Let's Grow Leaders
NOVEMBER 17, 2014
'Confident, humble leaders take a moment to privately “applaud themselves.” There’s absolutely nothing wrong with a mini-time out to tell yourself “Wow! Great job.” Particularly for the incremental baby steps that change the game. Privately applauding yourself is vital if others aren’t looking or caring about your greater mission.
General Leadership
NOVEMBER 21, 2014
'“This creed of the desert seemed inexpressible in words, and indeed in thought.” T.E. Lawrence. Yes, Afghanistan Rules! What follows are six rules or truisms that a group of combat advisors codified during the course of their year-long deployment in Afghanistan. Some of the rules may be unique to their experience; some may be consistent with the experience of others that have deployed to Afghanistan.
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N2Growth Blog
NOVEMBER 20, 2014
'By Damian D. “Skipper” Pitts. Chair, Organizational Development, N2Growth. In today’s leadership and strategy methodologies, leaders and organizations need to have five strategic rules of leadership clarity present in order to achieve greater outcomes of effort within their organizational designs. And, when they are successful, everyone will be able to manage complexity – the new complexities of business – without becoming complicated.
CTOvision
NOVEMBER 17, 2014
'Editor’s note: This article first appeared on our “ Threat Brief ” site, home of the daily Threat Brief. -bg. The U.S. Department of State is considered by many to be one of the front runners in terms of automating IT. Their approach at implementing the community-coordinated consensus audit guidelines have been laudatory and positive.
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Let's Grow Leaders
NOVEMBER 21, 2014
'Welcome back to the Let’s Grow Leaders Frontline Festival. Our November Festival is all about Worklife Balance Integration. Thanks to Joy and Tom Guthrie of Vizwerx Group for the great pic and to all our contributors! What is Worklife Balance? “Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony.” – Thomas Merton.
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Erik Bernhardsson
NOVEMBER 21, 2014
Say you build a machine learning model, like a movie recommender system. You need to optimize for something. You have 1-5 stars as ratings so let’s optimize for mean squared error. Great. Then let’s say you build a new model. It has even lower mean squared error. You deploy it. This model turns out to give a lower mean squared error. You roll it out to users and the metrics are tanking.
Change Starts Here
NOVEMBER 18, 2014
'Bestselling author Rodger Dean Duncan of Duncan Worldwide shares nuggets of wisdom from his book, Change-Friendly Leadership: How to Transform Good Intentions into Great Performance. Listen to hear what Dr. Duncan calls the Four T’s: key leadership behaviors that drive change. Listen to the show here (30 minutes): Be sure to visit the radio show page to listen to past episodes and subscribe to the show.
Let's Grow Leaders
NOVEMBER 19, 2014
'Even the most confident among us sometimes lose our voice. Everyone needs encouragement every now and then. A Story of Voice Losing and Finding. Our church is exceptionally progressive when it comes to women in leadership. In fact, the ministers and all church staff are women. And yet, we have this big deal tradition– a fundraiser auction– which has been historically led by male auctioneers.
Terry Starbucker
NOVEMBER 16, 2014
'He’s an all-time favorite leadership guru. His lessons have deeply resonated with me since the first time I read them. They were simple, straightforward, unapologetically direct, and timeless. And there isn’t a week that goes by in my leadership practice that I don’t think of them. Who is this man, and what were those lessons? His name is Emil Liebling.
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Erik Bernhardsson
NOVEMBER 21, 2014
Say you build a machine learning model, like a movie recommender system. You need to optimize for something. You have 1-5 stars as ratings so let’s optimize for mean squared error. Great. Then let’s say you build a new model. It has even lower mean squared error. You deploy it. This model turns out to give a lower mean squared error. You roll it out to users and the metrics are tanking.
CTOvision
NOVEMBER 18, 2014
'By Bob Gourley. The United States Congress Permanent Joint Committee on Information Technology does not exist, yet. But some national security and technology thinkers are considering the pros and cons of a Joint Committee like this and with this post I would like to encourage you to think through the concept yourself. First, some background on what a Joint Committee of Congress can be.
Next Level Blog
NOVEMBER 20, 2014
'One of my favorite Saturday routines is spending an hour or so browsing through the weekend edition of the Financial Times on my iPad. There are often fascinating long interviews with newsmakers in a feature called “Lunch with the FT” and usually some interesting reviews of books I won’t read but am interested in learning a little bit about. Without fail, though, my favorite feature is a short one called “The Inventory.”.
Steve Farber
NOVEMBER 19, 2014
'Attendance for The Certification Weekend is limited to a small group, so claim your spot now! Click here for all the details!
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Toptal
NOVEMBER 18, 2014
CakePHP is an amazing PHP framework, but it has a steep learning curve! It requires a good amount of research and training to become an expert. This article describes few bad practices when writing a CakePHP code, and proposes the correct approach to avoid them.
CTOvision
NOVEMBER 15, 2014
'We have been long-term supporters of the Security Innovation Network (SINET) and believe this group plays an important role in being a catalyst for innovation around enterprise cyber security. Of the many virtuous activities of this group, my favorite event is the yearly Showcase held in DC. This event helps highlight emerging technologies with potential dramatic positive impact on enterprise missions and also helps advance the exchange of ideas around mission needs and concepts of operation on
Next Level Blog
NOVEMBER 17, 2014
'In a meeting with a group of CEO''s last week, we were talking about how to show up at your best under conditions of high stress. One of the group shared a checklist of that a well eds expert had given him. It was a list of activities you could do either indoors or outdoors that would lower your stress. Each activity has a point value assigned to it.
Nathan Magnuson
NOVEMBER 17, 2014
'I’ve written before about generosity. It’s one of the greatest antidotes to selfishness there is. Obviously there is no shortage of needs both locally and globally. I’m also convinced that it has never been easier for the everyday leader to get involved. But the potency of individual generosity is far surpassed by the momentum organizational generosity can build.
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The Accidental Successful CIO
NOVEMBER 19, 2014
'CIOs can end up spending a lot of their limited budget on travel Image Credit. As the person with the CIO job one of your greatest challenges is to find ways to keep your department’s spending under control on top of the everyday challenge of letting the rest of the company know about the importance of information technology. One of the biggest drains on your budget can be travel expenses.
CTOvision
NOVEMBER 21, 2014
'By Bob Gourley. On 11 Dec 2014 we will be providing a briefing on lessons extracted from our research into the new Cloudera and Intel partnership. This presentation is designed to arm architects with the information they need to efficiently modernize and deliver cost-saving, mission-supporting capabilities to their enterprise. This webinar format will enable us to dynamically present and then interact with the architects, program managers and technology executives attending.
Toptal
NOVEMBER 21, 2014
Working with a great designer can be an invaluable asset to any team. With clear communication channels, and free-flowing co-operation, the designer should give you everything you need to speed up the building process and limit questions and confusion as much as possible. What can you, the developer, do to ensure that the product you have built is delivered in a timely manner without sacrificing the quality of the user interface and user experience?
Mills Scofield
NOVEMBER 21, 2014
'So honored to host Frank Sonnenberg on my site!!! Wow! His new book, Follow Your Conscience : Make a Difference in Your Life & in the Lives of Others, is just out. Get it ! His wisdom is powerful and practical! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~. 8 Great Ways to Learn. Learning requires more than attending lectures and regurgitating what you’ve heard.
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Rapid BI
NOVEMBER 21, 2014
'“There are aphids on the plants in the reception area. As long as they’re on company property and doing their job, we’re required to pay them.” Office based cartoons, funnies or humor can help to communicate important messages or tips in a non threatening way. see more office humor Tweets by @RapidBI See some […].
CTOvision
NOVEMBER 18, 2014
'By Bob Gourley. Here are some of the technology stories we are tracking we thought would interest you: Toyota bets on hydrogen technology. Following years of self-reflection over its growth strategy and quality lapses, Toyota is back on the offensive with its most aggressive bet yet on hydrogen-powered vehicle technology. The company on Tuesday said its new fuel-cell sedan will be … Read more on Financial Times.
Coalfire
NOVEMBER 20, 2014
A year ago, many retail cybersecurity discussions began and ended with PCI compliance. Today, after a gut-wrenching 10 months of data breaches stretching from mom-and-pop shops to category-leading brands, the discussions are broader, the risks are better understood and every link in the customer data chain is coming under newfound scrutiny.
Mills Scofield
NOVEMBER 16, 2014
'With Thanksgiving coming up, I thought this was a story worth retelling - Thanksgiving, Christmas, Chanukah and a new year ahead. I am continually overwhelmed with the blessings in my life and this remains one of the most powerful in my entire career - thanks to Vala Afshar & Sidney Kushner.
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Rapid BI
NOVEMBER 18, 2014
'“Your operating system was installed on April 25th,which makes your computer a Taurus. As a Pisces, you’re bound to have conflicts.” Office based cartoons, funnies or humor can help to communicate important messages or tips in a non threatening way. see more office humor Tweets by @RapidBI See some of our products to […].
CTOvision
NOVEMBER 19, 2014
'By Katie Kennedy. The question is “what will come next,” after 2014 was the “year of the breach.” Booz Allen has created a list of 2015’s top Cyber Security Trends. “Even as cyberattacks are a daily occurrence, we are seeing some major changes on the horizon,” observed Booz Allen Principal Albert Belman. “We know the nature of attacks will evolve, yet how?
Strategy Driven
NOVEMBER 21, 2014
'Unless there is an obvious problem, most of us don’t give more than an occasional passing thought to how our voice sounds. However, recent research on how vocal quality affects others’ perceptions may make you think twice. A recent article in the Wall Street Journal discusses a study that shows that the quality of your voice has an even stronger impact on how you are perceived than the content of your message.
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