Sat.Dec 19, 2015 - Fri.Dec 25, 2015

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7 Fundamentals For Building Real Trust With Your Team

Let's Grow Leaders

Trust is tricky. It sure looks easy on paper (or a blog post.) But get out in real life, and what seems obvious and easy, suddenly becomes more difficult than securing funding for a corporate hover-craft. The sooner we talk about trust, why it works, and how it breaks down the better. That’s why I always start any emerging leader program by talking about trust.

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Lights-Out Manufacturing: Future Fantasy or Good Business?

CTOvision

Editor's note: We noticed this article in Autodesk's Line//Shape//Space and requested their permission to repost it here. Line//Shape//Space is a site dedicated to inspiring designers and creators. -bg. “Naturally, Man should want to stand on his own two feet … but how can he when his own machines cut the ground out from under him?”. So states the teaser for Philip K.

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NodeOS: The JavaScript Based Operating System

Toptal

An operating system written in Node.js? Yes, it exists, and it’s called NodeOS. Think for a second about the progress Node.js has made in the short time it’s been around. Now, imagine the same thing happening with an operating system. In this article, Toptal engineer Danny Morabito introduces us to NodeOS, guiding us with a step-by-step tutorial on how to create our first NodeOS application using nothing more than Node.js.

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9 Questions To Ask Before Hiring A Startup Lawyer

Women on Business

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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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How to Launch a Successful Project

Let's Grow Leaders

Have you ever been handed an “impossible” project, only to realize that the next step is to convince your team it’s completely doable? I have. I hope I can help you. Thanks so much for your support of Let’s Grow Leaders in 2015. I love the feedback I’m receiving on the 2016 panning survey. If you have asked for something specific, and not included your contact information, please send me a note at karin.hurt@letsgrowleaders.com to let me know how I can reach out to

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Real Influence is a By-Product

QAspire

The world today reveres influence and this leads people to chase influence. When influence becomes a goal, you can easily lose focus on what truly builds influence. Influence – real influence that changes people and their behaviors for better – is a by-product of: Clarifying your values to yourself and hence to others. Living those values and setting the right example (being authentic and integral).

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Influence Change at Work Radio Show – 2015 Episodes

Change Starts Here

This year on the Influence Change at Work radio show, fantastic guests joined me to share their wisdom, experience and tips. Here’s the list of topics we discussed. Click through to listen to each episode, visit the radio show page , or subscribe to the podcast on iTunes. Thank you to all my guests for sharing their time and insights. And thank you for listening!

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Build Ultra-Modern Web Apps with Angular Material

Toptal

Material Design uses a paper metaphor, bold intentions, and meaningful motion to give user interfaces an ultra-modern feel. Web applications built using AngularJS can now easily adopt these design principles using Angular Material, a reference implementation of Google's Material Design Specification. In this article, Toptal engineer Matt Spaulding walks us through the principles of Material Design and showcases some modern user interface elements built using the Angular Material library.

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Andre LeBlank on Artificial Intelligence and the future

CTOvision

The video at this link and embedded below by Andre LeBlanc on Artificial Intelligence (filmed at a TEDx event) captures the many points technologists (specially Ray Kurzweil ) have been articulating on the future for quite a while, but is notable for Andre's focus on AI vice just the future of computing.

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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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Why Your Business Should Use Snapchat for Marketing

Women on Business

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Agile Software Development

Professor Beekums

It’d be hard to be a software developer these days without hearing about “being agile” Agile is a popular software development process. It is intentionally loosely defined, though that naturally leads to many many different opinions about what it is. The spectrum varies from those who think there are some rules that absolutely must be followed in order to be considered agile to those who use it to justify a lack of process.

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3D Printing: Should Designers And Developers Take Notice?

Toptal

3D printing is not a new technology, but recent advances in several fields have made it more accessible to hobbyists and businesses. Compared to other tech sectors, it’s still a small industry, but most analysts agree it has a lot of potential. But where is the potential for freelance designers and software engineers?

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ICYMI: The Watson Story

CTOvision

The video at this link and embedded below captures the back story on Watson's participation on Jeopardy! It is worth watching for historical context on the research behind the IBM system and some of the interesting stories around how it was brought to life.

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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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Why HR Professionals Must Know How Employees Commute

Women on Business

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What Is Beyond Control? New Ways For Benevolent Leaders To Innovate.

Strategy Driven

Millennials and younger generations don’t respond to control and a non-stop focus on productivity. To get the best out of them you need to be a benevolent leader. What is different about being a benevolent leader? You are always in the question of what you are creating and how it can contribute to everyone, not just your bottom line. Benevolent leadership is innovation on steroids.

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Routine Software

The Programmer's Paradox

As our knowledge and understanding of software grows, it is important to keep track of what are ‘trivial’ and ‘routine’ software projects. Trivial means that something can be constructed with only the bare minimum of effort, by someone whose has done it before. Routine means that it has been done so many times in the past, that the knowledge -- explicitly or implicitly -- is available within the industry; it doesn’t however mean that it is trivial, or that isn’t a large amount of work.

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Hot Holiday Tech

CTOvision

This time of year is one for commerce. The shiniest, newest, coolest gadgets are always the first to go from the shelves. This year in particular has been one for innovative gadgets and amazing buys. From wearables to autonomous driving vehicles, the list below includes my picks of the hottest tech of the season: Samsung 16TB SSD. One of the largest SSD hard drives ever made.

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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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Designing for Database Fairness

Kentik

Applying Multi-level Queues in Multi-tenant Databases. Under the hood, Kentik Detect is powered by Kentik Data Engine (KDE), a high-availability, massively-scalable, multi-tenant distributed database. One of the recurring challenges we encounter in our ongoing optimization of KDE is how best to address the need for fairness, which in computer science is another word for scheduling.

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Why Efficiency in Your Personal Life Matters

Strategy Driven

Have you ever had a day where you go to bed saying to yourself, “I worked so hard, but I didn’t get anything done?” I hate when that happens, whether it be at work or at home. In this scattered culture, it is increasingly easy to lose focus on the most important things in life. There are two primary strategies I can credit for giving me a giant boost in my daily productivity.

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Two is Too Many

Code Simplicity

There is a key rule that I personally operate by when I’m doing incremental development and design , which I call “two is too many.” It’s how I implement the “be only as generic as you need to be” rule from the Three Flaws of Software Design. Essentially, I know exactly how generic my code needs to be by noticing that I’m tempted to cut and paste some code, and then instead of cutting and pasting it, designing a generic solution that meets just those two

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Fed Tech Roundup December 23

CTOvision

The following are some of the hot topics in the federal technology ecosystem (from FedTechTicker.com and TopTechTicker.com ): "Fed Tech Ticker". Juniper Hack: DHS Tells Agencies to Close Encryption Backdoors - Nextgov. For the New Year, Let's Resolve to Improve Our Tech Literacy - New York Times. Battelle technology senses active shooter situations - Columbus Dispatch.

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“Build vs Buy Analytics?” The Question ALL SaaS Leaders Need to Answer in 2024

As a SaaS leader, you know that the more metrics, insights, and analytics you add to your products, the more engagement you’ll have – and the stickier your product will become with customers. At what point do you decide to keep building your analytics in-house or invest in an embedded analytics solution? Read our Build vs. Buy Analytics guide to learn: Top 4 benefits of embedded analytics A quick cost comparison of in-house analytics development vs embedded analytics 10 considerations to help yo

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Fed Tech Roundup December 22

CTOvision

The following are some of the hot topics in the federal technology ecosystem (from FedTechTicker.com and TopTechTicker.com ): "Fed Tech Ticker". Executive Profile: James Jasinski, Fortinet VP for Federal BD and Supply Chain. Third quarter rally sparks Cru past FCW - MyWebTimes.com. SpaceX Makes History By Successfully Proving Real Space Rockets Can Be Reused: Lands A Giant Falcon 9 Rocket For The First Time.

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University of Maryland Improves Heterogeneous Cluster Environment using Bright Cluster Manager

CTOvision

The University of Maryland, Baltimore County operates the UMBC High Performance Computing Facility (HPCF), a community-based, interdisciplinary core facility for scientific computing and research. The facility is used in a wide variety of research involving numerical simulations, statistical comparison, computational models, and atmospheric remote sensing.

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How to Optimize Your Maintenance Spare Parts Inventory

Strategy Driven

Economic demands place increasing pressure on executives and managers to reduce costs while maintaining high levels of operational safety and reliability. For Work Management and Supply Chain leaders, areas of potential savings lie with: optimizing inventory levels while reducing associated carrying costs, minimizing or eliminating expediting costs, and. eliminating losses incurred as parts become obsolete in the warehouse. … while providing the highest level of parts availability.

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Training vs. Learning: Do you want to train? Or have someone learn?

Strategy Driven

Training successfully educates only those who are predisposed to the new material. Others may endeavor to learn during class but may not permanently adopt it. The problem isn’t the value of information or the eagerness of the learner: It’s a problem with both the training model itself and the way learners learn. It’s a systems/change problem. How We Learn.

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A Tale of Two Case Studies: Using LLMs in Production

Speaker: Tony Karrer, Ryan Barker, Grant Wiles, Zach Asman, & Mark Pace

Join our exclusive webinar with top industry visionaries, where we'll explore the latest innovations in Artificial Intelligence and the incredible potential of LLMs. We'll walk through two compelling case studies that showcase how AI is reimagining industries and revolutionizing the way we interact with technology. Some takeaways include: How to test and evaluate results 📊 Why confidence scoring matters 🔐 How to assess cost and quality 🤖 Cross-platform cost vs. quality tr

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Disorganize or Bust

Strategy Driven

One half of all new organizations will close their doors forever after only five years. Those organizations – started with vision, enthusiasm, and hope for the future – will leave employees, clients, and constituents in limbo. Within sixteen years only twenty five percent will still be viable. There are a number of reasons for failure but some result from their own success.

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Leadership Lessons from the United States Naval Academy – Prioritization: Knowing that you can’t do it all

Strategy Driven

United States Naval Academy midshipmen are under never ending pressure to learn and develop, to become the finest military officers in the world. Each midshipman is assigned a full undergraduate workload to be completed in no more than four years. 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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Out of touch or out of their minds? Maybe both!

Strategy Driven

In a survey conducted by a BIG benefits management company (a management and human resource consulting firm), they asked 365 CEO’s and sales management executives, “What are the three key factors that separate high performing sales professionals from moderate to low performing sales professionals?”. Both CEO’s and C-level sales executives (all people who don’t sell, but rely on their salespeople to produce sales so that they can get paid), ranked “self discipline/motivation” as the m

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