Terry Starbucker

APRIL 22, 2012

“We live in a technological universe in which we are always communicating. And yet we have sacrificed conversation for mere connection.” – Sherry Turkle. We are living in an extraordinary era where digital communications has revolutionized the way we live, work, and play. For those of us old enough to remember a world without “devices” or “portables”, the possession of all that computing power and global reach in the palms of our hands is awe inspiring.

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Steve Farber

APRIL 26, 2012

You may not have heard the name, John Segall; you may know him as Jay Jay French. Still doesn’t ring a bell? OK, how about the band, Twisted Sister ? Or their songs, “We’re Not Gonna Take It,” or “I Wanna Rock”? There you go! Twisted’s famed front-man, Dee Snider is the guy…well…out front, but Jay Jay is the founder of the band, the manager of the brand, and one hell of a guitarist, to boot.

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Women on Business

APRIL 25, 2012

“Nothing in this world has ever been accomplished without great passion” – Hebbel, German Poet. Passion for life and business is what excites us to jump out of bed in the morning and set out to accomplish our goals. As a business owner and professional it is very easy to set out on the path of success and keep walking until we reach that elusive finish line.

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Change Starts Here

APRIL 26, 2012

Change gets stuck when your organization succeeds at resisting it. What if your initiative were IRRESISTIBLE instead? As someone whose role is to facilitate change in your organization, your success and the success of your project depends on your ability to avoid, remove, or navigate the obstacles that make change get stuck. Among them are: Deeply ingrained habits and mindsets.

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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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Next Level Blog

APRIL 24, 2012

Here’s a thought experiment for you. Take a deep breath, clear your head and think for a little while about what kind of leadership the world is going to need in the future. Need a jump start? Just think about the rapidity of change in the global economy, global politics and consumer technology in the past five years. Five years. Click headline to continue.

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Women on Business

APRIL 23, 2012

Big subject here! Are you in a roller coaster of having money then not having it? The good news is that I’ve been there and I can help you. After many years of struggling financially. Landing the good job, having a great month, and then not having two pennies to rub together at the end of the year is all too familiar to me. It’s not a fun place to be, and the truth is that you can change this as your reality if you want to.

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Change Starts Here

APRIL 24, 2012

“I’m responsible for implementing change. But how do I actually do it?”. If you are a change agent – someone who leads change from within an organization without having authority – then this is a question you are faced with every day. Your challenge is to figure out the actual steps you can personally take to make change happen in your organization.

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Next Level Blog

APRIL 26, 2012

One of the things I love most about leadership coaching is the opportunity to see lots of different executives in action. I get to see them in team meetings, in presentations, in one-on-one’s, and just walking around the plant or office. In addition to the first-hand observations, I usually collect a lot of feedback from the executives’ managers, peers and.

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QAspire

APRIL 26, 2012

Two personalities from two diverse nations; One is an Indian mega-star Shahrukh Khan (SRK) and the other is a relentless instigator (and my hero) Seth Godin. Both live a creative life and express themselves fully through their work. Both have a significant impact on large number of people. Recently, both expressed their views on creativity. At his recent talk as Chubb Fellow at Yale University , SRK shared his view on creativity and said, Creativity is your gift to the world.

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Women on Business

APRIL 25, 2012

Lately, I’ve surrounded myself with many powerful women. They are everywhere in my life. Thankfully, there’s an abundance of them, and I’m so grateful for that. What’s the common denominator? They are all boldly living their purpose!They all have found their unique selling proposition and know that it is an essential ingredient to their success. It changes how you take action, deal with challenges, and your ability to be in situations with your eyes open to new possibilities.

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The Accidental Successful CIO

APRIL 25, 2012

'CIOs need to know how to keep process improvement projects going. Pity the poor CIOs who gets the idea that what his IT department needs to do this year is to implement a process improvement project. It’s not that these types of projects are a bad thing to do, it’s just that all too often they don’t actually work out. Well, that was before we had a chance to talk about what CIOs need to do in order to make this a good use of everyone’s time….

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Next Level Blog

APRIL 27, 2012

Every week, I share a recap of some of the best things I’ve seen on Twitter. This week, I’m highlighting tweets and links on how exercise can make you smarter, the difference between competing and inventing, and the relationship between management and marriage, among others. Click headline to continue.

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Rapid BI

APRIL 27, 2012

Talent Management Challenges In Ordinary Businesses Talent management features at almost every HR and executive conference, but most of the solutions are those that are targeted at the big multi nationals. But what about the "ordinary" businesses that.

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Women on Business

APRIL 27, 2012

Yesterday I had the good fortune to have lunch with an established mentor and the question floating around the table was ‘how do you know your worth as a consultant’? I thought the answer rang true for any business owner and here’s what I got from the conversation. When you’re not sure of what you know, you charge for everything. This is true for all industries, when you are unsure of the answer you tend to be very heavy handed in the solution.

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Six Disciplines

APRIL 24, 2012

In the Best Companies for Leaders survey, management consultancy Hay Group identified the top 20 best-in-class companies as well as what makes these companies known for great leadership. Key findings of the Hay Group's research: When asked what organizations value the most in leaders, 83 percent of the best-in-class organizations as compared to others said “execution.”.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 23, 2012

“What I did on my summer vacation.”. Every one of you have given a speech, or written a paragraph or essay about what you did on your summer vacation while you were in grade school. You wrote about the lake, the mountains, or the week at the beach. Or you gave a speech and your opening line was, “What I did on my summer vacation.” And you held your own hands and nervously performed in front of your peers.

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Rapid BI

APRIL 23, 2012

Social Networking Bill of Rights - the risk of sharing With more and more of us have some form of online presence, it's a part of us that increasingly employers, HR departments & potential recruiters want to see. This is a worrying trend towards empl.

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Nutanix

APRIL 24, 2012

This will be the first post in our new series, “Meet Nutanix,” where various employees at Nutanix will be featured. Read on and learn more about life at Nutanix and what various departments here are working on!

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Six Disciplines

APRIL 24, 2012

For many of us, Microsoft Outlook has become the central place where work is received, managed and delegated. On any given day, your inbox may be suffering from information overload, but Six Disciplines offers a practical way to make sense of it all. Since most of us "live in Outlook" all day, every day, why not manage both your professional and personal life there too?

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 25, 2012

3. Create corporate mission & values that employees are aligned with. The foundational material — mission and values — of a company can be critical to the overall success of the organization – but they’re often forgotten. The corporate mission and values are created by the senior leadership team, captured on posters, and strategically tacked up around the building.

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Rapid BI

APRIL 23, 2012

#HRD12 - summary of free learning at Olympia this week Learning Arena Leading L&D experts deliver lively updates, skills and techniques to help you further your professional development. Wednesday 25 April 09:30-10:00 - Positive Personal Leade.

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Women on Business

APRIL 27, 2012

I was invited to listen to President Obama speak at the Women’s Leadership Forum in Washington, D.C. today on behalf of Women on Business. Unfortunately, I couldn’t make it to watch listen in person, but I do have some excerpts from the President’s speech to share. It’s an election year, and women’s issues are drawing a lot of attention in a variety of ways from both political parties.

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Six Disciplines

APRIL 24, 2012

Tough times require tough decisions. During times of economic uncertainty, strategy refinement and execution need to become a top priority for business leaders. SWOT Analyses are one of the top-rated core services offered by Six Disciplines. . SWOT is a strategic planning tool used to evaluate the Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats involved in your business.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 24, 2012

It’s become cliché to say employees are an organization’s most valuable assets. Do you really know the organizational contribution value of each individual working for you? Unfortunately, most executives and managers would have to respond negatively to that question. How is it that we affix a value to our physical assets, assign returns on investment to proposed initiatives and yet cannot readily articulate the quantitative benefit an individual employee – our greatest asset – represents f

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Six Disciplines

APRIL 24, 2012

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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Six Disciplines

APRIL 24, 2012

The Foundation for the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, Inc., has committed funds to sustain the Baldrige Performance Excellence Program (BPEP) through fiscal year 2015 - further evidence of the commitment to the long-term viability of Baldrige. . The foundation said its support was due in part to its confidence in the ongoing development of the business and financial model by the Baldrige Enterprise, which includes BPEP, the foundation, the Alliance for Performance Excellence, and ASQ.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 27, 2012

As I write this on April 5, 2012, the Dow is above 13,000 and all indications point to signs of recovery. Notice the disclaimer, ‘As I write this.’ If we have learned nothing else in the past four years, let us remember that a stable, predictable economy may be a thing of the past. We cautiously celebrate signs of recovery while we simultaneously prepare for more change.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 22, 2012

Six Pitfalls of Workforce Planning. by SuccessFactors. Know the pitfalls that companies can fall into when doing strategic workforce planning. With aging workforces and a shortage of critical talent being among the biggest challenges facing today’s businesses, strategic workforce planning–the discipline of forecasting future gaps between demand and supply of critical talent–has become one of HR’s most important responsibilities.

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