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How Do I Find a Great Mentor?

Let's Grow Leaders

I can’t tell you how many times someone has asked me to be their mentor, and when I asked what they were looking to accomplish–I was met with a blank stare. I guess they were just looking for me to start espousing wisdom to help get their career to the next level. But mentoring doesn’t work that way. To find a great mentor, start by being a rock star mentee.

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Security and education in the wake of WannaCry, Petya

Kacy Zurkus - CSO Online

Attacks occur for a variety of reasons, and in the wake of the most widespread ransomware attacks, WannaCry and Petya , many organizations are re-evaluating their security practices to figure out what went wrong. While those who were hit are still trying to understand where their security gaps are, others enterprises that rely on legacy systems and can't be patched are looking for ways to prevent being the next victim.

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The 6 Biggest Reasons Why Unhappy Employees Quit Their New Jobs

Career Advancement

“Employees who believe that management is concerned about them as a whole person – not just an employee – are more productive, more satisfied, more fulfilled. Satisfied employees mean satisfied. customers, which leads to profitability.” ~Anne M. Mulcahy, former CEO of Xerox~. Client Theresa asks: Over the past year, two great employees on my team quit their new job.

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*aaS Backwards: Services as a Platform

CloudScaling

Semantics. You can’t get away from them. Any good argument worth having is full of nuance, articulated largely through differences in definitions. When there is no disagreement, like “alternative facts aren’t facts”, semantics don’t matter, because we all know it is just spin. Real discussion comes through exploring the nuance in semantic differences.

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Streamlining Database Compliance with CI/CD Integration

IT leaders know the importance of compliance at every level, but the database often gets left behind as other environments are automated for robust protection. This whitepaper emphasizes the importance of robust, auditable, and secure database change management practices for safeguarding organizational compliance. Learn how automating database compliance: Mitigates risk Protects against security vulnerabilities Helps avoid regulatory penalties Aligns database workflows with app lifecycle Turns d

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How to Build Trust with Your Clients

Women on Business

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INSA and AFCEA Fourth Annual Intel Summit 7-8 Sep: Registration now open!

CTOvision

Editor’s note: We are proud to spread the word of this fantastic event coordinated by friends and associates at AFCEA and INSA. – bg Innovation is essential to the Intelligence Community’s strategic advantage, a key theme of the Summit on September 6-7 at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center, Washington, D.C. AFCEA International and the […].

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How I Leveraged A Big Leadership Fail Into My First Leadership Win

Terry Starbucker

I’m pleased to present another chapter from my “More Human” book manuscript. It’s a personal memoir that traces the discovery and development of my More Human Leadership philosophy, a practice guided by 8 core principles. One of them is “Finding and Teaching More Human Leaders” , and this chapter is the story behind that bullet point – it’s how I made the transition from a “boss who managed” to a “leader who teaches and shows the way”

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How Are You Balancing Things?

Women on Business

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The “Be Attitudes” of Building Trust in the Workplace

N2Growth Blog

Not to be confused with the biblical reference to the beatitudes shared in the Sermon on the Mount, these “be attitudes” are suggestions that you may consider adopting to help you and your colleagues to establish better trust within your workplace. I hope that you find them worthy to put into practice: 1. Be Real, for it Inspires Confidence: Authenticity goes a long way in establishing trust in the workplace.

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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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A Guide to Process-oriented Programming in Elixir and OTP

Toptal

Process-oriented programming is a paradigm in which the process structure and communication between processes of a system are the primary concerns. That’s the paradigm, but how does it work in real life?

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Multilingual Push Notifications using App42 Service

ShepHertz

The vitality of Push Notifications is augmented by the fact that they are the most popular and trusted form for user engagement. Your app users could belong to any religion, age and demography, and it is imperative that they be […]. The post Multilingual Push Notifications using App42 Service appeared first on ShepHertz App42 Blog.

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5 Reasons Why Your E-commerce Website Needs a Mobile App

Women on Business

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Can computer science education be fun?

Kacy Zurkus - CSO Online

Retail sales and truck driving are two of the most common jobs in America. They are also jobs that may eventually be automated. That's why David Delmar, executive director and founder of Resilient Coders , said, "Coding is the new blue-collar job." Accepting that reality, though, means that a lot has to change about how we educate kids. Yet, "For most states and school districts, the notion of computer science for every student is a relatively new and unexplored topic," according to Code.org.

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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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How to Avoid the Curse of Premature Optimization

Toptal

Premature optimization hurts experts and novices alike. How can you know when and how to optimize without shooting your project in the foot? This week, Toptal Freelance Software Engineer Kevin Bloch walks project managers through some time-tested optimization strategies and when to use them.

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Peter Drucker on The Effective Executive

QAspire

Ultimately, leadership is all about ability to act on the ideas. In that sense, anyone who thinks of the self as a leader has to be good at executing things. Probably a reason why top leaders in organizations are referred to as executives – the one who executes, not just someone with a fancy title and corner office. Leadership is a very broad term and leaders in organizations come in all shapes and sizes – from introverted to extraverted, charismatic to simple, people oriented versus task orient

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4 Reasons Your Business Needs a Virtual Data Room

Women on Business

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Artificial Intelligence and Data Science in Capital Markets 6-7 Dec 2017

CTOvision

Taking place in New York, Newsweek’s second edition of Artificial Intelligence and Data Science in Capital Markets promises two days of exploration into cutting edge tools and processes being used in today’s data driven financial world. Following on from a successful event in March, where participants were provided with a clear view of what these […].

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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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Rethinking User Interface Design for the TV Platform

Toptal

Designing for television has become part of the continuum of devices that require a rethink of how we approach user interfaces and user experiences.

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Digital Transformation and the Leadership Quandary

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

The data now shows that a near majority of organizations today are undergoing digital transformation in some shape or form. By digital transformation I don’t mean IT automation of the business of course, but wholesale rethinking of some or all of the business in digital terms. It’s the greatest game in the business world right now, and necessary for long term survival, but such digital reinvention is also one of the hardest journeys to make.

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Get Selfish – One Entrepreneur’s Tips to Nailing Your Self-Care Routine

Women on Business

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Multilingual Push Notifications using App42 ServiceNotificaciones Push Multilingüe Usando App42 Service

ShepHertz

The vitality of Push Notifications is augmented by the fact that they are the most popular and trusted form for user engagement. Your app users could belong to any religion, age and demography, and it is imperative that they be […].

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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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Designing for Interactive Environments and Smart Spaces

Toptal

Designing past mobile or desktop interaction boundaries and into the physical world opens up possibilities to create immersive environmental experiences.

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Process Is No Substitute For Culture

Professor Beekums

I love software process. My passion is finding ways to build software faster, but better technology is only half the battle. The other half is a people and organization problem. Process can do wonders for that half. Among some of the benefits process can bring to a project are: Ensuring everyone is working on the most important thing Coordinating efforts to distribute work effectively Adding little nudges to improve code quality such as automated testing and code reviews That last bit is where p

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5 Success Tips for Introvert Women

Women on Business

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How Would You Put Your Organization Out of Business?

Talent Anarchy

A few weeks ago, I had the privilege of hearing Adam Grant speak. For those of you who are unfamiliar with his work, he is a wunderkind. He’s a wildly popular professor of management and psychology at Wharton, has written two great books ( Give and Take and Originals ), recently co-wrote a new book with Sheryl Sandberg called Option B , and his Ted Talks have been viewed by more than 9 million people.

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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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How Autonomous Driving Created A Talent War

Toptal

As vehicular autonomy draws closer to reality, automotive players are locked in a high-stakes competition for top talent?and artificial intelligence isn’t the only skill in demand.

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What’s The Best Device For Your Workplace: Laptop, Tablet, Or Mobile Phone?

The Accidental Successful CIO

There are many choices, which device should a CIO choose? Image Credit: thrivingmom. You know, it really was not all that long ago that when we got ready for work we just grabbed our lunch and headed out the door. We knew that when we got to work our desktop computer would be sitting there ready for us to start to use it. Over time things have changed.

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Talking DevOps Culture, Process and Security with Ian Murphy from Enterprise Times

CollabNet VersionOne

CollabNet had the pleasure of welcoming Ian Murphy from Enterprise Times to our offices earlier this year for a chat about DevOps. We sat down together and discussed how businesses are creating software today, and how they are organizing teams to deliver the most value to customers. Ian had excellent questions for me about the maturity of the DevOps market and automation of processes, trends in organizational structure and the importance of security in software development—among many other topic

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