Terry Starbucker
JULY 29, 2012
The decision’s been made, and now, as a leader, you are anxious to start executing. After all, time is money, and the competition never rests. The pressure is on. At those moments there’s a natural tendency to immediately start forging ahead – after all, YOU are all up to speed on the vision, the plan, and now, the strategies and tactics that will be needed to get to the mountaintop.
Let's Grow Leaders
AUGUST 3, 2012
As we have been working through our “Charisma Project,” I have been on the look out for signs of great charisma in every day life, and realized it’s time for me to talk about Larry. Larry Owensel is a professional dancer and personal trainer, and teaches the interval kickboxing class I have been taking each [.].
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Change Starts Here
JULY 31, 2012
This weekend I attended my 20-year high school reunion. It was fun to see everyone, now quite a bit older and wiser. Here are a few lessons I took away from the event. Time changes everyone, albeit in different ways. The rigors of life leave an imprint on all of us that no one can escape. People remain themselves. What you will become is already in you.
Next Level Blog
AUGUST 2, 2012
Most of the world knows by now that U.S. swimmer Michael Phelps broke the all-time record for most medals won by an Olympian in London this week. It’s a truly amazing achievement on Phelps’ part but, honestly, not one in which there are many legitimate leadership lessons. Seriously, how many of us have the gifts and abilities in our respective fields that Michael Phelps has in his?
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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.
Women on Business
AUGUST 1, 2012
Don’t Worry Be Happy and Be Productive. A simple phrase, or lyrics as it may be. My father uttered these words to me on a regular basis as a child, and occasionally still does today. I remember listening to that song in my dad’s old den, and not really getting it. I lived with my dad, and to his credit I think he raised a me to be a pretty awesome woman with a strong sense of self and confidence.
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Ruminations of a Programmer
JULY 29, 2012
How much of category theory knowledge should a working programmer have ? I guess this depends on what kind of language the programmer uses in his daily life. Given the proliferation of functional languages today, specifically typed functional languages (Haskell, Scala etc.) that embeds the typed lambda calculus in some form or the other, the question looks relevant to me.
Change Starts Here
AUGUST 2, 2012
As I watch the 2012 London Olympics, I’m reminded that not all teams should be created equal. Depending on the task at hand and the goal, each team must fit the function. For example: Synchronized Diving: The two divers must both flawlessly execute their own dive while mirroring their partner. Relay: Each of the four competitors must swim or run their fastest so the one completing the last leg gets there ahead of the other teams.
Women on Business
AUGUST 3, 2012
As we create our businesses more often than not we get caught up in the day to day firefighting strategies. What we don’t do because there isn’t enough time in the day, no one has figured out how to clone ourselves and/or we don’t see the immediate value is define a future strategy. It’s easy to spend so much time in our businesses that we don’t work on them, so here are a few tips to try to make sure that we don’t lose the big picture.
Let's Grow Leaders
AUGUST 2, 2012
One of the most amazing parts of this new journey into writing and blogging is the amazing connections I am making with tremendous leaders. The support of this community is fantastic, and I am growing every day through the people I am meeting. Thank you Dan Rockwell, for your time and energy. Dan talks [.].
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Next Level Blog
JULY 31, 2012
Last year, I wrote a post about how to avoid being fired in five months. It was inspired by the departure of a fellow named Jack Griffin who lasted less than six months as the CEO of Time, Inc. Today, I’m very happy to give equal time to the positive lessons that can be learned from the current CEO of. Click headline to continue.
Women on Business
JULY 31, 2012
NEWS AND INSIGHTS UPDATE: There have been so many studies showing that diverse corporate boards lead to better overall business results, and now another study has found a direct connection between having women on company boards and improved stock performance. Furthermore, the study found that companies with women on their boards really outperformed other companies during the 2008 economic downturn.
Let's Grow Leaders
JULY 28, 2012
Today, the first Saturday Salutation guest post, from Nancy Perry. When I talked to Nancy about writing, she told me she had written a 300 page tribute to her friend, which she had never published. I encouraged her to share the short story as a Saturday Salutation. Nancy is a Customer Service leader at Verizon [.].
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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.
QAspire
AUGUST 2, 2012
People are promoted to lead others based on their seniority in technical areas. Others become managers after getting a management degree from a b-school that never taught them the fundamentals of dealing with people. They end up putting off people through their behavior and set a wrong example for their subordinates to follow. In a business setting, the cost of having such leaders is invisible, but often huge.
Lead on Purpose
JULY 28, 2012
By Dominic Wake. Confidence in management is falling – can you stop the rot?”To see yourself as others see you” – that’s the general premise of the 360-degree feedback process. Managers across the world certainly struggle when it comes to working out how well they are doing. The politics of the workplace, the lack of willingness for employees to give an honest assessment of their management style or business behaviors means that many organizations are left with ineffectiv
Women on Business
AUGUST 2, 2012
NEWS AND INSIGHTS UPDATE: Now that Marissa Mayer has been named the new CEO of Yahoo!, the number of female CEOs of Fortune 500 companies has reached a record high — 20. Not very impressive, but that’s up 25% in 2009 when just 15 CEOs of Fortune 500 companies were women. Linda Lowen, About.com Guide to Women’s Issues, writes: “While this may suggest greater upward mobility for women in the business sector, these 20 women represent only 4% of the Fortune 500.
Let's Grow Leaders
JULY 30, 2012
At times, leaders must be tough. Very tough. We must set high expectations, we must hold people accountable, we must ensure everyone is always striving for more. That works. And there is also the need for “happy talk,” timed well. One thing that I found as I have grown in the business, is how [.].
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Rapid BI
JULY 31, 2012
SWOT analysis - There are many analysis tools used in supporting strategic planning in businesses, among them is the SWOT analysis. swot for management consulting Arguably one of the most commonly used and misused tools. This pages outlines what a SWOT analysis is and some options to use it effectively. This page contains samples, templates and worksheets to help you do a SWOT or TOWS analysis.
CO2 Business Leadership
JULY 31, 2012
How much Klout do you have? Klout measures your level of influence online. To increase your Klout score, you must drive action online (by getting lots of “likes” and comments on Facebook and LinkedIn, retweets on Twitter and reshares on Google+, for instance). Just generating online content isn’t enough; people have to engage with your content.
Women on Business
JULY 30, 2012
NEWS AND INSIGHTS UPDATE: Researchers from Save the Children analyzed the health, education, and economic status of women in 165 countries and released a ranking of the best and worst countries in the world to be a woman. Norway took the top spot and Somalia came in last. The top 20 are: Norway. New Zealand. Australia. Denmark. Iceland. Finland. Sweden.
The Agile Manager
JULY 31, 2012
“If a builder builds a house for a man and does not make its construction firm, and the house which he has built collapses and causes the death of the owner of the house, that builder shall be put to death.” Clearly, the Babylonians understood that the builder will always know more about the risks than the client, and can hide fragilities and improve his profitability by cutting corners—in, say, the foundation.
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Mills Scofield
JULY 30, 2012
This was posted on HBR on Monday July 30th -. From customers' and suppliers' viewpoint, Company X is fast growing, exciting, and high-energy. Inside, though, it's a tornado. Fighting fires, arguing over who committed to what, why it didn't happen, and noticing things that fell through the cracks in just enough time is normal. How can this happen when they have weekly departmental meetings, keep track of action items, and post projects and timelines everywhere?
The Accidental Successful CIO
AUGUST 1, 2012
'Image Credit One wrong Tweet and a CIO could be looking for a new job…. Is Twitter for real? I mean, is this going to be another one of those social media things that springs up, is hot-hot-hot for a bit, and then fads away and is forgotten? I don’t have a crystal ball and so I can’t tell you if Twitter has any staying power, but as a company’s CIO in addition to running the IT department you are going to have to help come up with the company’s Twitter strategy ….
Women on Business
AUGUST 3, 2012
A new infographic from 4th Estate shows that the vast majority of 2012 election coverage by the media is guilty of leaving women out of the conversation about women’s issues. Check out the infographic below where you’ll see that on issues related directly to women like birth control and women’s rights, print media quotes women far less frequently than men.
CO2 Business Leadership
JULY 31, 2012
How much Klout do you have? Klout measures your level of influence online. To increase your Klout score, you must drive action online (by getting lots of “likes” and comments on Facebook and LinkedIn, retweets on Twitter and reshares on Google+, for instance). Just generating online content isn’t enough; people have to engage with your content.
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The Programmer's Paradox
JULY 30, 2012
When and why do you need an architecture? If you are going to build something small or even medium in size, you can just wing it. Small stuff requires little architecture and medium systems most often crystallize along some crude architectural lines without much intervention. If you are going to build something large and you start without an architecture, what you will wind up with is a large series of disconnected and/or overlapping pieces that are impossible to stabilize.
Rapid BI
AUGUST 3, 2012
Association – Linking new learning with what is already knownSimilarity – Reinforcing a known, logical framework or patternDegree of original learning – High impact of the new learningCritical attributes – Learning content has material extremely beneficial to the job From: Stephen Lieb RapidBI is an organizational effectiveness consultancy based in the UK but working internationally. [.].
Women on Business
AUGUST 2, 2012
NEWS AND INSIGHTS UPDATE: A new study from the University of California-Berkeley found that women who flirt improve their economic outcomes in negotiations with men. Deborah Cowan of Womens’ Views on News shares a quote from Chloe Taylor, assistant professor of women’s studies at the University of Alberta, from her response to the study’s conclusions: “‘To exercise ‘feminine charm’ or to flirt with men, one has to cater to a man’s ego, flatter him,
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