Let's Grow Leaders
JULY 11, 2014
'Perhaps you convinced them you were ready, or maybe someone convinced you. Either way, you’re in a new job or staring at a new project and don’t have the slightest clue where to start. You feel stupid on the inside and you wonder how badly it’s showing on the outside. Everyone’s looking to you for direction. Now what? A Story of Not Knowing. “I know one thing, that I know nothing”-Socrates.
General Leadership
JULY 11, 2014
'“ Resilience is not a commodity you are born with, waiting silently on tap. It is self-manufactured painstakingly over time by working through your problems and never giving up, even in the face of difficulty or failure.”. Lori Myers. More than two million people died, four million were displaced and thousands fled civil war. However, through faith and perseverance, one “lost boy”, who later grew to become an American Airman, returned home healthier and happier than ever before.
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Change Starts Here
JULY 8, 2014
'As change agents, we tend to believe our change initiatives are worthwhile and important. Any negatives we see are eclipsed by the benefits. Otherwise, why would we try to implement them? But even the best change can annoy or anger those whom it impacts. Why? From our vantage point, we don’t always see the negatives that others will experience. And all the benefits and cheer leading don’t make the negatives go away.
CTOvision
JULY 9, 2014
'By Jeremy Glesner. Since the birth of Hadoop in 2005-06, the way we think about storing and processing information has evolved considerably. The term “Big Data” has become synonymous with this evolution. But still, many of our customers continue to ask, “What is Big Data?”, “What are its use cases?”, and “What is its business value?”. The Internet is overloaded with definitions, characteristics, and benefits; however, few discussions synthesize all three of these topics in one place.
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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.
Let's Grow Leaders
JULY 9, 2014
'Sarah (not her real name) had just received a kick-in-the-gut career wake up call – the kind we all pray never happens. She had 60-days to find something new. Perhaps it was her fault, perhaps not. These situations are prickly. The grapevine was buzzing with rumors when what she needed was connections. “Do you want me to take a look at your LinkedIn profile?
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Toptal
JULY 7, 2014
At first blush, JavaScript may seem quite simple. Yet the language is significantly more nuanced, powerful, and complex than one would initially be lead to believe. Many of JavaScript's subtleties lead to a number of common mistakes -- 10 of which we discuss here -- that are important to be aware of and avoid in one's quest to become a master JavaScript developer.
CTOvision
JULY 8, 2014
'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.
Steve Farber
JULY 6, 2014
'A declaration is a powerful thing. By making a declaration, you not only announce something, you proclaim it to be a true and accurate representation of who you are and what you believe in. You make a vow to anyone who reads or listens that you will abide by and live up to the words. And they can count on you for it. Here in the US, we’ve just finished celebrating Independence Day, which was codified for posterity (that’s us) in the Declaration of Independence.
General Leadership
JULY 7, 2014
'“The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.” . Robertson Davies. Biases cloud thinking. Thinking affects judgment. Judgment affects decisions. Decisions affect outcomes. We judge ourselves based on our outcomes. We judge others based on their outcomes. Our outcomes are in turn, judged by those around us. Our biases shape perception.
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Women on Business
JULY 8, 2014
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CTOvision
JULY 7, 2014
'By Shannon Perry. Nearly 30,000 bitcoins were seized last year from accounts linked to the illegal Silk Road market. On June 8 th , the United States Marshals Service, the agency responsible for selling property seized from criminals, announced its plans to sell those bitcoins – in 3,000 bitcoin blocks – through an auction at the end of June. The auction occurred Friday, June 27 th and was quite successful.
Steve Farber
JULY 9, 2014
'John Morgan , the founder of The Chinook Institute for Civil Leadership , is, at his core, a civil servant. An urban planner, to be precise. Given the stereotypes that many attribute to government workers, you may think that “love” and “urban planning” would be words that you’d never find in the same sentence. Think again.
General Leadership
JULY 10, 2014
'Associate Curator and GeneralLeadership.com CGO, Colonel Chris R. Stricklin discusses the importance of friendship in leadership. by. … Read the rest. The post Check Out Today’s 200-Second Soundbite™ Video Spotlight! appeared first on General Leadership.
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.
Women on Business
JULY 10, 2014
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CTOvision
JULY 9, 2014
'By Bob Gourley. The webinar below will be of high interest to enterprise technologists everywhere, especially in government: Speaker: David Murgatroyd, V.P. of Engineering, Basis Technology. Thursday, July 24, 2014. 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm (EST). The Federal Government has a tremendous responsibility to protect the safety and security of Americans both at home and abroad.
Lead on Purpose
JULY 5, 2014
'Guest post by Steve Brown One of the popular approaches to improving performance and employee engagement is to set up 360-degree reviews. With this process, a person gets feedback from their peers, as well as their manager.
General Leadership
JULY 8, 2014
'Cruise over to PodBean to hear our latest 200-Second Soundbite entitled “A Leadership Tale of Strategy and Complex Change” or subscribe to our PodCast directly via iTunes at the following link. Senior Curator and GeneralLeadership.com COO, Col Matthew T. Fritz shares the challenges of complex change and strategy. What defines the difference between success and failure is the way leaders communicate their plan to the very teammates who will execute the moves they need made.
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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.
Women on Business
JULY 7, 2014
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CTOvision
JULY 11, 2014
'By Shannon Perry. Since its June publication in the Proceedings of the National Academy of the Sciences, Facebook’s Experimental Evidence of Massive-Scale Emotional Contagion through Social Networks – a psychological experiment that manipulated the level of optimism or pessimism of users’ news feeds and measured subsequent Facebook activity – has received almost universally negative attention online.
Terry Starbucker
JULY 6, 2014
'Of the 8 core principles of More Human leadership , it’s #6 - Measuring, monitoring and managing with the right metrics - that presents the biggest “nuts and bolts” challenge to any leader. After all, after you’ve spent so much time and effort to set up the right values and build a great culture of accountability that should lead to greatness, how do you know you’re getting there – or better still, how can you show your team you’re getting there
Next Level Blog
JULY 10, 2014
'One of the things I love about my work is getting to meet and learn from some very talented top executives. That happened again recently when a senior vice president in a Fortune 500 client company stopped by for a lunch conversation with participants in our Next Level Leadership® development program. She was one of the clearest thinkers and communicators I’ve met recently.
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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.
Women on Business
JULY 10, 2014
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CTOvision
JULY 10, 2014
'If you keep up with the latest technology news, it seems like virtualization is happening in every corner of the IT world. It might be a surprise to you that Microsoft App-V has actually been around for a while. Microsoft acquired a company called Softricity in 2006. Post-acquisition, Microsoft rebranded Softricity’s application virtualization suite into App-V.
Terry Starbucker
JULY 10, 2014
'Recently I was honored to do a podcast with Richard Rierson , former Marine Corps Officer, leadership coach, trainer, speaker, & entrepreneur. His blog, and podcast, is called “Dose of Leadership” Richard has done over 150 interviews with leadership experts “who pursue excellence, truth, & common sense” I love his passion for leadership: I believe that it is central to every aspect of our lives.
Next Level Blog
JULY 7, 2014
'If you’re reading this while you’re on vacation or getting ready to go on vacation, this post is for you. Please, please, please, give yourself and your family a break. As I wrote a couple of years ago, the Europeans have it right. They don’t go on vacation, they go on holiday. Here in the States, we don’t holiday, we vacate. As in vacate the office and take your work with you.
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Women on Business
JULY 11, 2014
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CTOvision
JULY 9, 2014
'By Shannon Perry. CTOVision has investigated the future of technology and has explored the future with technology many times. Advances in communications will greatly improve the way we communicate; advances in wearable devices will provide information to individuals and doctors that could likely revolutionize healthcare. Commercial, government, and private drones will fill our skies to make deliveries, maintain order, or provide traffic updates – the possibilities are endless.
Nathan Magnuson
JULY 7, 2014
'I’m afraid I’ve come to recognize a serious leadership deficit today in America. It’s probably nothing new. It’s what I call “the fear of the finger.” Not the middle finger, mind you. I’m talking about the index finger. Precious few individuals are willing to risk being on the other end of a finger that could end up being pointed at them.
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