Sat.Feb 04, 2012 - Fri.Feb 10, 2012

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Leadership and Surrender

N2Growth Blog

By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth. You’ll rarely encounter the words leadership and surrender used together in complementary fashion. Society has labeled surrender as a sign of leadership weakness, when in fact, it can be among the greatest of leadership strengths. Let me be clear, I’m not encouraging giving in or giving up – I am suggesting you learn the ever so subtle art of letting go.

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Leverage Your Business Pulse: The 5 Day Leadership Planner

Terry Starbucker

Every business has a natural “pulse” of activity that is designed to match the human rhythm of the calendar. Savvy leaders know how to leverage this pulse to their best advantage by properly sequencing their analysis, interaction, thinking, discussing, deciding, and doing. For them, each day of the business week has an overarching theme, designed to maximize team effectiveness: Monday: “Absorb & Process” The first day of the business week should not be spent in mee

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The Secret Success of the Status Quo

Change Starts Here

The status quo, the current way things are done in your organization, came about because it was successful. People in your organization learned how to conduct their jobs through trial and error. The things that worked were incorporated into how things are done, and the things that didn’t work were dropped. Over time, these became habits that are reinforced by daily interactions with other people in the organization.

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Wondering ‘Am I a Good Leader?’ Take the Sheryl Sandberg Test

Next Level Blog

Ever wonder if you’re a good leader? If so, I have a simple three question test that will help you answer the question. I call it the Sheryl Sandberg test. OK, I know that some of you are thinking “Is it really fair to compare myself to the COO of Facebook - the same woman who spoke at the World. Click headline to continue.

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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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GUTSY GALS are Electricians

Women on Business

Sue was not feeling GUTSY ; she was still in pain as she talked about an ugly spill that ended with a badly injured ankle. Several doctors told her she would have to be CAREFUL , very, very careful for, well… forever. Diana, sitting across the circle from Sue is a nurse. How could it be that she had the same ankle injury with that big, long medical name, a year ago?

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Managing conflict

Lead on Purpose

“In a environment that is often fearful and ego-driven, she created a space where people could give up their worries and thrive.”. The word ‘conflict’ is used in so many ways that I’m conflicted as I try to make sense of it (ok, that was a ‘tongue-in-cheek for my good friend Jim Holland ). For purposes of this post, ‘conflict’ is a mental struggle resulting from incompatible or opposing needs, drives, wishes or demands.

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The Secret Sauce of Process Improvement

QAspire

A colleague from a different department recently asked me, “When does this process improvement stop?”. In my response, I explained that improvement is not a destination, but a journey. It is a way for business to tune and align the operations to ongoing changes in the business. “If that is the case, how do you sustain the improvement effort? What is the secret sauce of continuous improvement?

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Leadership Development: Throw the Ball and Catch It Too

Women on Business

Tom Brady’s wife, Gisele, will go down in history with a quote that goes well beyond football. Walking down the corridor to the safety of an elevator, she was taunted by fans about how the Super Bowl game ended and out came the now famous words about not being able to throw a ball and catch it at the same time. Maybe it was the shame of losing (someone had to), maybe it was the tension of hearing her husband was not as good as Eli (Manning that is), and maybe it was the frustration of expectatio

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Innocide!!!

Mills Scofield

Last month, my friend Whitney Johnson wrote a great post about entitlement being an innovation-killer. Please read it if you haven’t. I’m sure we all know examples of this in many aspects of our lives. In some corporate cultures, Innocide is brazen and in others incredibly polite and subtle. Perhaps the subtlest of all is Suinnocide – killing innovation within us.

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Top 5 Challenges in Designing a Data Warehouse for Multi-Tenant Analytics

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.

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2 Rules For Being A Better CIO Boss (a chief information officer needs an IT strategy to create IT alignment)

The Accidental Successful CIO

'You can’t be a buddy and be a boss. When I’m working with new CIOs I often run into the buddy / boss problem. It’s perfectly understandable that any person newly placed into a CIO position would like to establish a positive relationship with the people in the IT department that they are managing. This is all well and good, but it’s all too easy for a CIO to go too far – you can be a boss, but you can’t be a buddy.

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Applicatives and a story of composability with sjsonapp

Ruminations of a Programmer

sjson has just gone applicative. I have changed the typeclasses for reading and writing jsons so that the typeclass protocols now return applicatives instead of raw types. Of course this makes the protocols composable with any other applicative based API in the world. This is the advantage of programming with generic abstractions like functors, applicatives and monads - you can compose them readily with any API that the world has written using the same ones.

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Managing the “Great Expectations” of the Next Sales Generation

Women on Business

Guest post by Lynn Schleeter (learn more about Lynn at the end of this post). “The death of the traditional salesman has been greatly exaggerated,” heralded a recent column in The Economist (October 22, 2011). Why does the media always have to dredge up the Willy Lomans of the world every time the sales function is covered? Sales has made leaps and bounds since Arthur Miller wrote that fateful play in 1949.

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Today’s thoughts February 5, 2012

Rapid BI

Reclaim your weekend Reclaim your weekend It is now Sunday evening – but how many of us have been working over the weekend? This graphic highlights some interesting points – but fails to say if the most productive people are people with or without lists What are your top tips for reclaiming your weekend? Mine [.].

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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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The ROI of Total Performance Excellence Programs

Six Disciplines

Six Disciplines® is a total performance excellence program. By integrating a proven best-practices methodology and innovative Outlook software, we help you to build an effective culture of continuous improvement, enabling you to achieve predictable and measurable growth. The desired end result is different for each of our clients, but it's usually centered around growth, higher productivity, improved profitability and greater overall goal accomplishment.

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Budget Development Best Practice 1 – Maintain Confidentiality During Budget Development

Strategy Driven

Budgets are the financial representation of an organization’s business plan. As such, they convey a great deal of information regarding the organization’s direction – its ongoing operations, market pursuits, future investments, and staffing levels. And while it is important to include the workforce in the formulation of these plans, it is equally important to maintain the confidentiality of information providing competitive advantage or that may unnecessarily alarm workers.

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A Pay for Performance Twist

Women on Business

In a conversation with a trusted advisor this morning, I had a rather revolutionary suggestion thrown at me. We were complaining about employee motivation and work quality solutions and how none of them actually seemed to address the motivation and reward head on. My advisor threw out the suggestion “what if people were only paid for the kind of work they completed?

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Today’s thoughts February 4, 2012

Rapid BI

ThinkPad – tablet or laptop? ThinkPad – tablet or laptop? Youtube Watch the screen check just after 6:20 Interesting point about Bluetooth keyboards & data security – something many of us forget. Is this the future of laptops? with this and the Asus Transformer it seems that trends are starting Mike Morrison RapidBI.com Blog: HR [.].

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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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Extending the Effectiveness of Microsoft Outlook - With Six Disciplines

Six Disciplines

Do you (and everyone else in your organization) spend 80+% of your time in Microsoft Outlook? We all know that Outlook gives us a great way to manage our email, calendar, contacts, tasks, and our daily to-do list. But, what if Outlook could also help us (and our entire organization) with: Strategic planning. Goal-setting. Measures/metrics/KPIs. Performance management.

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Recommended Resource – Great by Choice

Strategy Driven

Great by Choice : Uncertainty, Chaos, and Luck – Why Some Thrive Despite Them All. by Jim Collins and Morten Hansen. About the Reference. Great by Choice by Jim Collins and Morten Hansen represents a detailed assessment of companies thriving in times of uncertainty compared with similar organizations not performing so well. In the analytical tradition of Built to Last , Good to Great , and How the Mighty Fall , Collins and Hansen imperially demonstrate that organizations performing well in

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Meeting Up

Women on Business

With so much electronic communication, I know that many of you are as hungry as I am for more in-person connections. Twitter, texting, e-mail, and Skype are fine for business or for personal outreach and updates, but nothing takes the place of a good old fashioned sit-down talk, or a person-to-person meeting with your friend, business client, or potential vendor.

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Today’s thoughts February 10, 2012

Rapid BI

car crash carnage in ecademy So what happened This morning I woke to see that only one person in the top 20 actually improved their score – Penny Power – the other 19 have dropped (inc Thomas to #2 again) Has the scoring mechanism changed? mmm strange things happening Mike Morrison RapidBI.com Blog: Ecademy or [.].

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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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The Cost of Bad Project Management - And How Six Disciplines Can Help

Six Disciplines

In a recent Gallup Management Journal study , the resulting cost from bad project management is reaching astronomical levels. Why? Apparently, "when it comes to project management, most organizations put their practices before their people. They place more emphasis on rational factors -- the process itself -- and less on emotional drivers that could lead to project excellence -- like their employees' engagement with the project and company.".

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Complimentary Resource – Six Mistakes Companies Are Making Today And How You Can Avoid Them

Strategy Driven

Six Mistakes Companies Are Making Today And How You Can Avoid Them. by SAP. When the economy slows, many businesses react by retrenching and cutting costs in order to weather the downturn. While such cost reduction is important, companies often overlook equally critical strategic decisions—opportunities to use valuable business information to strengthen product and service offerings and emerge ahead of the competition.

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What Do Leadership Coaching Services Offer?

Women on Business

Guest post by Jeffrey Sooey (learn more about Jeffrey at the end of this article). There are different coaching services to meet our many and varied needs. There are leadership coaching services and executive and corporate coaching services. These services may be similar but they also have their distinct differences which can assist you when dealing with a specific service.

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Today’s thoughts February 8, 2012

Rapid BI

Goodbye IT – hello products that work Goodbye IT – hello products that work With so many people fed-up of big software solutions that just are too clunky and don’t do easily what people want, the IT world is moving. With Apple dropping support & products for the film & media industry, they are now [.].

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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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Has Ego Trumped Your Mission? Lessons in Transparency from the Komen Foundation Fiasco

Next Level Blog

As you’ve no doubt read, the Komen Foundation – the people behind the pink ribbons to fight breast cancer – found themselves at the center of controversy last week after they decided to pull funding for breast cancer screenings from Planned Parenthood. The basis for the decision, according to Komen officials: They no longer wanted to give money to organizations.

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Today’s thoughts February 6, 2012

Rapid BI

MBTI – the Gender Differences in Type MBTI – the gender differences in Type While this graphic uses US based data, from memory there is little variance between US & UK gender data. The interesting thing here is that fact that most are balanced, with the exception of Thinking/ feeling. This is interesting as EQ [.].

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Today’s thoughts February 10, 2012

Rapid BI

car crash carnage in ecademy So what happened This morning I woke to see that only one person in the top 20 actually improved their score – Penny Power – the other 19 have dropped (inc Thomas to #2 again) Has the scoring mechanism changed? mmm strange things happening Mike Morrison RapidBI.com Blog: Ecademy or [.].

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