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5 Ways to Help a Decision Maker Decide

Let's Grow Leaders

My client, Laura, had invited me in to observe the spectacle. I watched as she carefully articulated her research findings and presented her “no brainer” suggestions to Mark. Each time Laura’s ideas were met with a similar response, “thanks so much,” followed by a bogus reason of why the idea wouldn’t work. The conversation was the equivalent of Laura saying, “I’d like to give you 100 bucks.

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Social Media: A Professional’s Best Tool Used Wisely!

General Leadership

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. “ Smart phones and social media expand our universe. We can connect with others or collect information easier and faster than ever. ”. Daniel Goleman. They say, “You can’t teach an old dog new tricks!” If the “new tricks” are related to social media, “they” are wrong!

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How Many of Your Organization’s Strategic Initiatives Succeed?

N2Growth Blog

My guess is that your answer is less than half or at least “not enough of them.”. Delivering on strategic initiatives on time, every time, is the hallmark of organizations that are best in the world at executing strategy, and they’re rewarded with a premium put on the value of their company. Organizations that can’t deliver on their strategic initiatives fail at executing their strategy, and organizations that fail at executing strategy will not survive.

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Beyond The Basics: The 10 Best Ways To Fine-Tune Your Leadership

Terry Starbucker

Now that you’ve absorbed the 8 basic principles of More Human Leadership , learned the 10 immutable laws that go with them, and truly know the difference between a boss and a leader , it’s now time to dig a little deeper. Let’s get beyond those basics and into a little leadership fine-tuning – those refinements and adjustments that keep that wheel of success turning without too much friction.

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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 Overcome Stage Fright

Let's Grow Leaders

I was deeply worried that my Dad was right, there would be no way I could hold it together to sing at my Mom’s funeral. I envisioned myself as a weepy mess at the front of the church. But for me, singing is a prayer, and after the hundreds of concerts my parents attended to support me over the years, not singing felt wrong. I’m normally not a stage fright kind of girl, I always love a good microphone.

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CTOvision Interviews RADM Paul Becker, Director for Intelligence, Joint Chiefs of Staff, On The Cyber Threat

CTOvision

We recently had the opportunity to interview the Director for Intelligence (J2) for the Joint Chiefs of Staff, RADM Paul Becker, USN. RADM Becker has served in this position since September 2013. The Joint Staff J2 is a position requiring a constant awareness of the day-to-day threats to the nation. Becker had the perfect background for this position, having served in a similar capacity at the United States Pacific Command, the combatant commander with the largest area of responsibility in the U

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Interview: How to Deal With Difficult People

Change Starts Here

This month’s guest, Dee Daley, is a business leader with a 20-plus year record of leading organizational change initiatives for corporations including GE Healthcare, GE Capital and Office Depot. She recently presented on the topic of How to Deal With Difficult People at the ACMP Change Management 2015 Global Conference. As change management professionals our success often depends upon our ability to influence without authority and to influence “difficult” people.

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Mindful Mondays: Pope Francis’ Nine Rules for Happy Living

Next Level Blog

In case you haven’t been paying attention, it turns out that Pope Francis is one of the most popular people in the world. A recent Pew Research Center survey found that he has a 90% favorability rating among U.S. Catholics and a 70% favorability rating among all Americans. Another Pew study at the end of last year found that he has a median favorable rating of 60% across 43 nations and only an 11% unfavorable rating.

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Time Machine Tuesday: Work is Honorable

General Leadership

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. 2 July 2013. “All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.” Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

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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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AFCEA and NIP and the USN Present Navy Information Dominance Day 11 June 2015

CTOvision

n June 11, 2015, AFCEA Intelligence and the Naval Intelligence Professionals, in collaboration with the Office of the Deputy Chief of Naval Operations for Information Dominance, will present a classified forum examining the state of Information Dominance in the U.S. Navy. . If you have attended any of the previous sold-out Navy Information Dominance Industry Days, you know these events provide invaluable business intelligence in the context of the Navy’s Strategy for Achieving Information Domina

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How to Find your Niche as a Potential Entrepreneur

Women on Business

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What is Bootstrap? A Short Bootstrap Tutorial on the What, Why, and How

Toptal

If you're doing anything web related, chances are you've heard about Bootstrap. Bootstrap is a powerful toolkit - a collection of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript tools for creating and building web pages and web applications. It is a free and open source project, hosted on GitHub, and originally created by (and for) Twitter. If by now you still don't know what Bootstrap is, or you just want to get a better overview of what it is and what it does best, you've come to the right place.

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Monday Quote

General Leadership

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. “Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him. “ Dwight D. Eisenhower. . How did you enjoy today’s post?

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How Embedded Analytics Helps Product Managers Exceed Their KPIs

Embedded analytics can help you deliver cutting-edge analytics experiences to your end-users that align with KPIs that are critical to the growth and success of your business. Read this eBook to learn how an embedded analytics platform, like Qrvey, can help PMs exceed the following KPIs: Growing revenue while improving customer retention rate Delivering rapid time to value Earning a high net-promoter score Increasing Gross Margin / Profitability Conversion rate from trial to paid Don’t just meet

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21 May Webinar: SAS and Apache Hadoop Architecture Review

CTOvision

Register now for our 21 May webinar with SAS focusing on architecture and design patterns for optimizing SAS and Hadoop. SAS Business Analytics software is focused on delivering actionable value from enterprise data holdings. The long-term, consistent vision and continuous innovation of SAS has kept SAS the market leader in business analytics. This remains true in the age of Hadoop, where SAS has brought the power of user-focused Business analytics to Big Data.

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The Benefits of Networking Events

Women on Business

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Burn Your Vision Statement

Steve Farber

Vision from the heart is an expression of love; it’s not just more engaging and energizing–it’s energy itself. Most leaders in business underestimate the power of their own hearts. You have no idea how much energy you can unleash in yourself and those around you if you just cut through the banal, bureaucratic, buzzword-laden language and simply tell people why you love your business and communicate your authentic, heart-felt aspirations for yourself, your team, your customers,

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How to Get Your New Team Off to a Strong Start

Next Level Blog

If you’re a leader in your organization, there will be multiple times in your career when you have to get a new team off to a strong start. One of the critical steps in that process is when you bring the team members together for the first time. That’s a rare opportunity to define the purpose, build trust, establish the ground rules and set the priorities.

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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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Lessons from the Synergy Forum: Cybersecurity through Information Sharing

CTOvision

On 30 April 2015 industry leaders and government practitioners gathered in Tysons Corner to discuss technology trends, innovation, and ways to enhance enterprise and mission outcomes. Technology and Emerging Concepts for Enhanced Cybersecurity , the forum’s first panel discussion, consisted of Bob Gourley, David Bray, Brian Carrier, Peter Fonash, and Dean Hall, who collectively identified many of the growing opportunities and challenges in the cyber arena.

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5 Steps for Going from Concept to Creation

Women on Business

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Dr. Deming on Joy of Work, Innovation and Leadership

QAspire

Having worked in Quality management role for a long time, I could not have afforded to miss insights from Dr. W. Edwards Deming whose thinking was way ahead of time. Dr. Deming is remembered for transforming Japan into a formidable business competitor through his management and leadership practices, especially Deming’s 14 principles. In 1994, at the age of 92, Dr.

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Key Takeaways from Leadercast 2015

Nathan Magnuson

I was able to attend my fourth Leadercast seminar earlier this month. This year I attended a simulcast in Orlando, FL. As always, it inspired me with both new and familiar ideas. The theme this year was bravery. Here are some of my key takeaways – and you can also catch up on the social conversation with the tags # leadercast and # thebraveones.

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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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Army Intelligence Industry Day 29 July 2015

CTOvision

On July 29, 2015, AFCEA Intelligence and the Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Intelligence, Headquarters, U.S. Army, will co-sponsor a special, one day classified event tailored for members of industry focused on U.S. Army Intelligence. The event will be held at Engility Heritage Conference Center, Chantilly, VA. The agenda will explore science and technology priorities for Army Intelligence that come at a time of transition as the Army faces diverse, emerging challenges.

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Giving Teenagers the Lowdown on Smarter Saving

Women on Business

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Deploy Web Applications Automatically Using GitHub Webhooks

Toptal

Deploying instances of a web application to one or more servers manually can often be a monotonous process, and take up a significant amount of your time. With little effort, it is possible to automate the process of deploying your web application with almost zero human intervention. This article outlines a simple approach to automating web application deployments using GitHub webhooks, buildpacks, and Procfiles.

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Top Leaders Communicate Authority Through Body Language.

The Empowered Buisness

Are You? Can your body language …. Make a difference in commanding leadership authority? Create trust or mistrust within an organization? Change your emotions after a stressful day? Absolutely!! Leadership authority is a by-product of 2 related aspects of yourself – your physiology and your emotional state. Call them the yin and yang of leadership authority.

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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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9 July 2015 DoD CIO Mobility Industry Day

CTOvision

Another event we would like to bring to your attention is the AFCEA coordinated DoD CIO Mobility Industry day of 9 July 2015. Mobility is not just a major trend for DoD, but is a major driver of future mission functionality and is also posing very unique security challenges for the department. This event will shed light on those and other important topics.

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Why Language Matters for Everything

Mills Scofield

How many languages do you speak? Only 7% of American college kids study a language. Think this is a problem? It is a huge socio-economic-global-geopolitical-security one! Amelia Friedman didn't set out to start a business learning languages from her peers - like Bengali, Thai, Tamil. but she has. We need to communicate like never before - and language is how.

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Hidden Strengths by Thuy Sindell & Milo Sindell

Rapid BI

Hidden Strengths: Unleashing the Crucial Leadership Skills You Already Have is a book by authors Thuy Sindell and Milo Sindell. The book starts with the premise that to survive in the modern world we need to be agile and adaptive. This book and the associated website set out to provide tools to help readers become […]. The post Hidden Strengths by Thuy Sindell & Milo Sindell appeared first on.

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