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5 Ways to Support Your Boss (Without Kissing Up)

Let's Grow Leaders

I don’t know your boss. She may be great. He may be a pain in the neck. He may be supportive. She may be a real witch. I’ve been that boss. I’ve had all those bosses. All leaders have “bosses” of one sort or another. Sometimes you are the boss of you. Most of the [.] The post 5 Ways to Support Your Boss (Without Kissing Up) appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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The Incredible Leadership Value Of Rest And Recovery

Terry Starbucker

I recently returned home from a 10-day vacation in Hawaii. It was a wonderfully relaxing experience, although it did take a few days before I could fully jettison all of the business “stuff” rolling around in my head. Once I could fully disengage from what was happening on the mainland I could literally “feel” the restorative power of just kicking back and enjoying the time off.

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Three Feats of a Savvy Change Agent

Change Starts Here

Changing an organization is a challenging endeavor. At times, it can be downright frustrating. Yet often, change agents avoid doing the very thing that will enable the change to happen because it seems too difficult. Those who do the most challenging work of change are the ones who see results instead of continuing to bang their heads against the wall.

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Selling to Government (Especially DoD) ? It's not all about YOU.

CTOvision

'selling My job is all about finding commercial solutions that will solve government problems. Some of my favorite work experiences have been when I can connect a new technology to an existing government problem!

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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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Leadership Candy Hearts: A Valentines Day Teambuilder

Let's Grow Leaders

Leadership grows with conversation. It’s Valentines day– How about spreading the conversation with a few candy hearts? I still get nostalgic for the doily decorated lunch bag full of cardboard valentines in elementary school, coupled with that sickening feeling from eating too many candy hearts. Perhaps you’ve upgraded your Valentines Day to more sophisticated endeavors.

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2013 State of Women-Owned Businesses Data Released [Infographic]

Women on Business

Optimism prevails among women business owners in 2013 according to the data from the 2013 State of Women-Owned Businesses report from Web.com and the National Association of Women Business Owners (NAWBO). The data comes from a survey of 552 women business owners conducted between December 14, 2012 and January 4, 2013. Of the survey respondents, 85% predicted that more women will become entrepreneurs in 2013 than in previous years.

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What’s Love Got to Do with Leadership?

Next Level Blog

Being the topical kind of guy that I am, on Valentine’s Day I find myself asking what does love have to do with leadership? As it turns out, quite a lot I think. In surfing the web while writing this post, I came upon this Wikipedia article which addresses the differing concepts of love from culture to culture. It was a good reminder of how limited my perspective can be.

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Getting to the Root Cause of Attendance Problems

Let's Grow Leaders

“Our supervisors just need to get more disciplined about administering the attendance policy.” “We are just being too lenient with FMLA” “There’s no way he’s really sick… again.” Attendance issues can be frustrating. In fact, the traditional methods of trying to “fix” such problems, often aggravate them.

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The Problem with Good Ideas | Thoughts for the Everyday Leader

Nathan Magnuson

Home About Coaching Contact Guest Posts Archives. Thoughts for the Everyday Leader. by Nathan Magnuson. Home / Leadership / The Problem with Good Ideas. The Problem with Good Ideas. February 11, 2013. — 3 Comments. Are good ideas ruining the effectiveness of your team or organization? Yes, you read that correctly. Are good ideas keeping you from winning?

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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 Real Benefits of Employee Telecommuting [Infographic]

Women on Business

Today, approximately 30 million Americans telecommute at least one day per week, and that number is expected to increase 63% by 2016. For most employers, the biggest deterrent to allowing employees to telecommute is the myth that their productivity levels will decrease when they work from home. Statistics show that’s not true as you can see in the infographic below.

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The Pope Shows That Sometimes Leadership is Addition by Subtraction

Next Level Blog

As I write this, it’s the evening of the day that Pope Benedict XVI announced that he intends to resign the papacy at the end of this month. Considering that the last time a pope resigned was 600 years ago, his announcement qualifies as a pretty big story. There’s been a lot of reporting and commentary today about the impact of Benedict’s resignation.

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How To Reset Your Team’s Expectations

Let's Grow Leaders

In Friday’s post, How To Transform Mid-Team, we talked about you how prepare your team for your evolving leadership style. But what if you also have new expectations for your team? Not only are you evolving, but you need them to as well. That’s even more difficult. Perhaps you will be… asking them to make [.] The post How To Reset Your Team’s Expectations appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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A Greater Than Yourself Legacy

Steve Farber

“Truly great leaders in life become so because they cause others to be greater then themselves. Dedicating yourself to bringing others along so that they can achieve more than you is the ultimate way to boost talent, ramp productivity and create truly significant current and future leaders.” The act of Greater Than Yourself , of taking someone on as your “GTY Project,” is most powerful when you extend yourself unconditionally–with no expectation of getting anything

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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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The Top Affiliate Marketing Benefits [Infographic]

Women on Business

Affiliate marketing is extremely popular these days and can be a great way to get your brand, products, and services in front of wider audiences and drive conversions via leads and sales. In simplest terms, affiliate marketing involves paying a commission to people or entities who agree to be your affiliates. Those affiliates promote your company, brand, or products to their own audiences using individual affiliate codes to track conversions.

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Listening as a Tool to De-escalate Conflicts

The Recovering Engineer

Recently, I read this statement: “They keep yelling at me that I’m not listening.” I would love to give credit to the person who said it, but I’ve lost the source. I think I saw it as a tweet in my twitter stream. I’m just not sure of that. In any case, I thought it was funny. Funny? Yes. A good perspective for conflict resolution?

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The Big Problem with Little White Lies

Let's Grow Leaders

When’s the last time you sat in a meeting and heard a “little white lie”? Sure, what they presented was “technically” the truth… the statistics they presented were real, but no one walked away with the full story. Perhaps you found yourself wondering… ”do they really think I’m that stupid?” We all have different [.

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Leadership and collaboration

Lead on Purpose

When you consider that success includes all the important aspects of life in aggregate, the most successful people focus first and foremost on making other people successful. They collaborate with others. When an opportunity arises they first consider its implications on the people they lead and the people they care about. When a problem surfaces they don’t panic and start pointing fingers; they work with the team until things are right again.

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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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Can Small Business learn from the American Airlines Merger?

Women on Business

There is a theory in some circles that small businesses just don’t have what it takes to compete with big business and when we are invited to the table we don’t know what to order. The American Airlines merger gives us a great example of what do look for in a partnership and what we should avoid. Here are some lessons we can take away from the merger.

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Using Kaizen for Employee Engagement and Improvement

QAspire

Kaizen is a Japanese term that means continuous improvement. It all sounds good on the surface, but the reality is that very few companies fully embrace kaizen. They say, “But we’re improving all the time.” That may be true, but it’s the way in which companies make improvements that matters. In companies that truly embrace kaizen, the bulk of improvement—from surfacing problems and opportunities, to designing, testing, and implementing countermeasures (a better word than “solutions”)—are done by

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What Are The Hot Issues That Today's CIOs Need To Worry About? (The CIO job is to use the CIO position to communicate the importance of information technology)

The Accidental Successful CIO

'If you don’t know what the hot issues are, you just might get burned… Image Credit. At every company, the CIO has a lot of different things that he or she is expected to be able to accomplish. At the same time, there are many things that are going on in the business environment around them. The entire company realizes the importance of information technology; however, at the end of the day, the big question that every CIO needs to be able to answer is out of everything that they have on t

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Vulnerability & Trust - A Leader's Paradox

Mills Scofield

Listen to John Hagel, Saul Kaplan & Mike Waite Discuss on Trust Across America Radio. February 13, 2013. Does being vulnerable and trustworthy sound a bit paradoxical? Join Deb Mills-Scofield and her incredible guests, John Hagel , Co-Chair, Center for the Edge at Deloitte, Saul Kaplan , Founder & Chief Catalyst at Business Innovation Factory and Mike Wait e, President of Menasha Packaging , as we discuss how showing your vulnerability generates trust, empowers your people to be free to

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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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A DSL with an Endo - monoids for free

Ruminations of a Programmer

When we design a domain model, one of the issues that we care about is abstraction of implementation from the user level API. Besides making the published contract simple, this also decouples the implementation and allows post facto optimization to be done without any impact on the user level API. Consider a class like the following. // a sample task in a project case class Task(name: String) // a project with a list of tasks & dependencies amongst the // various tasks case class Project(name: S

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In 100 words: Finding a Way Out of Forest

QAspire

A blind man, wandering lost in a jungle, tripped and fell over a cripple. The blind man said, “I have been wandering since long in this jungle and cannot find my way out!”. The cripple replied, “I have been lying here since long and cannot get up to walk.”. Suddenly, the cripple cried out, “I’ve got it. You hoist me up onto your shoulders. I will tell you where to walk.

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White House Executive Order on Cyber Security

Coalfire

The tense standoff between an unresponsive Congress and a reluctant critical infrastructure industry has been broken. On February 13, 2013, the President issued an Executive Order that provides initial guidance for the country to confront escalating cyber threats. Finally, we have someone with the courage to address the ‘elephant in the room’ Our critical infrastructure is under attack and our ability to defend against increasingly sophisticated attacks is simply not adequate.

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Market Pulse Survey: Cloud and Mobile Adoption Increases IT Security Risk

Sailpoint

Check out any set of predictions about the IT industry in 2013, and chances are, you’ll find yourself reading that adoption of cloud and mobile computing is big – and getting bigger. SailPoint wanted to better understand how these new paradigms are impacting the risk posture of enterprises so we focused our most recent Market Pulse Survey on 400 IT and business leaders at large US and UK companies.

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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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successful networking at events – 5 key steps

Rapid BI

Successful networking at events is one of the goals that many professionals seek to achieve. Love them or hate them, business networking events are here to stay. And in a world where we are increasingly working online, successful networking at events is becoming more important than ever. One of the real successes of late are [.] Related posts: Digital vs Conventional Networking Business Networking Tips Twitter as a marketing tool for training courses & events.

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An Opportunity: Startup Weekend Ahmedabad 2013

QAspire

Most people have bright ideas and they stop at that. Ideating something is a sort of romantic affair because you don’t need to do anything then except putting your bright idea on a piece of paper. We come face-to-face with fear (of failure) when we have to take that first important step, initiate and get into action – and that too, without any support or guidance.

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Quality is Job #1

Six Disciplines

Long before we heard the phrase “Quality is Job #1,” various movements initiated the concept of systematically improving product quality. Dr. W. Edwards Deming, considered the father of the quality movement, began championing his ideas for a statistical approach to quality in the 1940s and ’50s. The United States was the strongest industrial power at the time, but apparently no one saw the need for what he was prescribing.