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How to Get Employees to Care About Your Company

Let's Grow Leaders

Great commercials, strong PR, a brilliant social media strategy all warrant effort when building your company’s reputation. But there’s no better PR than an army of loyal employees living and breathing your brand. You know the type– folks with enthusiasm bursting from their veins–talking up your products and services with their friends at every bar, baptism and bat mitzvah they attend. “No, I’m telling you this works, I’ve seen it from the inside!

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Leaders Lead – Take Charge and Move Out

General Leadership

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. Admiral Chester W. Nimitz. “When in command: command.” – Admiral Chester Nimitz. If being a leader means anything, it means taking charge and executing the responsibility others gave you.

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The Real Secret of Life

Terry Starbucker

“I never want to grow up.” – Terry “Starbucker” St. Marie, August 3, 2008. This is the second in a series of my 3 favorite posts over the past 9+ years, in anticipation of my 1,000th (!) post coming up on August 23rd. As always, I’m eternally grateful that you’re here today to read this post and join my More Human Leadership journey.

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National Security Software On Wall Street: Cognitio’s Roger Hockenberry Comments

CTOvision

Technology that has been used to hunt terrorists is now gaining traction with Wall Street to enhance customer outcomes, make better decisions and even track down fraud. The Wall Street Journal examined this trend in their piece titled: Spy Software Gets a Second Life on Wall Street. They reported on a wave of companies with ties to the intelligence community "winning over" the world of finance.

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Streamlining Database Compliance with CI/CD Integration

IT leaders know the importance of compliance at every level, but the database often gets left behind as other environments are automated for robust protection. This whitepaper emphasizes the importance of robust, auditable, and secure database change management practices for safeguarding organizational compliance. Learn how automating database compliance: Mitigates risk Protects against security vulnerabilities Helps avoid regulatory penalties Aligns database workflows with app lifecycle Turns d

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Does Your Boss Have Your Back?

Let's Grow Leaders

When I was fairly young in my HR career, I was walking by my boss’ boss’ office (let’s call him Eric) while visiting our corporate headquarters in Manhattan. Without leaving his desk, he called out: Karin, can you please do me a favor? You see there’s this meeting that I’m unable to attend, and it would be great if you could attend it for me.

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Are You an Idealist or Pragmatic Leader?

Women on Business

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Microlearning – Training Your Employees More Effectively

CTOvision

An important thing in every company is employee training if the organization is to continue reaping from its important resource—employees. Nonetheless, employees are always busy with all kinds of duties and clearly always on the move. In such a case, microlearning comes in handy to give each of them easy to learn programs that fit within their daily chores better than most traditional training methods.

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Toptal's List Of Top Free Programming Books

Toptal

The Internet is mankind's biggest repository of knowledge, information, useful (and useless: think of cat pics) digital content. Today, we will be taking a quick look at something useful and down to earth: free online programming books.

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Time Machine Tuesday: The Tale of the Tire – The Power of Honesty

General Leadership

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. From Our Early Files: Originally Published. 14 April 2013. “Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.” Mary Kay Ash. General John Handy, a 37-year Air Force veteran, shared the following story at a graduation of the Air Command and Staff College (an Air Force graduate

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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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How to Build and Save Face the Japanese Way

Women on Business

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Cognitio Corp’s Roger Hockenberry Selected to Present On Innovation Strategies at 2015 DoDIIS Conference

CTOvision

Cognitio's CEO Roger Hockenberry i s widely known in the technology community as a thought leading CTO with a proven ability to innovate in service to enterprise objectives. Roger brings a unique background with proven past performance in everything he does. He has helped transform startups into powerhouse firms (including Netscape, the firm that changed the world by making the web browser a workable reality), helped design and accelerate the technologies in Sun Microsystems through their perio

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Mindful Mondays: Quit Trying to Solve for Work-Life Balance

Next Level Blog

Do you know how many results come back when you do a Google search on “work-life balance”? I just did one and the answer is 176 million. That’s an awful lot of discussion on a problem that no one has really solved. You could keep trying to solve for work-life balance or you could try to solve for something else that is more attainable, accessible and would likely make a bigger difference for you anyway.

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Monday Quote

General Leadership

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. “We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship. “ Omar Nelson Bradley. . How did you enjoy today’s post? If you liked what you read, sign up for our frequent newsletter by clicking HERE — and you’ll also receive our handy Leader’s Reference List. . … Read the res

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“Build vs Buy Analytics?” The Question ALL SaaS Leaders Need to Answer in 2024

As a SaaS leader, you know that the more metrics, insights, and analytics you add to your products, the more engagement you’ll have – and the stickier your product will become with customers. At what point do you decide to keep building your analytics in-house or invest in an embedded analytics solution? Read our Build vs. Buy Analytics guide to learn: Top 4 benefits of embedded analytics A quick cost comparison of in-house analytics development vs embedded analytics 10 considerations to help yo

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Is Multitasking Ruining Your Meetings? 3 Tips to Boost Engagement

Women on Business

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Datameer Presents: The Ever Changing Hadoop Ecosystem. What does it mean?

CTOvision

On Thursday 20 August at 2pm EST Datameer is providing an informative webinar titled: The Ever Changing Hadoop Ecosystem. What does it mean? The following is from their invite: Hadoop is changing. Despite being Big Data’s poster child for the last several years, changes to Hadoop's architecture mean it can now work for small data too. Data volumes aside, Hadoop is becoming defined more by ecosystem tools that are compatible with its file system and less by its own processing and management capa

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Will You Help With My Research?

Steve Farber

You have an opportunity to get leadership clarity, insight, and knowledge–and help with my research at the same time. We’ve developed a self-assessment to measure Love, Energy, Audacity, and Proof, and we’re in the process of refining and validating the instrument. I’m thrilled to be working on this project with my friend and colleague, Professor Alan Daly , Chair of the Education Studies Department at University of California San Diego.

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Sketch Note: 6 Rules of Change by Esther Derby

QAspire

Esther Derby is a highly respected voice in building up agile environments, organizations and teams for success. As a quality consultant and organization development enthusiast, I have been following her work since last many years. Recently, Esther shared her insights ( video ) on the topic “Six Rules of Change” at LeanUX2015 and offered practical wisdom on driving large scale changes in the organization.

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Addressing Top Enterprise Challenges in Generative AI with DataRobot

The buzz around generative AI shows no sign of abating in the foreseeable future. Enterprise interest in the technology is high, and the market is expected to gain momentum as organizations move from prototypes to actual project deployments. Ultimately, the market will demand an extensive ecosystem, and tools will need to streamline data and model utilization and management across multiple environments.

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Helping Employees Change Habits Takes 66 Days

Women on Business

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The Cyber Threat: Paperback and Kindle Edition Both Updated For 2015

CTOvision

What do business leaders need to know about the cyber threat to their operations? Author Bob Gourley, the Director of Intelligence in the first Department of Defense cyber defense organization and co-founder/partner at Cognitio Corp shares lessons from direct contact with adversaries in cyberspace in a new book titled “ The Cyber Threat ” (newly updated for 2015) Understanding the Cyber Threat is critical to preparing your defenses prior to attack and also instrumental in mounting a defense duri

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What’s The Right Way For CIOs To Think About The Cloud?

The Accidental Successful CIO

Now that cloud computing has arrived, what should a CIO do? Image Credit: Pam Broviak. As the person with the CIO job, you now live in a world that is filled with lots and lots of real-time data. It comes from your customers, your manufacturing, your partners, and, of course, your company’s web site. Having access to this much data via the arrival of cloud computing is great news.

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Responsive Design Is Not Enough, We Need Responsive Performance

Toptal

Between square inch smart wristwatches and mammoth smart TVs, a responsive website capable of adapting to a wide array of screen sizes and device capabilities is something no one complains about. However, many websites are still plagued by desktop-first design paradigms, or mobile-first paradigms with absolutely no focus on performance. These traditional approaches to responsive web design have various shortcomings.

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Software Composition Analysis: The New Armor for Your Cybersecurity

Speaker: Blackberry, OSS Consultants, & Revenera

Software is complex, which makes threats to the software supply chain more real every day. 64% of organizations have been impacted by a software supply chain attack and 60% of data breaches are due to unpatched software vulnerabilities. In the U.S. alone, cyber losses totaled $10.3 billion in 2022. All of these stats beg the question, “Do you know what’s in your software?

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How High Obesity Rates Affect Workers Compensation Costs

Women on Business

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Bright Computing Integrated with Intel Enterprise Edition for Lustre

CTOvision

Announcing a unique solution that works for HPC, Big Data Analytics, or a hybrid environment. Bright Computing ’s latest version of Bright Cluster Manager is integrated with Intel® Enterprise Edition for Lustre (IEEL) software. With this integration, system administrators can easily deploy, use and maintain Intel® Enterprise Edition for Lustre using Bright.

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Are We Setting Our Leaders Up For Success?

CoachStation

People get hired or promoted into leadership roles every day. Sadly, when they get the job they may get little or no training on how to lead a team. (1) The opportunity to develop our future leaders before placing them into leadership roles is an obvious one. Building employee skills, capability and awareness to be ready for leadership is ideal, yet is rarely applied well in practice.

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Why You Need to Upgrade to Java 8 Already

Toptal

The newest version of the Java platform, Java 8, was released more than a year ago. Many companies and developers are still starting new applications with old versions of Java. There are very few good reasons to do this, because Java 8 has brought some important improvements to the language. I'll show you a handful of the most useful and interesting ones.

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Monetizing Analytics Features

Think your customers will pay more for data visualizations in your application? Five years ago, they may have. But today, dashboards and visualizations have become table stakes. Turning analytics into a source of revenue means integrating advanced features in unique, hard-to-steal ways. Download this white paper to discover which features will differentiate your application and maximize the ROI of your analytics.

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Six Disciplines Improves Business Management Platform

Six Disciplines

Six Disciplines , a Solomon Cloud Solutions company, and sister company of Beyond Software , has updated its business management platform which helps build organizations that execute their strategy more effectively. This updated edition of the Six Disciplines program features a new touch-based user interface. The interface has been redesigned to streamline the presentation of critical information and to make it touch friendly for easier use on today’s mobile devices.

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Fed Tech Roundup August 11

CTOvision

The following are some of the hot topics in the federal technology ecosystem (from FedTechTicker.com and TopTechTicker.com ): Fed Tech Ticker. Federal Student Loan Repayments for Teachers May Get Makeover - Campus Technology. NASA Wants to Know if Open Innovation Challenges Are Working - Nextgov. Lack of investment, tech are major barriers to better federal customer. - FierceGovernmentIT.

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Fun Friday – weekly office cartoon #299 #ff #username #password

Rapid BI

Some office fun for a Friday afternoon – username and password Fun Friday – weekly office cartoon #299 “I’ve done my best to make your user name and password as secure as possible… but you still move your lips when you type!” user name and password Office cartoons Office based cartoons, funnies and humor can […]. The post Fun Friday – weekly office cartoon #299 #ff #username #password appeared first on.

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