General Leadership

APRIL 10, 2015

'GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America''s Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. “ Why hurry o ver beautiful things? Why not linger and enjoy them? ”. Clara Schumann. A father and his son farmed a small piece of land. Every so often, they would pile the ox-cart up with vegetables they had grown in their own garden and trundle off in the direction of the nearest city to sell them.

Leadership 166

Leadership 166

Let's Grow Leaders

APRIL 8, 2015

'Recognizing that some members of the newly formed call center engagement task force may not know each other very well, I reached for one of my favorite, go-to, get-em-talking and laughing icebreakers, two truths and a lie. My selection was met with a few “Oh, not that again” grimaces. “Ah, you’ve done that one before, huh?” Twelve heads nodded a quick yes.

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Exercises Authentication Team Building Course 157

Change Starts Here

APRIL 8, 2015

'The dictionary definition of resistance is: Any force that slows down or prevents motion. So, naturally we define resistance to change as any force that slows down or prevents change. The funny thing is that we don’t really detect resistance unless people aren’t changing as quickly or as enthusiastically or as smoothly as we expect. Otherwise we would think that everything is fine.

Compliance 131

Compliance 131

Erik Bernhardsson

APRIL 6, 2015

I saw a bunch of tweets over the weekend about Peter Norvig claiming there’s a negative correlation between being good at programming competitions and being good at the job. There were some decent Hacker News comments on it. Norvig’s statement is obviously not true if we’re drawing samples from the general population – most people can’t code. It doesn’t necessarily even have to do with time allocation as this commenter alluded to: Being a champion at something requires excruciating narrow focus

Programming 109

Programming Metrics Study Course 109

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General Leadership

APRIL 9, 2015

'GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America''s Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. “If you want to make enemies, try to change something.” Woodrow Wilson. One of the greatest challenges that leaders can face is the task of cultural change in the organization. Sometimes, the organizations we are working in and leading have a culture that has not kept up with modern times or has “strayed” from the path of the organizat

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CTOvision

APRIL 6, 2015

'By Bob Gourley. New in the CTOvision Research Library: We have just posted an overview of an architectural assessment we produced laying out best practices and design patterns for the use of SAS and Apache Hadoop, with a focus on the government sector. Download this overview at: SAS and Apache Hadoop for Government. Here is more: Enterprises in government are awash in more data than they can make sense of.

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Erik Bernhardsson

APRIL 6, 2015

I saw a bunch of tweets over the weekend about Peter Norvig claiming there’s a negative correlation between being good at programming competitions and being good at the job. There were some decent Hacker News comments on it. Norvig’s statement is obviously not true if we’re drawing samples from the general population – most people can’t code. It doesn’t necessarily even have to do with time allocation as this commenter alluded to: Being a champion at something requires excruciating narrow focus

Programming 100

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Women on Business

APRIL 9, 2015

'We''ve Moved! Update your Reader Now. This feed has moved to: [link] If you haven''t already done so, update your reader now with this changed subscription address to get your latest updates from us. [link].

Small Business 109

Small Business Strategy Organization Development 109

General Leadership

APRIL 6, 2015

'GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America''s Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. “ Whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword obviously never encountered automatic weapons.”. Douglas MacArthur. (That said, we at GeneralLeadership.com agree that the words penned herein are worthy of bringing into your leadership battles!).

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Leadership 88

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CTOvision

APRIL 6, 2015

'By Bob Gourley. Learn about the cyber threat from seasoned professionals who have spent years in direct contact with adversaries defending government and corporate systems. This presentation provides facts and observations on the cyber threat in ways that can inform you decision-making and improve your ability to defend. Best practices in the domain of cyber intelligence will be discussed, and recommendations will be made on ways to directly enhance our collective defense.

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Fractional CTO Government Analysis Industry 111

Erik Bernhardsson

APRIL 8, 2015

As noted by multiple tweets , my previous post describes a phenomenon denoted Berkson’s paradox. Here’s another example: Why Are Handsome Men Such Jerks?

Examples 100

Examples 100

Women on Business

APRIL 6, 2015

'We''ve Moved! Update your Reader Now. This feed has moved to: [link] If you haven''t already done so, update your reader now with this changed subscription address to get your latest updates from us. [link].

Team Building 106

Team Building 106

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

APRIL 7, 2015

'I’ve recently come to believe that we’re at a watershed moment in technology as it’s applied to business. The aging, creaky model of centralized IT departments has been increasingly challenged by waves of internal and external competition that it’s never had to face. It started with the outsourcing wave but picked up irresistible momentum with the arrival of SaaS, the cloud , app stores , shadow IT , and BYOD/BYOA/BYOT.

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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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CTOvision

APRIL 6, 2015

'By Katie Kennedy. Hortonworks has just announced their first hands-on, performance based certification exam. This new “HDP Certified Developer, ” or HDPCD, exam is designed for individuals who would like the opportunity to prove their Hadoop skills. Instead of multiple choice or true/false questions, the exam consists of tasks executed on a live, three-node Hortonworks Data Platform cluster.

Testing 111

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Erik Bernhardsson

APRIL 8, 2015

As noted by multiple tweets , my previous post describes a phenomenon denoted Berkson’s paradox. Here’s another example: Why Are Handsome Men Such Jerks?

Examples 100

Examples 100

Women on Business

APRIL 10, 2015

'We''ve Moved! Update your Reader Now. This feed has moved to: [link] If you haven''t already done so, update your reader now with this changed subscription address to get your latest updates from us. [link].

Leadership 96

Leadership 96

Toptal

APRIL 7, 2015

The extremely diverse and fragmented Android ecosystem poses certain challenges when it comes to testing. In this article, we take a look at some approaches that can be effective with tackling these challenges and ease the process of writing and automating tests.

Testing 83

Testing 83

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CTOvision

APRIL 8, 2015

'By Charles Hall. CPPIB, Canada''s largest pension fund, teamed with Permira, a European private equity group, to acquire Informatica (NASDAQ: INFA ), the US data software and services company, in the largest leveraged buyout so far this year. The companies will pay $48.75 per share in cash to privatize Informatica, and valued the firm at $5.3 billion.

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Big Data Architecture Enterprise Groups 110

Next Level Blog

APRIL 9, 2015

'It’s common for leaders who want to make a bigger impact to work on building their executive presence. It’s so common, in fact, that my company offers a seven month group coaching program for high potential leaders slated for executive roles. Our goal in that program is to make the often discussed but rarely clearly defined topic of executive presence a tangible and actionable thing to develop.

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Coaching Leadership Programming Groups 82

Women on Business

APRIL 4, 2015

'We''ve Moved! Update your Reader Now. This feed has moved to: [link] If you haven''t already done so, update your reader now with this changed subscription address to get your latest updates from us. [link].

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Nathan Magnuson

APRIL 6, 2015

'What happens when you fall down? I have a pastor friend whose church plant recently had to shut its doors after a couple years of sacrificing financial, emotional and time sacrifices. Another friend’s restaurant wasn’t able to renew the property lease and now it’s closed. Several colleagues have had high profile work projects in both the recent and distant past overlooked, postponed or shut down after significant mental and emotional effort.

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eBook Coaching Leadership Strategy 69

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CTOvision

APRIL 6, 2015

'By SeanLawson. For decades, we have heard a lot of talk from American officials, industry experts, and others about the supposed threat of a “cyber 9/11,” “cyber Pearl Harbor,” “cyber Katrina,” or even “cyber Sandy.” In short, we have been warned repeatedly that “ cyber doom ” is coming. Indeed, as recently as this fall, cyber doom was in the news as a result of the cyber attack on Sony.

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Next Level Blog

APRIL 6, 2015

'Sitting at your desk for hours on end can take a toll on a lot of things – your mental performance, your overall outlook on life and your general health and wellbeing. There’s a reason that researchers have concluded that sitting is the new smoking. Unfortunately, for many of us, the nature of work today leads to a lot of sitting and the subsequent declines in health.

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Steve Farber

APRIL 5, 2015

'To put it simply, Sam Horn is the most brilliant idea-extractor I’ve ever met. Every conversation I’ve ever had with her goes like this: She asks me a laser-focused question about what I’m working on. I stammer out an attempt at an answer while… She pulls out her notebook and starts jotting. All followed by more questions (from her), more stammering (from me), more jotting (by her) for several rounds.

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QAspire

APRIL 6, 2015

'Last week, I was invited to speak as a panelist at Agile Carnival, Chandigarh where I expressed my thoughts on Agile as a method and as a mindset. Agility in our approaches is one of the most potent ways to deal with the challenges of a constantly changing world. Here is the summary of a few thoughts I shared (and a few more): Agile is not just a method or process, but a mindset.

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CTOvision

APRIL 6, 2015

'By Charles Hall. Are you a system engineer or administrator charged with protecting your network infrastructure from attack? Napatech''s Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) can help you to improve on the ability to monitor and react to malicious events that occur within your network. These FPGA-based accelerators are capable of performing high-speed packet capture and replay at speeds from 1 to 100 Gbps, with precise inter-frame gap (IFG) control and high-precision time stamping, allowing

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Toptal

APRIL 10, 2015

You are what you read – and most Toptal members and blog subscribers are software developers. So what do you read? Where do professional developers get the latest information about how their peers work and think? Today, we will be taking a look at a small selection of popular developer blogs frequented by Toptal developers. We’re counting on you (our readers) to expand the list in the comment section.

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Rapid BI

APRIL 9, 2015

'Gamification in Leading and Development Gamification, the framing of an activity like a game to make it more motivating is not a new concept. The concept of gaming has been around for years – credit card companies and airline reward programs for example. (1) Gamification is not literally a game, but using game mechanics and […]. The post Gamification in leadership and development appeared first on.

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