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Creating a Problem-Solving Team

General Leadership

'GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America''s Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. “If I had an hour to solve a problem, I’d spend 55 minutes thinking about the problem and 5 minutes thinking about solutions.”. Albert Einstein. I often find myself binning leaders into one of two categories: those who are process-centric, and those who are problem-centric.

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3 Ways to Avoid the Slippery Slope of Inconsistency

Let's Grow Leaders

'Kendra is late because she was at the hospital with her sick child and barely got home to take a shower… got it. Every now and then managers must make exceptions, no doubt. But now, John is late too, and you feel bad saying something to him, since you just let Kendra off the hook. Before you know it, late is the new black… to work, to meetings, and the envelope is being pushed in other arenas as well.

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Robot Chef Brings Internet of Things Into the Kitchen

CTOvision

'Who needs to go out for dinner, when you have a tireless master chef waiting at home to prepare a gourmet meal for you, any time, day or night? That''s the premise behind a new invention from Moley Robotics , a tech company based in London. Moley unveiled their new " robochef " prototype on April 14, 2015 at the Hannover Messe technology fair in Germany.

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The Nightmare In The Executive Suite: 10 Scary Things A Leader Never Wants To Hear

Terry Starbucker

'How do leaders know if they’re building a sturdy and flourishing house, or a haunted and doomed one? All it takes is a good set of ears (ones that have been properly calibrated, of course), because there are 10 sentences that should cause nightmares for any leader, and push them towards the cold hard reality that their team is in trouble. Let’s step inside this haunted house, if you dare…. 1.

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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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Cubs and Aspirations – Humor from Section 220

General Leadership

'GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America''s Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. “Cubs win world series. … against Miami?” Marty McFly. Back to the Future II. 58 degrees, virtually no wind, unusual this time of year close to Lake Michigan. It’s the perfect day for Game 6 of the 2015 World Series and the millions of Cubs fans are in a frenzy, a frozen state of anticipation.

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The Cyber Threat: Now Number One Best Seller in Amazon’s White Collar Crime Category

CTOvision

'By Bob Gourley. The paperback version of our book The Cyber Threat is now ranked by Amazon as the number one best seller in their White Collar Crime category. Most cyber threats today are associated by crime and we are very proud to be ranked so high in this category (the book is also trending well in categories of Banks & Banking and Business & Money).

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A Social Call to Arms for Entrepreneurs and Investors

Women on Business

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3 Steps to Becoming a More Effective and Empathetic You

General Leadership

'GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America''s Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. “The last of the human freedoms is to choose one’s attitudes.”. Victor Frankl. This Article Has Been Reposted in conjunction with. Days of Remembrance (Holocaust Remembrance Day). Viktor Frankl was an incredible person by many measures.

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Enclaria Gains Qualified Education Provider™ Status from ACMP

Change Starts Here

'I’m pleased to announce Enclaria recently gained the Qualified Education Provider™ status from the Association of Change Management Professionals® (ACMP®) for its upcoming Fundamentals of Change Management course. ACMP’s goal is to advance the discipline of change management, and Enclaria is eager to contribute its part in developing skilled practitioners who design and influence change at work.

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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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Minding the Analytics Gap

CTOvision

'The article titled Minding The Analytics Gap by Sam Ransbotham, David Kiron and Pamela Kirk Prentice, highlights the gap between an organization’s capacity to produce analytical results and its ability to apply them effectively to business issues.Key takeaway: XL Group plc, a global insurance and reinsurance company based in Dublin, Ireland, is a case in point.

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6 Proven Ways to Reduce Costly Employee Turnover

Women on Business

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Monday Quote

General Leadership

'GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America''s Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. “Out of every one hundred men, ten shouldn’t even be there… eighty are just targets… nine are the real fighters, and we are lucky to have them, for they make the battle. Ah, but the one, one is a warrior, and he will bring the others back.”.

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Mindful Mondays: What Are You More Likely to Remember?

Next Level Blog

'So the original plan for this past weekend was to get caught up on some work while my wife, Diane, was away at a conference in Las Vegas. To some degree, that was the plan for both of us. We have a couple of big new projects coming on line so Diane took her computer with her and planned on doing some work in the evenings as well. And that’s pretty much how Friday night went down.

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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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The Christian Science Monitor and New America’s Monthly Podcast on Things Cyber

CTOvision

'By Bob Gourley. Peter W. Singer, strategist at the New Ameria think tank and author of "Cybersecurity and Cyberwar: What Everyone Needs To know" and Sara Sorcher, deputy editor of The Christian Science Monitor''s new cybersecurity section, Passcode, provide a monthly podcast of interest to cybersecurity professionals. The second installment of this podcast is now available.

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Equal Pay Day 2015 – Data Doesn’t Lie

Women on Business

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Big Data Is Only Valuable To CIOs If They Know How To Use It

The Accidental Successful CIO

'Just having big data is not enough, you need to know what to do with it Image Credit: Ian Alexander Martin. CIOs everywhere are being overwhelmed with talk about “big data” This is simply using IT systems and tools to process very large data sets in order to answer questions about how best to run the company. What used to be too big of a task for anyone to attempt has become doable with new tools and techniques allowing us to harness the importance of information technology.

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An Introduction to JavaScript Automation with Gulp

Toptal

Developers often automate certain repetitive and tedious tasks to save time as well as to stay focused on the task at hand. This article demonstrates how simple and easy it is to use Gulp as a build tool.

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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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Know The Threat: Participate in a 15 Apr executive webinar on the cyber threat

CTOvision

'By Bob Gourley. On 15 April at 10am EDT Cognitio will present a webinar on the Cyber Threat. This presentation will examine the threat from the perspective of seasoned professionals who have spent years in direct contact with adversaries defending both corporate and government systems. The webinar provides facts and observations on the cyber threat in ways that will inform your decision-making and improve your ability to defend your enterprise.

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5 Habits Ruining Your Time Tracking and How to Fix Them

Women on Business

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Are You Ready to Change the Way You Think About Leadership?

Next Level Blog

'When you think of the word “leader” what comes to mind? For lots of people, the picture that comes to mind is the charismatic visionary that sets a direction that people want to follow. All too often, that model of leadership fails because the followers inevitably end up disappointed and disengaged when the leader is incapable of delivering everything he or she promised.

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Fluid Learning

QAspire

'“The tools of the mind become burdens when the environment which made them necessary no longer exists.” – Henry Bergson. When solving problems, we love standard solutions and tools. What worked for us in the past becomes our tool to solve problems in the future. A psychologist named Raymond Cattell termed this as “ crystallized intelligence ” – ability to use learned knowledge and experience.

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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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The CTOvision Events Calendar: We curate the top cyber, cloud and analytical events for enterprise technologists

CTOvision

'By Bob Gourley. CTOvision readers are among the busiest people in the community, far too busy to waste time on attending the wrong event. We would like to help you as you consider which events warrant your time and attention. To address this issue we maintain the CTOvision Events Calendar. The calendar includes any event we are attending, sponsoring or covering plus others we think rise to the level of warranting your consideration.

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Don’t Compromise Your Brand by Making These 3 Mistakes

Women on Business

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Giving and Checking Job References

Rapid BI

'On one of the Human Resources (HR) groups I participate in online a recent question was asked: What are your views on giving job references? HR managers gave a number of comments around the difference between factual information: Job title Start & finish dates Hours worked Number or volume of sickness absence Providing free text […]. The post Giving and Checking Job References appeared first on.

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In 100 Words: On Blind Rituals

QAspire

'A cat that lived in monastery distracted evening meditation of the monks. One day, teacher ordered that cat be tied up daily during the evening meditation. Years later, when teacher died, the cat was still being tied up in the evening. When the cat died, another cat was bought and tied up to maintain the tradition. Centuries later, learned descendants of spiritual teacher wrote scholarly treatises about significance of tying the cat during meditation.

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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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AFCEA Defensive Cyber Operations Symposium 5-7 May 2015 at Baltimore Convention Center

CTOvision

'By Charles Hall. If you''re interested in cyber security and operations at the federal level, check out the AFCEA Defensive Cyber Operations Symposium. This event combines the JIE Mission Partners Symposium and the International Cyber Symposium to increase dialogue among key participants, broaden the involvement of essential stakeholders, and sharpen focus on critical issues.

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Building A Cloud Platform to Deliver Security at Scale.

ProtectWise

Enterprise networks are in a state of Defense in Doubt. The bad guys are winning due in large part to four core weaknesses of on-premises security solutions: Insufficient network coverage: Enterprises cannot scale on-premises hardware, especially as networks are becoming mixed and complex. This issue is becoming exacerbated with the advent of the Internet of Things and the proliferation of connected devices.

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Is training the solution? Performance Analysis Quadrant (PAQ) tool

Rapid BI

'When the performance of an individual or team is being questioned, often the first solution tried is training. But is this right? Does the approach of “train them to get better performance” hold up? Or has it been this approach which has caused the value of training to diminish in the eyes of many in […]. The post Is training the solution?