Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 20, 2013

'Welcome to the Holiday Edition of the Frontline Festival: Expert Advice on Gifts and Giving. In addition to sharing their posts, I invited each thought leader to share their “leadership gift” in one or two words. Engaging a Giving Spirit Jon Mertz, Thin Difference shares The Unboxed Life: Giving To lead more fully, we need to […] The post Expert Advice on Gifts and Giving: A Frontline Festival appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Terry Starbucker

DECEMBER 15, 2013

'I remember the first time I really acted like a leader – that is, when I accepted the most important leadership responsibility. It happened in 1977, when I was in high school. I was the editor-in-chief of our student newspaper. We had a staff of about 12 people, and my job was to get all the content put together, edited, typeset, proofed and delivered to the printer by our deadline.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 18, 2013

'By Brian Layer , Chair, Organizational Development, N2growth. Marissa Mayer is in trouble. Information recently spilled through the Yahoo firewall that she is habitually late. Evidently she has the tardy gene, a degenerative marker that becomes symptomatic with a little authority and can become chronic with a lot. She is not alone; many bosses do things they shouldn’t when they can.

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Change Starts Here

DECEMBER 17, 2013

'My guests this month are Dr. Victoria Grady, President and Principal Consultant at PivotPoint Business Solutions and creator of the LOE Index, and Jinnie Lee Schmid, an independent consultant certified to administer and interpret the LOE Index. In this episode, Victoria shares how the LOE (Loss of Effectiveness) Index identifies those behaviors, perceptions, and attitudes that emerge in organizations in response to change.

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Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 18, 2013

'Your team decides what you can handle. Like parents protecting young children, they safeguard you and themselves. They anticipate tantrums, and work around them. They’ll even throw in a few things “they’re worried about,” to make you feel better. Don’t blame them. You’ve taught them well. Your well-intended intensity sends them to the nearest diaper genie to […] The post 7 Reasons You Won’t Hear the Truth appeared first on Let's Grow Le

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Erik Bernhardsson

DECEMBER 19, 2013

I wanted to share some more insight into the algorithms we use at Spotify. One matrix factorization algorithm we have used for a while assumes that we have user vectors and item vectors. The next track for a user is now given by the relation. . Where is a normalization constant to make sure the probabilities add up to one. This essentially means we treat the tracks choices as outputs of a softmax.

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 18, 2013

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Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 16, 2013

'“I’m so sorry, I whispered before he could even say hello.” It was Sunday afternoon, and it was the third time I had to call. He graciously spoke what we both knew was technically true, “Karin, no worries, this is my job.” But it had been a long couple of weeks, and I […] The post Winning When the Troops are Tired appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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CTOvision

DECEMBER 16, 2013

'By Bob Gourley If you are a national security professional we most highly recommend pausing to watch the video at this link and embedded below. It is the video of a 60 minutes examination of NSA which includes interviews of General Alexander, Rick Ledgett and several NSA analysts. It also includes first ever public footage of key NSA watchfloors and analytical workspaces.

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Erik Bernhardsson

DECEMBER 19, 2013

I wanted to share some more insight into the algorithms we use at Spotify. One matrix factorization algorithm we have used for a while assumes that we have user vectors and item vectors. The next track for a user is now given by the relation. . Where is a normalization constant to make sure the probabilities add up to one. This essentially means we treat the tracks choices as outputs of a softmax.

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 15, 2013

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Nathan Magnuson

DECEMBER 16, 2013

'This year has just about come to a close. The Type As among us are probably wrapping up their goals and planning for the new year (if they aren’t finished already). The rest will catch up. Maybe. I saw a great post from Mark Miller last week on New Year’s resolutions for leaders – and […].

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CTOvision

DECEMBER 19, 2013

'By Bob Gourley In the short white board talk at this link and below, Jacob Cornelius of Pentaho provides a good overview of the Pentaho analytics platform, a platform that encompasses all the elements of an enterprise analytics solution, starting with the Pentaho data integration, the bridge that accesses data where it is and allows the blending of data from any source.

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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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Next Level Blog

DECEMBER 18, 2013

'This is the time of year that instills fear and loathing in the hearts of managers everywhere. The good news is that you may be planning on taking some extended time off during the holiday season. The bad news is you may also be planning to spend some of those precious hours writing up annual performance reviews for the people that report to you. If that sounds like what you’ll be doing over the next couple of weeks, I’m here with three tips to help make it at least somewhat pain free for you a

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 19, 2013

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Lead on Purpose

DECEMBER 14, 2013

'Guest post by Mary Prescott. I’m sure you’ve heard statements like these before: “My team is exceptionally strong. They seem to be doing well”. “We’ve been improving. It’s hard to quantify, but I am sure we are getting there”. While you might hear these statements from any manager, they all have one thing in common: the lack of specificity. How strong is the team?

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CTOvision

DECEMBER 17, 2013

'By Prayson Pate Openness is one of the most-cited advantages of cloud-based applications, Software-Defined Networking (SDN) and Network Functions Virtualization (NFV). In this context, what does open really mean? I posit that there are four key attributes that define openness in this context: documented, standardized, open sourced and inclusive. Any claims of openness by suppliers should be evaluated against these criteria if for no other reason than to clarify their position.

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Next Level Blog

DECEMBER 20, 2013

'When you think about leadership role models it’s likely that your first thought isn’t a monk. Maybe it should be though. In his new book, "Business Secrets of the Trappist Monks", August Turak explains why. (Audio). Click headline to continue.

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 20, 2013

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The Accidental Successful CIO

DECEMBER 18, 2013

'Not all standards are what they appear to be Image Credit. As the person with the CIO job, you are always on the lookout for ways to simplify what the IT department is doing in order to boost the importance of information technology for your company. One way to make this happen is to have the department adopt the use of standards. You would think that that would be the end of it; however, those vendors are sneaky devils and you need to be careful that you don’t select a standard that is r

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CTOvision

DECEMBER 17, 2013

'By Bob Gourley The video embedded below and at this link provides a three minute overview of some current and future robots. It is short and exciting and well worth three minutes of your time: From the video description: Robots are coming of age. As part of the DARPA Robotics Challenge, Lockheed Martin is developing autonomous systems that work together with human operators.

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Next Level Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2013

'This will be my last Mindful Monday post of 2013 as I intend to take some time off over the holidays. I suspect many of you will be doing the same. Here’s some advice. Really make it a holiday. Celebrate. Rejoice. Relax. Laugh. Love. Give. Receive. Unplug. Don’t just give presents, be present. Click headline to continue.

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 19, 2013

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Rapid BI

DECEMBER 16, 2013

'Leadership and management competencies are often used by larger organizations to identify peoples strengths and development needs. Often these frameworks are expensive ands complex. One framework we have used in the past is this simple 55 item framework. It is based on 3 key factors, Managing yourself, managing task, and managing others. You can use […].

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CTOvision

DECEMBER 19, 2013

'By Bob Gourley SecureNinjaTV’s Alicia Webb continues our coverage of FEDcyber 2013 by speaking with Guidance Software’s Bob Greenberg about insider threat, vulnerabilities and malware attacks. Guidance Software is recognized worldwide as the industry leader in digital investigative solutions. Its EnCase® Enterprise platform is used by numerous government agencies, more than 65 percent of the Fortune 100, and more than 40 percent of the Fortune 500, to conduct digital investigations

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Six Disciplines

DECEMBER 20, 2013

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 19, 2013

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 16, 2013

'After nearly 60 years of a wavering belief in Santa Claus, I have come to a major AHA! Santa Claus is actually Google. Think about it: Google knows when you’re sleeping. Google knows when you’re awake. Google knows if you’re bad. Google knows when your good. Google has lists, and she checks them twice. Google knows who’s naughty.

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