Let's Grow Leaders
MAY 7, 2013
'Despite my best efforts to encourage employees to think, question, and recommend change, on any given day, I know there are people on my team doing tasks they know are stupid. Stupid work includes… reinforcing policies without thinking making decisions that lose customers generating reports no one uses focusing on trivial matters when the sky [.
Erik Bernhardsson
MAY 6, 2013
Just promoting Spotify stuff here: check out the Snakebite repo on Github, written by Wouter de Bie. It’s a super fast tool to access HDFS over CLI/Python, by accessing the namenode directly over sockets/protobuf. Spotify’s developer blog features a nice blog post outlining what it’s useful for. I think this kicks ass and there will definitely be some kind of Luigi integration coming up at some point. .
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CTOvision
MAY 10, 2013
'DoD Here are the top cyber news and stories of the day. Department of Labor website hack highlights advanced attack trends ? The recent attack at the Department of Labor is bringing to the forefront advanced tactics and.
Women on Business
MAY 9, 2013
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Let's Grow Leaders
MAY 10, 2013
'If you ask my mom if she’s a leader, she’ll say “no.” And then, everyone who knows her will just shake their heads and laugh. People follow leaders toward a vision. Leaders serve. Leaders grow leaders. My mom’s a leader. She’s grown a nice crop. Moms Growing Leaders Some moms hold formal leadership roles. Others [.
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CTOvision
MAY 6, 2013
'Root One of the constant discussions between Android users is why/if you should ?root.? Rooting is a term that describes the ability to grant programs ?superuser? access. This allows programs to operate at the root level of the.
Women on Business
MAY 7, 2013
'We''ve Moved! Update your Reader Now. This feed has moved to: [link] If you haven''t already done so, update your reader now with this changed subscription address to get your latest updates from us. [link].
Let's Grow Leaders
MAY 6, 2013
'What an amazing line-up contributions for the May Leadership Development Carnival. A heartfelt thanks to all the thought leaders who contributed to this diverse collection. I would like to also personally thank the LD Carnival founder, Dan McCarthy, for an opportunity to host this edition. This is particularly exciting for me since Dan was the first [.
Next Level Blog
MAY 9, 2013
'A couple of months ago, I was talking with an executive leader I’ve known for a few years. One of the things I’ve noticed about him in that time is that his confidence has grown in a very appropriate and admirable way. I mentioned this to him and, in reply, he laughed softly and said, “It’s a fine line between confidence and indifference.”. Click headline to continue.
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CTOvision
MAY 6, 2013
'For disclosure: I am on the Invincea advisory board. I'm incredibly proud of to be associated with those guys and I'm hoping my pleasure with them comes through in this post. Invincea delivers an enterprise grade breach.
Women on Business
MAY 10, 2013
'We''ve Moved! Update your Reader Now. This feed has moved to: [link] If you haven''t already done so, update your reader now with this changed subscription address to get your latest updates from us. [link].
Let's Grow Leaders
MAY 8, 2013
'Two candidates were interviewing for a District Sales Manager position. Both had great backgrounds and qualifications. Both nailed the Behavior Based Interview, and we moved on to talk about their planned approach. Joe (not his real name) came with his generic 90 day strategy. It was as if he had read Michael Watkin’s Book, The First [.] The post Interviewing?
Change Starts Here
MAY 7, 2013
'Earlier this year, Daryl Conner of Conner Partners asked a question of change practitioners in his blog post, A Serious Question for Serious Practitioners : Is there something beyond the obvious you are hoping to achieve through your work? or in other words, What are you really up to? Besides personal ambition and helping clients achieve results, what underlying motives do we have for doing the work we do?
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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, 2013
'bigdata On Thursday 9 May 2013 two technologists I deeply respect will be providing a webinar (sponsored by Carahsoft) on achieving enterprise success with Hadoop. The following is from the event announcement.
Lead on Purpose
MAY 4, 2013
'One of the great leaders and thinkers of our time is Clayton Christensen , ”a down-to-earth” alum of BYU, Oxford and Harvard. His book The Innovators Dilemma has impacted the business world perhaps more than any other book in recent history. He has expanded his research and applied his theories to other industries like health care, higher education and even governments and tax systems.
Let's Grow Leaders
MAY 9, 2013
'What does your bookshelf say about you? What if your leadership books could collaborate to support your growth? Spine Poems provide new perspective on your reading choices. The idea, take a quick look at your shelf, and use the spines to create a poem. The exercise provides perspective your topics of choice and how they hang [.] The post Leadership Spine Poems as Reflective Practice: If Your Books Could Talk… appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.
Nathan Magnuson
MAY 6, 2013
'Have you ever had a coach, teacher, or mentor in your formative years who pushed you to be more than you thought you could become on your own? If so, you’ll strongly appreciate this month’s leadership profile featuring my high school football coach, Dick Burton – even if you’ve never been an athlete. Who is [.].
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CTOvision
MAY 9, 2013
'Facebook has grown from a small collegiate only social network site to a public one with an astounding 1.1 billion users today. Facebook has cornered the social media market, for the most part, and it doesn't look like they are.
Steve Farber
MAY 10, 2013
'Way back in 1995, I had the great pleasure of seeing the legendary management sage, Peter Drucker , speak about teams and teamwork at a conference for training industry executives. Keep in mind the context of that now bygone era: CD-ROM was the latest, sparkly new technology, the internet was essentially a network of electronic brochures downloaded via modem to your computer at the rate of a millennium per page and The Wisdom of Teams by Katzenbach and Smith, first published in 1992, was all th
The Recovering Engineer
MAY 8, 2013
'The perception of threat is the primary cause for conflict escalation. The most important word in the previous sentence is perception. If you have no intention of causing the other person harm (either physically or emotionally) and they perceive that you do intend to harm them, your real intentions do not matter. With regard to the affect your actions have on the conflict, it only matters that they perceive you to be a threat.
Next Level Blog
MAY 6, 2013
'The ancient Greeks had a word called praxis which is the root of our modern day English words, practical and practice. Aristotle described the end goal of praxis as action. When he wrote about praxis, one of his points was that if you want to be a certain way, start acting that way. Click headline to continue.
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CTOvision
MAY 9, 2013
'fose 2013 FOSE is the nation's premier event for government technology professionals who need tools, resources, and best practices to transition to the cloud, mitigate cybersecurity threats, and achieve the goals of the DGS.
The Accidental Successful CIO
MAY 8, 2013
'CIOs need to know how to find social media secrets. Image Credit. Darn that social media stuff! Just when you thought that the job of being a CIO couldn’t get any tougher , along comes this whole new way for the world to communicate. The arrival of social media has just boosted the importance of information technology. What makes things even tougher is that the rest of the company is waiting for you to tell them what the rules for using social media at work is….
Steve Farber
MAY 7, 2013
'Not that this kind of thing should be reserved exclusively for springtime, but any excuse for a good, old-fashioned eradication. So, there’s no time like the present to purge the energy-suckers around you and yours. Here’s your challenge: Get rid of the things in your work life that sap you and your folks of the energy required to do great things–the unnecessary, bureaucratic policies and procedures that suck the life out of you.
QAspire
MAY 7, 2013
'Our communication at workplace needs a lot of simplification. Have you seen leaders who throw jargons and so called “hot words” that leave people more confused? When a boss says, “We need to get this done soon ”, people are left to wonder what soon actually means. I once observed a senior leader who was approached by his team member for some help on an issue.
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Six Disciplines
MAY 10, 2013
'Even though small businesses collectively generate $5 trillion in sales in the U.S., the biggest challenge of an individual small business is “survival.” 80% of all new business start-ups are out of business within five years. And if that doesn’t get your attention, 80% of the 20% that survive the first five years don’t survive the second five!2 That means, on the average, 960 out of 1,000 businesses that start this year will not be around in 10 years.
Rapid BI
MAY 4, 2013
'What is leadership? As our organizations change and adapt so must the people running them - our managers and leaders. In the past, many organizations have neglected to develop and train this group, letting most find their own way to their own unique management or leadership style.
Coalfire
MAY 6, 2013
As the largest IT audit and compliance advisor in the U.S., Coalfire is exposed to a wide variety of compliance concerns. In this series of Compliance Talk blogs, Dirk and Ken are back at their favorite coffee shop…the Bean and Berry in Louisville, Colorado. Over a couple cappuccinos, their discussion turned to some of the unique aspects, when it comes to data security, of debt collection companies.
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