Let's Grow Leaders
APRIL 18, 2014
'April’s frontline festival is on one of my favorite topics, Employee Engagement. We have a wonderful line-up of posts. We begin with Joy and Tom Guthrie’s, Vizwerx, LLC, pic. See above. Practical Engagement Practices Jesse Lyn Stoner, Seapoint Center, offers her Guest Post on Switch and Shift, First Engage Yourself It’s difficult to engage your employees […].
Terry Starbucker
APRIL 13, 2014
'It takes work to secure, it’s hard to keep, and if you lose it, you lose – BIG. And, it’s really hard to get it back. It’s that precious to the effective leader. It MUST be kept, at all costs, and with all the effort you can muster. What is it? Your word. I’ve never seen a ship sink so fast when a leader doesn’t keep their word.
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N2Growth Blog
APRIL 14, 2014
'By Grant Wattie. President, N2Growth Australia. Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity, and Ambiguity. It’s become a popular acronym but it is very real. In this video, Grant Wattie, President of N2Growth Australia, discusses how you, as a leader, can’t hold on to traditional leadership techniques and make it in this world full of VUCA. At N2Growth, we would love the opportunity to speak with you and see how we can help you navigate the volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambigu
CTOvision
APRIL 14, 2014
'By Bob Gourley. Today is the first day of the Geoint Symposium. Most of the events are special, pre-events that dive deep into key mission areas, but the convention center is humming with activity. I picked up my credentials and walked the halls a bit, with my Google Glass. I didn’t see any other Glass users, so have decided I will not be walking around with the devices on my head, I’ll only pull them out and wear them in sessions were it is ok to record or when I am watching a demo
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.
Let's Grow Leaders
APRIL 14, 2014
'“Every man, through fear, mugs his aspiration a dozen times a day.” -Brendan Francis After a hectic, but fun, Saturday morning of speaking on a Lead Change panel, and schlepping my son to baseball practice and art lessons, Sebastian and I decided to try out the newish Ethiopian restaurant for lunch. The place wasn’t crowded […].
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Lead on Purpose
APRIL 12, 2014
'One of the most important characteristics of leadership is integrity. Integrity means you are true to your word in all you do and people can trust you because you do what you say.
CTOvision
APRIL 18, 2014
'Editor''s note: Chris Scott has deep insights into how government works. Let us know if you would like more info on any of this.-bg With this post I''ll provide some of my personal observations and insights from the the 24th Annual Government Procurement Conference. The conference was held this week at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in DC.
Let's Grow Leaders
APRIL 16, 2014
'I texted my colleague, “do you think we BOTH need to attend the 3pm meeting?” He quickly shot back, “Karin, I don’t think ANYONE needs to go to that meeting… don’t worry, I’ll represent both of us.” And there we were 2 executives, not speaking up in the spirit of being “politically correct, and “covering” […].
Change Starts Here
APRIL 15, 2014
'To influence change across an entire organization requires designing tools, programs and systems to move groups of people in the right direction. These elements help communicate, enable, and motivate change. Your job as change agent is to select the proper tools to influence change, customize them to suit your organization and initiative, and keep track of all the moving parts – and their affect on the change.
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Women on Business
APRIL 17, 2014
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CTOvision
APRIL 16, 2014
'By ShannonPerry. Young tech companies certainly do not shy away from innovation or acquisition. Two examples: this year, Facebook acquired virtual reality firm Oculus in an effort to develop new communication lines, and Google purchased DeepMind, pushing into the artificial intelligence sphere. The money involved wasn’t exactly pocket change; each acquisition cost upwards of hundreds of millions of dollars.
Toptal
APRIL 17, 2014
Once you step beyond the comfortable confines of English-only character sets, you quickly find yourself entangled in the wonderfully wacky world of UTF-8. Indeed, navigating through UTF-8 related issues can be a frustrating and hair-pulling experience. This post provides a concise cookbook for addressing these issues when working with PHP and MySQL in particular, based on practical experience and lessons learned.
Next Level Blog
APRIL 14, 2014
'This month for me is all about the big push to finish the manuscript for my book that’s coming out this Fall from Wiley, Overworked and Overwhelmed: The Mindfulness Alternative. As the title implies, my premise is that being somewhat more mindful in your approach to work and life is an effective alternative to being overworked and overwhelmed. Click headline to continue.
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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.
Women on Business
APRIL 16, 2014
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CTOvision
APRIL 18, 2014
'When Defense Secretary Hagel announced that he was going to expand his cyber workforce by more than 6,000 by the end of 2016, I think most of us in the industry collectively wondered: “Where the heck is he going to FIND these cyber warriors?” While almost every University is paying attention to this career enhancing qualification, it’s currently very hard to get an education in Cyber Defense.
QAspire
APRIL 13, 2014
'“It is the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.” — Charles Darwin. The biggest difference between command and control leadership versus collaborative leadership is – a collaborative leader knows that position in the hierarchy is no longer the source of power.
Mills Scofield
APRIL 15, 2014
'Note: Carl & I met at BIF9. As usually happens, a beautiful friendship and collaboration ensued. Our conversations are like jazz.live, interactive, impromptu. Eavesdrop on one here. Photo: Stephanie Alvarez Ewens. DMS : At BIF, you performed before an audience of over 400 people with two musicians you’d barely met before. It was fabulous – resulting in BIF’s first encore!
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Women on Business
APRIL 13, 2014
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CTOvision
APRIL 16, 2014
'While younger generations are known to quickly adapt to technological advances, older adults and seniors have traditionally lagged behind – preferring TV to the Internet or landlines to cell phones. But the Pew Research Center published a report on April 3rd finding that seniors (adults aged 65 or older) are increasingly incorporating social networking, cell phones, tablets, and e-books into their lives.
Federico Cargnelutti
APRIL 15, 2014
State verification is used to ensure that after a method is run, the returned value of the SUT is as expected. Of course, you may need to use Stubs on a test double or a real object to tell the object to return a value in response to a given message. In Java, you declare a method’s return type in its method declaration, this means that the type of the return value must match the declared return type or otherwise you will get a compiler error.
Mills Scofield
APRIL 17, 2014
'This appears on Smartbrief''s Smartblogs for Leadership! Thank you!! " How many times have you heard or even said, “Is that market attractive to us”? We look at the markets we’re in, the markets our competitors are in, maybe even some that are new and wonder if they are/could be good for our business. We may even think of creating or segmenting in a new way." read on.
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Women on Business
APRIL 14, 2014
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CTOvision
APRIL 14, 2014
'By Bob Gourley. For a short update on some key issues to track, sessions to watch and tech to see on during the 14-17 Apr USGIF GeoInt Symposium see the video at this link (it is also embedded below): Thanks for watching! For more like this please subscribe to our YouTube channel. Related articles. Now That You Are Headed To Geoint, What Should You Do There?
The Accidental Successful CIO
APRIL 16, 2014
'If It's Easter, Then Spring Must Be Here! Finally! Easter has finally arrived. I hope that you are going to be able to take some time off and celebrate this special season as Spring is just around the corner and Winter is quickly becoming a distant memory! I’m going to take this week off and get some well deserved rest. However, I’ll be back next week with some great new CIO tips and techniques for you.
The Programmer's Paradox
APRIL 12, 2014
Over the last few decades of my career, at least half of my working experiences has been really good. They've been great opportunities to solve complex problems, learn new domains and to build things which make people happy. I've been proud of the things I've built even though none of them are famous or made me any significant money. My favorite jobs have all been wrapped in a strong engineering culture; one that strives to always do the right thing, pay attention to the details, avoid politics
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Mills Scofield
APRIL 13, 2014
'SavvyIntern shares a post about the lessons I learned from best bosses I ever had (originally published in HBR ). Are these lessons familiar to you? Can you make them real for your organization? Give it a try! Thank you YouTern for sharing this!
CTOvision
APRIL 14, 2014
'Everyone is talking about the data scientist. Harvard Business Review called it the "Sexiest Job of the 21st Century". Friends from across industry and academia have also been using this term and I have met so many real data scientists that are making big differences for their organizations. Except in the federal space. A near-universal gap exists across all Government Organizations these days.
Coalfire
APRIL 17, 2014
A journalist recently asked me for my top three pressing concerns related to Federal cloud security. Here are a few points I had to offer up.
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