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How to Win Well, When Winning Feels Impossible

Let's Grow Leaders

Last week I was doing a Winning Well workshop with the United Nations, when one of the participants, “Pete,” looked at me sincerely and said, “I hear you, and all these tools sound good, and I’m going to use them. But what do you when Winning is impossible?” I waited for more. . “Our mission is world peace.” Okay, Pete has a point. .

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The Passion of Leadership

General Leadership

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. A leader without passion. is merely a manager. –@ChrisRStricklin. Leadership is Passion. Leadership is the passion to make an organization better. Leadership is the passion toward each team member, pushing them toward a higher level of accomplishment.

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The Danger Zone: Why Leaders Must Talk The Talk AND Walk The Walk

Terry Starbucker

“Terry my boy, what do you think?”. I had never been so prepared to answer that question, delivered by my boss in his typically theatrical way. I had been thinking about this question for a better part of a week. We were working on an important project, and there was a problem. A problem that demanded some original thinking. As the Project Manager, I had many hours of meetings with all the key players involved, and diligently forged a consensus on a proposed course of action – so we could pres

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Culture by Design: The Essentials

N2Growth Blog

Last week, we published the first installment of our 3-part series on company culture. In that first piece, we began to demystify a concept that I’m calling culture by design. This week we’ll explore the essential that my firm provides to clients when building cultures by design with them. Keep in mind, this is just one approach to do the work at hand and it’s one that we refined over decades of doing corporate culture work with our clients.

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Peak Performance: Continuous Testing & Evaluation of LLM-Based Applications

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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The Curious Case of Too Much Support for Change

Change Starts Here

It goes without saying that in our quest to influence change at work, we want to gain support for that change. After all, when people support change, they want to get involved, or at the very least, they won’t stand in the way. However, in the course of facilitating the Fundamentals of Change Management workshop, I’ve discovered there are instances where you might actually want less support.

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How to Stop Being Too Negotiable with Yourself

Women on Business

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Put passion into your pocket when you argue

N2Growth Blog

Passion may hurt you more than help you in your next argument. That’s a conclusion of new research into persuasion by a pair of university academics and reported by Shankar Vedantam of NPR. Passion, often highly prized by leaders, may actually work against that leader if he or she is trying to reach out to someone who may not agree with them. This new research into persuasion really is confirmation of what all good leaders do when seeking consensus; they first seek to understand what the other i

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How coaching creates great leaders

Lead on Purpose

When I think of leaders who have built great companies, the first name that comes to mind is Steve Jobs. He was arguably one of the greatest CEOs of the modern business era.

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AWS ElasticSearch Setup

CTOvision

Adam Gerhart. This is the first of a two-part post on getting Amazon's version of ElasticSearch set up in AWS. We go over the basics of setting up an AWS ES cluster and then tackle supplying the cluster with data via Logstash. Amazon has taken all the fun (read: difficulty) out of creating an ElasticSearch cluster. Instead of installs, configurations, and server management, we have been relegated to filling out forms and clicking buttons!

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Top 5 Challenges in Designing a Data Warehouse for Multi-Tenant Analytics

Multi-tenant architecture allows software vendors to realize tremendous efficiencies by maintaining a single application stack instead of separate database instances while meeting data privacy needs. When you use a data warehouse to power your multi-tenant analytics, the proper approach is vital. Multi-tenant analytics is NOT the primary use case with traditional data warehouses, causing data security challenges.

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Trailblazers Welcome – Boldly Go Where Women Have Gone Before

Women on Business

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How Arnold Palmer Mastered Golf And Fame By Being Himself

N2Growth Blog

They called him the King but he never acted the part. He was Arnold Palmer who behaved in accordance with the words his father, a golf pro in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, taught him. “Those people in the gallery are all the same as you.”. The deluge of stories about Palmer, the man and the golfer, upon his death at age 87 have a central theme. Total accessibility.

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How coaching creates great leaders

Lead on Purpose

When I think of leaders who have built great companies, the first name that comes to mind is Steve Jobs. He was arguably one of the greatest CEOs of the modern business era.

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The 4 Oct Synergy Forum in DC Can Help You Change The World

CTOvision

Bob Gourley. Thank you everyone who is engaging with us at our 4 Oct Synergy Forum in DC. What an incredible turnout. We can't share the signup list of attendees for obvious privacy reasons, but here is a gist: The event will be a gathering of some of most incredible, action-oriented thought leaders in America today. CIOs, CTOs, CISOs, Data Scientists, SES's, CEOs, Flag and General Officers are signed up to attend.

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How to Migrate From DataStax Enterprise to Instaclustr Managed Apache Cassandra

If you’re considering migrating from DataStax Enterprise (DSE) to open source Apache Cassandra®, our comprehensive guide is tailored for architects, engineers, and IT directors. Whether you’re motivated by cost savings, avoiding vendor lock-in, or embracing the vibrant open-source community, Apache Cassandra offers robust value. Transition seamlessly to Instaclustr Managed Cassandra with our expert insights, ensuring zero downtime during migration.

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4 Questions to Ask Yourself before Turning Your Hobby into a Business

Women on Business

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Exploring Alternate Futures Can Help Identify Future Leaders

N2Growth Blog

Scenarios and scenario-based planning are widely recognized as valuable tools in setting organizations’ visions and strategies. Shell is the most famed for their scenarios and their process for developing them and using them. But they are far from alone. Many of the leading companies around the world use them, including Apple, GE, Disney, British Airways, Boeing, Mercedes, and the list goes on.

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Influence and Trust: A Teenagers Perspective

CoachStation

Influence matters! I used to believe friends were more important than family. Recent events have shifted my thinking. The statement above is how our 14-year old daughter, Maddy, has started to understand the importance of influence and relationships. This year has been a big year for her. In response to this learning, a little while back Maddy wrote down her thoughts and perspective.

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Optimizing HPC Program Performance with OpenMP and Reveal

CTOvision

Marty Meehan. What do you do when the performance of the MPI program that distributes your work across many cores and nodes starts to level off? Like any good programmer, you enlist the help of your favorite performance profiler to understand what’s going on. You find that you are now network bound, or that the MPI memory footprint has grown so large that there is little room left for your program.

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Entity Resolution Checklist: What to Consider When Evaluating Options

Are you trying to decide which entity resolution capabilities you need? It can be confusing to determine which features are most important for your project. And sometimes key features are overlooked. Get the Entity Resolution Evaluation Checklist to make sure you’ve thought of everything to make your project a success! The list was created by Senzing’s team of leading entity resolution experts, based on their real-world experience.

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Communication Skills Are Important: Just Watch the Presidential Debate

Women on Business

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Video: Learning leadership from a golf pro

N2Growth Blog

Before you can understand others, you need to spend time walking in their shoes. That saying is so common it may be regarded as trite and therefore worthy of ignoring. Too bad! The other day, I was reminded of the power of this statement when talking to a friend of mine, Tim Katanski, who is a teaching golf pro at Ann Arbor Golf & Outing in Michigan.

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Vehicle UIs of the Future Are Going to Be Amazing

Toptal

The state of automotive UI design is widely criticized for being unintuitive, outdated, and unappealing. As a result, designers speculate about how those UI designs will improve in the near future.

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Nlyte Software is the First to Address Federal DCOI Reporting and Validation

CTOvision

Marty Meehan. As federal budgets face tighter scrutiny, government agencies at all levels have been seeking innovative ways to operate more efficiently at lower cost without compromising security. Consolidating and optimizing government data centers is an important way to shift more IT resources from back-office activities to value-added services. In March 2016, the Federal CIO at the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) issued the Data Center Optimization Initiative (DCOI), announced in March

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Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI

“Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI” is an extensive guide for integrating generative AI into product strategy and careers featuring over 150 real-world examples, 30 case studies, and 20+ frameworks, and endorsed by over 20 leading AI and product executives, inventors, entrepreneurs, and researchers.

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3 Easy Ways to Differentiate Your Website

Women on Business

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How to Make Your Customers Love You? Wrong Question.

Steve Farber

If we want to make our customers love us, then we … well, wait a minute … Scratch that. We can’t make our customers love us. We can’t make anyone love us. That’s simply not how it works. Love is a gift we freely give and that’s freely given back to us. The same applies to our business or to any other enterprise or organization. So if we want our customers to love us – our brand, our product, our services – then we start with what we give, not what we want to take or make.

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Everything You Need to Know about UX Sketching

Toptal

UX sketching is a crucial, yet often overlooked, aspect of UX design. It’s a very efficient way of communicating design while allowing designers to iterate multiple ideas before settling on one.

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Dynamic Data Centers

CTOvision

Marty Meehan. Big Data and high performance computing (HPC) are on a collision course – from machine learning to business intelligence, the combined power of clustered servers, advanced networking and massive datasets are merging, and a new Big Data reality is on the rise. To leverage all this landscape has to offer, correctly selecting, implementing and managing new technologies is critical, and we’re here to point you in the right direction.

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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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5 C’s for Great Talent

QAspire

What do you look for when you look for talent? Competence is the key to solving problems but competence alone is not sufficient for success. In current context, I would define talent as a combination of competence, commitment, learning agility, attitude/character, communication skills, ability to collaborate across different cultures, critical thinking and creative problem solving.

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How to Change the World One Pizza at a Time

Steve Farber

Byron Stephens has helped Marco’s Pizza grow to more than 700 stores in 35 states and three countries. That type of expansion often kills a culture; in fact, while Marco’s growth numbers looked great on paper, employee morale began to nosedive. As an organization, they were falling victim to the classic “Growth Trap.” Stephens joined Marco’s Pizza in 2004 when it was a successful but regional chain operating 110 stores in three states.

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The Two Sides of Teams

LeanEssays

Collective wisdom outweighs individual insights Most of us believe that collective wisdom outweighs individual insights – or do we? Perhaps the biggest shortcoming of agile development practices is the way in which teams decide what to do. What product should be built? What features are most important? What consumer experiences will work best? These are the most important questions for the success of any product, and yet for the longest time, answering these questions have not been considered th