Sat.Mar 08, 2014 - Fri.Mar 14, 2014

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Sincerity Experts Share Advice: March Frontline Festival #meanit

Let's Grow Leaders

'This month’s Frontline Festival is an extension of Mean It Madness on Let’s Grow Leaders. You don’t need to be a blogger to share your story. Click here to share how saying what you mean has made all the difference. Thank you Joy and Tom Guthrie of Vizwerx for the great feature pic (above). […] The post Sincerity Experts Share Advice: March Frontline Festival #meanit appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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On Being a Leader of Integrity: 4 ways to build personal and organizational integrity

N2Growth Blog

'By Grant Wattie. President, N2growth Australia. Are you a person of integrity? Chances are you and everyone reading this article will answer in the affirmative. This introduces a massive blind-spot we have in our lives and organizations: self-deception – as none of us can say we have full integrity. So, first, how do we define integrity? Webster’s New World Dictionary gives two definitions of “integrity”: the first is the quality or state of being complete or whole; the second is being of sou

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The 8 Guiding Principles of More Human Leadership

Terry Starbucker

'Hi all – on March 11, I gave a presentation at the Leadership Summit, a great online event organized by Macro Recruitment in Australia . My presentation included my thoughts on what I believe to be the 8 Guiding Principles of More Human Leadership. I am pleased to share with you this summary post, which served as a preview for the event participants, as well as a PDF of the 8 Principles, which you can download here , or by clicking the picture on the right. .

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Leon Panetta Warns of Cyber Pearl Harbor: and a CTO gives him a polite earful

CTOvision

'By Bob Gourley Leon Panetta spoke today at the Symantec government conference in DC. No matter what your politics are, I hope you see this man as a great American who always puts country above himself. I believe that. He has spent his entire adult life proving that. He is a fantastic speaker. He held the attention of an audience of 2000 with a great overview of the state of national security, including threats, and as far as I can tell did that perfectly.

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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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Leave Your Burdens at the Door?

Let's Grow Leaders

'One of the most frequently uttered phrases in call centers is to instruct reps to “leave their home burdens at home, they won’t help you serve our customers.” I get it, but I refuse to say it. The truth is, I don’t believe life works that way. Asking employees to “forget” that they’re a human […] The post Leave Your Burdens at the Door?

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The Life-Changing Leadership Secrets of The Trappist Monks

Terry Starbucker

'On the latest edition of The More Human Podcast, my guest is August Turak , a successful entrepreneur, corporate executive, and award winning author of the recent book: “ Business Secrets of the Trappist Monks – One CEO’s Quest for Meaning and Authenticity ”. August has a fascinating story to tell – he discovered these secrets while living and working alongside the Trappist monks of Mepkin Abbey in South Carolina for 17 years.

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How Can We Retain The Jedi Masters Of Federal IT In Government Service? Yodas Require Big Missions To Serve

CTOvision

'By Bob Gourley If you follow federal IT you more than likely already read Steve O’Keefe. But if you are new to this world you can find him at [link]. Last week he treated his followers to a nicely written piece which used metaphors from the Titanic (but in this case, the USS ITanic ).This is a great overview of some key leadership challenges in federal IT.

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5 Ways to Give without Getting Taken

Let's Grow Leaders

'You want to be a team player, but the more you give, the more folks take– without offering much in return. It’s not that you’re keeping score, but you’ve noticed a pattern, and you know something’s wrong. You look around and realize that others seem to have more balanced relationships. But there you are, once […] The post 5 Ways to Give without Getting Taken appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Developing Mobile Web Applications: When, Why, and How

Toptal

With the increasingly ubiquitous nature of mobile devices and applications, if you’re not already thinking about mobile apps, you probably should be. This post focuses on methodologies and tools to employ, and pitfalls to avoid, in the development of highly functional, intuitive, and easy-to-use mobile web apps.

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Top 5 Challenges in Designing a Data Warehouse for Multi-Tenant Analytics

Multi-tenant architecture allows software vendors to realize tremendous efficiencies by maintaining a single application stack instead of separate database instances while meeting data privacy needs. When you use a data warehouse to power your multi-tenant analytics, the proper approach is vital. Multi-tenant analytics is NOT the primary use case with traditional data warehouses, causing data security challenges.

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How to Choose a Strong Name to Trademark for Your Business or Brand

Women on Business

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Innovators, Integrators and Tech Vendors: Here is what the government hopes they will buy from you in 2015

CTOvision

'Everyone knows it can be very hard to do business with the government. But you can take steps to make it easier to serve. The most important thing to do, in my opinion, is to be informed on government mission needs. How else can you determine if you have what the government really wants from you? It is also critically important to know if the government agency with a need has a budget or if they are just hoping for a future budget.

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How leaders create happy customers and great results

Lead on Purpose

'How do leaders create sustained growth and make an obvious improvement to the bottom line of their company? Is it really possible for one (or a few) people to make a major difference in the results of a big organization?

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Mindful Mondays: What Does Mindfulness Even Mean, Anyway?

Next Level Blog

'If you do a Google search on the word, mindfulness, you’ll find close to six and a half million results. Mindfulness is clearly a hot topic. Since I’m writing a book on the mindfulness alternative to being overworked and overwhelmed, I get asked a lot, how I define mindfulness. Based on dozens of interviews I’ve conducted with everyday leaders, experts in health and wellness and my own experience with clients and in my own life, my definition of mindfulness comes down to two big ideas.

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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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Small Business, Big Tips

Women on Business

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Delphix: Virtualize applications and databases to save billions of dollars and hundreds of work hours

CTOvision

'Applications are core to the enterprise; they drive nearly every aspect of the business. The typical F1000 CIO completed 46 application projects in 2013, and on average, 28 of these 46 projects were over budget and behind schedule. That CIO also spends an average of 40% of her annual budget on applications. To address this, CIOs look at private and public clouds, SAAS, and outsourcing as ways to avoid the pain and risk of application projects.

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Hacking Leadership By: Mike Myatt

N2Growth Blog

“Hacking Leadership” (Wiley) [link] is the latest book from noted leadership expert Mike Myatt. A Forbes leadership columnist and widely regarded as America’s Top CEO Coach, Mike Myatt advises Fortune 500 CEOs on leadership. “Hacking Leadership” is available everywhere. The post Hacking Leadership By: Mike Myatt appeared first on N2Growth.

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Busting the Top 5 Myths About Remote Workers

Toptal

With an 80% increase in the remote workforce from 2005 to 2012, there must be more to the picture than meets the eye. This post pulls the rug out from under 5 of the most prevalent myths about remote workers, with a specific focus on the software development industry.

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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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Thinking Creatively While Hiring

Women on Business

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5-6 May 2014 Global Supply Chain Risk Assessment: A joint MORS/SARMA Workshop

CTOvision

'By Bob Gourley The Security Analysis and Risk Management Association (SARMA) and the Military Operations Research Society (MORS) are partnering to help advance the body of knowledge around global supply chain risk management on 5 and 6 May. Please see the details below and click here to register. Please join us for a two day workshop Global Supply Chain Risk Assessment on Monday and Tuesday 5 & 6 May 2014.

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The Foundation of Collaborative Leadership

QAspire

'In an industrial age, people went to factories and worked together to produce the outcomes. When required, they collaborated in person. Supervisors commanded and controlled others and leadership was often equated with “taking power”. Factories depended heavily on rigid top-down hierarchies and people were viewed simply as dispensable workers. With technological advances, our world of work changed dramatically.

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Are You Becoming Your Boss?

Mills Scofield

'First post in Linkedin ! Are you becoming your boss ? Is that a good thing or a bad thing? Have you asked your people? "Before you start complaining about your boss, stop and think. Sometimes, we unwittingly take on the traits we resent in our boss with our people. And, sometimes, hopefully most times, we take on traits we love the best in our bosses with our people!

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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 Build an Ecommerce Website that People Trust – Infographic

Women on Business

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Attention All Pentaho Users: More Proof You Are In Good Company

CTOvision

'By Michael Johnson For enterprise technology decision-makers, functionality, interoperability, scalability security and agility are key factors in evaluating technologies. Another that is also very important to consider is the health of the community around the technology. This includes the firm stewarding the technology as well as the developers in the ecosystem.

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What is the difference between community managers and sports referees? #cmgr

Rapid BI

'About $200,000… Some of the readers of my blog know that I also moderate and manage a small number of communities. This week has culminated in me reluctantly removing some members from one group. This action, along with the run-up of events has caused me to reflect on the role, and how group members perceive […].

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What If Your Competitors Out-Draw You?

Mills Scofield

'Our value proposition is really all we have - it''s based on who we are and what we offer. Instead of all the words we put together that sound cliche and trite, what if we could distill it down to a cartoon ? What if?? Try! My latest with Liza Donnelly (Staff Cartoonist for the New Yorker!) in Harvard Business Review.

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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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Recruiting a Director for Strategic Board Challenges – 3 Key Considerations

Women on Business

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Watch A New World Of Innovation Launch At O’Reilly Solid Conference 21-22 May 2014 in San Francisco

CTOvision

'By Bob Gourley It is time we all began to focus more on the coming age of a totally networked, software-enhanced, continually enhancing, device enabled world. No doubt you are already tracking the construct many are calling the “Internet of Things” and you may have been pondering what this connected world might look like. Now you have an opportunity to help shape this coming age by participating with other thought leaders to build the future.

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The Secret Sauce for Smarter Groups: Using a Federated Identity Service to Consolidate Identities and Join Attributes

Radiant Logic

In my last few blogposts ( here , here , and here ), we’ve been talking about the best—and easiest!—way to upgrade to ABAC (attribute-based access control), using more flexible group definitions to create smarter authorization policies. And I told you that it’s possible to build these richer groups by leveraging more attributes. So that leaves one essential question— how do we round up all those attributes to build better groups that can drive finer-grained policies?

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