Let's Grow Leaders
MAY 4, 2014
'I’m sure many someones warned me and share their wisdom. But, sadly, most of my career lessons I learned the hard way. When you’re totally immersed it getting it done, it’s easy to lose perspective. Today I share my biggest career lessons- learned from years of angst and my fair share of stupidity. Looking forward to hearing your number 10s. 9 Career Lessons I Wish I’d Learned Sooner.
General Leadership
MAY 7, 2014
'The Silent Power Behind Emotional Intelligence. “The emotional brain responds to an event more quickly than the thinking brain.” Daniel Goleman. If our skills, competencies and judgment get us our leadership roles – it’s our Emotional Quotient (EQ), or Emotional Intelligence , that keeps us there and propels us forward into greater leadership scope, work footprint, scale and reach.
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CTOvision
MAY 5, 2014
'As a technologist I have long respected Symantec and their many capabilities (they do far more than antivirus, see the list here). But the hottest firms in cyber security, those growing because they make real, measurable, virtuous differences in enterprise security, are growing because they realized that Symantec''s core antivirus features just are not sufficient.
Change Starts Here
MAY 6, 2014
'Being a change agent is not for the faint of heart. You often have to deliberately step into uncomfortable situations without knowing how they will turn out. For example, you may need to: Force people to slow down and think about the impact of change, when they would rather just get it done. Provide feedback to those with whom you have no direct authority.
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Terry Starbucker
MAY 8, 2014
'I knew there was something about Tim O’Grady that I really liked, but I couldn’t put my finger on it. I was on the “I Am Small Business Proud” website (more on the reason why later) and Tim’s video, and his particular small business, caught my attention. Was it the fact that he was a foodiepreneur, a fascinating breed of entrepreneur I had become increasingly interested in here in Portland?
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CTOvision
MAY 9, 2014
'By Bob Gourley. Students of history know what happens when adversaries learn how the good guys collect intelligence on them. They change their tactics, techniques or procedures and it gets much harder to know their intentions. Most of us knew this is what would happen with the disclosures by Edward Snowden. And testimony by intelligence community professionals indicates they have had evidence this was occurring.
Toptal
MAY 8, 2014
Python's simple, easy-to-learn syntax can mislead Python developers -- especially those who are newer to the language -- into missing some of its subtleties and underestimating the power of the language. In this article, Toptal's Martin Chikilian presents a "top 10" list of somewhat subtle, harder-to-catch mistakes that can trip up even the most advanced Python developer.
Terry Starbucker
MAY 4, 2014
'On the latest edition of the More Human Podcast , my guest is Pamela Slim , an award-winning author, business coach, speaker, and an absolute joy to be around. She spent the first 10 years of her business as a consultant to large companies such as Hewlett-Packard, Charles Schwab and Cisco Systems, where she worked with thousands of executives, managers and employees.
General Leadership
MAY 8, 2014
'Overcoming the boundaries between the military community and society requires a deliberate effort to open our world. It is tempting to stay on our military bases, live in military communities and only talk to those we know. For the curators of The General Leadership Foundation, it is our mission to bring the experiences, principles and stories amassed through war and military life to the public.
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.
CTOvision
MAY 6, 2014
'Catelas is a solution on the market today that maps out large communications networks. The software''s unique value is its ability to automatically identify the people that matter in any dataset – a specific case (collected data) or across the entire company (log files or email meta-data). Catelas is used for Legal (Early Case Intelligence & Identification), Compliance (Supervision in Financial Services and 3rd party Compliance & Risk Oversigh.
Lead on Purpose
MAY 3, 2014
'Work Happy Now! Guest Post by David Bradford, author of Up Your Game All of our life successes are defined within the context of their impact on people; namely ourselves first, then impact on family, community, and globally.
Women on Business
MAY 8, 2014
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Nathan Magnuson
MAY 5, 2014
'Feedback is everywhere. We get feedback from our bosses in our performance reviews. We ask our customers for their feedback on our service. We collect engagement feedback from our employees. We send a work project around the team for peer feedback before submitting our deliverables. In all of these cases, the difference between good feedback and poor feedback can easily be the difference between success and failure.
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CTOvision
MAY 5, 2014
'With this post we are beginning our coverage of D-Wave Systems, the world''s first commercially available quantum computer system. D-Wave Systems and their approach is not without controversy. Computer scientists and those who track technology have long studied the potential of quantum computing. The theories of what it can do are incredible, and lab research proves on a daily basis that these theories can be transformed into working realities.
Next Level Blog
MAY 7, 2014
'Have you ever felt like you’re the only one who doubts yourself? Does that little voice inside your head compare you to people who seem like they just totally have everything completely together? Well, guess what. It’s not just you. Most everyone has their own inner critic that’s way too hard on themselves. (Audio). Click headline to continue.
Women on Business
MAY 9, 2014
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The Empowered Buisness
MAY 6, 2014
'When I was in my 20’s and 30’s, I was the queen of willpower. I have always thrived on achieving big goals. My downfall was using a “white knuckle” approach to achieving those goals. Willpower Exhaustion. Because of my exertion-exhaustion approach, my world came crashing down with life threatening illnesses that cost me everything in my life. While I wished I had learned the lesson in a less traumatic way, there was a gift in that experience.
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CTOvision
MAY 9, 2014
'By ShannonPerry. Since the bug became public knowledge in early April, the Heartbleed vulnerability has captured media headlines across the U.S. The hole existed in OpenSSL, an open-source program used by hundreds of thousands of websites. The bug affected some of the world’s most popular sites, including Facebook, Google, YouTube, and Wikipedia. Even worse, the vulnerability existed for more than two years before its detection.
Next Level Blog
MAY 5, 2014
'So, this past week I’m just moving along, minding my own business, getting work done and all of a sudden I start to freak out. It starts off small as just one thought about something I have to do. It hasn’t even happened yet. It’s not even going to happen for a few days. It requires a lot of preparation, expertise, information from others and then me delivering front and center.
Women on Business
MAY 3, 2014
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Toptal
MAY 5, 2014
JavaScript is much more nuanced than most developers initially realize. Even for those with more experience, some of JavaScript's most salient features continue to be misunderstood and lead to confusion. One such feature, described in this article, is the way that property and variable lookups are performed and the resulting performance ramifications to be aware of.
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CTOvision
MAY 3, 2014
'By Bob Gourley. The team at O’Reilly have been very graciously offering any CTOvision reader a deep discount registration to their first of a kind Solid Conference (21-22 May in San Francisco). Registering with our discount code CTOVIZ will give you a 20% discount. Now team O’Reilly are allowing us to give away one free pass to this two day event.
Six Disciplines
MAY 9, 2014
'Strategy formulation, while extremely challenging and difficult, is usually not what concerns most small business leaders. In fact, it''s not even planning that worried worries them. It''s something even bigger and more problematic. It''s the execution of strategy that keeps many small business leaders awake at night! Why is execution so hard? Because making the plan work is even bigger challenge than creating the plan: Making strategy work is more difficult than the task of strategy making.
Women on Business
MAY 3, 2014
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Rapid BI
MAY 5, 2014
' ”If the seller is willing to replace the roof, add a deck, put in a fireplace and an indoor pool, extend the living room fifteen feet and move the whole place to the other side of town, then we’re definitely interested!
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CTOvision
MAY 7, 2014
'By ShannonPerry. Responding to the controversy surrounding the NSA, President Obama called for a 90-day review in January to address new challenges to national security and issues of individual privacy posed by the United States’ increasing reliance on technology. The review should be published in late April or early May, but a recent interview with White House counselor John Podesta – the leader of the review – sheds some light on its content.
Coalfire
MAY 7, 2014
Last week, I talked with Wall Street Journal reporter Ben DiPietro about the persistent communications gap between the data center and the board room when it comes to recognizing and tackling security threats: In almost every breach situation after his company completes a forensic analysis, Mr. Dakin said the chief executive or chief financial officer pulls him aside and says if he had better information earlier he would have made smarter and quicker decisions. “They are intimating that th
Strategy Driven
MAY 9, 2014
'Learning how to use lead-generation marketing to your advantage requires planning and forethought. You need to think through your management strategy before beginning efforts to improve lead generation in your company. By setting goals, creating a plan to adopt new tactics, and testing the results, you can measure how the company’s investment of budget and time helps increase the number of leads and sales.
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