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7 Ways to Create a Listening Culture

Let's Grow Leaders

If you could wave a magic wand and suddenly make every employee in your organization proficient in one behavior what would that be? Critical thinking? Customer-orientation? Sales? No matter which behavior I consider, I’m hard pressed to come up with one that would be more impactful with just a bit more listening. Listening transforms relationships.

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Language as a Leadership Tool?

General Leadership

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. “ Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man.” Martin Heidegger. Are you a leader? If you are, it is time to look at how you and those around you use language, because language is one of your fundamental tools.

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CAMBRIC: The Seven Megatrends Creating The Future Of Information Technology

CTOvision

CTOvision has just released our latest white paper projecting the future of seven major trends in information technology. You can remember these seven major IT megatrends by the mnemonic acronym Cambric. Cambric stands for: C loud Computing. A rtificial Intelligence. M obility. B ig Data. R obotics. I nternet of Things. C yberSecurity. Advances in these seven technologies are closely interrelated.

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4 Ad Agency Secrets for Better Brand Building

Women on Business

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Get Better Network Graphs & Save Analysts Time

Many organizations today are unlocking the power of their data by using graph databases to feed downstream analytics, enahance visualizations, and more. Yet, when different graph nodes represent the same entity, graphs get messy. Watch this essential video with Senzing CEO Jeff Jonas on how adding entity resolution to a graph database condenses network graphs to improve analytics and save your analysts time.

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5 Ways Listening Like an Anthropologist Will Make You a Better Leader

Let's Grow Leaders

When I was in grad school, there were clearly two camps (and they didn’t respect each other all that much): The scientests out to prove their hypotheses through experimentation, control groups, and statistical analysis, and the qualitative researchers who showed up, listened, and let the theories emerge. Being in business, and studying at night, I was initially drawn to the power of proof.

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NSA Recommendations Include High Entropy and Longer Keys to Protect Against Quantum Computer Developments

CTOvision

Currently, the NSA’s Information Assurance Directorate (IAD) only uses approved Suite B cryptographic algorithms, specified by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), to protect classified and unclassified National Security Systems (NSS). The Suite B algorithms have served as a method to ensure the security of classified and unclassified information through public networks.

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Choosing the Right IT Help Desk Software for Small Business

Women on Business

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SPECIAL EDITION-Frontline Festival – Thought Leaders Share about 7 Roles That Lead to Lasting Results

Let's Grow Leaders

Welcome back to the Let’s Grow Leaders Frontline Festival. I’m delighted to have so many thought leaders weighing in on the seven roles I see as most critical to building results that last. This Festival is also a celebration of my new multi-media e-course that is launching October 27th. You can learn more about it by clicking here. On that page, you can also download my FREE ebook: Mentoring in the Age of the Millennial and sign up for my FREE 5 Day Leadership Challenge.

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A Day Short of Missing History

General Leadership

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. “You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore”. Christopher Columbus. It’s a seldom discussed fact that Christopher Columbus nearly missed his chance to make the history books in his 1492 discovery of the “New World.

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Streamlining Database Compliance with CI/CD Integration

IT leaders know the importance of compliance at every level, but the database often gets left behind as other environments are automated for robust protection. This whitepaper emphasizes the importance of robust, auditable, and secure database change management practices for safeguarding organizational compliance. Learn how automating database compliance: Mitigates risk Protects against security vulnerabilities Helps avoid regulatory penalties Aligns database workflows with app lifecycle Turns d

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Big Data & Brews from Strata NY 2015: Tony Baer on Spark in the Hadoop Ecosystem

CTOvision

Datameer kicked off their first Big Data & Brews on the East Coast at Strata + Hadoop World New York. Datameer sat down with Tony Baer, principle analyst at Ovum Research, to discuss where Spark fits into the Hadoop ecosystem. Watch Part 1 of Big Data & Brews with Tony Baer here. TRANSCRIPT: Andrew: All right. Here we are at another Strata Plus Hadoop World.

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4 Ways to Hire the Right Onboarding Manager

Women on Business

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Mindful Mondays: What I’ve Learned in the Year Since Overworked and Overwhelmed Launched

Next Level Blog

As I’ve gotten older, my operating theory has been that each passing year feels shorter because it’s a smaller percentage of my overall life. (I was so excited to see that idea visually represented in a cool article in the Washington Post this year.) That principle has never seemed more true than in the year since my wife, Diane, and I launched my latest book, Overworked and Overwhelmed: The Mindfulness Alternative.

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Time Machine Tuesday: Learning Leadership from Losers

General Leadership

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. From Our Early Files: Originally Published. 02 March 2014. “Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.” John F. Kennedy. You can learn almost as much about leadership from losers as you can from heroes.

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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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Visit The Control Center That Ensures The Availability and Reliability of.com,gov and.net

CTOvision

We have a limited number of slots available for CTOvision readers to attend a special 28 Oct 2015 discussion at Verisign that will include a tour of the Registry Operations Command Center (ROCC). This high tech watchfloor is critical to the smooth operations of the global Internet, playing a key role in the now over 18 years of continuous availability of the.com infrastructure.

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Open Source: It's Not That Scary!

Toptal

Is open source scary? Do developers think that nobody would be interested in their personal projects? What are the fears associated with publishing your own work for the public to see? In this article, Toptal Director of Engineering Anna Chiara Bellini shares how, as an accomplished engineer, she made her first contribution to GitHub. This guide features all the step-by-step basics to getting involved in open source, including everything from what open source software is, to how to start working

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CIOs Need To Take Care Of Their Younger Workers

The Accidental Successful CIO

Younger workers tend to make more mistakes Image Credit: Hussain Isa Alderazi. As the person in the CIO position, I’m pretty sure that by now you’ve come to realize that not all of the workers at your company are the same. It turns out that some of these workers need a little bit of extra help from your IT department. You might instinctively think that I’m talking about the company’s older workers.

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Love Your Work, Love Your Life

LogicMonitor

Culture is a set of beliefs and values that guide social norms. Establishing a company culture is no easy feat. At fast-growth tech companies like LogicMonitor, a distinct culture is incredibly important to driving success. Culture defines your company’s personality, the characteristics of the employees that are likely to be successful in it, and impacts customer experience.

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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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Breakfast Discussion 22 Oct on Empowering Cloud Utilization in the Federal Market: Increasing Utilization While Driving Down Risk

CTOvision

For our readers in the DC area, please consider joining us for a breakfast discussion on empowering cloud utilization in the federal market on 22 Oct 2015. To register contact us here or reply to any of our newsletters and ask for more info. Details below: This executive breakfast will be held at the Tower Club in Tysons starting at 8:00 AM. We’ll be talking about how to use cloud bursting to add additional computing resources to your environment, which is a good way to get started with the Clo

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Electron: Cross-platform Desktop Apps Made Easy

Toptal

Building cross-platform desktop applications has been something of a nightmare for a very long time, as extreme differences between popular desktop operating systems makes it a challenging feat. However, in light of newer tools and frameworks like Electron, building a cross-platform desktop application has never been easier. In this article, Toptal engineer Stéphane P.

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New Book: Growing Your CIO Career: How CIOs Can Work With The Entire Company In Order To Be Successful

The Accidental Successful CIO

Grow Your CIO Career. Just becoming your company’s CIO is not enough. Once you reach this lofty point, you are going to have to take on the responsibility of growing your career so that it can truly become the challenging opportunity that you’ve been seeking. The good news is that this can be done. The bad news is that it’s never easy.

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Audio Video Media Forensics

Coalfire

Our media forensics practice is a fast growing part of Coalfire. We’re often asked what we can do, and this post is intended to be a quick primer to provide some background if you’re in need of this service and what you can expect from us and others in the field.

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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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Seamless Sharing of Information Amongst Enclaves

CTOvision

Everyone lives in their own world, surrounded by familiar systems and processes. That is their enclave. Groups of people and systems work in concert with each other using some agreed language and standards to form another level of enclave. Organizations have their span of operations that form enclaves of enclaves. Organizations work with other organizations using some agreed approach, forming yet another level of enclave.

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Simplified NGINX Load Balancing with Loadcat

Toptal

NGINX, a sophisticated web server, offers high performance load balancing features, among many other capabilities. Like most other web server software for Unix-based systems, NGINX can be configured easily by writing simple text files. However, there is something interesting about tools that configure other tools, and it may be even easier to configure an NGINX load balancer if there was a tool for it.

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Fun Friday – Computerisation & automation – weekly office cartoon #329 #ff

Rapid BI

“Why are we buying faster computers? Our people already make mistakes fast enough!” Fun Friday – Computerisation & automation – weekly office cartoon #329 #ff Office cartoons Office based cartoons, funnies and humor can help to communicate important messages or tips in a non threatening way. See more office humor Take a look […].

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Coalfire Contributes to New Book on Cybersecurity

Coalfire

Today marks the launch of a new book published by the New York Stock Exchange and Palo Alto Networks called, " Navigating the Digital Age: The Definitive Cybersecurity Guide for Directors and Officers. " I’m proud to have worked with my predecessor, the late Rick Dakin, to contribute a chapter to this book, which provides boards, executives, and officers at enterprises, government agencies, and other organizations with useful, expert advice on how to best protect their businesses f

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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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WEBINAR: The Impact of Firewall Sprawl

CTOvision

New research with the Aberdeen Group highlights how network complexity is adding cost and increasing risk. Date: Tuesday, November 3. Time: 12:00p - 1:00p CT. Register >> Network firewalls have long been established as the ubiquitous first line of defense for every organization’s network security strategy. But the evolving needs of the enterprise have dramatically changed the make-up – and complexity – of network infrastructures.

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Professional Development Best Practice 3 – Acquiring Experience Beyond that of Your Position

Strategy Driven

The StrategyDriven Professional recognizes that a critical combination of knowledge, skill, and experience is needed to ascend into positions of increasing authority and responsibility. Acquiring the prerequisite experiences, however, can be extremely difficult. Hi there! This article is available to StrategyDriven Personal Business Advisor Remote Access and Dedicated Advisor clients and those who subscribe to one of the article's related categories.

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Now Generally Available: Nutanix Acropolis 4.5

Nutanix

There’s no question that enterprise application usability has for the most part been left behind.