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Strategic Silliness: When to Lighten the Mood

Let's Grow Leaders

'“Children have one kind of silliness, as you know, and grown-ups have another kind.” ? C.S. Lewis The deal was important and could lead to future work. I was impressed with this company, but had some valid concerns. They brought their Chairman to the table to help close the deal. “Karin, I know you’ll be very […] The post Strategic Silliness: When to Lighten the Mood appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Clear Counsel – How Sweet the Sound

N2Growth Blog

'By Brian Layer , Chair, Organizational Development, N2growth. When you want to know how your leadership is working–ask. Years ago, I learned this lesson when I received some unsolicited advice that challenged my professionalism, served as a wakeup call, and changed the arc of my career. The counsel came from a subordinate as I was leaving an important leadership position but it would have come earlier if I had only asked.

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Model benchmarks

Erik Bernhardsson

A lot of people have asked me what models we use for recommendations at Spotify so I wanted to share some insights. Here’s benchmarks for some models. Note that we don’t use all of them in production. Performance for recommender models. This particular benchmark looks at how well we are able to rank “related artists”. More info about models: vector_exp: Our own method, a latent factor method trained on all log data using Hadoop (50B+ events). word2vec: Google’s open sourced word2vec.

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How Can You Leverage New Hadoop Approaches To Build A Fact-Based Enterprise

CTOvision

'By Bob Gourley On Wednesday November 6th at 1pm EST Platfora is hosting a webinar providing details of the new Platfora Big Data Analytics platform. This webinar will be conducted by Peter Schlampp, Platfora’s Vice President of Products. I just saw Peter walk through these capabilities at Hadoop World last week and most strongly recommend this presentation to anyone in the federal space seeking to empower analysts with more rapid access to data.

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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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5 Words You Should Say Every Day

Let's Grow Leaders

'“Every day brings new choices” -Martha Beck Leadership impact comes in the context of the mundane. Every day little words inspire connection more than any grand speech you could deliver. It’s what you say when you think it doesn’t matter that matters. They notice the way you answer the phone, or your reaction in the […] The post 5 Words You Should Say Every Day appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Model benchmarks

Erik Bernhardsson

A lot of people have asked me what models we use for recommendations at Spotify so I wanted to share some insights. Here’s benchmarks for some models. Note that we don’t use all of them in production. Performance for recommender models. This particular benchmark looks at how well we are able to rank “related artists”. More info about models: vector_exp: Our own method, a latent factor method trained on all log data using Hadoop (50B+ events). word2vec: Google’s open sourced word2vec.

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More Good News In Federal IT from GSA (you will never see this on the front page of the Washington Post)

CTOvision

'By Bob Gourley GSA quietly issued a press release that documents some very virtuous activity. They continue to make progress on the very hard task of data center consolidation and are helping save money, enhance agility and improve support to citizens while doing so. Thanks GSA, keep up the good work. From the press release : GSA Closes Data Centers and Streamlines IT Organization to Boost Cost Savings, Improve Services.

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How to PERSUADE your Boss

Let's Grow Leaders

'He’s smart, quick on his feet, and he’s got power. All attempts to persuade him have failed. You could just give in… after all you’ve tried… and he’s the boss. If he wants it that way, fine. But, deep in your heart you know you’re right. You care. It matters. Others are counting on you. […] The post How to PERSUADE your Boss appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Interview: Leading Organizational Change from the Middle

Change Starts Here

'In 2011, I was interviewed for the Supply Chain Expert Community blog on the topic of Leading Organizational Change from the Middle. I recently found out this recording is included in the course material for a Masters-level Engineering Leadership/Strategic Change class at North Carolina State University. Looking back through the blog history, I realized I had never posted the interview here.

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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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The Big Dream of a Small Company

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]. Female Entrepreneurs 100 most powerful women business blog for women business strategy for women business women business women leadership female bloggers female blogs female board members female busines owners female business and technology female business blogs female business leaders fema

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Do You Seek To Support DoD? Selling your Requirements – in a fiscally constrained year

CTOvision

'By ChrisScott The Department of Defense (DoD) is still in business and will continue to provide the outstanding defense that Americans expect and deserve. As the DoD budget continues to decline, we can expect extra scrutiny on each and every funded program. This means if you are a supplier to DoD you better get ready now for increased scrutiny. Whether you supply people/services, weapons systems, platforms or IT hardware/software, you need to ensure you can show the government they are getting

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Three Ways Leaders Build (or Break) Trust

Next Level Blog

'It''s a bad sign when a leader gets to the point where both friends and foes are asking, “What did he know and when did he know it?” That’s where President Obama is this week with lots of questions being raised about what and when he knew about big problems with the Healthcare.gov website launch and more than five years of NSA eavesdropping on German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s phone conversations.

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The Day an Exec Showed Me Up

Nathan Magnuson

'Several years ago when I was in graduate school, I invested a summer at a major restaurant franchise with the hopes of landing a corporate role after I graduated. I worked with an incredible operator who went out of his way to help me build my network with the corporate staff. Through one of the […].

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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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Women on Business Welcomes Shay Banks as a Contributing Writer

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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DISA Tackling Hard Work And Making Tough Choices In Data Center Consolidation

CTOvision

'By Bob Gourley DISA, the Defense Information Systems Agency, manages the core infrastructure that keeps the Department of Defense (DoD) IT backbone alive. The sunk cost of this infrastructure gives the DoD reliable and secure data transport, internal computer services and private cloud computing capabilities. These guys know data centers well. They are on a path to consolidate data centers where they can, and no doubt are also looking to modernize and enhance their data center architecture when

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The Six Roots of Healthy Leadership

Next Level Blog

'If you’re a leader who’s feeling continually pulled from pillar to post, you’ll want to check out the new book, "Grounded: How Leaders Stay Rooted in an Uncertain World" by Bob Rosen. In a recent conversation with Bob, we talked about the research he’s done in more than 20 years as an organizational psychologist and advisor to senior executives. "Grounded" is the summation of all he’s learned.

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Why is trust key to your company’s success?

Lead on Purpose

'I write about trust often on this blog, so I’ll keep this post short and to the point: Gaining and keeping the trust of those you lead is one of the top factors to your company’s ongoing success. Think about someone you trust unconditionally. Is there anything you wouldn’t do for that person? Why? Here’s my answer: that person would never ask me to do something that was not in my best interest.

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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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Biases Against Women in Business in the Words of Google VP Megan Smith [Video]

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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6 Ways A CIO Can Shake Everything Up

The Accidental Successful CIO

'Sometimes you just have to destroy everything to rebuild it Image Credit. Sometimes you just have to change everything. When you get the CIO job great things are going to be expected of you. Everyone understands the importance of information technology and so they are going to be looking at you with the assumption that you have all of the answers. Of course you don’t, but you can’t tell them that.

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Can we stop misusing the word "Governance"?

The Agile Manager

The word "governance" is misused in IT, particularly in software development. There are two popular misconceptions. One is that it consists of a steering committee of senior executives with oversight responsibility for delivery; it's responsibilities are largely super-management tasks. The other is that it is primarily concerned with compliance with protocols, procedures or regulations, such as ITIL or Sarbanes-Oxley or even coding and architectural standards.

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IT Security Horror Story #1: The Case of the Phantom Blood Red Team

Coalfire

An unsuspecting Fortune 100 company allows horrible creatures into their building and systems during a Red Team engagement. READ MORE…IF YOU DARE -.

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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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CapitalWorks - A Six Disciplines Client Case Study Part 3

Six Disciplines

'The Six Disciplines Solution. By implementing the Six Disciplines Total Performance Excellence program, Hollington says it allows CapitalWorks the ability to have a productive owner/manager relationship without micromanaging each acquisition. Six Disciplines’ program combines continuous business improvement methodology based on proven best-practices, an innovative add-in for Microsoft Outlook, and coaching services to increase self-leadership effectiveness.

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The Top 5 Ways Enterprise Social Collaboration Can Boost Organizational Productivity

Strategy Driven

'The social media revolution has changed the way people interact in their personal lives, and now it is inevitably changing the way they collaborate and connect in the workplace. Enterprise social collaboration is a way for organizations to leverage social tools to improve employee engagement, bolster productivity and tap into a company’s collective intelligence.

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Hypervisor-Based Replication vs. Cluster-Based Replication – Nutanix

Nutanix

There’s no question that enterprise application usability has for the most part been left behind.

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IT Security Horror Story #3: Ghost in the Machine

Coalfire

A supernatural sequence of automotive portals and applications yield a ghostly in-car phenomenon. READ MORE…IF YOU DARE -.

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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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The Shocking Costs of Hiring Mistakes … And The Secrets to Avoiding Them

The Empowered Buisness

'One steep costly blindspot that I have observed in working with leaders is the unconscious avoidance, denial and/or toleration of under-performing employees. Shocking costs of hiring mistakes. More commonly known as the cost of a mis-hire. According to Tony Hsieh, CEO, Zappos, hiring mistakes have cost his company as much as $ 100 million! That’s alot of dollars immediately subtracted from the bottomline.

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Evaluation and Control Program – Essential Organizational Behaviors

Strategy Driven

'Effective evaluation and control programs rely on a set of underlying behaviors promoting continuous performance improvement. While positionally dependent, these behaviors foster the continuous identification and resolution of performance improvement opportunities and shortfalls. Individual performance improvement behaviors vary across a spectrum based on organizational position.

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Optimizing Public Cloud Infrastructure for Private Clouds

Nutanix