Sat.Jan 19, 2013 - Fri.Jan 25, 2013

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7 Ways To Prevent False Urgency

Let's Grow Leaders

False urgency can be lethal in organizations, and it become more toxic the higher it starts. Gravity exaggerates false urgency. How You Are Unknowingly Creating False Urgency Even if you are an empowering, enlightened leader, if you are the “boss” and you say “jump” (through your words or unintentional reactions), your team will likely start [.

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The Trouble With Changing Behaviors (and What You Can Do About It)

Change Starts Here

Changing the behaviors of people in an organization is tricky. You can communicate what is expected. You can train people how to do the behavior. You can provide tools to make it easier. You can add incentives to help motivate people to do something new. And still, they will probably continue to do things the old way. Because perhaps the strongest factor in how people choose which behaviors to do is not in that list.

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By 2015, more than 30 percent of analytics projects will deliver.

CTOvision

'cyber-workforce.preview Gartner projects that by 2015, more than 30 percent of analytics projects will deliver insights based on structured and unstructured data. Sounds rational/logical/realistic to me. Sounds like the entire.

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NYC Machine Learning meetup

Erik Bernhardsson

From the NYC Machine Learning talk I had last week: Haven’t looked at it yet except briefly. Unfortunately the quality isn’t the best.

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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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The Input Paradox

Let's Grow Leaders

When you take your leadership seriously, you are on a constant search for input. “How am I doing?” “What do you think” “How did that go?” “Am I on your short list?” Before I go any further, let me stop and warn you. This is one of those “do what I say… not as a [.] The post The Input Paradox appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Capturing (positive) attention for your brand

Women on Business

When you’re trying to grow your business, it’s your job, 24/7, to capture attention, and when you have it, to make a meaningful connection. You do this by being clear about what you do, who you do it for and why your product or service is useful. And, by getting others to care about who you really are and what you actually do. You can make this info-gathering easier for others by subtly and sincerely conveying integrity between who you are and what you’re selling.

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NYC Machine Learning meetup

Erik Bernhardsson

From the NYC Machine Learning talk I had last week: Haven’t looked at it yet except briefly. Unfortunately the quality isn’t the best.

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The Problem With Opportunities

Let's Grow Leaders

When I first read Karen Martin’s book, The Outstanding Organization, her definition of a problem versus opportunity stuck with me. ”In recent years, it has become popular to avoid the word problem in organizations, recasting it instead as an opportunity for improvement. While proponents of using more positive terms are surely well meaning, I think they’ve got [.

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Mentoring 101 | Thoughts for the Everyday Leader

Nathan Magnuson

Home About Coaching Contact Guest Posts Archives. Thoughts for the Everyday Leader. by Nathan Magnuson. Home / Leadership / Mentoring 101. Mentoring 101. January 21, 2013. — 11 Comments. Telemachus consults Mentor. It’s said that King Solomon was the wisest man who ever walked the earth. From the stories it seems his leadership ability was pretty astonishing as well.

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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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10 Tips to Get the Best Google Search Results

Women on Business

How many times have you typed a phrase into the Google search box–thinking you’ve got the perfect keywords to get just the thing you’re looking for–only to have the actual Google search results be a jumbled mess of content that doesn’t help you at all? If so, you’re not alone. While finding the right keywords is important, their usefulness is limited when Google has to search through 634 million websites (and even more individual pages) in order to deliver relevant results to you.

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How to Run a Staff Meeting

Next Level Blog

One of my favorite things in our Next Level Leadership® group coaching program is when the high potential participants come together in the fourth session to debrief each other on their Executive Shadow Days. Before they show up for a day of coaching on Organizational Presence, they spend a day shadowing a senior executive in their organization. During their shadow day, they do whatever the executive does.

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5 Ways to Surface Team Conflict and Live to Tell About It

Let's Grow Leaders

We all know deep in our hearts that teams need conflict. Conflict is “healthy.” Leaders and teams have been talking about Tuckman’s forming, storming, norming, performing model since the mid 1960s. Teams were storming long before that. We get it intellectually. We’ve even seen the value of addressing conflict play out practically.

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Fearless at Work

Lead on Purpose

The concept of being fearless is intriguing. Though it’s something I’ve heard and known about all my life, it was driven home in a profound way when I first read The Fearless Mind and began living the principles in my life and helping my son in his quest to become a top ballroom dancer. Understanding fear and learning how to deal with it effectively is key to progressing in any endeavor.

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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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7 Ways Networking Can Change Your Career and Your Life

Women on Business

NEWS AND INSIGHTS UPDATE: Do you have a negative perception of networking? A lot of people do, but the truth is that networking can significantly affect your career and your life. Networking guru Lirone Glickman shared her recent article about the seven ways networking can change your life on the Women on Business Facebook Page this week, and her insights are fantastic.

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12 Lessons on Life and Leadership From Photography

QAspire

When you take up a new passion, it is so amazing to see how things unfold. Since last few years, I have turned into a photography enthusiast, an avid learner of the art. No, I am not taking any formal photography classes but am learning it by doing in my spare time. You can view my photographic adventures at Flickr. In Hindi, the word “Drishti” means vision.

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Children’s Advice For President Obama

Let's Grow Leaders

What advice do you have for President Obama? We’ve been asking kids for their advice for Obama since the election results came in. We asked them to consider… What would you say to the President to help him with his next term? If you were President what would you change? In one word, what is [.] The post Children’s Advice For President Obama appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Change Your Delivery

The Recovering Engineer

If you lead others, you are in the change business. When you are in the change business, you will eventually have to deal with resistance to your ideas, the direction you want to go, the new behaviors you are expecting, and more. Dealing with resistance is a normal part of leadership. When you attempt to create change that involves other people, they will inevitably ask the question: “What’s in it for me?

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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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Is there a strategy to communication?

Women on Business

I had a wonderful conversation with a colleague this morning about how communication fails in organizations. Whether you are a one man band or a conglomerate, there is a need to be able to effectively communicate with your staff and your clients. Do you know how to do that? According to Kim Mozingo at the Conwell Group, there is a lot that I need to know about strategic communication and here’s how it can help your company.

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Create Career Sustainability One “Tweak” At a Time

Mills Scofield

I am blessed & honored to have Cali Yost guest blog. The New York Times calls her “one of the smartest, sophisticated thinkers” and Mashable lists her as 1 of the Top 14 Career Experts on Twitter. Personally, Cali has helped me achieve work+life fit! Not an easy task and an ongoing process. I urge you to read her post and buy her book.

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Managing the Real

QAspire

How often do we, as professionals and managers, get sucked into the whirlwind of status reports, new-initiatives-everyday, number crunching, endless meetings and presentations? Sometimes, the best management is to do simple and obvious things more effectively. In this context, I enjoyed reading an insightful post titled “ Finding more time for real management ” at Business Strategy Review, London Business School.

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Long-awaited HIPAA Omnibus Rule is Unveiled

Coalfire

As of January 17, 2013, the HIPAA Omnibus Rule has finally been released by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), which will modify the HIPAA privacy, security, and enforcement rules. The package of regulations, in regard to this long-overdue HIPAA Omnibus Rule, will officially be posted on the Federal Register on January 25, 2013 and will be put into effect on March 26, 2013.

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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 You Need a Social Resume [Infographic]

Women on Business

Did you know that 1 in 6 job seekers credit social media as a key factor in landing their current job? Did you know that 92% of employers use social media for recruiting? Those are just two of the reasons you need a social resume that are identified and quantified in the Social Resume Infographic from OnlineColleges shown below. If you’re still not convinced that you need to create a social resume, take a look at some more statistics: 93% of recruiters use LinkedIn to find job candidates.

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Informal Learning – ensure learning is shared

Rapid BI

It’s easy to spend money on training course and conferences, but do we really maximise the learning? Most organizations do not require people to share their learning – why not make it a part of your learning management, to have people offer peer presentations of events attended and start local discussion groups to further develop [.]. Related posts: Twitter as a learning aid – learning beyond university to informal learning.

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Excellence of Execution

Six Disciplines

“Execution is taking precedence over profit and top-line growth as a focus for CEOs around the world. This is according to a global survey of 769 global chief executives from 40 countries, which was released by The Conference Board in October of 2007. When asked to rate their greatest concerns from among 121 different challenges, these chief executives chose excellence of execution as their top challenge and keeping consistent execution of strategy by top management as their third greatest conce

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Interview on Use Your Inside Voice

Mills Scofield

Grateful to Karen Catlin for asking my views on managing and parenting on her blog.

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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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Corporate Cultures – How Stressed is Your Workplace Environment?

Strategy Driven

Stress in the workplace leads to significantly detrimental impacts on overall business results. According to the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, workplace stress contributes to a number of adverse physical and performance consequences among affected employees including: Headaches. Sleep disturbances. Difficulty concentrating. Short temper.

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Digital vs Conventional Networking

Rapid BI

In today’s world, technology is taking over every aspect of our lives. Business and networking have exploded in the digital age. You can send tweets while you are waiting at a stop light (not recommended) or write a blog post from a local diner. Our whole world has made a huge technological turn, and although [.] Related posts: Networking or not working?

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7 Things A Master Sushi Chef Can Teach Us About Leadership

Terry Starbucker

Recently I watched a documentary film called “ Jiro Dreams of Sushi “ – it was about 85 year-old Jiri Ono , who is considered to be one of the top sushi chefs in the world, attracting a 3 star rating from Michelen in his little 10-seat restaurant tucked inside a subway station in Tokyo. It was thrilling to watch this man at work, preparing delectable morsels (that look like mini works of art) with 70 years of acquired skill and experience – and a lot of pride.

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