N2Growth Blog
MAY 24, 2012
By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth. I read an interesting article on The Wall Street Journal today discussing the use of colorful language in business settings. It prompted me to re-post an earlier piece I authored on the same subject. While both perspectives cover some of the same ground, the article in The Journal hedges a bit too much for my taste.
Terry Starbucker
MAY 20, 2012
For a leader, feedback from the team is a wonderful thing – that is, if it’s the RIGHT kind of feedback. We all have our ways of soliciting it, gathering it, or cajoling it out of our teammates. Because after all, without it, we’re most likely taking our #leadership shots completely in the dark. Not a good thing. And a morale killer to boot.
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Women on Business
MAY 24, 2012
Seventy years have passed since women left the confines of being homemakers and joined the work force en mass. Today, in 2012, there are only 12 Fortune 500 companies are led by women CEO’s. Perhaps it is time for another surge, time for women to take things to the next level by doing something that comes naturally to our male counterparts – compete.
SoCal CTO
MAY 22, 2012
I recently posted about the Increase in Early-Stage Startup Activity in Los Angeles. In that post, I mentioned how one of the signals is the big increase in number of startup events and the number of attendees at those events. I realized that it has been a little while since I posted about the Los Angeles Startup Community and so needed to update my list of startup events that will be out of date almost before I finish publishing it.
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N2Growth Blog
MAY 21, 2012
By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth. Let’s face it – the best leaders have always grabbed our attention and peaked our imagination. They have a way of captivating, fascinating and intriguing us. It’s the interesting people with whom we want to engage, as they’re the ones who inspire and motivate us to be better and do more.
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Women on Business
MAY 21, 2012
To become an expert in your field, you are going to have to do some research. I’ve spent thousands of dollars on coaches, trainings, and university classes, all to discover that my biggest problem was getting real with ME! Here’s what I mean. There is a way to serve your clients better and to have that cash windfall that you are looking for. One of the biggest assets you have is your personality.
Lead on Purpose
MAY 19, 2012
Great leaders are persistent. They persevere through trials and develop the ability to weather tough storms. Calvin Coolidge , 30th US President, said: Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts.
Steve Farber
MAY 20, 2012
Waaaaay back in 2010, I had a great chat with Chris Taylor of Actionable Books. Aside from my looking particularly chunky, I’d have to say this was one of my favorite interviews, which is why I’m re-posting it today.
Next Level Blog
MAY 22, 2012
So, let me say at the outset that I’m reasonably confident that this is the world’s first leadership development blog post that includes a story about roasted cauliflower. (I Googled “roasted cauliflower leadership” and the top result was this recipe from Northern Michigan’s News Leader.) Here’s my back story. One day last week I was working from my home office.
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SoCal CTO
MAY 21, 2012
Over the past several years, I've done lots of presentations around a wide variety of topics. I was recently asked by an organization, "Tony, what topics can you cover?" I realized that I've never captured topics that I've covered (I'm always willing to look at other topics), nor have I put up my speaker bio. So, here goes: Dr. Tony Karrer Over the past 15 years, Tony has been a part-time CTO for more than 30 startups.
The Recovering Engineer
MAY 24, 2012
As a watch officer on a submarine, I got to “drive the boat.” During my six-hour watch (shift), I led the team that charted course, controlled direction and depth, coordinated atmosphere controls, and a number of other activities. A submarine at sea never sleeps. There was always someone on watch both before and after me. When I took the watch, I reviewed logs, looked at instrument settings, and discussed with my predecessor what happened during his watch.
Women on Business
MAY 25, 2012
Salvatore Vuono/freedigitalphoto.net. Starting a business is optimism incarnate and we have all had that moment when the question” what are you working on now?” seems to be an indictment of our failure as an entrepreneur. I’ve noticed that there are some silver linings when warm leads dry up and you have to roll your sleeves up to stay in business.
Next Level Blog
MAY 24, 2012
Even if you’re trying not to pay attention to the presidential campaign right now, you might have heard about Newark Mayor Cory Booker’s comments on “Meet the Press” last weekend. When the topic of the negative messages that the Romney and Obama campaigns are both transmitting about the other side was raised, Booker said he found the whole thing “nauseating.”.
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.
QAspire
MAY 21, 2012
American Society for Training and Development (ASTD) recently released a fantastic collection titled “ The ASTD Management Development Handbook ”. This book provides current thinking on various management aspects by practicing management professionals. Lisa Haneberg , the editor of this book invited about 37 bloggers/authors to contribute their thinking – people who are active NOW, who are exploring the emerging trends in management and are willing to share their thinking on the best management
Coalfire
MAY 25, 2012
Over 60 executive level attendees came to the Omni Interlocken Resort in Broomfield, Colorado for the National Council of Higer Education Loan Programs (NCHELP) Spring convention and to hear from a panel of cloud experts on how the migration to cloud IT services could impact their business in the future.
The Accidental Successful CIO
MAY 23, 2012
'Image Credit Randy Mott is a CIO who knows how to make big decisions…. You wouldn’t think that a CIO who just got fired from his job at HP would have a lot to teach us about IT strategy , but that’s where you’d be wrong. Randy Mott is a CIO who has been around the block a few times. He’s worked for Wal-Mart, Dell, and he was CIO at HP.
Next Level Blog
MAY 25, 2012
Every week, I share a recap of some of the best things I’ve seen on Twitter. This week, I’m highlighting tweets and links on earning trust, building momentum, and improving your productivity, among others. View the story “The Week in Tweets” on Storify. Click headline to continue.
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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.
QAspire
MAY 20, 2012
Trainings are at the core of most knowledge-oriented organizations and often considered to be key driver of employee behaviors, and hence culture. It is a lot of hard work, a lot of time, effort and energy spent. It better be effective. Here are 9 (more) ideas to ensure that trainings are effective (related ideas in links below): Training is not a silver bullet.
Coalfire
MAY 25, 2012
The PCI council has updated the Point-to-Point encryption (P2PE) program requirements (PDF). The update impacts merchants, payment applications, point of sale vendors and service providers. As a participating organization of the PCI P2PE task force, providing input into the standard, I wanted to briefly explain how this affects the various PCI ecosystem participants.
The Programmer's Paradox
MAY 22, 2012
Just to keep life interesting, I've changed the template on my blog to Blogger's dynamic template. One consequence is that I now need to send the full posts in the feed (I didn't before because I wanted people to visit the site so I could track them). Another consequence is that DISCUS isn't supported, so for a short time I've turned off my comments.
Steve Farber
MAY 20, 2012
Waaaaay back in 2010, I had a great chat with Chris Taylor of Actionable Books. Aside from my looking particularly chunky, I’d have to say this was one of my favorite interviews, which is why I’m re-posting it today.
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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.
Six Disciplines
MAY 22, 2012
Why don’t more employees do what they are supposed to do? . In a recent post by Banchard Leaderchat , author and consultant William Schiemann might have part of the answer—only 14% of the organizations he polled report that their employees have a good understanding of their company’s strategy and direction. How would your company score on a similar survey?
Strategy Driven
MAY 21, 2012
I get a ton of emails from people seeking insight or asking me to solve sales dilemmas. Here are a few that may relate to your job, your life and, most important, your sales thought process right now: Jeffrey, I’m interested in your insight and guidance. I think selling is the best job in the world, but there’s one aspect I’m struggle with.
Nutanix
MAY 19, 2012
Even after years of SAN administration, only a select group of engineers understand this complex set of technologies and their interactions and conflicts.
Six Disciplines
MAY 22, 2012
Why don’t more employees do what they are supposed to do? . In a recent post by Banchard Leaderchat , author and consultant William Schiemann might have part of the answer—only 14% of the organizations he polled report that their employees have a good understanding of their company’s strategy and direction. How would your company score on a similar survey?
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Strategy Driven
MAY 20, 2012
Solving the Brain Drain for Nuclear and Power Generation. by Bentley Systems, Inc. Capture and manage your nuclear facility’s institutional knowledge for immediate action. Your organization’s most important asset is the knowledge your workers hold. With today’s transient workforce and the large percentage of nuclear workers approaching retirement age, it is critical to implement a system that will capture their knowledge in an efficient, usable way.
Strategy Driven
MAY 24, 2012
How big is the U.S. national debt? Could large corporations and the rich ‘bailout’ the Federal government? In this video, Tony Robbins masterfully illustrates just how large the $15 trillion U.S. national debt really is and the degree of ‘commitment’ necessary to satisfy our government’s insatiable spending. This eye-opening commentary is neither political nor directive, it simply seeks to raise awareness to the plague overshadowing our markets, our government, and
Strategy Driven
MAY 22, 2012
Business plans are more than just words on an otherwise blank piece of paper; it is a statement of the company’s future. The business plan is meant to provide direction and inspire action among executives in the C-suite and employees on the shop floor. Subsequently, these plans are often elegant design and creative in their layout; being fully illustrated and capturing through pictures the essence of the workforce.
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