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Why Job Descriptions are a Dying Art

Let's Grow Leaders

A client called: “Karin I’m going to send you the job description for the new role we designed, but ignore all the HR mumbo jumbo,” just concentrate on the competencies and see if they seem right to you based on the strategy we’ve been working on.” Game on. We were going to have the conversation that was most worth having: How do we find the right person with the aptitude for this vital job.

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A Leader’s Words

General Leadership

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. “Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall” Oliver Wendell Holmes. Since the political season has kicked off across our country, these three simple words have been in the forefront of my brain.

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The Impact of Cloud Robotics on Artificial Intelligence

CTOvision

Look at any science-fiction vision of our technological future and you’ll find a world dominated by artificial intelligence. Some of these visions may go for the more dystopian angle, where humanity has been displaced by self-aware robots that now rule the world. Other, more optimistic views look at AI as a great benefit to our species, helping us in exploration and furthering the advances of scientific endeavors.

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The Fourth Dimension of Change Management

Change Starts Here

Earlier this week, James Lawther shared his story of researching change management models in order to expand his toolkit beyond the initial training he had received. As a result of his search, he discovered that change management models typically cover one of three different dimensions: Process (how change happens), People (what people experience during change), and Environment (designing context to support change).

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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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How to Stop Drama Queens and Chronic Complainers From Destroying Your Team

Let's Grow Leaders

I often start my speeches on employee engagement sharing prototypes of various kinds of disengagement. The favorite is always Barbara Boatrocker– “her life feels like a sad country song, every little thing is wrong”– for the appropriate audience I’ll even sing that line ;-). “She’s always stirring the pot. Nothing’s ever quite right when Barbara’s around.

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Fed Tech Roundup September 30

CTOvision

The following are some of the hot topics in the federal technology ecosystem (from FedTechTicker.com and TopTechTicker.com ): Fed Tech Ticker. Northrop Grumman to Feature Maritime Security Capabilities at Pacific 2015. Audit: Federal networks still vulnerable - The Hill. Self-Driving Cars Could Save 300000 Lives Per Decade in America - Nextgov. Q&A: How Games are Changing Federal Disaster Response - Nextgov.

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5 Ways to Get Organized

Women on Business

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How to Stop Drama Queens and Chronic Complainers From Destroying Your Team

Let's Grow Leaders

I often start my speeches on employee engagement sharing prototypes of various kinds of disengagement. The favorite is always Barbara Boatrocker– “her life feels like a sad country song, every little thing is wrong”– for the appropriate audience I’ll even sing that line ;-). “She’s always stirring the pot. Nothing’s ever quite right when Barbara’s around.

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Tuesday Time Machine: Emotional Intelligence and A Call-Up to the Big Leagues

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. 19 Feb 2014. “ It is very important to understand that emotional intelligence is not the opposite of intelligence, it is not the triumph of heart over head — it is the unique intersection of both.”.

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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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Fed Tech Roundup September 2

CTOvision

The following are some of the hot topics in the federal technology ecosystem (from FedTechTicker.com and TopTechTicker.com ): Fed Tech Ticker. Former Intelligence Director: Law Enforcement Must 'Adapt' to Encryption. - Nextgov. Inside the CIA's new Digital Directorate - FCW.com. August 28 Cyber Intelligencer: The Accelerating Decline of Paid Anti-virus.

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3 Things To Consider When Business Networking

Women on Business

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Mindful Mondays: What Any of Us Can Learn from Pope Francis

Next Level Blog

Like a lot of Americans, I spent a lot of last week transfixed by the coverage of Pope Francis’ trip to the United States. I’m not Catholic, but found myself moved by his words and images several times. The pictures were what really got me. The look of joy of people in the crowds as Francis passed by or moved to touch them was unadulterated. The happy grin of the Pope as he waved to the crowds out the back window of his Fiat as it left Andrews Air Force Base was priceless.

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Monday Quote

General Leadership

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. Yoda (896 BBY – 4 ABY). Luke: “I can’t believe it!?!” Yoda: “That is why you fail.” . How did you enjoy today’s post? If you liked what you read, sign up for our frequent newsletter by clicking HERE — and you’ll also receive our handy Leader’s Reference List. . … Read the rest.

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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 September 28

CTOvision

The following are some of the hot topics in the federal technology ecosystem (from FedTechTicker.com and TopTechTicker.com ): Fed Tech Ticker. GAO: Small businesses working with DoD need cybersecurity guidance. Technology One making inroads into Federal Govt - Delimiter. ACLU Argues for Right to Sue NSA for “Upstream” Surveillance - Nextgov. Can the US Trust China to Stop Stealing Business Secrets?

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The Power of Online Reviews

Women on Business

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Employee Engagement: 4 Basic Human Needs

QAspire

At Blanchard LeaderChat , Randy Conley shares insights from Leigh Branham’s research on employee engagement and outlines 4 basic human needs that leaders need to take care of at work. There is an epidemic of workers who are uninterested and disengaged from the work they do, and the cost to the U.S. economy has been pegged at over $300 billion annually.

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Cut Costs Or Grow Profits: What Should A CIO Do?

The Accidental Successful CIO

What is more important to a CIO: costs or profits? Image Credit: Susy Morris. Here’s a quick question for you: what is more important for a CIO to do – cut costs or boost revenues? I think that it’s fair to say that because of the importance of information technology, we are called on to do both at the same time; however, they can’t both be of equal value.

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Addressing Top Enterprise Challenges in Generative AI with DataRobot

The buzz around generative AI shows no sign of abating in the foreseeable future. Enterprise interest in the technology is high, and the market is expected to gain momentum as organizations move from prototypes to actual project deployments. Ultimately, the market will demand an extensive ecosystem, and tools will need to streamline data and model utilization and management across multiple environments.

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Fed Tech Roundup September 29

CTOvision

The following are some of the hot topics in the federal technology ecosystem (from FedTechTicker.com and TopTechTicker.com ): Fed Tech Ticker. DHA Vet Allen Middleton Heads to Booz Allen; Andrea Inserra Comments. Mike Petters Receives ‘Lone Sailor’ Award From Navy Memorial Foundation. Hurd on the Hill - FCW.com. Shutdown guide, CTO study, US/UK cyber ties and more - FCW.com.

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Are You Awake?

The Empowered Buisness

Guest article by Marcella Bremer. How are you? Busy? Relaxed? Energized? Tired? I notice a pattern in modern life. I’m going too fast and packing too much in my days. I’m hunting for stimuli – or at least I’m distracted by them. I notice restlessness when I’m already tired. I see most people around me living by schedules that don’t leave space to slow down and to be mindfully aware of what really happens.

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Hunting and Analyzing High CPU Usage in.NET Applications

Toptal

Software performance in production is hard to analyze. Things can go wrong at any time, and code can start executing in ways that weren’t planned for. In these cases, what do we do? In this article, Toptal engineer Juan Pablo Scida analyzes a real scenario of high CPU usage of a web application. He covers all the processes and.NET code analysis involved to identify the problem, explains how the problem was solved, and most importantly, explores why this problem happened in the first place.

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What any of us can learn from Pope Francis

Next Level Blog

Like a lot of Americans, I spent a lot of last week transfixed by the coverage of Pope Francis’ trip to the United States. I’m not Catholic, but found myself moved by his words and images several times. The pictures were what really got me. The look of joy of people in the crowds as Francis passed by or moved to touch them was unadulterated. The happy grin of the Pope as he waved to the crowds out the back window of his Fiat as it left Andrews Air Force Base was priceless.

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Software Composition Analysis: The New Armor for Your Cybersecurity

Speaker: Blackberry, OSS Consultants, & Revenera

Software is complex, which makes threats to the software supply chain more real every day. 64% of organizations have been impacted by a software supply chain attack and 60% of data breaches are due to unpatched software vulnerabilities. In the U.S. alone, cyber losses totaled $10.3 billion in 2022. All of these stats beg the question, “Do you know what’s in your software?

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Tamr Opens a Free Public Beta Program

CTOvision

Tamr has opened a public Beta program for an enterprise metadata catalog tool that makes it easy for people to find, use and collaborate in organizing high-quality data sets for analytics. Tamr Catalog, part of the larger Tamr Data Unification Platform, is now being offered as a free standalone tool to encourage broad adoption of vendor- and platform-neutral metadata cataloging ─ the first step in effective analytics and in bringing organizations out of the “Dark Data” era.Beginning today, the T

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Chip Cards Finally Come to America – But What Does it Mean for Merchants and Consumers?

Coalfire

Like it or not, today the U.S. finally adopts EMV technology. While the implementation by most major retailers and large U.S. banks is expected to be delayed, the “chip and PIN” card types are coming to America to stay. The real debate is, will EMV adoption do anything for card data security? Andrew Barratt, Coalfire’s Managing Director of Europe, explained some lessons learned from the United Kingdom.

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Skype Tips for Remote Teams

Toptal

Toptal has a strong remote culture), to say the least. To keep up with each other, we need a tool to keep team members in sync, where we can reach any other person at a moment's notice. We use Skype as our main communication channel among Toptal's core team. Over the years, Skype has grown a lot, and has become a versatile tool that can be used on all of your devices at once, syncing chat amongst them, and providing a simple way to call and share screens.

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Agile Scrum Testing Process

Xoriant

In this dynamic, fast paced software world Agile has become the choicest form of project execution in several instances, let us analyze how does a the overall role of a tester in the Agile methodology. Let’s see how Testing in Scrum works :-. In Scrum the tasks are divided into time boxes (small time frames) to deliver specific features in the release so that the working software build can be delivered after each iteration.

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Monetizing Analytics Features

Think your customers will pay more for data visualizations in your application? Five years ago, they may have. But today, dashboards and visualizations have become table stakes. Turning analytics into a source of revenue means integrating advanced features in unique, hard-to-steal ways. Download this white paper to discover which features will differentiate your application and maximize the ROI of your analytics.

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Bright Computing and Curtiss-Wright Working Together

CTOvision

This month, the Curtiss-Wright Corporation announced that its Defense Solutions division is collaborating with the leading High Performance Computing (HPC) software vendor Bright Computing. Bright Computing has brought their supercomputing software tools to the embedded Aerospace & Defense market to be a part of Curtiss-Wright’s OpenHPEC TM Accelerator Suite TM.

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Being a Gazelle in Denver.

ProtectWise

Earlier this week, the Denver Office of Economic Development named ProtectWise a Denver Gazelle as part of the fourth annual Denver Startup Week. We're honored to receive this recognition alongside Altitude Digital, Four Winds Interactive and Wayin and to join the ranks of Denver-based companies including SendGrid, Inspirato, Ibotta and Ping Identity that have been named Gazelles in previous years.

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Optimized Successive Mean Quantization Transform

Toptal

Image processing algorithms are often very resource intensive due to fact that they process pixels on an image one at a time and often requires multiple passes. Successive Mean Quantization Transform (SMQT) is one such resource intensive algorithm that can process images taken in low-light conditions and reveal details from dark regions of the image.