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Alex’s Lemonade Stand: Leadership and Kids

Let's Grow Leaders

'Kids can, and do, make a leadership difference in their community every day. My nephew, Jared Herr and his friend Caton Raffesperger, have raised over $28,000 for Alex’s Lemonade Stand through their independence day lemonade stand in Gettysburg, PA. They share Alex’s story and their own journey in this short video. As Gettysburg celebrates the [.

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(How I Discovered) The Incredible Power Of The Two Most Important Words

Terry Starbucker

'It was the fall of 1982. I was 3 months out of college, working for an accounting firm in San Antonio. Up to that point it had been an uneventful start to my career, since the summer is a slow time for most accounting groups. I spent hours at my cubicle just studying up for the CPA exam, and serving as a “go-fer” for the higher ups in the office (lets just say I knew my way around the copy and storage rooms).

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5 Topics Your Board Needs To Discuss Immediately

N2Growth Blog

'By Patricia Lenkov , Chair, Executive Search, N2growth. While the size, stage, geography and industry may fluctuate, there are several essential elements that should currently concern all boards.

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Tailoring Your CTOVision Newsfeeds: More topics make it easier for.

CTOvision

'It is easy to tailor your CTOvision.com newsletter distributions. Select the options you want below and click submit and we will handle the rest. You can use this same form to remove yourself from distros for some or all.

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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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How to Start a Start-Up: Podcast with Sqwiggle Co-Founder Matt Boyd

Let's Grow Leaders

'Got a great start-up idea, but don’t know where to start? Take some advice from Sqwiggle co-founder Matt Boyd. Sqwiggle is new online workroom for remote teams. Listen to our interview by clicking on the podcast. Matt Boyd Interview How to Start a Start-Up Podcast Highlights Find others who share your passion: “We’ve all been [.

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Understand the Inner Life of Your Organization

N2Growth Blog

'By John Baldoni , Chair, Leadership Development, N2growth. The Sopranos , as TV critic David Bianculli puts it , was “one of the first series I can remember watching where what isn’t said is as important as what is. And the characters never show their cards.”. Such an approach, which mirrors the approach that novelists use when exploring character, has been adopted by other television dramas.

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Andreessen Horowitz and COMMIT Teaming Up for Veterans in the.

CTOvision

'Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) and The COMMIT Foundation are teaming up to provide 12 high-potential transitioning military veterans exclusive access to a16z's extensive network of technology leaders. During a two-day.

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You’re Not Fooling Them

Let's Grow Leaders

'“Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit” -Elbert Hubbard Hearts quietly murmur truth, while actions out our fool. Fooling around tricks few. You’re Not Fooling Them You’re not fooling them when you say… customers come first, but metrics scream financials work-life balance [.

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Rethink the Mobile Landscape to Strengthen Your Marketing Everywhere

Women on Business

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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 Pillars of Stable Leadership

N2Growth Blog

'By Mike Myatt , Chief Executive Officer, N2growth . One of the qualities I most admire in leaders is stability. The beautiful thing about stable leaders is they provide a stabilizing influence on others. They are leaders you can trust – they are leaders you can build around. Stable leaders model a level of constancy and consistency that individuals, teams, and organizations so desperately need, but often find missing.

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NGEN ? Finally! This is a big deal in the DoD enterprise space.

CTOvision

'With only a few days left in the fiscal year to award a contract, the Navy has finally announced the winner of the Next Generation Enterprise Network (NGEN) on 27 June. Congratulations to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Services.

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Motivation and Transparency: The Conversation Continues

Let's Grow Leaders

'Today’s post is a follow-up to our June 21st discussion: What Motives You: 360 degree Perceptions. I challenged you to explore your motivation through introspection and conversation. 1. Write down 3 or 4 sentences that you believe truly describe what motivates you. e.g. “To challenge people to grow toward their full potential” 2.

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Women of Innovation – Alicia Booth

Women on Business

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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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Mindful Mondays: Unplug

Next Level Blog

'This will be my only blog post this week because, like a lot of people in the US, I’m taking advantage of the 4th of July holiday this Thursday and, after today, am going offline, literally and figuratively, until next week. Interested in joining me? If so, you might want to check out this series of articles from Fast Company about how to unplug. They’re full of road tested, simple and practical ideas for reclaiming some of your brain space.

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Powerful Question #7

Nathan Magnuson

'Dale Carnegie‘s 4th principle for becoming a friendlier person is, “become genuinely interested in other people.” Carnegie explained it like this: ”I am very fond of strawberries and cream, but I have found that for some strange reason, fish prefer worms. So when I went fishing, I didn’t think about what I wanted. I thought about [.].

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How to Conduct a Meaningful Mid-Year Review

Let's Grow Leaders

'Mid-year reviews are often “optional.” No one’s really watching. You’re busy… so are they… maybe just do a quickie. On the other hand… You wouldn’t consider an optional Superbowl halftime huddle. Imagine the coach saying… “well they played a great first half… no need to say much.” Or, “Guys, just keep doing what you’re doing.” [.

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Are the Days of Brand Loyalty Over?

Women on Business

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Revolutionizing Contact Centers: Next-Gen Tech for Enhanced CX

Speaker: Liran Meir Frenkel, Performance Management and RPA Sr Product Marketing Manager at NICE; Harpreet Makan, Practice Director at Everest Group; & Santhosh Kumar, Practice Director at Everest Group

As contact centers navigate the challenges of delivering excellence within budget constraints and adapting to evolving employee expectations, optimizing agent tasks becomes crucial. Discover a holistic approach across three pillars - people, process, and technology - that is essential to excel in this dynamic landscape, and explore how next-gen technologies such as generative AI, performance analytics, and process intelligence play a pivotal role in transforming contact centers into advanced CX

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The Intensive Video

Steve Farber

'This quick video is both a primer/reminder of The Extreme Leadership LEAP Framework, and an overview of The Extreme Leadership Intensive. Have a look: Click here for more details on the upcoming Extreme Leadership Intensive.

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Definition of Leadership?

Mills Scofield

'Another powerful, to the point, ''sketchnote'' by my friend Jessica Esch. Yes, her work is wonderfully addicting an I encourage you to make it habit forming.if this doesn''t say it all!

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Twin Cities Business Book Authors Speak July 24th

CO2 Business Leadership

A Business Book Bonanza of Minnesota Based Authors In January, the Business Book Breakfast began— and groups of 25-50 exciting, high energy, curious and fun people have gathered at 6:45 AM the 4th Wednesday of every month, to share thoughts and ideas about five very amazing books. It was decided to make this more relaxing for the last, hazy days of summer, so the group is now meeting from 4:30-6pm (with a cash bar, lovely passed hors d’ouevres, plus FREE parking).

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How to Find Reliable Web Hosting for Your Startup

Women on Business

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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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Leadership & Innovation do we really learn?

Rapid BI

'Growth and development are critical for all parts of the world. Developing infrastructure is a key solution for long term sustainability and growth. Hot in the world news at the moment is the need for India to have a more structured financial system, for more of its population to have bank accounts, and yet only a small [.].

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Risk Management – Introduction

Strategy Driven

'All organizations face a host of risks incurred during the conduct of day-to-day business operations and stakeholder interactions. These risks challenge executives and managers in so far as they can have consequentially negative impacts on the organization’s ongoing sustainability from an operational, financial, reputational, and regulatory perspective.

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Twin Cities Business Book Authors Speak July 24th

CO2 Business Leadership

A Business Book Bonanza of Minnesota Based Authors. In January, the Business Book Breakfast began— and groups of 25-50 exciting, high energy, curious and fun people have gathered at 6:45 AM the 4th Wednesday of every month, to share thoughts and ideas about five very amazing books. It was decided to make this more relaxing for the last, hazy days of summer, so the group is now meeting from 4:30-6pm (with a cash bar, lovely passed hors d’ouevres, plus FREE parking).

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On the go mobile search glitches to become a thing of the past

Women on Business

'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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“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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Nutanix VCDX Sponsorship

Nutanix

As a company that is home to several VCDXs (VMware Certified Design Expert), Nutanix knows first hand the importance of encouraging qualified candidates to pursue VCDX status. The drive, creativity, and knowledge of a VCDX is difficult to come by and those who possess these qualities deserve recognition.

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Risk Management Best Practice 4 – Risk Quantification

Strategy Driven

'Each organization faces a unique set of risks challenging the continuity of its operations. All risks, however, are not equal. In order for an organization’s leaders to economically manage their business’s risks, they must first understand each risk’s inherent and residual value. Failure to quantify the organization’s risks produces a less meaningful set of potentially adverse events; lacking relevance, priority, and return on investment information and often resulting in the application of eit

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A Simple Lesson from the Declaration of Independence

N2Growth Blog

'By Brian Layer , Chair, Organizational Development, N2growth. Fifty-six Continental Congressmen signed the Declaration of Independence in July 1776. With each quill stroke, the men committed treason and placed at risk their lives, fortune, and sacred honor. The act was more than symbolic; it added weight to the cause and tied their personal fate to the Revolution.