Let's Grow Leaders
DECEMBER 12, 2016
The second half of December is a great time for recognition, celebration, white elephant gifts and other fun. Yes, yes, please do all that, but don’t stop there. The best holiday gift you can give your team is to “own the ugly.” To help your team have the tough conversations they’re longing to have. To stare squarely in the face of what’s not working and clear the decks for a remarkable 2017.
General Leadership
DECEMBER 12, 2016
GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. “…truly successful decision making relies on a balance between deliberate and instinctive thinking”. -Malcolm Gladwell, from Blink. What do you think of when you read the title? Do you think of an organization that lacks regulation, rules and policies, and a requirement to gather a large amount of information to be analyzed before making a decision?
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Toptal
DECEMBER 16, 2016
In the past few years, Microsoft has pulled a few aces from up its sleeve. Yes, they messed up Skype, failed with smartphones, and almost succeeded with tablets. But, they did some really amazing things as well. Relinquishing their closed empire approach, they open-sourced.NET, joined the Linux Foundation, released SQL Server for Linux, and created this great new tool called Visual Studio for Mac.
Lead on Purpose
DECEMBER 12, 2016
Many managers have an unspoken expectation that employees are responsible for motivating themselves. Their idea goes like this: since the company pays them, they should do what they’re told, and happily complete any task put in front of them.
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Dialogview is revolutionizing VoIP services with its AI-powered platform, which is now available for white labeling. Our solution autonomously resolves over 68% of customer queries in more than 40 languages, dramatically reducing your team’s workload. With advanced conversational AI, Dialogview understands customer sentiments and queries in real time, without any button presses needed by users.
Let's Grow Leaders
DECEMBER 15, 2016
Welcome back to the Let’s Grow Leaders Frontline Festival. This month’s festival is all about preparing for 2017. Thanks to Joy and Tom Guthrie of Vizwerx Group for the great pic and to all our contributors! Next month’s Frontline Festival is all about goal setting. Please submit your very best links to your goal setting posts. The question for the month is: “What your best practice for helping teams set meaningful goals?
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CTOvision
DECEMBER 13, 2016
Rick Delgado. Any business hoping to enjoy success now and well into the future knows that big data is the way to go. With big data analytics, companies have become more versatile, adopting new technological solutions to enhance their capabilities, efficiently run their organizations, and increase revenue. Big data analytics has become so popular that other types of analytics have branched off from -- things like social analytics, predictive analytics, and more.
Lead on Purpose
DECEMBER 12, 2016
Many managers have an unspoken expectation that employees are responsible for motivating themselves. Their idea goes like this: since the company pays them, they should do what they’re told, and happily complete any task put in front of them.
Steve Farber
DECEMBER 12, 2016
In 1994, Mary Miller and her husband, Tony, decided to grow their cleaning company. They hired a consultant to help show them the way. Two days later, the consultant fired them. “I can’t help you,” he told Mary, the CEO of Cincinnati-based JANCOA Janitorial Services. “You’ve got a people problem: You don’t have enough of them.” He pointed out that he was supposed to spend the previous night reviewing JANCOA’s systems and processes.
Women on Business
DECEMBER 12, 2016
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Toptal
DECEMBER 15, 2016
Limited SQL scalability has prompted the industry to develop and deploy a number of NoSQL database management systems, with a focus on performance, reliability, and consistency. The trend was driven by proprietary NoSQL databases developed by Google and Amazon. Eventually, open-source systems like MongoDB, Cassandra, and Hypertable brought NoSQL within reach of everyone.
Terry Starbucker
DECEMBER 11, 2016
I recently chatted with Jamie Newman on his “Your Best Manager” podcast – in it, I talk about (among a few other things): My best mentor (and why). My biggest people management challenge. Why leaders should be more human. The 5 lessons everyone should know before they start leading. And my 3 favorite business books. Check it out! Then visit Jamie’s podcast page for more links and info related to our chat.
CTOvision
DECEMBER 14, 2016
Michael Johnson. For years, enterprise technologists have studied both Apache Hadoop and the many tools in that framework and the rise of Apache Spark. In the early days of Spark it was viewed as a bit of a competitor to the rest of the framework. But now thanks to the contributions of a wide team of open source developers and leaders, the consensus is becoming clear (especially among enterprise CTOs), Spark is better as part of a more comprehensive framework.
Women on Business
DECEMBER 13, 2016
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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.
Toptal
DECEMBER 12, 2016
Dashboard anylitics are used by engineers, product teams, and executives because they offer valuable insights into the success of digital products. We've collected the web's most impressive examples.
Professor Beekums
DECEMBER 11, 2016
UPDATE 2017-01-01: This post has a follow up. Most engineering organizations will have to answer the question: “What makes a software developer a senior developer?” This is a challenging question because it is extremely subjective. Search for the answer on the internet and you will get many different answers. Some will contain criteria that are also subjective themselves which adds additional difficulty to the question.
QAspire
DECEMBER 13, 2016
Leadership success is largely governed by, amongst other things, one’s ability to create an ecosystem of engagement, meaning, performance and growth. A leader creates this ecosystem through conversations, communication (leading to clarity), connection, systems, rituals, processes and decisions. Leandro Herrero , in his post, “ Five spaces that the organizational leader needs to design and nurture ”, calls leader a social architect.
Women on Business
DECEMBER 15, 2016
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Toptal
DECEMBER 15, 2016
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The Kini Group
DECEMBER 12, 2016
Congratulations! You’ve convinced the C-level to purchase a new Business Intelligence solution. You’ve just gotten the official go-ahead from upstairs, and you’re ready to get started. All of the hard work is behind you, right? Sorry to burst your bubble, but you’re just getting started. Getting sign-off for a new solution is just the first (of many!
The Accidental Successful CIO
DECEMBER 14, 2016
Now we’re being told to drop the niceties and just talk frankly Image Credit: Stuart Richards. When you are at the office, how do you interact with people? I suspect that in your office there are smart people, dumb people, nice people, and not so nice people. You probably grin and bear it – you try to treat everyone the same way and you try to be nice to everyone.
Women on Business
DECEMBER 14, 2016
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Toptal
DECEMBER 14, 2016
IKEA is a global retailer, but its online presence has been called cluttered, difficult to navigate, and dated. We're overhauling IKEA's web experience and addressing its most pressing issues.
elsua: The Knowledge Management Blog
DECEMBER 11, 2016
. ‘Calma chicha’, as you may well know, would literally translate into dead calm , you know, when there are no waves, nor wind and everything out there in the ocean is completely dead still, either ahead of a typical storm or right after. However, whenever someone would say ‘ Calma Chicha’ over here in Gran Canaria , they are also referring to one of the most stunning experiences of the culinary sort that the south of the island has got to offer to different visitors.
CoachStation
DECEMBER 15, 2016
Personal and professional development is critical to the ongoing success and growth for any leader. There are many aspects that will make this development even more effective and sustainable, particularly when participating in coaching. High on this list of attributes is the support the person being coached receives from their immediate leader. Support of people as they participate in development programs really does matter.
Women on Business
DECEMBER 11, 2016
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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.
Toptal
DECEMBER 12, 2016
WordPress, one of the most popular publishing platforms, has stood the test of time and now powers a significant portion of the web. Sadly, its reputation is plagued by claims of poor performance and complexity with scaling. However, the root causes of such performance issues are often bad code and poorly implemented plugins and themes. In this post, Toptal Software Engineer Martín Di Felice shares tips and tricks for WordPress developers who want to build better plugins and themes and destroy t
Steve Farber
DECEMBER 16, 2016
Chapter 21. In retrospect, I should have seen it coming, and if I’d known what was going on back at ILGI at that very moment, I’d probably have patted Cam on the head and said goodbye right then and there. It’s been called a lot of things throughout history: mutiny, uprising, revolt—insurgency is a popular one these days—but whatever colorful descriptor you choose, that’s what was. going down in the richly paneled office of Rich Delacroix.
Akana
DECEMBER 15, 2016
What the Rogue Wave Software acquisition of Akana means to customers and examples of how the combination fits into enterprise software development. The post Rogue Wave Software + Akana: Strengthening the business of APIs appeared first on API Management Blog - Akana.
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