Terry Starbucker

AUGUST 12, 2012

Leaders have to “be” many things, and a lot of them are seemingly contradictory - paradoxes that hover over our daily decisions and interactions. How we deal with these paradoxes can be the difference between good and great. There are six in particular that need some keen navigation: 1) Process vs. Innovation – On the surface this looks more like a huge battle; the free thinking forces that love chaos and drive change, against the system-driven processors who thrive on order a

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 16, 2012

Leaders work hard to build confidence in their teams. They know that building confident teams and people is vital to success. Confident team members are more creative, communicate more effectively, and take more risks. Plus, it’s easier to delegate to a confident person. Sometimes the very actions leaders take to create confidence, can backfire.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 14, 2012

By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth. Today’s post is a rather short rant, but one I felt compelled to put forth. I just finished reading an article where the author (a self professed innovation guru) recommended strategy be aligned with capability, and that to allow ambition to exceed capability is a nothing short of a recipe for disaster.

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Change Starts Here

AUGUST 15, 2012

My general rule of thumb is: Don’t talk about people behind their backs. Talking – usually whining or lamenting – about someone who is not in your presence to another person just makes you look bad, feel bad, and does nothing to help the situation. It just cements strain in the relationship, especially if they find out what you said.

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Lead on Purpose

AUGUST 11, 2012

Let’s face it…some days are tough, some months are long, and occasionally some years seem endless. When you’re going through difficult times it can be tough just to get out of bed in the morning, and rolling up your sleeves and working can seem nearly impossible in these difficult down times. With that said, we (at least everyone reading this blog) know that tough times come, and they go.

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Women on Business

AUGUST 12, 2012

Guest Post by Taryn Scher of TK Public Relations (learn more about Taryn at the end of this article): 1. Be prepared: Don’t start reaching out to the media until you have a website that you are proud of and clearly represents your brand, sample inventory that you can send out for photo shoots/testing, clean product photographs (preferably shot on a white background) and a digital media kit.

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Next Level Blog

AUGUST 17, 2012

Last week I had the honor to be present for a milestone in the life of a friend of mine. It was the retirement and change of command ceremony for the U.S. Navy’s Chief of Information (CHINFO), Rear Admiral Denny Moynihan. On a Friday afternoon at the Sail Loft in the Washington Navy Yard, several hundred uniformed and civilian friends and colleagues of Denny’s gathered to say thank you to him and his family for 27 years of service and to wish them all well on their journey.

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Mills Scofield

AUGUST 17, 2012

One of the most amazing leaders I’ve ever met, Mike Waite, President of Menasha Packaging Corporation , believes his job is making sure his people get to live their dreams. While profit, revenue, shareholder value etc. are critical, without his people’s ability to turn dreams into reality – for customers and for themselves – there is no revenue, profit or anything else…simple…and too rare.

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 11, 2012

This week, my husband and I scrambled up the boulders of Mt. of the Holy Cross one of Colorado’s spectacular 14ers. The trek was a beautiful journey of challenge and connection. The most tangible beauty came from the dramatic 360 views on this clear, cool summer day. There was also intense beauty in pushing through when the [.].

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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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Women on Business

AUGUST 13, 2012

NEWS AND INSIGHTS UPDATE: Did you know there is a link between quietness and productivity? Roberta Matuson shares five reasons that quiet people out-produce everyone else on the Fast Company website: Being quiet strengthens focus. Being quiet calms others. Being quiet conveys confidence. Being quiet means you think before you speak. Being quiet gives you the space to dig deep.

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Next Level Blog

AUGUST 15, 2012

There’s a really interesting think piece in the New York Times this week by Carl Richards titled “You Probably Have Too Much Stuff.” In it, he tells the story of a guy named Andrew Hyde who, in preparing for a trip around the world two years ago, sold everything he owned except for 15 things. (Here’s his list.) Hyde’s list of things he owns is now up to 60 items and he doesn’t expect that it will grow much beyond that.

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Mills Scofield

AUGUST 13, 2012

After some tweet and email discussions with Anne Marie Slaughter and Cali Williams Yost about Anne Marie’s article on The Atlantic , and the uproar about Marissa Mayer becoming Yahoo’s CEO while she is pregnant, I decided to weigh in. Finally, we are having an honest discussion of “having it all” instead of perpetuating a fairly tale.

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 15, 2012

I am pleased to present a guest post from Greg Marcus. After ten years as a scientist, and ten years as a marketer, Greg Marcus, Ph.D. is a stay-at-home dad and author. If you are interested in more of his writing you can find it by clicking here, or you can find him on linked [.].

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Women on Business

AUGUST 16, 2012

In the last few days Groupon has been in the news with columnist discussing investor fears over a decline in revenue growth. The Wall Street Journal reported that revenue rose just 2% sequentially from the first quarter causing many investors to question its valuation, growth potential and sell shares. In 2010 Forbes listed Groupon as one of the world’s fastest growing corporations.

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The Accidental Successful CIO

AUGUST 15, 2012

'Image Credit Innovation is where you find it…. “Be more innovative” – how many times has your CEO told you that? Although being innovative isn’t really part of the definition of information technology, CIOs still want their IT department to always be ahead of what their internal customers want. We’d like to be able to have our IT staff be solving problems that our customers might not even know that they have.

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Coalfire

AUGUST 14, 2012

Employers are seeing a drastic increase in the number of employees using personal smartphones and tablets in the office. This “Bring Your Own Device” (BYOD) trend is causing headaches for the IT department and there is no stopping this trend. Due to the sensitive nature of company information often accessed on those devices, it has become a growing concern for small and large businesses alike.

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Rapid BI

AUGUST 11, 2012

When reviewing ideas using a SWOT can be negative, so many now look at reviewing creative ideas with a different perspective. Pluses, Potentials, Concerns, Options Overcome the concerns.

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Women on Business

AUGUST 15, 2012

NEWS AND INSIGHTS UPDATE: Are you ready to move from being a good leader to being a great leader? Irene Becker of Just Coach It shared seven commitments you have to make in order to do exactly that with Mass Ingenuity. Those commitments are: The commitment to lead and not follow. The commitment to the empowerment of self and others. The commitment to purpose and vision.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 14, 2012

Projects, like other business activities, involve meetings and approvals. The difference between project and routine business meetings is that a project is not an ongoing concern; therefore, its meetings tend to be periodic, sporadic, or driven by one-time needs rather than recurring with some regular frequency. Consequently, these off-routine meetings and approval review sessions are a disruption to non-project team executives, managers, and contributors; representing something these individual

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The Programmer's Paradox

AUGUST 12, 2012

I read this excellent article in the July issue of Scientific American. It was called “The Evolution of Cooperation”. The basis of the article was centered around game theory, but the essence of it helped me to better frame my understanding of several deep issues. Often there are interesting abstract high-level constructs that once understood, nicely overlay a sea of information, leading to a better understanding.

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Rapid BI

AUGUST 16, 2012

When to use Strategic Analysis Strategic planning is the process of developing a shared vision of your organization’s future and deciding upon the major steps you will take to move the organization in that direction. A strategic analysis is one of the key phases and requirements to the development of any strategic plan. The strategic [.].

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Women on Business

AUGUST 13, 2012

NEWS AND INSIGHTS UPDATE: For the second year, Glassdoor.com has released its list of the top 25 companies for work-life balance. The 2012 list was compiled from employee feedback gathered throughout the past year. The top 25 companies according to this report are: MITRE. North Highland. Agilent Technologies. SAS Institute. CareerBuilder. REI. National Instruments.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 13, 2012

I just read an article about someone’s totally bogus opinion of ‘job burnout.’ It made me realize some people actually are (or think they are) ‘burned out.’ A quick search on Amazon revealed 580 books that contain the title, or address the subject of, ‘job burn out.’ Yikes! The article I read proposed a remedy of “do less and you’ll avoid burnout.

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The Recovering Engineer

AUGUST 16, 2012

In my work with clients and workshop participants, people often start to tell me about a situation they faced as a leader with something like: “Maybe I didn’t do this right, but…” Then, they generally end the story by asking me if there was a better way to handle the situation. I frequently respond by asking if they got a good result from their approach.

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Rapid BI

AUGUST 16, 2012

Why not to trust an "independent" business adviser or mentor It is true that no man is an island. When starting out in business as well as running and growing your business, quite simply you cannot do it on your own. You need trusted business advisers.

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Women on Business

AUGUST 16, 2012

NEWS AND INSIGHTS UPDATE: Which companies require the most interview preparation? Glassdoor.com put together a list of the 25 companies that are hardest on potential employees during the interview process. Anne Fisher of Fortune warns: Brain-teaser questions, timed written tests that rival the GMAT, successive rounds of rapid-fire interview sessions with intensely focused hiring managers — are you ready for all these, plus the occasional odd moment of catch-you-off-your-guard eccentricity?

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 12, 2012

Big Data is Talking. Are You Listening? by EMC. This interactive white paper from CIO Magazine and EMC lays out the benefits of big data and predictive analytics, provides tips on how to get started, and shares the remarkable results that businesses have achieved by marrying these two powerhouses. Embedded videos feature Gerry McCartney, CIO of Purdue University and Jeremy Burton, Chief Marketing Officer of EMC with Bill Cook, President of EMC’s Greenplum Division.

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Women on Business

AUGUST 14, 2012

NEWS AND INSIGHTS UPDATE: When you’re the only woman (or one of few women) in a male-dominated workplace, it can be hard to fit in and harder to stand out in positive ways. Jane Fang for The Daily Muse offers seven ways that women can thrive in a workplace that is dominated by men: The squeaky wheel gets the grease: Be vocal. Beer is for bonding: Opportunities often happen outside the office.

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