Sat.Aug 03, 2013 - Fri.Aug 09, 2013

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Why Your Elevator Pitch Isn’t Working

Let's Grow Leaders

'You know you need an elevator pitch. Perhaps you’ve even practiced and gotten “why chose me” down to a perfect pitch. But somehow you never seem to get the chance to use it. Sadly, the biggest mistake I see aspiring networkers make is that they don’t recognize an “elevator” when they’re in one. Invisible [.

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6 Keys to Game-Changing Leadership

Terry Starbucker

'“Morale is poor, turnover is high, and our performance has been dismal. Can you fix all this for us?” Leadership has its challenges, and there’s none more daunting than walking into a difficult “turn around” situation. The expectations are high and the pressure is on, but the rewards are great for the leader that accepts this call to duty, and succeeds.

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What You Can Learn About Leadership From A Tough Guy Who Doesn’t Say Much

N2Growth Blog

'By John Baldoni , Chair, Leadership Development, N2growth. There is one advantage that quiet people have over those of us who like to hear the sounds of our own voices. They are good observers. This is a point that actor Liev Schreiber made about the title character he plays on Showtime’s Ray Donovan. During an interview on NPR’s Fresh Air , Schreiber says Donovan’s character, who “doesn’t say much,” instead spends time taking things in.

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Five Fundamental Levers of Influence

Change Starts Here

'Influencing organizational change is undoubtedly a complicated endeavor. You have to assess your unique situation and determine when and how to use the vast array of influence techniques at your disposal. And yet, patterns appear when you look at what you are really trying to do when you influence others. Underlying all your options are five fundamental levers of influence you can apply to accomplish your goals.

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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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Shake It Off: When to Let It Go

Let's Grow Leaders

'“Shake off all fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion.” -Thomas Jefferson Bad stuff happens. Life is unfair. Stupidity drains our energy. We must learn from the tough stuff. And then, shake it off. [.] The post Shake It Off: When to Let It Go appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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The Big Question: What does it takes to lead?

N2Growth Blog

'By John Baldoni , Chair, Leadership Development, N2growth. People often ask me, “What are the essential attributes of leadership?”. It’s a big question — but let me borrow from something I heard from Chris Matthews, host of MSNBC’s “Hardball.” He said a political pollster told him once that every great leader need to demonstrate three things: Motive.

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Delivering Music Recommendations

Erik Bernhardsson

I’ve turned into a lazy bastard and I’m just posting presentations on this blog, but here’s one from Rohan Singh at Spotify talking about the backend infrastructure of the Discover page.

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You’ve Got To Move It, Move It

Let's Grow Leaders

'Last week was one of THOSE weeks. So much to do. The great, good, bad, and ugly. Pressures mounting on all fronts. Important investments in people, for which there was no short-cut. Business travel and back-to-back meetings. Demanding senior executive reviews and the requisite preparation. Mid year performance write-ups and discussions. A [.

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Leadership Profile: Cory Cotton

Nathan Magnuson

'What’s the craziest basketball shot you’ve ever made? Multiply that by 100 and you’ve got Cory Cotton, one of the members of the YouTube sensation Dude Perfect. Perhaps you’ve been mesmerized by their trick basketball shots from airplanes, water towers, football stadiums, trains or cars. Or perhaps you’ve seen their brand featured on ESPN, Yahoo!

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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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CEO Term Limits: Good Soundbite — Bad Idea

N2Growth Blog

'By Mike Myatt , Chief Executive Officer, N2growth . The noise around CEO term limits is loud enough, and the debate contentious enough, I felt the topic worthy of practical examination. There’s no denying every chief executive has an expiration date. There should also be no argument that prudent planning should take place around the inevitable. But never should said date of expiry be arbitrarily defined – it should be made in the moment based on the facts at hand.

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Delivering Music Recommendations

Erik Bernhardsson

I’ve turned into a lazy bastard and I’m just posting presentations on this blog, but here’s one from Rohan Singh at Spotify talking about the backend infrastructure of the Discover page.

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Become Leader of the Year

Let's Grow Leaders

'Remember how energized you were that time you received meaningful recognition? Perhaps it was something equivalent to the leader of the year award, in front of a big crowd. Hands were shaken and pictures taken. Or it might have been less formal, but deeply touched your heart. ”Wow, they really get what I’ve contributed here.” [.

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Mindful Mondays: Your Life is Now

Next Level Blog

'The title of this post is the title of one of my favorite songs, Your Life is Now, by John Mellencamp. It has been on my mind since the very unexpected passing last week of an old high school friend, the Reverend Greg Hamby. As is often the case with news of long ago friends, I learned from Facebook of Greg''s death. He broke his neck while body surfing with his son on vacation at Myrtle Beach and died in ICU the next day.

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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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Does Obama Care About America’s Businesswomen?

Women on Business

'We''ve Moved! Update your Reader Now. This feed has moved to: [link] If you haven''t already done so, update your reader now with this changed subscription address to get your latest updates from us. [link].

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Leadership and confidence

Lead on Purpose

'Confidence is a key driver of effective leadership. The ability to both possess and exhibit confidence will have a measurable impact on your ability to lead well. Understanding what confidence is, and is not, will improve your leadership abilities. Confidence is not arrogance. An arrogant person attempts to lift himself up and put others down. Every move is calculated to elevate himself, and make sure others know of his importance.

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How to Become a More Energetic Leader

Let's Grow Leaders

'Your team needs you to show up strong, energetic, and ready to go. It’s hard for your team to run out of steam, when the leader they admire keeps showing up strong. Energetic leadership is contagious and inspires results. I’ve been observing the most energetic leaders I can find, and looking for themes. I’ve also been [.] The post How to Become a More Energetic Leader appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Powerful Question #8

Nathan Magnuson

'Actor Will Smith once said, “If you stay ready, you don’t have to get ready.” What is one thing you prepared for long in advance that was a long time in coming? Did it pay off? What are you preparing for now? View the rest of the Powerful Questions series by clicking here. Nathan Magnuson is […].

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Revolutionizing Contact Centers: Next-Gen Tech for Enhanced CX

Speaker: Liran Meir Frenkel, Performance Management and RPA Sr Product Marketing Manager at NICE; Harpreet Makan, Practice Director at Everest Group; & Santhosh Kumar, Practice Director at Everest Group

As contact centers navigate the challenges of delivering excellence within budget constraints and adapting to evolving employee expectations, optimizing agent tasks becomes crucial. Discover a holistic approach across three pillars - people, process, and technology - that is essential to excel in this dynamic landscape, and explore how next-gen technologies such as generative AI, performance analytics, and process intelligence play a pivotal role in transforming contact centers into advanced CX

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Buy and Get Out!

Women on Business

'We''ve Moved! Update your Reader Now. This feed has moved to: [link] If you haven''t already done so, update your reader now with this changed subscription address to get your latest updates from us. [link].

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SHRM Top 20 Indian HR Influencers Active on Social Media 2013

QAspire

'Social media has become mainstream and an integral part of business strategy. Social media is at the center of how people connect, consume information, drive conversations, initiate movements and promote brands. At a time when everyone seems to be on social media, the challenge for those who wish to make a difference is to generate influence. Last year, SHRM India published a first-ever list of Top 20 Indian HR Influencers on Social Media – people with distinct voice that reflects engaging idea

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Control Your Laptop with an Android Phone using Python, Twisted, and Django

Toptal

It’s always fun to put your programming skills on display. A while back, I figured it’d be cool to try and control my laptop via my Android mobile device. Think about it: being able to play and pause music, start and stop programming jobs or downloads, etc., all by sending messages from your phone. Neat, huh?

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Time and Shortcuts

The Programmer's Paradox

I haven't posted anything for a while now. This has been the longest gap I've had since I started blogging five years ago. It's not that I don't have any anything to say -- my hard drive is littered with half-finished posts -- but rather that I just haven't had the time or energy to get my thoughts down nicely. Lately I've been wrapped up in a large complicated system that has a wide array of problems, none of which are new to me but it's unusal to see them all together in the same project.

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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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Instant solutions that will make your business more efficient

Women on Business

'We''ve Moved! Update your Reader Now. This feed has moved to: [link] If you haven''t already done so, update your reader now with this changed subscription address to get your latest updates from us. [link].

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Critical Thinking and Talent Development: A New Blog

QAspire

'Traditionally, career success was linked with 3 R’s (Reading, Writing and Arithmetic) but in American Management Association’s critical skills survey 2012 , respondents emphasized on 4 C’s ( C ritical thinking and problem solving, Effective C ommunication, C ollaboration and team building and C reativity and innovation) as their key priorities for employee development, talent development and succession planning.

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Leapfrogging

Six Disciplines

'Leapfrogging has been around for a long time. India lacked the capital and economic development to build a national telephone infrastructure to service all of its homes, thus remaining essentially phoneless for decades. That nation continued to grow stronger economically, however, while cell phone technology emerged. As a result, India is adopting cell phones at an amazing rate and has been able to skip the entire investment in what today is an aging architecture for communications in the U.S.

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What you listen to can determine your mood and your fate.

Strategy Driven

'Everyone has their own time machine. The only question is: how are you using it? The time machine I’m referring to is music. The music you grew up with and the music you listen to every day. I refer to it as the ‘music transportation department’ because the right song can transport you back to an exact place and time in an instant – and create a great feeling.

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“Build vs Buy Analytics?” The Question ALL SaaS Leaders Need to Answer in 2024

As a SaaS leader, you know that the more metrics, insights, and analytics you add to your products, the more engagement you’ll have – and the stickier your product will become with customers. At what point do you decide to keep building your analytics in-house or invest in an embedded analytics solution? Read our Build vs. Buy Analytics guide to learn: Top 4 benefits of embedded analytics A quick cost comparison of in-house analytics development vs embedded analytics 10 considerations to help yo

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CIOs Need To Stop Their Teams From Writing Bad Code

The Accidental Successful CIO

'CIO have to make sure that only good codes comes out of their IT department Image Credit. A big change is starting to happen in the world of IT. Just a few years ago, IT shops everywhere were busy trying to outsource just about every task that they could put their hands on. What’s happened since then is that CIOs have realized importance of information technology and that the ability to create custom code that will allow their company to move quicker and do more is something that has to b

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Human Performance Management Best Practice 8 – Procedure Level of Use Standards

Strategy Driven

'Use of procedures and work instructions helps increase performance consistency between individuals conducting these documented activities and between repetitive performances by one person. Such consistency promotes the error-free performance necessary for high-risk and high-quality operations. However, the use of procedures slows progress and limits productivity.

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Complimentary Resource – Emerging Trends in Project Management

Strategy Driven

'Emerging Trends in Project Management. by Global Knowledge. Implementing project management soft skills into your projects will become increasingly important over the next several years; opening your mind to these emerging trends will open your door to new opportunities. The technical aspects of managing projects notwithstanding, project managers are increasingly asked to lead the organization in transformative ways.