Sat.Oct 27, 2012 - Fri.Nov 02, 2012

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Plan Your Epitaph Day: Living and Leaving a Legacy

Let's Grow Leaders

Apparently today is “Plan Your Epitaph” Day. So, although I don’t usually post on Fridays, I couldn’t resist a short one. We move so fast, working through the urgent. It’s a nice reminder to consider the legacy we are working to leave. In her meditation “Set in Stone”, in Walking Towards Morning Meditations, Victoria Stafford urges [.

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Ten Ways Change Gets Stuck

Change Starts Here

Note: This article is a summary of the points covered in the Enclaria teleclass by the same name. To listen to the teleclass recording, click here. The path to implementing change in an organization isn’t always smooth. On the way, you run into frequent speed bumps, wrong way signs, and even concrete barriers. These road hazards on the way to change act as obstacles that prevent you from moving forward.

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The Tie That Binds: Why Leaders Need a Proxy For Profit

Terry Starbucker

In just about every business situation that involves more than a handful of people, there’s always going to be one big disconnect. In one corner, there are the business owners and executives. They are focused primarily on one goal: profit. In the other corner are the rank and file employees who enable that profit through their work. The disconnect is this – those employees are not focused on the profit of the business.

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10 Best Countries For Women In 2012 (Spoiler Alert: U.S. Did Not Make the Cut)

Women on Business

NEWS AND INSIGHTS UPDATE: Forbes released its annual list of the 10 best countries for women last week, and the United States is noticeably missing from the list. According to Forbes, the 10 best countries for women in 2012 are: Iceland: Taking the top spot for the third year in a row, Iceland is “lauded for its women in political and economic positions of leadership.” Finland: Up from the third spot on the list in 2011, Finland’s new position at #2 matches its jump in the WEC

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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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How To Differentiate Your Strategy Through Competence and Talent

Let's Grow Leaders

Why would a customer choose you over a competitor? Many companies have trouble articulating that answer, says Steve Van Remortel, author of the new book Stop Selling Vanilla Ice Cream: The Scoop on Differentiating Your Company Through Strategy and Talent. After helping hundreds of companies build successful strategies, Steve asserts: “There is no difficulty any [.

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Leadership and Teamwork

Lead on Purpose

Sports metaphors are everywhere in the workplace, but there’s no denying that the leadership and teamwork skills found in the sports setting teach important lessons. One approach to coaching that is rapidly gaining popularity is what is known as the Double-Goal Coaching Philosophy : emphasis is placed not only on winning, but also on team members’ learning and self-improvement.

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Disabled Women Succeeding as Entrepreneurs

Women on Business

Many women have found that in order to have the lifestyle they want working in the corporate world is simply too restrictive. Set hours requiring you to commute to an office, clock in and out, then ask for permission to slightly change your schedule – is simply not conducive to an active and busy life. Women with children find the regular work schedule to be even more difficult to manage.

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Want Great Customer Service? Call A Vampire

Let's Grow Leaders

If you need to contact a customer service call center, today would be a good day. You will likely get great customer service. Employees will be happy, spirits will be high. Oh, and the pictures will be fantastic. From my experience and in talking to leaders in call centers across the industry, today the phones [.] The post Want Great Customer Service?

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Three Questions to Consider Before you Speak Assertively

The Recovering Engineer

Successful conflict resolution depends on the careful application of several communication and relationship building principles and skills. Frankly, it can be complicated and difficult to do. One critical skill in the complicated mess of conflict resolution is assertive communication. As I speak, write, coach, and train on the application of assertive communication techniques and strategies, I get many questions related to this topic.

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How Embedded Analytics Helps Product Managers Exceed Their KPIs

Embedded analytics can help you deliver cutting-edge analytics experiences to your end-users that align with KPIs that are critical to the growth and success of your business. Read this eBook to learn how an embedded analytics platform, like Qrvey, can help PMs exceed the following KPIs: Growing revenue while improving customer retention rate Delivering rapid time to value Earning a high net-promoter score Increasing Gross Margin / Profitability Conversion rate from trial to paid Don’t just meet

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Steve Farber - Untitled Article

Steve Farber

Are you interested in becoming a Certified Facilitator of The Extreme Leadership Workshop? Our next program will be January 11 – 13, 2013 in San Diego. (Click Here for All the Details!). Only 17 spots left! Register Now! Email Anthony Garcia , or call him at 858-382-3161.

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Dawn Elise Warden-Reeder Joins the Women on Business Contributor Team

Women on Business

Please join me in welcoming Dawn Elise Warden-Reeder to the Women on Business contributor team. Dawn brings unique experience and deep passion for business to the site, and I can’t wait to read her insights! About Dawn Elise Warden Reeder. A former lifestyles magazine editor and reporter covering an array of topics including philanthropy and business, health and well-being, sustainability, fashion, music and food, Dawn entered the public relations and social media field in 2010 as Executiv

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The Debate Continues: 4 Reasons for More Transparency

Let's Grow Leaders

I recently exposed my internal struggle with transparency in a post at Lead Change Group. Sometimes the best debates start in our own hearts. It turns out, that I am not alone in this personal wrestling match, as so many have shared in their tweets, scoops and comments. As leaders grow in responsibility, scope [.] The post The Debate Continues: 4 Reasons for More Transparency appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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The Other Side of Appreciation

QAspire

[Note: This post is a continuation of thoughts from my earlier post “ Building Engaged Teams with Power of Appreciation ”]. Yes, appreciation is the fuel that drives people forward and leaders need to learn the art of genuinely appreciating the behaviors they value. On the other side of this equation is the person who is being appreciated, the professional whose inner desire is to be accepted, appreciated and understood.

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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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What do you do when Life Redraws Your Map?

Mills Scofield

I grew up in Rumson, NJ by the ocean (I used to say “the jersey shore” but can’t anymore) spending my Sea Bright, NJ post Hurricane Sandy summers on the beach in Sea Bright and sailing in the briny rivers and ocean. There were “traditions” around certain weather occurrences, like the annual Nor’easter that helped get the boat out of the water, the annual winter beach erosion and summer rebuilding and the very very rare snow on the beach.

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How to Find Your Business Passion Again

Women on Business

NEWS AND INSIGHTS UPDATE: Do you feel stuck in your career? Have you lost the passion that once motivated you? If so, you’re not alone. Louise Mandar of Starting an Online Business explains that feeling stuck is common. Over time, we tend to forget why we want to achieve specific goals that we’ve set for ourselves. She offers several tips to get unstuck and find your business passion again: Get a piece of paper and jot down all the reasons why you started in the first place.

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Padawan Picnic: Let’s Grow Leadership in Kids

Let's Grow Leaders

There are surprisingly few tools and discussion forums available on leadership for kids. I continue to get requests through my various social media forums. I am not an expert, but I see grown-ups showing up with gaps and blind spots that could have been nurtured earlier. What if we could start talking about leadership [.] The post Padawan Picnic: Let’s Grow Leadership in Kids appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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In 100 Words: Do Something Good Today!

QAspire

On a railway platform, as in life, everyone is on the move; hurrying to reach their destinations. While I was waiting there, I saw her coming out of the train that had just arrived. Her wrinkled and exhausted face wore a worried look. Her back was bent with a lumbar belt wrapped around it. Getting through the hurried platform with a bag that she could hardly pick up seemed difficult.

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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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Setting Up Development

The Programmer's Paradox

While it is not always true, you’ll frequently find that in restaurants there is a reasonable correlation between the quality of the food and the management of the kitchen. In my youth I had always found that a messy kitchen often meant low quality food and/or bad service. Of course it’s not always that simple, but usually a disaster area behind the curtains percolated out to the rest of the organization.

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Your Mobile Office – The iPhone

Women on Business

Everyone is busy and rushing around these days. Working women are no exception. There are significant demands placed on our daily lives with no chance of them easing any time soon. For women with children the demands increase as you have to work just as hard at the office prior to rushing home to care for the kids – making dinner, doing homework, then pulling out the laptop after eleven.

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Prepare Well: Eye of the Leadership Hurricane

Let's Grow Leaders

As for so many on the East Coast, the last few days have been all about hurricanes, as we prepare for Hurricane Sandy. It’s fascinating to watch the varying approaches from neighbors and friends. I wonder… are we all working to prepare for the same storm? One friend posted her tongue in cheek Facebook update [.] The post Prepare Well: Eye of the Leadership Hurricane appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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How CIOs Can Use Mobile And Custom Development To Rediscover Innovation (a chief information officer needs an IT strategy to create IT alignment)

The Accidental Successful CIO

'Image Credit CIOs need to realize that mobile can lead to big innovations. Quick question: what is the #1 job of a CIO? Hmm, good question, eh? Although this should really be part of the definition of information technology, I’m pretty sure that we could sit around and debate just exactly what is the #1 job of a CIO all day; however, I’m also pretty sure that we could agree that bringing innovation into the business has to be one of the top jobs of both the CIO and the entire IT dep

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Monetizing Analytics Features

Think your customers will pay more for data visualizations in your application? Five years ago, they may have. But today, dashboards and visualizations have become table stakes. Turning analytics into a source of revenue means integrating advanced features in unique, hard-to-steal ways. Download this white paper to discover which features will differentiate your application and maximize the ROI of your analytics.

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Steve Farber - Untitled Article

Steve Farber

Are you interested in becoming a Certified Facilitator of The Extreme Leadership Workshop? Our next program will be January 11 – 13, 2013 in San Diego. (Click Here for All the Details!). Only 17 spots left! Register Now! Email Anthony Garcia , or call him at 858-382-3161.

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My Business After Hurricane Sandy: Creating a Contingency Plan

Women on Business

Hurricane Sandy was a monumental, hopefully once in a lifetime, storm. As the hurricane approached the East Coast many people frantically prepared to keep their families safe and supplies stocked. There was a run on the stores as people purchased enough food to last for a week, water to drink and gas to run generators and cars. Preparing for the storm consumed most of the weekend as people looked to see what Hurricane Sandy would do.

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Penetration Testing Frequently Asked Questions

Coalfire

You may have noticed this recent article about Google’s contest that rewarded a hacker for discovering a vulnerability in Chrome. Once Google verified the vulnerability, they were able to fix the bug and issue the cash prize to the hacker. This is a very public example similar to what Coalfire Labs does every day - working with security leaders to test their security programs.

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Recommended Resource – The Pivot Point

Strategy Driven

The Pivot Point : Success in Organizational Change. by Victoria M. Grady. and James D. Grady. About the Book. The Pivot Point by Drs. Victoria and James Grady is a business novel presenting a unique perspective on effectively implementing organizational change based on group and individual psychodynamics. Within their book, Victoria and James examine decades of research into the ways individuals cope with loss and then relate these principles to the business environment.

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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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A neat little trick with time decay

Erik Bernhardsson

Something that pops up pretty frequently is to implement time decay, especially where you have recursive chains of jobs. For instance, say you want to keep track of a popularity score. You calculate today’s output by reading yesterday’s output, discounting it by and then adding some hit count for today. Typically you choose so that for a day or something like that.

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Success Tips for Business Women from Teri List-Stoll of Procter & Gamble

Women on Business

NEWS AND INSIGHTS UPDATE: According to Teri List-Stoll, Senior Vice President and Treasurer of Procter & Gamble, the secret to her success can be summed up in one sentence, “Laugh, believe, trust yourself, and take chances.” It’s that positive attitude that makes her a role model for so many business women. Carmen Harbour of Little Pink Book interviewed Teri recently to learn more about how she defines success, how she finds balance, her goals, and her legacy.

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IT Security Horror Stories: The Case of the Phantom Technician

Coalfire

At Coalfire Labs, we discover—and help our clients address—a lot of scary security and compliance problems. Like zombies out looking for a victim, nefarious characters are out to attack your IT infrastructure and compromise your systems. Even when organizations have protections in place, the monsters just won’t give up. They keep coming.