Let's Grow Leaders
FEBRUARY 10, 2014
'“Hello, How are Y…?” “Carl” interrupted my greeting before I could finish. “Karin, I have to leave my company.” Not your typical Saturday morning phone call. He was fired up. He’s an old friend, and he’d been with his company for nearly two decades. I figured he was calling to have me […] The post When Running Away is Running Toward appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.
CTOvision
FEBRUARY 12, 2014
'By Boonsri Dickinson In a world full of self-driving cars, flying drones, and other robots, daily interactions with artificial intelligence will have a profound effect on how we live our lives. Elemental video scientist Boonsri Dickinson visited Carnegie Mellon robotics pioneer Maneula Veloso to talk about the science behind her robotic creations and the many years she has spent bringing autonomous robots to life.
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Change Starts Here
FEBRUARY 12, 2014
'Tired of banging your head against the wall when you’re implementing change? When people push back or react in ways that work against change, it causes frustration for those who are trying to implement it. When we feel that frustration, we label what’s happening as Resistance. However, the outward signs of resistance you experience as a change agent are usually symptoms of an underlying issue.
General Leadership
FEBRUARY 12, 2014
'“Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana.” Groucho Marx. There are over 5,000 species of fruit fly in the tephritidae family, each with unique properties. So many species, in fact, biologists have made it a favorite pastime to analyze the tiny creature in the quest for advancements ranging from ecology to neurobiology. The variations span the gamut of evolutionary differences, each having come into being via environmental necessity.
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Let's Grow Leaders
FEBRUARY 14, 2014
'This month’s Frontline Festival sets a new record for submissions. I am grateful for all the experts sharing their insights on creating connection. Connecting the Dots Dan Rockwell, Leadership Freak shares Mintzberg Rejects Macro-Leadership. When Dan asked Henry Mintzberg for the advice he most frequently sharing with leaders and managers, he said one word, “Connect.” Follow Dan @leadershipfreak […] The post Expert Advice on Creating Connection: A Frontline Festival a
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N2Growth Blog
FEBRUARY 12, 2014
'By Patricia Lenkov , Chair, Executive Search, N2growth. I spent the month of January performing my civic duty on a Grand Jury in Manhattan. Images of “Law and Order” stars on the steps of the Lower Manhattan courthouse were quickly replaced by the bleak reality of what felt like eternal days listening to the misconduct of my fellow New Yorkers.
CTOvision
FEBRUARY 10, 2014
'By Kimberly Kelly MagicBands. When I first heard about the new MagicBands Disney started using about a month ago I was pretty skeptical. I did not understand what purpose these bands would serve other than proving that Disney is getting even more creepy. But when you think about it, Disney is very driven to achieve optimal performance with everything they do.
Let's Grow Leaders
FEBRUARY 12, 2014
'“I wasn’t real quick, and I wasn’t real strong. Some guys will just take off and it’s like, whoa. So I beat them with my mind and my fundamentals.” -Larry Bird I walked into the call center training room and the team was all working on the call center equivalent of a basketball “3 pointer” […] The post Focus on the Fundamentals appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.
Terry Starbucker
FEBRUARY 9, 2014
'On the latest More Human Podcast, my guest is Richard Sheridan , CEO and “Chief Storyteller” of Menlo Innovations, a software company in Ann Arbor, MI, and the author of a great book called “ Joy Inc – How we Built a Workplace People Love “ It’s a book about what Richard has created at Menlo, a company focused on the “business value of joy”, and called “ one of the most unique and effective workplace cultures anywhere ”.
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Women on Business
FEBRUARY 14, 2014
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CTOvision
FEBRUARY 13, 2014
'By Bob Gourley Editor’s note: We saw the story below on the CIA website and wanted to share it with you. These are good anecdotal stories. The one one Keyhole is especially important for technologists to know. The investment and encouragement by government and the national security community ended up really changing the technology landscape for the better. – bg.
Steve Farber
FEBRUARY 12, 2014
'Phil Town is is not only a #1 New York Times best-selling author and world-renowned investment advisor, he is a former Green Beret, an experienced equestrian, and an all around great guy. I’m very excited that Phil will be speaking at the upcoming Extreme Leadership Summit ( REGISTER HERE ) , so I want to give you a sense of his remarkable story and his unusual wisdom on what it takes to be a successful investor no matter how much or how little money you’re starting with.
Next Level Blog
FEBRUARY 12, 2014
'Every so often, one has to face reality and accept the circumstances as they are. This is one of those moments for me. I’m very excited about the work I’m doing on my next book which will be published by Wiley this Fall. And, in the category of accepting reality, I’ve come to the conclusion today that I’ll be blogging less frequently until I deliver the manuscript to my editor in May.
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.
Women on Business
FEBRUARY 11, 2014
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CTOvision
FEBRUARY 10, 2014
'By Bob Gourley Everyone everywhere is consistently seeking more common platforms to build capabilities on. This includes common stacks and protocols for all technologies, and software defined everything. There is also a continual march toward common operating concepts (ISO, CMMI, ITIL). Increasingly the environments for developers (IDE) are also common.
Toptal
FEBRUARY 14, 2014
Testing. It always seems to get left to the last minute, then cut because you're out of time, budget, or whatever else. Management wonders why developers can't just "get it right the first time", and developers (especially on large systems) can be taken off-guard when different stakeholders describe different parts of the system. With behavior-driven development, you can turn testing into a shared process that focuses on the behaviors of the system, why they matter, and who cares.
Next Level Blog
FEBRUARY 10, 2014
'Thich Nhat Hanh is a Vietnamese Buddhist monk who first became publicly known for his efforts to negotiate a peace treaty during the Vietnam War. Since then, he’s taught around the world and has written more than sixty books that have had an influence on people in all walks of life. (I’ve only read a few of his books; my favorite is Being Peace.) Last week, a friend of mine, Alanson Van Fleet, sent me a note to share how some of Hanh’s work is making a difference for leaders in corporate Americ
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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.
Women on Business
FEBRUARY 13, 2014
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CTOvision
FEBRUARY 14, 2014
'By Bob Gourley With this post I am excited to announce the merger of two of our sites into one. CTOlabs.com is being merged into CTOvision.com. These two sites grew up for different purposes but have have now grown together to the point where merging them makes sense. This step will help us focus providing the most relevant content to our readers and we believe will help readers conducting market research find the information they need faster.
Lead on Purpose
FEBRUARY 8, 2014
'Guest post by Ryan Harrison. SaaS (software as a service) sales teams often focus on bringing in new clients; however, they often miss the key fact that existing clients pay more dividends in the long run. The blog ForEntrepreneurs.com reports that 5-30 percent of a business’ revenue comes from the initial sale. Renewals and upsells account for the other 70-95 percent.
Steve Farber
FEBRUARY 14, 2014
'“Everybody get together, try to love one another right now.” – Dino Valenti. Here’s a Valentine’s Day video love story from our home to yours. If they can, so can we–right?
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The Accidental Successful CIO
FEBRUARY 12, 2014
'CIOs need to know how to have good conversations with their staff Image Credit. More and more CIOs are finding themselves in charge of global IT departments. This is posing a unique problem for them: given the importance of information technology, how can they connect with the members of their IT department in order to determine what is really going on and what really needs to be done?
CTOvision
FEBRUARY 14, 2014
'By Bob Gourley If you have a technology with a proven capability for enterprises you have probably already started thinking about how you should work with the big systems integrators that serve the federal market. You probably feel in your gut that partnering with them is the way to go. They absolutely need to be part of your strategy. But there are key considerations.
Lead on Purpose
FEBRUARY 8, 2014
'Returning visitors will notice big changes at Lead on Purpose. For more than six years I have stayed with a consistent theme and blog layout. This week I decided it was time for a change, so as you see the blog has a new theme and look about it. The hope is to make it easier to find the relevant content for which you are searching, and a more pleasant place to spend a bit of your time.
Code Simplicity
FEBRUARY 14, 2014
In general, when technology attempts to solve problems of matter, energy, space, or time, it is successful. When it attempts to solve human problems of the mind, communication, ability, etc. it fails or backfires dangerously. For example, the Internet handled a great problem of space—it allowed us to communicate with anybody in the world, instantly.
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Rapid BI
FEBRUARY 13, 2014
' I’ve always been impatient. Sometimes I get nostalgic about things that haven’t happened yet. This of course is just one version of what could have been going on. I would love to here what you think they were saying, add your one liner below!
CTOvision
FEBRUARY 11, 2014
'By Bob Gourley There are special technologies that need to be considered in modernizing approaches to ensuring security and risk mitigation. A short list of those we like include: Fixmo , Centripetal Networks , Invincea , Triumfant. There are also very important non-technological issues to consider in this domain, including the history of conflict in things cyber.
Coalfire
FEBRUARY 11, 2014
Heads up for our PCI customers: the PCI SSC released the “ROC Reporting Template for v3.0” this last weekend and it is available here. This document supports the PCI DSS 3.0 standard and must be used by all QSA organizations to create and submit a Report on Compliance (ROC). What does this mean?
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