Sat.Sep 14, 2013 - Fri.Sep 20, 2013

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23 Great Thoughts on Leadership Development: A Frontline Festival

Let's Grow Leaders

'I’m delighted to present the September edition of the Frontline Festival. This month’s focus: Leadership Development. I encourage you to read the insights and share your perspectives. Namaste. Leadership Development Jon Mertz of Thin Difference offers, You Are Born to Be Brave: How Do You Sustain It? “To be an effective leader, we need to understand where our [.

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Tough or Nice? Be Both, And Be Great

Terry Starbucker

'I believe leadership shoud be more human, because it paves the way for an atmosphere of trust and a culture of accountability, two absolute essentials for success. To put it even more simply, a leader needs to be two things that are seemingly at opposite ends of the spectrum: Tough, AND Nice. Nice , in the ablility to nurture, coach, inspire, respect, and truly care for those you lead.

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Boards Remain Pale, Male and Stale — Old Boys’ Club Alive And Well

N2Growth Blog

'By Mike Myatt , Chief Executive Officer, N2growth . As rapidly as times change and business evolves, one topic clearly hasn’t kept pace – board diversity. With all the news about the economy, the impact of the affordable health care act, and other media favorites, few things are as telling with regard to the state of Corporate America than the lack of diversity in the boardroom.

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Implicit data and collaborative filtering

Erik Bernhardsson

A lot of people these days know about collaborative filtering. It’s that Netflix Prize thing, right? People rate things 1-5 stars and then you have to predict missing ratings. While there’s no doubt that the Netflix Prize was successful, I think it created an illusion that all recommender systems care about explicit 1-5 ratings and RMSE as the objective.

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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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4 Surprising Reasons You’re Hiring the Wrong Candidate

Let's Grow Leaders

'You work hard to select the right candidate. Missing the mark is emotionally and financially expensive. Take a deeper look at your processes. The techniques you use to find Ms. Right, may be leaving you with Mr. Just Okay. Don’t settle for good, attract great. 4 Surprising Reasons You’re Hiring the Wrong Candidate 1. It’s [.] The post 4 Surprising Reasons You’re Hiring the Wrong Candidate appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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The Pope On The Phone: A Leadership Lesson

N2Growth Blog

'By John Baldoni , Chair, Leadership Development, N2growth. When you think it might do some good, pick up the phone and call. That’s a mantra that Pope Francis is following. As reported in the New York Times , the Jesuit Pope is making waves again with his informality. Over the past few months he has been “cold calling” people who have written to him.

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Implicit data and collaborative filtering

Erik Bernhardsson

A lot of people these days know about collaborative filtering. It’s that Netflix Prize thing, right? People rate things 1-5 stars and then you have to predict missing ratings. While there’s no doubt that the Netflix Prize was successful, I think it created an illusion that all recommender systems care about explicit 1-5 ratings and RMSE as the objective.

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Confident Humility: The Conversation Continues

Let's Grow Leaders

'Two of our most popular conversations on LGL involve the concept of confident humility: Humility Matters: 9 Ways Confident Leaders Remain Humble and Can We Teach Humility? The active dialogue from your inspired comments attracted interest from the extended community. I had the opportunity to extrapolate the converation in an interview with Jesse Lahey on [.

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It Doesn’t Matter How Much You Care

Nathan Magnuson

'I remember when I first started getting interested in leadership years ago. I’d find myself in conversations with friends and invariably a leadership challenge they were experiencing would come up. Sometimes, I’d even know how to solve it. I’d usually reference a book or an idea I had recently studied. Sometimes in my enthusiasm, I’d […].

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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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Five Focus Areas for Implementing Change Without Getting Stuck

Change Starts Here

'Last week, I hosted a free webinar called “How Change Gets Stuck.” In the webinar, I shared ten ways change gets stuck – that is, ten things we do or things we let happen as change practitioners that make our initiative lose traction. Watch the webinar to see which of the ten ways may be impacting your own initiative. You can watch the recording here: How Change Gets Stuck Webinar.

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Fortune 40 Under 40 2013 List Includes 17 Women in Business

Women on Business

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MACH37: America’s premier market-centric cybersecurity accelerator

CTOvision

'By Bob Gourley Virginia has long had a very rich innovation ecosystem that includes great universities, a fantastic community which encourages continued innovation, great access to venture capital, tremendous job opportunities in the most technical activities by the US government, and a state that is known for being conducive for business growth. An exemplar for the Commonwealth’s great attitude and strong support of innovation has been the Center for Innovative Technology , long known as

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Why Are There So Many Pythons? A Python Implementation Comparison

Toptal

Python is amazing. Surprisingly, that's a fairly ambiguous statement. What do I mean by 'Python'? Do I mean Python the abstract interface? Do I mean CPython, the common Python implementation? Or do I mean something else entirely? Maybe I'm obliquely referring to Jython, or IronPython, or PyPy. Or maybe I've really gone off the deep end and I'm talking about RPython or RubyPython (which are very, very different things).

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How Embedded Analytics Helps Product Managers Exceed Their KPIs

Embedded analytics can help you deliver cutting-edge analytics experiences to your end-users that align with KPIs that are critical to the growth and success of your business. Read this eBook to learn how an embedded analytics platform, like Qrvey, can help PMs exceed the following KPIs: Growing revenue while improving customer retention rate Delivering rapid time to value Earning a high net-promoter score Increasing Gross Margin / Profitability Conversion rate from trial to paid Don’t just meet

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Interview: Supporting Change with Accelerated Talent Management

Change Starts Here

'Dr. Bill Rothwell, Professor of Workforce Education and Development in the College of Education at Penn State University, joins the show this month to discuss how to support organizational change with Accelerated Talent Management. Listen to hear about a new approach to talent management that helps organizations link talent to change, and hear some of the goals talent management can help you achieve.

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How to Stay Productive When Working from Home

Women on Business

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6 Nov FedCyber Summit: Exchange lessons with peers on the insider threat, big data security, and next generation red teaming

CTOvision

'By Bob Gourley This year’s FedCyber summit will be held 6 Nov at the Crystal Gateway Marriott in Arlington VA. Every year we bring together a small group of professionals to exchange best practices, discuss the latest threats and to contribute ideas that can help improve the state of cybersecurity in the federal domain. We bring practitioners together to help the community get big things done.

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The Empire Business: Breaking Bad’s Bryan Cranston’s Lessons for Leaders

Next Level Blog

'I''m late to the party for what many claim is The. Greatest. Television. Show. Ever. Over the past couple of months, I’ve found myself really getting in to Breaking Bad. Thanks to my iPad, it’s become my late night flight obsession on the way home from business trips. I’m about halfway through Season 2 and find myself thinking about bad guys like Tuco at odd times.

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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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Three ways to be more influential at negotiating

Lead on Purpose

'Guest post by Kurt Smith. Your palms start to sweat. You’re thinking about this quarter’s benchmark. You can’t remember what your purchasing agent said about your most recent vendor, but you know that you need this sale. Actually, you need the next couple of sales. Negotiation – that’s how you’re going to succeed.

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3 Ways to Increase Your Self-Worth and Your Marketplace Value

Women on Business

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Get The Inside Scoop On DISA Procurements From Kathleen Miller – Director of the Procurement Directorate and Chief of DITCO

CTOvision

'By Bob Gourley Our Department of Defense (DoD) focused senior analyst Chris Scott has previously provided succinct summaries of the DISA industry day (see DISA Industry Day: Times have changed ). Her reporting extracts information we hope is of use to any technology vendor or systems integrator seeking to serve the DoD or Intelligence Community.

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Mindful Mondays: Three Signs That You Need a Break

Next Level Blog

'A few weeks back, I wrote in this space that I’d be taking a break from blogging and would be back sometime in September. Well, here I am – back to it and excited to be doing so. A break was just what I needed to give some thought to what I want to do here over the next few years. As always, my main goal is to share practical and applicable ideas that can help all of us be more effective as leaders and people.

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A Tale of Two Case Studies: Using LLMs in Production

Speaker: Tony Karrer, Ryan Barker, Grant Wiles, Zach Asman, & Mark Pace

Join our exclusive webinar with top industry visionaries, where we'll explore the latest innovations in Artificial Intelligence and the incredible potential of LLMs. We'll walk through two compelling case studies that showcase how AI is reimagining industries and revolutionizing the way we interact with technology. Some takeaways include: How to test and evaluate results 📊 Why confidence scoring matters 🔐 How to assess cost and quality 🤖 Cross-platform cost vs. quality tr

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5 Tips For CIOs Who Have To Fire Employees

The Accidental Successful CIO

'When the end comes, it’s time for CIOs to fire employees. Image Credit. Because of the importance of information technology some people believe that being a CIO is a glamorous job. However, these people don’t know about all of the complicated personnel related issues that CIOs have to deal with. One such issue is rather unpleasant – the firing of IT department employees.

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Forbes 400 Wealthiest Americans 2013 List Includes Only 48 Women

Women on Business

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Collaboration in business what is it how is it different from Teamwork?

Rapid BI

'One of the most used words in business articles, journals and professional social media networks is the desire to develop “collaborative” environments and cultures. But what is it? If you web search for images for “collaboration”, you will get lots on teamwork. so is collaboration just another word for teamwork? I for one don’t. […].

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Two Presidents, a Pope and Leadership Clarity

Next Level Blog

'A couple of days ago, in the wake of the zigs and zags of the U.S. response to the use of chemical weapons in Syria, I started thinking about writing a post on the points along the spectrum of clarity in leadership. Anchoring one end of the spectrum is the last U.S. President, George W. Bush. One of the seminal moments in his presidency was when he said at a press conference, "I''m the decider and I decide what''s best.

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How to Migrate From DataStax Enterprise to Instaclustr Managed Apache Cassandra

If you’re considering migrating from DataStax Enterprise (DSE) to open source Apache Cassandra®, our comprehensive guide is tailored for architects, engineers, and IT directors. Whether you’re motivated by cost savings, avoiding vendor lock-in, or embracing the vibrant open-source community, Apache Cassandra offers robust value. Transition seamlessly to Instaclustr Managed Cassandra with our expert insights, ensuring zero downtime during migration.

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BYOD Survey 2013: Employees and Companies Remain Lax with BYOD Security

Coalfire

Despite a dramatic increase in mobile device sales in the past year, BYOD security among employees remains static. Gartner forecasts 2013 tablet shipments to grow 67.9 percent, with shipments reaching 202 million units, while the mobile phone market will grow 4.3 percent, with volume of more than 1.8 billion units.

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Women of Innovation – Jenny Dearborn

Women on Business

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Why You Need a Virtual Data Room

Rapid BI

'As more parts of modern businesses become reliant upon technology and utilizing the latest digital innovations, it’s important that we establish exactly where we want the business to go and how we’re going to make the best use of what is available to us. It’s no longer enough to save a file on your computer, […].