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What I Appreciate Most About Your Leadership

Let's Grow Leaders

'What do you appreciate most about each member of your team. Have you told them? The other night I heard a fantastic leadership best practice. Every time the leader has someone new join his team, he takes the time to write down “why I hired you,” frames it, and gives it to the new team [.] The post What I Appreciate Most About Your Leadership appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Will People Follow You? 5 Questions to Ask

N2Growth Blog

'By John Baldoni , Chair, Leadership Development, N2growth. One question I hear from executives is this: How can I tell if people want to follow me? The answer to that question lies in your example. The way you communicate, challenge, plan and evaluate. Here are five questions to ask yourself to check if you are on track. Thoughts? Follow me on Twitter @JohnBaldoni.

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Why Every Leader Needs a Darth Vader

Terry Starbucker

'“You are beaten. It is useless to resist.” Man, Darth Vader was a bad dude. I remember sitting in the movie theater back in 1980, watching the Empire Strikes Back for the 15th time, and still getting riled up as this classic villan was standing over young Luke Skywalker, trying to turn him to the “Dark Side” In fact, to this day, Vader’s theme music, that ” da-da-da, da-ta-da, da-ta-da “, still runs in my head when there is trouble ahead, or a nemisis

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Leaping Ahead; A Federal Bridge to Transition Cyber-related Products at the Department of Homeland Security

CTOvision

'By Charles Brooks Editor’s note: This post by Charles Brooks focuses on an area of importance to not just the federal enterprise but to the larger cyber security community. -bg. Recent Congressional Hearings have called attention to the need for better cooperation between government agencies and the private sector. An excellent example of how to fulfill that goal of successful public/private partnerships is demonstrated by the work of the Transition to Practice Program (TTP) at the Depart

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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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How to Impress an Executive

Let's Grow Leaders

'He was sitting in for his boss at the executive’s staff meeting. He followed her leadership blog so he had a sense of what’s in her head. She had just written about how to make the most of a temporary seat at the table. He followed her formula. Good start. There was one vital topic her [.] The post How to Impress an Executive appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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The Radical Question

Steve Farber

'The powerful Net Promoter Score system started out by asking a very simple question: What is the likelihood that you would recommend Company X to a friend or colleague? And if you think about what that question really asks, we end up with the significant conclusion that NPS essentially measures the degree to which your customers love your company. In a post on the Net Promoter blog , Intuit CEO, Brad Smith, says that their product guys call NPS the “love metric.

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Why Consultants Suck

Women on Business

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5 Reasons to Close Your Open Door

Let's Grow Leaders

'You love an open door. So do I. You want to be all things to all people– all of the time. But, that’s impossible. We open our office doors as a symbolic gesture saying, “I’m always here for you.” Good in theory. But, if Sam knocks in the middle of your meeting with Sally, someone [.] The post 5 Reasons to Close Your Open Door appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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What the Communist Party Got Right About Leadership

Nathan Magnuson

'Today’s post was co-written with Brooke Steinke, a student in our Organizational & Management Communication class at CollegePlus. It was great to have you in our class, Brooke! If you would like to be featured on this site, click here. Three months ago, if someone had asked me what I could learn from the Communist […].

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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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Does loving your job make you a better leader?

Lead on Purpose

'I recently attended a keynote address by Dr. Craig Manning, sports performance coach and author of The Fearless Mind. He talked about how 10% of our brain is the conscious, and 90% is the subconscious. As we practice and perform, the things we learn in our conscious mind flow into our subconscious and result in our naturally doing what we train our mind to do.

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PR 101: Customer Service Counts

Women on Business

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In 100 Words: The Pursuit of Happiness

QAspire

'My one year old son seems to be in a perennial state of happiness. His playful presence and vibrant energy makes everyone around him happy. He knows how to make the most of simplest of things. “What’s his secret?” I was thinking to myself when heard I this wonderful story from a friend. A man once asked a Buddhist monk, “I want happiness.” The monk smiled softly and said, “First remove ‘I’ – that is your ego.

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Want to Learn How to Fly?

Mills Scofield

'Jessica Esch (frequent poster here ) introduced me to Anita Verna Crofts a © Tony Asgari Photography couple of years ago at BIF. This is one amazing lady who is taking education to new heights - Flying Lessons. There is hope for higher-ed! Thank you Anita ! Come meet her at BIF-9 !! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~. The University of Washington Announces Flying Lessons.

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How Embedded Analytics Helps Product Managers Exceed Their KPIs

Embedded analytics can help you deliver cutting-edge analytics experiences to your end-users that align with KPIs that are critical to the growth and success of your business. Read this eBook to learn how an embedded analytics platform, like Qrvey, can help PMs exceed the following KPIs: Growing revenue while improving customer retention rate Delivering rapid time to value Earning a high net-promoter score Increasing Gross Margin / Profitability Conversion rate from trial to paid Don’t just meet

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The Nasdaq Outage: Was It The CIO’s Fault?

The Accidental Successful CIO

'The scene of the CIO crime? Image Credit. Not sure if you’ve heard about this one, but on Thursday, August 22, 2013, the American Nasdaq stock exchange was shut down for three hours because of a communication problem. Investigators are still trying to understand exactly what happened; however, we should probably asking ourselves if this problem was caused by the Nasdaq’s CIO?

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Women Entrepreneurs Find Success and Happiness

Women on Business

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How to Prepare Well: 3 Lessons

QAspire

'A few years back, I was coordinating the interview process of my team members with the client before they start working on the client projects. My team members were not fully confident because they had never faced a client interview before. To build their confidence, we planned three mock interview sessions where I would play the role of a client. We did these interviews in-person and over-the-call.

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PCI DSS 3.0 puts emphasis on year-round awareness

Coalfire

It's easy to think of PCI compliance as just another annual hoop to jump through. Of course, after the annual audit, the business is safe for another 12 months, right? Well, not exactly, and with the upcoming release of PCI DSS 3.0, there will be an even bigger reason to think about compliance beyond the scope of a yearly audit.

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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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How to Build an Infinite Runner on iOS: Cocos2D, Automation, and More

Toptal

Building games for the iOS platform can be an enriching experience in terms of both financial and personal growth. Recently, I deployed a Cocos2D-based game to the App Store. In this post, I'll explain the process behind developing games for iOS, from Cocos2D through to publishing.

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The Art and Science of Emotional Branding

Women on Business

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Who are you phishing with? #staysafeonline

Rapid BI

'According to wikipedia phishing is defined as: Phishing (/?fiSHiNG/) is the act of attempting to acquire information such as usernames, passwords, and credit card details (and sometimes, indirectly, money) by masquerading as a trustworthy entity in an electronic communication Today i had an interesting email, it purported to be a comment waiting to be approved […].

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The Human Nature Hurdle

Six Disciplines

'"In the pursuit of excellence, figuring out the right things to do isn''t nearly as difficult as continuing to do them over the long term. One of the most persistent challenges we face as humans is to narrow the gap between knowing what needs to be done, and actually doing what needs to be done. In fact, as business leaders, we collectively know quite a bit about what needs to be done.

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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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Leadership words that need to be banned. Forever.

Strategy Driven

'Pabulum leadership words really bug me – but not as bad as they may bug you if they’re uttered by your leader. Leaders are known by their words, deeds, actions, values, principles, and by the people they attract both on their team and in the world, but… It’s their words that set the tone for the environment. It’s their words that start the internal chatter.

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Women Managers – Better To Be Liked or Feared?

Women on Business

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VMware VSAN Validates an Increasing Shift to Software-Defined Storage

Nutanix

There’s no question that enterprise application usability has for the most part been left behind.

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Financial States of America Interactive Infographic

Women on Business

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A Tale of Two Case Studies: Using LLMs in Production

Speaker: Tony Karrer, Ryan Barker, Grant Wiles, Zach Asman, & Mark Pace

Join our exclusive webinar with top industry visionaries, where we'll explore the latest innovations in Artificial Intelligence and the incredible potential of LLMs. We'll walk through two compelling case studies that showcase how AI is reimagining industries and revolutionizing the way we interact with technology. Some takeaways include: How to test and evaluate results 📊 Why confidence scoring matters 🔐 How to assess cost and quality 🤖 Cross-platform cost vs. quality tr

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Women of Innovation: Christine Woods

Women on Business

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Women of Innovation: Erika Andersen

Women on Business

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Complimentary Resource – 8 Content Marketing Mistakes to Avoid

Strategy Driven

'8 Content Marketing Mistakes to Avoid. by Act-On. Learn the eight deadly sins of content marketing, from the structural (don’t overlook calls to action) to the intangible (what not to focus on). Five experts participated in a fascinating panel discussion: Ardath Albee, Marketing Interactions; Matt Heinz, Heinz Marketing; Carmen Hill, Babcock & Jenkins; Craig Rosenberg, The Funnelholic; and Marcus Sheridan, The Sales Lion – and you get the benefit.