brad’s latest book, “The Catalyst Leader,” Catalyst Conferences, Leader Cast, and other leadership topics.

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15 Leadership Short Cuts (That Are Dead Ends In Disguise)

Terry Starbucker

'I fell in love with road maps when I was 4 years old, paging through my dad’s Rand McNally atlas in the backseat of our Oldsmobile Jetstar 88 as we made our annual trips to northern Minnesota to visit my grandparents and extended family. (Quick aside – it was quite a cool car for its day, check out the pic). It was a two day trip, so I had plenty of time to do my version of “route planning” Even then, it didn’t take me long to start looking for short cuts that my

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Win a free two day pass to Strata/Hadoop World 28-30 Oct 2013 in NYC

CTOvision

'By Bob Gourley Thanks to the fine people at O’Reilly Media, we have been given two free passes to Strata/Hadoop World, which is being held 28/30 October in NYC. We will be giving them away to two lucky readers. We only ask that you submit your name and email using the form below. Drawing will be held 15 October. Strata Conference and Hadoop World.

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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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Don’t Miss Your Connections

Let's Grow Leaders

'I raced for the airport parking shuttle, threw my bag on the rack and collapsed in the seat. The hectic schlep is too familiar. The stranger next to me smiled, “How’d it go?” Ugh, what’s this guy want? What ever he’s selling, I don’t need. I’ve been on that shuttle many times…texting, returning calls, trying […] The post Don’t Miss Your Connections appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Love Your Neighbor: The Heart of Leadership in the Marine Corps

Nathan Magnuson

'Today’s post was guest-written by my brother Lt. Cale Magnuson, a U.S. Marine currently assigned to the Marines Aviation Program. You can connect with Cale on LinkedIn or Twitter. If you would like to be featured on this site, click here. I distinctly remember the first time I ever heard Captain Tucker tell us that […].

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How to Avoid Starting a Turf War When Implementing Change

Change Starts Here

'As a change agent, your role can be seen as meddling in another person’s area. Sometimes, the change takes place in another department and you’re influencing from the outside. In other cases, someone else is already working on a similar project, and you’ve been tasked with absorbing it into your initiative. Either way, your involvement is likely to incite the other person or group to protect their turf.

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TMI: Leaders Who Share Too Much

Let's Grow Leaders

'Transparency builds trust. TMI overwhelms. Can leaders share too much? I received this note from a Let’s Grow Leaders subscriber: “The organization I work for prides itself on transparency – I too believe this is very important – however, there are some times when we try to be transparent when the information actually discourages the […] The post TMI: Leaders Who Share Too Much appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Diversity of a Different Persuasion

N2Growth Blog

'By Patricia Lenkov , Chair, Executive Search, N2growth. Diversity is a complex issue because it comes in all shapes and sizes. It has been and continues to be the subject of much debate in business communities across the globe. As an Executive Recruiter, I have been asked to identify candidates who are diverse in terms of race, ethnicity, gender and even geography.

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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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Initial Conversation with a CTO or Technical Advisor

SoCal CTO

'Are you a non-technical startup founder who’s about to go have a conversation with a Chief Technical Officer (CTO) or Technical advisory type person? Maybe you are going for a reality check on your current situation - wondering if you have a Weak Development Team or a Startup Founder Developer Gap. Maybe you are trying to determine what technologies might apply that you should be evaluating.

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17% of Women Are Not Confident About Their Financial Security in Retirement

Women on Business

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CIT Hires Robert Stratton as MACH37 General Partner

CTOvision

'By Bob Gourley Robert Stratton is one of the most positive forces in the east coast tech scene. He is widely known as a community-focused thought leader with special skills in enterprise technology and cyber security. This made it especially exciting to read about his affiliation with Virginia’s Center for Innovative Technology (CIT) and their MACH37 Cybersecurity Accelerator.

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SQL Database Performance Tuning for Developers

Toptal

Database tuning can be an incredibly difficult task, particularly when working with large-scale data where even the most minor change can have a dramatic (positive or negative) impact on performance. In mid-sized and large companies, most database tuning will be handled by a Database Administrator (DBA). But there are plenty of developers who have to perform DBA-like tasks; meanwhile, DBAs often struggle to work well with developers.

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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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The Government Shutdown and the Verbal Tells That Give Leaders Away

Next Level Blog

'Well, here we are again. This week’s Federal government shutdown is the latest in a series of sad and maddening examples of a leadership class that’s disconnected from the people it’s supposed to lead and serve. There are plenty of commentators from across the spectrum who are offering their opinions on the issues and the politics behind the shutdown so.

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Are You Successful in Getting What You Want?

Women on Business

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LinkedIn Shuts Down Four XSS Flaws, Is wireless the Trojan horse in your network security? and more

CTOvision

'By Ryan Kamauff Here are the top cyber news and stories of the day. LinkedIn Shuts Down Four XSS Flaws – “LinkedIn has closed the door on four cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities, which could have been used to ultimately steal credentials from users.” LinkedIn is one of the top professional networking sites in the world. As such, many use it to store their resume, keep in contact with coworkers and find new jobs.

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5 Things That A CIO Needs To Know About Risk

The Accidental Successful CIO

'Risk management is something that you do every day Image Credit. How much time every day do you spend thinking about risk? No matter what your answer was, I’m willing to bet that considering the importance of information technology you are not spending enough time on this important subject. Every person who has the CIO job knows that there are risks all around us each and every day.

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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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Mindful Mondays: Elephant or Chicken?

Next Level Blog

'A client who frequently travels internationally told me a fascinating story recently. My client is a regular visitor to Africa and told me about a safari tour guide he met in Botswana. This guide is so skilled and experienced at what he does that he can approach an 18,000 pound bull elephant with no fear of being charged. The guide and the elephant go eye to eye.

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Crowdfunding Can Launch Your Business

Women on Business

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GovLoop Releases Report: Winning the Cybersecurity Battle

CTOvision

'By Pat Fiorenza As part of the Agency of the Future Series, GovLoop has released the report, “ Winning the Cybersecurity Battle. ” Today, the world is interconnected like never before. As a nation, we must work collaboratively to ensure that cyber defense strategies are robust and effective to secure our way of life. You can read the report online or can download a PDF here.

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Powerful Question #10

Nathan Magnuson

'If you’ve read this blog for long (or even if you haven’t), you’ve probably noticed there is an awful lot to think about when it comes to leadership. If you go to the bookstore or do an Internet search, the number of resources is pretty much endless. With all that is available, have all the […].

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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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How to Promote Yourself and Still Respect Yourself

Next Level Blog

'In a world where there is more and more information competing for everyone''s attention, it''s important to make sure you stay relevant. If you''re a leader in a large organization, this is especially important because your team''s success depends on how good a job you do as their Chief Marketing Officer. As I''ve written here before, the work doesn''t speak for itself, you have to speak for the work.

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Review Sites Are Critical for Business

Women on Business

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Discount Code for Strata and Hadoop World NYC is 28-30 Oct 2013

CTOvision

'By Bob Gourley Strata and Hadoop World is coming! It will be held 28-30 Oct in NYC. If your organization uses information and if you play a role in collecting, moving, storing security and/or analyzing it, come interact with your peers from other information intensive organizations and learn cutting edge concepts for enhancing your ability to sense make over data.

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Are you a leader in product innovation?

Lead on Purpose

'What drives innovation in your company or organization? Do you have a group of “thinkers” who come up with the new ideas? Do you watch the trends of competitors or others close to your market? Do you look outside your corporate world for clues to where you should go next? In a recent MIT Sloan Executive Education innovation@work post the author Eric von Hippel asserts that company leaders focus too much on what’s next based on their internal product innovators, and they do not listen enough to

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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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Use the Right Style at the Right Time

The Recovering Engineer

'Every stage of team development has different characteristics. These different characteristics mean that every stage calls for leaders to behave in different ways to support team growth. In From Bud to Boss , Kevin Eikenberry and I reference the Tuckman Model of team development as a useful tool for understanding what is happening in your team at each stage of development as it moves from a group of individuals working in the same location to a high-performing team working towards a common goal

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Challenges and Opportunities for Business in Asia

Women on Business

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The Accountable Leader: Developing the Right Mindset and Practices That Ignite Peak Performance (Part 3)

The Empowered Buisness

'Photo Credit: David Niblack. This final part of the article series addresses my top 10 leadership and culture practices for a strong accountability organization. Keep in mind that the 6 internal drivers, addressed in parts 1 and parts 2 , account for as much as 90% of your performance and results, including accountability. Practices by themselves, can’t drive accountability.