Let's Grow Leaders
APRIL 2, 2014
'I wish HR would teach a course on the really stupid sentences people say at work. Oh, I’m not talking about he obvious stupidity: ”you look hot in that dress” or “hey baby…” there’s training and rules for that. But there’s no code of conduct to protect against the stupid, disempowering words I often hear […].
N2Growth Blog
APRIL 2, 2014
'By Grant Wattie. President, N2Growth Australia. Why do you do what you do? In this video, Grant Wattie, President of N2Growth Australia, discusses how you should really be honest with yourself when you come to a crossroads with your professional career. Ask yourself, what do you value? And will your choices allow you to live your values?
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General Leadership
APRIL 2, 2014
'Join us – LIVE Wednesday, 2 April – at 9pm Eastern (6pm Pacific) on SiriusXM Patriot Channel 125 & the David Webb Show ! This is our 10th installment of the “ 12 Virtues of Leadership ” series and tonight we feature the virtue of “ Grace.” Join us on the air by calling into the show at 866-957-2874. You can also follow along on Twitter @GenLeadBlog and @davidwebbshow with hashtags: #GeneralLeadership #Grace.
Terry Starbucker
MARCH 30, 2014
'Talking about pricing at Pioneer Nation (photo by Chris Guillebeau). This past week, I presented a workshop at Chris Guillebeau’s Pioneer Nation event here in Portland that was a little bit out of my comfort zone. It wasn’t about leadership. It was about pricing products & services. And I gotta tell you, it was exhilarating. Scary as heck, but exhilarating.
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Let's Grow Leaders
MARCH 31, 2014
'Yup, I really did quit my day job to purse my dream full-time. No, this is not an April Fools joke (although last years was fun in case you missed it). I will spend my days helping companies grow confident, competent and creative frontline leaders. I’ve been engrossed in a 45 day transition to […]. The post 5 Reasons I Quit My Day Job to Pursue My Dream appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.
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General Leadership
APRIL 2, 2014
'I do not at all understand the mystery of grace – only that it meets us where we are but does not leave us where it found us. Anne Lamott. A popular Russian tale recounts how when Nicholas II was the Czar of Russia, a father enlisted his son in the military with the hope of instilling discipline and direction in his life. Among other things, the young man had a weakness for gambling, and the conditions of military life seemed to hurt rather than help.
Terry Starbucker
APRIL 3, 2014
'Today I’m revisiting a word that has vexed me for many, many years: “Nice” I remember how being called “nice” didn’t exactly work to my advantage, especially in the dating arena. “ Oh, you are such a nice guy ” was NOT what I wanted to hear from the object of my affection. Then there is the famous expression, “ nice guys always finish last ” – heck, there was even a movie made with that title.
Let's Grow Leaders
APRIL 4, 2014
'Imagine all the people… -John Lennon Sara called me excitedly. ”Karin you know how you’ve been encouraging me to take a lateral move to broaden my experience… the PERFECT job just came open. I can really imagine myself in the role. Can you put in a good word for me?” “Excellent,” I thought. Sara was […].
Erik Bernhardsson
MARCH 31, 2014
Scrolling through the Discover page on Spotify the other day it occurred to me that the album is in fact a fairly strong visual proxy for what kind of content you can expect from it. I started wondering if the album cover can in fact be used for recommendations. For many obvious reasons this is a kind of ridiculous idea, but still interesting enough that I just had to explore it a bit.
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.
General Leadership
MARCH 30, 2014
'“We will not tire, we will not falter, and we will not fail!” President George W. Bush. All of us remember where we were on 9/11. I had one of the greatest jobs in the world of the Vice Commander of the Tanker Airlift Control Center (TACC). For the non Air Force people, the TACC is the air operations center responsible for the planning scheduling and execution of all airlift and tanker operations, 24/7 365.
CTOvision
MARCH 31, 2014
'By Bob Gourley. Editor’s note: This strikes me as important news that can impact every sector of the economy and every industry, as well as the future of humanity. Yep, this can be really big. Read the release below for more, including info on how to watch the scientific symposium online. – bg. Strategic Big Brain Science: NIH celebrates grand opening of John Edward Porter Neuroscience Research Center.
Change Starts Here
APRIL 3, 2014
'This week I attended the Association of Change Management Professionals’ 2014 Global Conference. While I’m still processing everything I learned, I thought I’d share a few of the great quotes I heard. “If you haven’t cried on the floor of your office, you’re not doing your job.” Dean Anderson. “Start with ‘D’ ‘D’ is the key to change management. ‘D’ stands for ‘DONUTS’ ” Levi Nieminen. “
Women on Business
APRIL 3, 2014
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Toptal
APRIL 1, 2014
Go is a relatively new language with a number of attractive features. It's great for writing concurrent programs, thanks to an excellent set of low-level features for handling concurrency. In many cases, though, a handful of reusable abstractions over those low-level mechanisms makes life much easier. This introductory tutorial walks you through building one such abstraction: a wrapper that can turn any data structure into a transactional service in Go.
CTOvision
APRIL 4, 2014
'By Bob Gourley. Salesforce.com Announces New Industries Strategy. BOSTON, April 2, 2014 /PRNewswire/ – Salesforce.com (NYSE: CRM ), the world’s #1 CRM platform, today announced a new industries strategy aimed at accelerating the company’s growth and transforming the way companies across key industries connect with their customers.
Lead on Purpose
MARCH 29, 2014
'“We’ve entered a new era. Call it the age of imagination, ideation, conceptualization, creativity, innovation—take your pick. Creativity, mental flexibility, and collaboration have displaced one-dimensional intelligence and isolated determination as core ingredients of a competitive advantage.
Women on Business
APRIL 4, 2014
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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.
The Accidental Successful CIO
APRIL 2, 2014
'Building a next generation IT department is hard work Image Credit. Yea! The global economy is improving and that means that good things are going to be coming to the IT department because the rest of the company has finally come to realize the importance of information technology. Specifically, since you have the CIO position, it’s going to be time for you to whip the IT team into shape in order to take on all of the new initiatives that the company is going to be preparing to rollout.
CTOvision
MARCH 31, 2014
'By ShannonPerry. Have you noticed a new lock in your address bar? Last week, Google announced new security measures for Gmail – “something we made a top priority after last summer’s revelations.” The change is yet another reaction to last year’s revelations of Edward Snowden, the controversial whistleblower who made national headlines and garnered global attention for revealing mass surveillance programs at the NSA.
Next Level Blog
APRIL 3, 2014
'Ever wonder how smart people make bad decisions? That can happen in lots of situations including conversations around the board of directors table about who the next CEO is going to be. In a recent conversation with Scott Saslow of the Institute of Executive Development, I got an inside look at some of the common mistakes boards of directors make on executive succession planning.
Women on Business
APRIL 1, 2014
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The Recovering Engineer
APRIL 1, 2014
'One of the things I notice as I work with new leaders is a tendency to accept work practices and processes as fixed entities. In some cases, company procedures, processes and work practices are mandated from a level far removed from the front-line supervisor, and they are relatively fixed. In most cases, front-line supervisors have more flexibility and freedom to adjust and improve work processes than they realize upon first taking the new position.
CTOvision
APRIL 2, 2014
'By Bob Gourley. On the Crimean Peninsula, Russia writes the rules because they control the territory. They control who goes in and who goes out. Anyone who wants access to the Crimea can only do so if Russia allows it. You might have a treaty that says it is not supposed to be that way, but the fact is, Russia is in charge because they control all access.
Next Level Blog
MARCH 31, 2014
'Before we go any further, let me clarify what I mean by the title of this post. When I write “How to Get What You Really Want,” I’m not talking about a bigger house, a nicer car or a more important job. There are ways to do all of those things, of course, but, if you think about it, are any of those things what you really want? My guess is the items on your really want list are more intangible but longer lasting than any of those.
Mills Scofield
MARCH 31, 2014
'We all know language is key to leadership. The subtleties, nuances, intonations, and gestures have profound Portland Press Herald 3/26/14 effects on leaders’ credibility and on organizations’ success. Yet, while we think about the customers of our products and services, many of us don''t think as much about the ‘hearers’ (customers) of our words when it’s our own people.
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Ruminations of a Programmer
MARCH 30, 2014
When you model a domain, you model its entities and behaviors. As Eric Evans mentions in his book Domain Driven Design , the focus is on the domain itself. The model that you design and implement must speak the ubiquitous language so that the essence of the domain is not lost in the myriads of incidental complexities that your implementation enforces.
CTOvision
MARCH 29, 2014
'By ShannonPerry. Nearly everyone has an opinion of Steve Jobs. Since his death in 2011, a bad movie , a weighty autobiography , and numerous anecdotes have surfaced – describing his inexhaustible ambition, his excitable, and his disrespect for others. Perhaps you have heard pieces of the rumored fish tank incident ? After painstakingly designing and building the world’s very first iPod, a team of engineers presented their creation to Jobs, who immediately rejected the mode.
Coalfire
APRIL 4, 2014
On Wednesday, I attended a roundtable discussion the Securities and Exchange Commission held to gather information on cybersecurity trends and potential disclosure requirements for regulated public companies and stock exchanges.
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