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The Beautiful Journey From Why Me to Why Not Me

Let's Grow Leaders

'Angelle Albright had every reason in the world to say “why me.” Angelle was just 38 years old going through her second round of chemo treatment for the most aggressive form of breast cancer when she had to evacuate her New Orleans home during hurricane Katrina. While cancer was wreaking havoc on her life, the hurricane destroyed many of her family members homes.

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Join Us On The Air Tonight!

General Leadership

'Join us – LIVE Wednesday, 2 July – at 9pm Eastern (6pm Pacific) on SiriusXM Patriot Channel 125 & the David Webb Show ! We’re celebrating together in advance of the Independence Day holiday with a special “Patriotism” themed broadcast. Join us on the air by calling into the show at 866-957-2874. You can also follow along on Twitter @GenLeadBlog and @davidwebbshow with hashtags: #GeneralLeadership #Patriotism.

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A Declaration of Independence from the Status Quo

Change Starts Here

'I originally published this post on July 4, 2010. I think you’ll find it bears reposting. Have you ever read the U.S. Declaration of Independence? It is as much an official document to the King of England as it is a case for change to the rest of the fledgling country it created. (Click the image to the right to read the full text.). It’s a great model and anyone who would like to compel people to break away from the current state of things.

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English Football (Soccer) and Executive Development

N2Growth Blog

'By John R. Childress. Chair, Cultural Transformation – President, N2Growth Europe, N2Growth. For the past 20 years I have been living in London and to say that the English are football crazy would be an understatement. There are multiple football leagues, as well as club teams in almost every village. The latest statistics show there are more than 140 individual leagues, containing more than 480 divisions, with an estimated average of 15 clubs per division, giving this tiny country more tha

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Get Better Network Graphs & Save Analysts Time

Many organizations today are unlocking the power of their data by using graph databases to feed downstream analytics, enahance visualizations, and more. Yet, when different graph nodes represent the same entity, graphs get messy. Watch this essential video with Senzing CEO Jeff Jonas on how adding entity resolution to a graph database condenses network graphs to improve analytics and save your analysts time.

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Leadership Below 100 Feet: Leadership Scuba Style

Let's Grow Leaders

'Leadership lessons come in many contexts. Last year, I shared what I learned about inspiring “courage” from my Scuba instructor on my first panicky intro to Scuba. A few more dives logged, I continue to see more connection between leadership and Scuba. Part metaphor. Part reality. I look forward to hearing your real-life metaphors and application. 6 Leadership Lessons From Scuba Diving. 1.

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Supreme Court Rules against Cell Phone Searches

CTOvision

'By Shannon Perry. In a unanimous ruling June 25 th , the Supreme Court decided that cell phone searches cannot take place without a search warrant. “The police generally may not, without a warrant, search digital information on a cell phone seized from an individual who has been arrested ,” the opinion summarized. And the implications of this conclusion extend far beyond cell phone searches.

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7 Reasons Female Entrepreneurs Are Happier

Women on Business

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6 Surprising Ways to Feel More Freedom at Work

Let's Grow Leaders

'You don’t need to win the lottery or quit your day job to experience a sense of freedom at work. I was recently interviewed about how “being an entrepreneur makes me feel independent.” I answered joyfully. But the truth is, I’ve been making a lot of my own freedom in a corporate day job for the last 2 decades. Much freedom comes from getting clear on who you are and taking control over your corner of the world. 6 Ways to Feel Freedom at Work.

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Tony Robbins Provides Free Resilience Building Resource for Military Warfighters and Families

General Leadership

'SAN DIEGO, California (GeneralLeadership.com) July 4, 2014 – Tony Robbins and Robbins Research International announced today a generous gift for active-duty military members serving in Afghanistan and their families in the form of complimentary access to Tony Robbins’ MILITARY ULTIMATE EDGE program. This personalized online resource, normally available to the public at $299, was provided free of charge to directly address personal resilience challenges that effect combat-veterans in the U.S.

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Streamlining Database Compliance with CI/CD Integration

IT leaders know the importance of compliance at every level, but the database often gets left behind as other environments are automated for robust protection. This whitepaper emphasizes the importance of robust, auditable, and secure database change management practices for safeguarding organizational compliance. Learn how automating database compliance: Mitigates risk Protects against security vulnerabilities Helps avoid regulatory penalties Aligns database workflows with app lifecycle Turns d

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In Controversial Study, Facebook Investigates Networks of Emotions

CTOvision

'By Shannon Perry. We have written about the possibilities of manipulating “feeds” in the past. A recent political opinion study conducted by the American Institute for Behavioral Research and Technology found that altering individual news feeds has the potential to influence political opinions vis-à-vis election candidates – and could ultimately influence the outcomes of elections themselves.

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MacGyver It: 77 Ways To Quickly Fix Your Profit Machine

Terry Starbucker

'On this edition of the More Human Podcast , my guests are Jeremy Eden and Terri Long. They are co-founders and co-CEOs of Harvest Earnings Group, Inc. Jeremy has decades of consulting and performance improvement experience in business and government, including McKinsey. Terri was in the corporate banking world for 18 years before joining Jeremy in 2000.

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7 Elements Your Business Card Should Have

Women on Business

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Check Out Today’s 200-Second Soundbite™ Video Spotlight!

General Leadership

'Senior Curator and GeneralLeadership.com COO, Lt Col Mathew T. Fritz discussed the importance of managing your leadership shadow.… Read the rest. The post Check Out Today’s 200-Second Soundbite™ Video Spotlight! appeared first on General Leadership.

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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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Big Data in the Public Sector

CTOvision

'By Bob Gourley. In the video at this link and embedded below I provide some context on new approaches to data can enhance outcomes for public sector organizations, with a focus on real world use cases.

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Buggy PHP Code: The 10 Most Common Mistakes PHP Developers Make

Toptal

PHP makes it relatively easy to build a web-based system, which is much of the reason for its popularity. But its ease of use notwithstanding, PHP has evolved into quite a sophisticated language, with many nuances and subtleties that can bite developers, leading to hours of hair-pulling debugging. This article highlights ten of the more common mistakes that PHP developers need to beware of.

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7 Unsexy Brands Show How to Succeed on Social Media – Infographic

Women on Business

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Happy Independence Day

General Leadership

'We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” When the Second Continental Congress voted to approve a resolution of independence declaring the United States independent from King George III and Great Britain, an inspired idea became reality.

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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 30 July Analyst Forum: Come to share and learn lessons learned across multiple sectors of the economy, government and academia

CTOvision

'By Bob Gourley. On 30 July 2014 in Reston Virginia some of the greatest minds in analytics for business outcomes and mission impact will be gathering at the Hyatt Regency Reston. This event, the Analytics 2014 Forum, is being pulled together by the United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation ( USGIF ) and our team at Analyst One. We are collaborating to provide a full venue of interactive sessions designed to extract and share lessons learned.

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Seven Ways to Keep Wizard of Oz Syndrome from Killing Your Organization

Next Level Blog

'Every so often I come in contact with an organization where everyone is on pins and needles. They’re afraid of their own shadows. Everything is on an urgent deadline. The smallest mistakes or surprises are crises. Any sense of humor remaining is solely of the gallows variety. Here’s what everyone of those organizations seems to have in common – the “little people” view the senior leaders as if they’re the great and powerful Oz (and by Oz, I mean the man behind the curtain, not the doctor on TV)

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The Importance of Networking

Women on Business

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Check Out Today’s “200-Second Soundbite™” Podcast!

General Leadership

'Cruise over to PodBean to hear our latest 200-Second Soundbite entitled “The Tyranny of a Ninth-Letter Leader” or subscribe to our PodCast directly via iTunes at the following link. Associate Curator and GeneralLeadership.com CGO, Col Chris R. Stricklin shares the challenges of working with a Ninth-Letter Leader. As a leader, every meeting is an opportunity: a unique moment that can bring a team closer together or shred the fabric that binds.

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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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SoftwareAG’s Acquisition of JackBe Recognized As Strategic M&A Deal of The Year

CTOvision

'By Bob Gourley. Note: I’ve been a fan of these firms and their technology and at times an advisor to both and always saw this as strategic. Good seeing others see the potential here. - bg. From: [link]. SOFTWARE AG’S ACQUISITION OF JACKBE RECOGNIZED AS STRATEGIC M&A DEAL OF THE YEAR. JackBe Serves as Foundation for Software AG’s Intelligent Business Operations.

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A Collection of Conflict Resolution Quotes

The Recovering Engineer

'I love quotes. They often capture big concepts in only a few words. They give me “thought anchors” to help me collect and focus my thoughts. This is a quick video I put together to capture some great conflict resolution quotes that help and inspire me. I hope it stimulates your thinking about the mindset of successful conflict resolution.

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Monika Beck Joins the Women on Business Writing Team

Women on Business

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Mindful Mondays: Habit Hacks That Make a Difference

Next Level Blog

'If you’ve been reading this blog for awhile you know that I’m into simple things that are easy to do and likely to make a difference. In my new book, Overworked and Overwhelmed, I call them Habit Hacks. The manuscript for the book is already done so it’s too late to include a fantastic Habit Hack I heard last week from a participant in our Next Level Leadership® development program.

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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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Net Neutrality Advocates Arrested at Google Headquarters

CTOvision

'By Shannon Perry. Regarding the current debate over the FCC’s proposed fast lanes, most consider Google a supporter of Net Neutrality. In early May, Google signed a letter to the FCC opposing fast lanes. In early June, Google supported the Reset the Net campaign , a protest against mass data collection. Google has also recently released tools to assess the quality of individuals’ Internet service providers in order to increase transparency and promote competition among ISPs.

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What is Soft Skills Training?

Rapid BI

'What is Soft Skills Training? In the past, Soft skills training and learning was used to refer to manager, leader, influencing, and other interpersonal skills. In recent years the term soft skills is being increasingly used to refer to EQ or Emotional Quotient based training and development. Can you live on Soft Skills alone? Hard […].

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Sponsored Video: Change Your Career, Pursue Your Passion and Gain Your Independence

Women on Business

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