Sat.Mar 16, 2013 - Fri.Mar 22, 2013

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Humility and Leadership: Can We Teach Leaders to Be Humble?

Let's Grow Leaders

“Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it’s thinking of yourself less” -C. S. Lewis Is humility teachable? Is humility developed by nature or nurture? Am I really audacious enough to write a post on teaching humility? Apparently yes. Let me add a caveat. I don’t have humility handled. I have the best intentions, but [.

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Why Your Organization Suffers From Leadership Dysfunction

N2Growth Blog

By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth. Have you ever wondered why organizations tolerate dysfunctional leaders? The answer is dysfunction is so prevalent it’s often not even recognized as problematic. Many corporations just desire leaders to go along and get along more than they desire them to lead. It saddens me to articulate this next thought – corporate leadership is rapidly becoming an oxymoron.

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Interview: How to Get Things Done When You Feel Powerless

Change Starts Here

In this 50th episode of The Change Agent’s Dilemma, my guest is Karen Steinberg, founder of The Possibility Practice, who shares How to Get Things Done When You Feel Powerless. Listen to this episode to hear situations that cause people to feel powerless at work, and learn what you can do when you feel like you can’t do anything at all. Listen to the show here (30 minutes): Be sure to visit the radio show page to listen to past episodes and subscribe to the show.

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Listen Up: Leadership And The Virtual Q-Tip

Terry Starbucker

Leaders, if they are to live up to their role as those who “show the way”, need to do a lot of talking. However, there’s a trap door lurking on that speaking platform, and if we fall in it, we can take the teams we lead down with us. The trap is simply this: We do more talking than focused listening. I know, it sounds pretty simple.

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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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20 Ways To Frustrate Your Team

Let's Grow Leaders

If you are a leader, you will frustrate your team. You don’t mean to. You likely frustrated someone today. I know, I know, you’re boss frustrates you too. I asked our community through Let’s Grow Leaders Facebook, Twitter and other social media forums, about “how leaders frustrate their teams…” Please feel free to add yours [.

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Women-Owned Businesses Out-Perform National Average

Women on Business

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Primary and Secondary Impacts of Change (or Google’s Oversight in Sunsetting Google Reader)

Change Starts Here

Last week, Google announced that as of July 1, 2013, it was sunsetting its Reader application, which millions of people use to subscribe to and read blogs. Forty percent of my blog subscribers use Google Reader, so there’s a good chance you are one of them. As a Google Reader user, I was surprised at first that they would get rid of such a useful product.

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Powerful Presentations: Teaching Your Team To Talk Strategy

Let's Grow Leaders

A “stand and deliver” presentation on your results is always nerve-wracking. But– watching your team do one is down right scary. You care about your people, and these things can get ugly. Leverage your own experiences. Help your team to build more powerful presentations. Help your team to talk strategy. Remember when you… couldn’t sleep [.

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More Luigi!

Erik Bernhardsson

Elias Freider just talked about Luigi at PyData 2013: The presentation above is much better than one I put together a few weeks ago.

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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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10 Essential Steps for Women and Leadership

Women on Business

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GSA Cancels two more conferences, ICS' are still under attack.

CTOvision

'Here are the top cyber news and stories of the day. Cloud security service protects WordPress content ? ?Developer NorseCrop has launched a cloud security service designed to protect open-source content management.

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Why Aren’t You Leading?

Let's Grow Leaders

You care deeply. Change must happen. They need you. You are qualified. You have big ideas. “I’m not sure I’m ready.” “I might fail” “I’m scared” “It’s too much work” “I’m too busy” “No One Asked Me” My friend ran up to me while we were waiting to pick up our kids. “I’ve got this [.

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Why Men Should Read Sheryl Sandberg’s Lean In

Next Level Blog

So, it’s pretty clear that Facebook COO, Sheryl Sandberg, doesn’t need any help from me in promoting her new book, Lean In. (For more on Sandberg on this blog check out Wondering ‘Am I A Good Leader?’ Take the Sheryl Sandberg Test.) In what is the most impressive book launch I’ve ever seen, Sandberg and her book on women and leadership have received a ton of coverage and conversation online.

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7 Pitfalls for Apache Cassandra in Production

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.

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Growing my Way?

Women on Business

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Everyday Sales Leadership: Stop, Collaborate and Listen

Nathan Magnuson

Today’s post was written by a former colleague of mine, Jess Titchener – an adrenalin-driven management consultant living, working and serving in London. You can follow Jess on Twitter as well as on her new faith-based blog at thistrainisboundforglory.com. To be featured on this site, click here. As I reflect on the three years that [.].

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Ready or Not? Do I Really Want That Management Gig?

Let's Grow Leaders

You’re the best at what you do. You’re a technical genius. You skip to work. And now…you’re feeling pressured to move to the next level. You’re honored, and humbled. It would mean more money. But, you see what your boss goes through. All those people problems. Questions of job security make you queasy. You are [.

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Mindful Mondays – What Are Your Triggers?

Next Level Blog

A big part of being a mindful leader is knowing your triggers. As emotional intelligence expert Daniel Goleman and others remind us, one of the biggest differences between human beings and other animals is our capacity to manage the gap between stimulus and response. A trigger is one form of stimulus. Quite often when we’re triggered, we react instead of respond.

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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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2013 eBoardmember Independent Director e-Publication is Now Available

Women on Business

The 2013 eBoardmember Independent Director Catalog , which was discussed on Women on Business last month, has been released, and it includes profiles of qualified director candidates. Board Guru Tracy Houston of Board Resource Services, LLC shared details about the publication, which you can read below. You can also download the publication for free by clicking on the link at the beginning of this article.

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You've Got The Data, Now What CIO? (The CIO job is to use the CIO position to communicate the importance of information technology)

The Accidental Successful CIO

'Just collecting data isn’t enough, now you need to know what to do with it Image Credit. As CIO, a big part of your job is to help your company realize the importance of information technology and, based on this, help them to both collect and store data. Once you have it, you need to scrub it, maintain it, and protect it. However, has anyone every told you how to do the most important thing with it – use it?

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Leading Others the Dale Carnegie Way

Nathan Magnuson

There are two times most people start thinking about leadership. The first is when they experience poor leadership for the first time. Usually one of their first bosses rubs them the wrong way or they have a poor customer experience from a trusted organization. The second time is when they are put in a position [.].

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20 Signs of Leadership Indifference

QAspire

One of my consistent observation is: “ Indifference is the enemy of great leadership. ” Indifferent leaders make a statement, “I don’t care” through their thoughts, words and actions. Indifference in leadership can manifest itself in one (or many) of the following ways: 1. They are unable to decide: In difficult situations, people look for leaders to take decisions.

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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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IN ORDER TO LEAD WOMEN MUST “LEAN IN”?

Women on Business

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Running a Permanent Campaign for Innovation

Mills Scofield

I feel very honored to have one of my heroes guest blog today. Julie Anixter has reinvented herself several times and has the rare gift of strong right and left brain thinking. To say I admire her is an understatement. Her recent gig has been taking what is commonly regarded as The go to site for the practice of innovation, Innovation Excellence , to the next level.

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Social Media and Social Business – what do we mean?

Rapid BI

As we move into a world where “social” is put on every HR and marketing strategy, much like “i” has been put on technology, are we at a risk of over complicating and confusing people. We are in the early hours of a new revolution, and I fear that many people are using what they [.].

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In 100 Words: Don’t Let the Horse Decide

QAspire

There is an old Zen story about a man riding a horse, galloping frantically down a path. His friend, who is sitting by the side of the road, calls out "Where are you going?" The man replies: " I don’t know. Ask the horse! " We either lead our lives through the center of our existence or by simply responding to all external expectations ; proactively or reactively; as a flame with its own light or as a mirror that only reflects.

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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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You’re Great at Sales, but How Does the Rest of Your Life Look?

Women on Business

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Sun IdM Users: It’s Time to Make Your Move

Sailpoint

During my recent travels in North America and Europe, I’ve had the pleasure of meeting with dozens of IT professionals about their most pressing IAM challenges. Without question, a common topic on many peoples’ minds is the looming end-of-life for Sun Identity Manager. I realize we’ve been talking about post-Sun plans for a while now, but with Sun IdM’s 2014 termination of support date nearing, there’s a growing sense of urgency to figure out what’s next.

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Information Governance: Get Data Classification Right First

Coalfire

Data classification is one of the most crucial elements of an effective information governance process—yet it’s also one that many companies fail to implement well. In its simplest terms, data classification is the process of categorizing data based on its level of sensitivity. When done properly, the classification of data helps a company determine the most appropriate level of safeguards and controls that need to be in place.