Sat.Sep 22, 2012 - Fri.Sep 28, 2012

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Full Potential Leadership: Convincing Them to Bet on You

Let's Grow Leaders

Are you truly building your full potential? The choices you make now, will impact what jobs are available down the road. Moving up too quickly in one functional area may limit the diversity of skills you learn, and turn you into a specialist with limited future potential. As Joanne Cleaver, says “over is the new up.” [.] The post Full Potential Leadership: Convincing Them to Bet on You appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Finding The Success Sweet Spot: Where Ideas Meet Urgency

Terry Starbucker

“Great idea!” the boss exclaims. “But… ” “We’ll need to defer any talk about it until our next meeting, since we have too many other things to cover today” “OK then, next topic, controlling costs in the janitorial department…… ” Ah yes, another idea goes to what I call “ idea limbo “ A place where ideas typically expire, unexplored and under-appreciated.

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Investing in Women [Infographic]

Women on Business

Last month, I shared a disappointing statistic — only 15% of angel investors are women. But did you know that only 11% of partners in venture capital firms are women? Did you know that women perform 66% of the world’s work but only earn 10% of the income? You can see those statistics and more in the Investing in Women infographic shown below from Pemo Theodore, Founder of Ezebis, and Ai Ching Goh of Piktochart.

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Seven First Year Mistakes Senior Executives Make

Next Level Blog

One of the comments I hear most often from rising, high potential leaders in our Next Level Leadership® group coaching program is “I’m so glad to know it’s not just me.” Being in the leadership crucible can be a lonely experience. The group coaching participants quickly learn and take comfort from the fact that they are not alone in the leadership challenges they face every day.

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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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Won’t You Please, Please Help Me?

Let's Grow Leaders

When I was younger, so much younger than today, I never needed anybody’s help in any way. But now these days are gone, I’m not so self-assured, Now I find I’ve changed my mind and opened up the doors. - The Beatles Do you help when you can? Not just your family… or your team… [.] The post Won’t You Please, Please Help Me?

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50 Influential Twitter Feeds for Women in Business to Follow

Women on Business

I’m happy to share that the Women on Business Twitter feed ( @womenonbusiness ) has been included in the list of 50 influential Twitter feeds for women in business created by the team at OnlineMBA.com. In fact, if you scroll through the list by following the link above, you’ll see many Women on Business contributors and community members included in the list, too!

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How to Defuse an Inbox Hand Grenade

Next Level Blog

This post will be short and sweet but speaks to something most leaders have to deal with – sometimes multiple times a day. It’s that hand grenade that shows up in your inbox from someone (who usually doesn’t have all the facts), calling you out for something you did do, didn’t do or did wrong. And, of course, they CC the higher-ups just to ratchet up the pressure a bit.

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Got Results? How to Succeed in Your Next Developmental Assignment

Let's Grow Leaders

If you are a strong leader, with a proven track record of results and looking to advance, chances are you are going to be asked to take on a job you know nothing about. On paper, you will be completely unqualified. Welcome to the world of succession planning developmental assignments Much research has shown that [.] The post Got Results? How to Succeed in Your Next Developmental Assignment appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Leadership and balance

Lead on Purpose

We all have more things to do in a day than the time needed to do them all. The key to moving forward without caving under pressure is maintaining balance in our lives. Effective leaders always find a way to meet the priorities of their life and their business. Here are three actions you can take right now to keep balance in your life: Be realistic: To have balance in your life you have to be realistic.

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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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4 Basic Skills of Emotional Intelligence that Can Make or Break Your Career

Women on Business

NEWS AND INSIGHTS UPDATE: Do you have emotional intelligence? Some people are born with it, but others have to work to develop it. Either way, emotional intelligence can affect your career. John Keyser of Common Sense Leadership defines emotional intelligence on The Glass Hammer blog as thatsomethingwithin us that helps us sense how we feel, enables us to sympathize with others, and gives us the ability to listen to other people when they need it.

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BLOGTASTIC by Rajesh Setty: A Useful Blogging Guide

QAspire

Why do I blog? Why do people blog? I blog because it helps me see my thoughts. Get clarity. Make a small difference to my community. Build meaningful connections. Establish credibility. One such connection I made during my blogging journey was with my friend and mentor, Rajesh Setty. He is one of those who has, through his writing, taught me some very important lessons in my blogging journey since 2006. - – - – -.

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The Great Leadership Development and Succession Planning Kit: A Book Review

Let's Grow Leaders

I imagine most of you are familiar with Dan McCarthy and his insightful blog, Great Leadership. I also know that many of you are also bloggers, who, like me, have aspirations of “some day” turning your posts into a brilliant and useful book. Dan has done just that in his e-book, The Great Leadership Development and [.] The post The Great Leadership Development and Succession Planning Kit: A Book Review appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Why Mentoring Matters

Mills Scofield

I'm posting these comments for you to see how fabulous our Gen-Y'ers are ( not to be boastful or bragging, I'm just honored to be able to meet these kids). Their ability to listen, distill, discern, learn, apply and share are way beyond what ours were at their age, let alone 10, 20, 30 years older. We need to listen, distill, discern, learn, apply and share their wisdom with the rest of the world.

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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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What’s an Encore Career? 7 Tips to Start Your Second Career

Women on Business

NEWS AND INSIGHTS UPDATE: No matter what age you are, it’s challenging to switch to a completely new career. However, more people are “recareering” every day. Amanda Augustine of TheLadders offers seven tips to jump start your encore career: Identify your key selling points. Think about the key strengths and skills that made you successful in your professional career, and explore opportunities where you think they could be applied.

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Communication: Too Direct or Too Subtle?

QAspire

Michael Wade explores communication dynamics in organizations with his post “ When Direct is Needed ”. He says, The practitioners of subtle don’t realize that the folks who practice extreme directness don’t take hints and aren’t in the market for nuance. They want the message without the bark on. If you haven’t told them directly, you haven’t told them.

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Growing Leaders Salute: Interview with Dan McCarthy

Let's Grow Leaders

As my regular readers know, on Saturdays I do a “Salutation,” about something warm and positive going on in the world. As I am meeting kindred spirits through my writing and leadership, I realized that some of the warmest stuff happening is coming from the people passionate about growing leaders. And so, I am expanding [.] The post Growing Leaders Salute: Interview with Dan McCarthy appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Growing a Startup: 3 Guys & a Bear

Mills Scofield

More wisdom, insight and learning from Gen-Y. I'm honored to have worked with Wyatt, Jack and Shahab since last November as they prepared, won and established their company. Wyatt won Oberlin College's Creativity & Leadership Fellowship of $30,000 to start the business after graduation. Below, the three share their lessons Window: Wyatt; Corner: Shahab; Jack in blue learned so far.

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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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The Guilt Ridden Working Mom

Women on Business

How to Survive those Moments of Guilt – We will all be okay! Whether you work outside the home, or in the home, you have those moments where you feel like you are doing something wrong, or neglecting them. That moment when they cry for someone else, or don’t want to be with you, or the ever present “one second honey, mommy’s working,” “let me just finish this email,” and then the immediate sick feeling in your gut after the words leave your mouth.

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Questions (And Answers) That Every CIO Needs To Be Asking (a chief information officer needs an IT strategy to create IT alignment)

The Accidental Successful CIO

'Image Credit CIO's need to find a way to deal with that big data that is piling up…. What kind of CIO would you like to be: reactive or proactive? The definition of information technology tells us that we’d like to the proactive type of CIO. We’d like to sit around thinking about strategic next steps. However, often times life doesn’t work that way: we suddenly get issues thrown our way all the time.

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StrategyDriven Podcast Episode 41 – The Big Picture of Business: When the Next Recession is Coming

Strategy Driven

StrategyDriven Podcasts focus on the tools and techniques executives and managers can use to improve their organization’s alignment and accountability to ultimately achieve superior results. These podcasts elaborate on the best practice and warning flag articles on the StrategyDriven website. Episode 41 – The Big Picture of Business: When the Next Recession is Coming explores the marketplace markers that signal a recession’s start and the timing of the next American recession.

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Are Entrepreneurs More Risk-o-Philic?

Mills Scofield

Read my hypothesis on risk at Harvard Business Review:

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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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5 Ways to Look Before Making the Entrepreneurial Leap

Women on Business

Guest Post by Kate Swoboda, aka Kate Courageous (learn more about Kate at the end of this post). People who are considering running their own business often consider doing so from the perspective of leaving a more standard, traditional job–in an office, with a boss, a human resources department, and a steady paycheck. Sometimes that means a hard reckoning–because being an entrepreneur is quite the lifestyle change.

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Contracts That Hurt You

Women on Business

Millions of people are taking the leap to start their own business every year. Whether a solopreneur or part of a skilled start up team – new business owners are busy. Starting a business may start with a dream but businesses succeed with hard work, determination, and the drive to forge ahead. Many people, after starting a company, realizing the amount of time it takes find themselves overwhelmed and unable to do it all.

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Richard Branson Agrees – More Women Needed in the Boardroom

Women on Business

NEWS AND INSIGHTS UPDATE: Richard Branson is quick to point out in a recent article for Entrepreneur.com that his company, Virgin, isn’t perfect in terms of putting women in executive positions and including women in its boardrooms. However, his company is moving in the right direction. That’s because Branson understands why we need more women in the boardroom.

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Men and Women Corporate Directors Disagree on Boardroom Diversity

Women on Business

NEWS AND INSIGHTS UPDATE: The 2012 Board of Directors Survey, which was conducted by WomenCorporate Directors (WCD), Heidrick & Struggles, Professor Boris Groysberg of the Harvard Business School, and researcher Deborah Bell, was released today. The study surveyed over 1,000 directors from around the world to identify strategic priorities and views on their own boards’ strengths and weaknesses.

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How to Migrate From DataStax Enterprise to Instaclustr Managed Apache Cassandra

If you’re considering migrating from DataStax Enterprise (DSE) to open source Apache Cassandra®, our comprehensive guide is tailored for architects, engineers, and IT directors. Whether you’re motivated by cost savings, avoiding vendor lock-in, or embracing the vibrant open-source community, Apache Cassandra offers robust value. Transition seamlessly to Instaclustr Managed Cassandra with our expert insights, ensuring zero downtime during migration.

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How to Move From a For-Profit to Nonprofit Career Successfully

Women on Business

NEWS AND INSIGHTS UPDATE: If you want to transition from a career in for-profit companies to non-profit organizations, then you need to prepare yourself mentally for the change you’ll see in your paycheck, environment, and more. Betsy Baker offers several tips to help you make the move successfully on Opportunity Knocks: Hours. 9-5 is not the norm in the non-profit world. “Many nonprofits may start their workday later in the morning than corporate businesses but may very well be work

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Management by Generations

Women on Business

There is an absolute truth in being an entrepreneur that you will be out of your depth on many occasions. Knowing this fact makes it easier to shift your perspective from a defensive stance to a position on learning from unexpected sources. I recently encountered a similar situation with a younger member of a board for a national organization, here’s what I learned.

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FedEx Jingle Studio Marries Viral Video with Facebook Marketing

Women on Business

ADVERTORIAL: Integrated marketing is so hot these days that when a representative from FedEx’s viral marketing team contacted me to ask if I’d discuss the new FedEx Jingle Studio campaign with the Women on Business audience, I was intrigued. In an effort to connect with small business owners and reposition FedEx as not just a delivery service but also a company that can produce business cards, banners, and brochures, the FedEx marketing team has launched the FedEx Jingle Studio Faceb

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