Let's Grow Leaders
AUGUST 17, 2015
I Googled “Death by Powerpoint” and got 12.6 million results. That’s a whole lot of frustrated ranting going on. Look, I get it. In most companies, if you’re serious about your project, you can’t show up to a meeting without a “deck” to explain it. But if people are glazing over, you’re not inspiring their best thinking.
General Leadership
AUGUST 21, 2015
GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success. Henry Ford. As a freshman engineering student, I remember vividly the day my professor announced we needed to know the answer before we performed the calculations.
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Terry Starbucker
AUGUST 16, 2015
This is the last in a series of my 3 favorite posts over the past 9+ years, in anticipation of my 1,000th (!) post coming up next Sunday, on August 23rd. I’m so grateful you’re here reading this today, and I hope you’ll join me again next week to help me celebrate this milestone (to make it easier for you please be my guest to sign up for email delivery of my posts in the box on the right side bar).
Erik Bernhardsson
AUGUST 15, 2015
Every once in a while when talking to smart people the topic of automation comes up. Technology has made lots of occupations redundant, so what’s next? Switchboard operator, a long time ago. What about software engineers? Every year technology replaces parts of what they do. Eventually surely everything must be replaced? I just ran into another one of these arguments: Software Engineers will be obsolete by 2060.
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.
Let's Grow Leaders
AUGUST 19, 2015
Have you ever noticed how much easier is to remember someone’s point when they wrap a story around it? So why do so many leaders stick with dry powerpoint presentations and yawner “motivational” pep talks when they could tell a story. How could you better use stories to galvanize your team toward stronger results? This Summer, I’ve trained hundreds of people on my STORIES model of impactful communication.
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CTOvision
AUGUST 17, 2015
In 2011 the US Federal Government issued a Cloud First policy mandating that agencies take full advantage of cloud computing benefits to maximize capacity utilization, improve IT flexibility and responsiveness, and minimize cost. Cloud computing is a design style that allows for efficient use of compute, storage, and memory in order to decrease cycle time for mission delivery and promises to change the way that agencies deliver services to citizens for the next twenty years.
Erik Bernhardsson
AUGUST 15, 2015
Every once in a while when talking to smart people the topic of automation comes up. Technology has made lots of occupations redundant, so what’s next? Switchboard operator, a long time ago. What about software engineers? Every year technology replaces parts of what they do. Eventually surely everything must be replaced? I just ran into another one of these arguments: Software Engineers will be obsolete by 2060.
Change Starts Here
AUGUST 18, 2015
Although I’ve long been the host of the Influence Change at Work radio show, yesterday, I had the privilege of being the guest on someone else’s show. Dr. Linda Hoopes of Resilience Alliance, who has twice been a guest on Enclaria Radio ( How to Help Yourself and Others Adapt to Change and How to Avoid and Manage Change-Related Overload ), invited me to her show to talk about the challenges change agents face, and how to be resilient in the face of seemingly endless obstacles when yo
General Leadership
AUGUST 17, 2015
GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step. Lao Tzu. Recently, my sweetie and I were out at Creve Coeur Lake in St. Louis County, Missouri. There’s a paved path almost 4 miles long circling the lake and on any given day people are either walking, running, biking or blading on the path.
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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.
CTOvision
AUGUST 18, 2015
Thanks to Amazon.com we are able to provide our readers with a free copy of the Kindle version of our book on The Cyber Threat during a special three day promotion running 20-21 August 2015. The book was written to provide actionable insights into the cyber threat specially aimed towards the leader who should know more about threats to protect business objectives.
Women on Business
AUGUST 17, 2015
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Change Starts Here
AUGUST 19, 2015
There’s nothing more frustrating than to be given a goal by senior leadership only to realize that had they consulted your team, they may have developed a much more meaningful goal or altered the strategy completely to optimize the outcome. How do internal teams that provide services to the lines of business (HR, Technology, Legal, Operations etc.) earn respect as a strategic partner and get invited to join planning conversations with executives much earlier in the process?
General Leadership
AUGUST 19, 2015
GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. “We are shaped by practices and shape ourselves through practices. ”. Bob Dunham. What are you practicing as a leader? Leadership, like any endeavor is a skill that can be learned and honed through practice.
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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.
CTOvision
AUGUST 20, 2015
Government-Wide Acquisition Contracts (GWAC) are pre-competed vehicles that enable any government agency to buy cost-effective, innovative solutions to meet information technology requirements. These vehicles are easy and fast for government to use, offering quick access to qualified IT service providers via streamlined contracting. The National Institutes of Health (NIH) Information Technology Acquisition and Assessment Center ( NITAAC ) Chief Information Officer- Commodities and Solutions ( CI
Women on Business
AUGUST 21, 2015
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Next Level Blog
AUGUST 17, 2015
The executive that signed professional golfer Jordan Spieth to a long-term endorsement deal with Under Armour should get a raise. In the year, since he signed on, the 21 year old Texan has won two major golf championships, missed winning the other two by a total of four strokes and, with his second place finish in the PGA Championship yesterday, captured the number one ranking in the world.
General Leadership
AUGUST 18, 2015
GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. From Our Early Files: Originally Published. 21 Jan 2014. “Things turn out the best for people who make the best of the way things turn out.”. John Wooden. As the end to my working years begins to come hazily into view, conversations with younger co-workers naturally and frequently include the question, “What are you going to do when you retire?
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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.
CTOvision
AUGUST 21, 2015
See the video at this link and embedded below: Im a huge fan of Software Defined Networking (SDN) and so many other related applications of advanced enterprise tech. But watching this video is giving me pause. It very clearly shows that current SDN implementations are full of weaknesses that could shift the SDN Utopia into a nightmare.
Women on Business
AUGUST 20, 2015
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The Accidental Successful CIO
AUGUST 19, 2015
You’ll need a bridge to move from providing a service to being a partnerbr /> Image Credit: JOHN LLOYD. So here’s a question for you: based on the importance of information technology, what is IT’s role in your company? If you are like most people with the CIO job, your answer will consist of you listing a number of different things that the IT department does for the company: keeps its servers up, installs new applications, protects the network, etc.
The Empowered Buisness
AUGUST 18, 2015
Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Gloria Steinem. When I was a little girl, my mother encouraged me to dream. She would often tell me … “Dream big dreams. It does not cost anything to dream.”. So as a child, I would imagine myself becoming …. possibility thinking. … A gold Olympic ice skater on one day. … The first woman astronaut on another day. … Then it was a toss up between a princess, a cowgirl or a Mickey Mouse musketeer on the other da
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CTOvision
AUGUST 19, 2015
The following are some of the hot topics in the federal technology ecosystem (from FedTechTicker.com and TopTechTicker.com ): Fed Tech Ticker. NASA Taps 5 Institutions to Promote STEM Education at Minority-Serving Colleges. NTIA extends ICANN contract for another year. Mission-driven data visualization - GCN.com. New York to deploy statewide emergency management software - GCN.com.
Women on Business
AUGUST 16, 2015
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Toptal
AUGUST 18, 2015
Here’s the Vulkan API in a hundred words or less: It’s a low-overhead, close-to-metal API for 3D graphics and compute applications. Vulkan is basically a follow-on to OpenGL. It was originally referred to as the “next generation OpenGL initiative,” and it includes a few bits and pieces from AMD’s Mantle API. Vulkan is supposed to provide numerous advantages over other GPU APIs, enabling superior cross-platform support, better support for multithreaded processors, lower CPU load, and a pinch of O
Nathan Magnuson
AUGUST 17, 2015
My first job in high school was working at a small grocery store in town. I remember there were only eight aisles, so it wasn’t long before I had most of the place figured out. Unfortunately it wasn’t very complicated, and when I wasn’t assisting customers in the front, I was usually walking through the aisles pulling the products neatly to the front of the shelves.
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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.
CTOvision
AUGUST 20, 2015
The following are some of the hot topics in the federal technology ecosystem (from FedTechTicker.com and TopTechTicker.com ): Fed Tech Ticker. How to Get Ahead of 2016: Ensuring Federal IT Can Adapt to Leadership Transitions - Nextgov. Homeland Security Today: Invincea Addresses Billion Dollar Malvertising Problem. OPM: CDM will offer baseline security - FCW.com. 6 hidden costs of continuing resolutions - FCW.com.
Women on Business
AUGUST 19, 2015
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Toptal
AUGUST 20, 2015
Despite the advances in displays, increasingly larger smartphones feel like a triumph of cunning marketing over sensible engineering. Meant to improve user experience, the opposite may be happening.
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