Sat.Sep 20, 2014 - Fri.Sep 26, 2014

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Managing the Strong, Arrogant, Obnoxious Type

Let's Grow Leaders

'They come in all shapes and forms. Sometimes it’s talk dark and handsome, with an extra dose of charisma, and two expresso shots of attitude. Or blonde, with a great purse, an MBA from a top 25, and a sarcastic streak that makes everyone in her wake feel like crap. Or the balding dude from finance who can out-gun anyone with a spreadsheet at twenty paces, who won’t even hear your argument for more funding unless you can outwit his wittiness.

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Leaders Supply the Perspective

General Leadership

'My destination: Maunawili Falls. “We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.”. Abraham Lincoln. Hiking in Hawaii is one of the joys of living here. There are hundreds of miles of trails leading to natural beauty unique to the Islands of Aloha, but despite the fact we’re on an island, it’s surprisingly easy to get lost.

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10 Great Leadership Quotes (And How To Use Them To Inspire Your Team)

Terry Starbucker

'These past few evenings we’ve been watching the fantastic Ken Burns mini-series on PBS called “The Roosevelts – An Intimate History” The first two chapters were focused on Teddy Roosevelt, who is one of the most fascinating, inspiring, and complex leaders I’ve ever studied. He was a brilliant man who could really “bring it” in his public speeches – an ability to rally people behind him by using eloquent words and fierce passion.

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Applying the Laws of Science to the Internet of Things and Healthcare IT

CTOvision

'Today, “Internet of Things” (IoT) is shouted at every corner, both in the business and private spheres. Even though this notion is going viral and touches upon all sectors of our lives, it actually has no clear definition. In order not to get biased or limited in its interpretation and thus, strategize properly, I will try to establish a comprehensive insight into both what IoT is, and what it is not.

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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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Build Your Own Competency Model- A Team Exercise

Let's Grow Leaders

'When’s the last time you looked at the competency model for your job or for the members of your team? Do you leave such things to the HR department and get on with your work? Or perhaps you work on your own or in a small company that just doesn’t have time for such formalities? Don’t get me wrong. I’m all for formal, validated competency modeling processes.

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Interview: How to Measure and Maximize Alignment in Your Change Initiatives

Change Starts Here

'Ever wonder if people in your organization are really on the same page when it comes to change? In this episode, Michael Taylor of SchellingPoint shares a way to measure and maximize alignment in your change initiatives. We discuss why alignment is important, who needs to be aligned, how to tell if you have alignment or not, and what you can do when you need better alignment.

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Greater Smartphone Protections are Forthcoming

CTOvision

'While Apple has made many headlines this month for the release of its new generation of the iPhone, this week the company has caused quite a stir with its latest announcement regarding its desire to enhance the encryption that protects its smartphones. In its press release , Apple asserts that it has never collaborated with a government agency from any country to create a backdoor in its products to behoove governmental surveillance.

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How to Give So They Will Receive

Let's Grow Leaders

'As the old adage goes, it’s better to give than to receive. And, the best networking advice I’ve ever given (or received) is to give first and then give some more. With all that giving going on, it’s also important to know how and when it’s time to receive. I recently asked a group of managers, “Is it more difficult for you to give or to receive?

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Speak It Into Existence and Don’t Settle for Less

Women on Business

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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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When Was the Last Time You Wrote One of These?

Steve Farber

'When it comes to strumming the heart strings at work (or anywhere else), nothing beats a personal, hand-written note of thanks, praise, or gratitude–especially in these hyper-digital days of texts and email. Maybe it’s because of the manifest, tactile, 3-dimensional nature of ink and paper; maybe it’s because of the subtle presence of the writer’s DNA.

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FedCyber is Coming: 5 Nov in Tysons Corner

CTOvision

'FedCyber is an annual cybersecurity event hosted by Matt Devost & Bob Gourley that brings together several hundred attendees to advance the dialogue on critical enterprise and federal government challenges. FedCyber will be held on 5 Nov 2014 at the Tysons Corner Marriott. This is a great opportunity to work directly with peers in the federal technology ecosystem to enhance the cyber security of your organization and to share lessons learned.

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Check Out Today’s 200-Second Soundbite™ Video Spotlight!

General Leadership

'Senior Curator and GeneralLeadership.com CEO, Brigadier General Michel challenges you to release your inner superhero. Each of us has the ability to find within ourselves a motivation and a drive which can compel us to face adversity and grow through an obstacle. While your courageous moment may not be taking a hill on a battlefield or breaking into the hamburger business, you face obstacles daily which provide you with the ability to test, learn and re-apply the lessons you require to stretch

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6 Tried and True Ways to Increase the Effectiveness of Your Website

Women on Business

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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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Does Your Culture Engine Need a Tune-Up?

Next Level Blog

'In his new book, The Culture Engine, veteran leadership consultant Chris Edmonds makes the very valid point that many leaders focus far more on what their organizations do than how they actually do it. If you want results for the long run, the "how" matters – a lot. (Audio).

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2014 Analyst Forum: Insights for Law Enforcement from Dr. McCue  

CTOvision

'On July 30 th in northern Virginia, some of the greatest minds in analytics for business, outcomes, and mission impact gathered to share their lessons learned and experiences with data analytics. Academia, government, and industry came together to provide a comprehensive approach to investigating how we can better extract knowledge from information.

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Check Out Today’s “200-Second Soundbite™” Podcast!

General Leadership

'Cruise over to PodBean to hear our latest 200-Second Soundbite entitled “Do You Lead From the Trenches?” or subscribe to our PodCast directly via iTunes at the following link. Senior Curator and GeneralLeadership.com CEO, Brigadier General John E. Michel discusses that leaders are individuals we look to guide us in the direction of our potential.

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4 Personalities that Help Women Earn More Money

Women on Business

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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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The 10 Most Common Mistakes Web Developers Make: A Tutorial for Developers

Toptal

Today we have thousands of digital and printed resources that provide step-by-step instructions about developing all kinds of different web applications. Development environments are "smart" enough to catch and fix many mistakes that early developers battled with regularly. There are even many different development platforms that easily turn simple static HTML pages into highly interactive applications.

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Finding And Winning The Right Opportunities in DoD

CTOvision

'As I walk around the exhibit halls of DoD Conferences, I try to stop at every booth, no matter how briefly. In the short time I am there, I want to understand what that company does and how they think their capability can support DoD. I am always surprised by how much talent is out there, and often dismayed at how ignorant some of these companies are about how to enter the DoD market space.

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Monday Quote:

General Leadership

'“Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.” Colin Powell. by … Read the rest. The post Monday Quote: appeared first on General Leadership.

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The Key to Confidence in Disagreements With Fellow Stakeholders

Women on Business

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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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Digital TMI: The Killer of Your Second First Impression

Mills Scofield

'This is a guest post by Mark Babbitt, who I just spent 3 days with at #BIF10 , who also founded YouTern , one of THE best sites for career info. Read, enjoy and apply!!!! And get his book (with Ted Coiné ) " A World Gone Social ". ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~. You are a Social Age job seeker. A digital native. Your value proposition is clear.

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WoRDS Center Workflow Hackathon 4 Nov in San Diego

CTOvision

'Registration : $395. An educational discounted rate is available to graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, faculty, and university staff for $250. Enter educational discount code “EDU” along with your academic organization, title and email when registering.) Register at: https://www.regonline.com/WorDSCWH. Location : SDSC ( Directions ). Do you have MATLAB, R, Python, KNIME, Galaxy and other scripts you are trying to integrate?

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Mindful Mondays: Mental Routines for the Mindful Road Warrior

Next Level Blog

'Last week, I introduced a new short series for Mindful Mondays with a post titled Travel Tips for the Mindful Road Warrior. To be honest, when I started writing that post I realized I had more to share than one blog post could accommodate – hence, this series. Last week’s post focused on the physical routines that I follow when.

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Top 5 Mobile Apps for Accountants

Women on Business

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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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5 Ways CIOs Can Make Innovation Happen In Their IT Departments

The Accidental Successful CIO

'Innovation will only happen if the CIO knows how to grow it Image Credit. “More innovation, please!” This is what CIOs have been hearing on a daily basis for the past few years. I think that we all understand why we’re being asked to help out, everyone understands the importance of information technology and they believe that this is where the innovation that will help the company out will come from.

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Scalable Bioinformatics Boot Camp 2-3 Oct San Diego

CTOvision

'If you are ready to enhance your skills with distributed platforms, scalable workflow tools and big data science please check out the info below from the Workflows for Data Science (WorDS) Center of Excellence , SDSC and National Biomedical Computation Resource (NBCR) : Scalable Bioinformatics Boot Camp. Tools and Techniques for Bioinformatics, Biomedical Analysis, and Computational Biology.

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What Gives You Hope?

Mills Scofield

'Summer is ending, leaves are changing and we know what is coming, and I''m so filled with Hope ! Yup! In BIF10 Top Row L-R Marlea Brown, Andrew Kaplan, Nicha Ratana; Bottom Row L-R: Faisal Khurshid, Isby Lubin, Fiora MacPherson, Sarah Kandath, Me what, in Whom do you Hope ? Hope is a powerful force in life. It is based in what is both possible and probable , not in hallucination.