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How to Get Noticed as a Leader– Before You’ve Led a Team

Let's Grow Leaders

Last week “John” shared his “No Diaper Genie!” frustration in the middle of our high-potential leadership development program. Yeah, I get that I’m here… and the company is investing in me and all that. But my boss keeps saying, “You’re not ready to be promoted, you’ve never led a team. I can’t recommend you for that particular promotion now, give it time” but the truth is, my job is 18 times more complex than any front-line super

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How to Identify Change Agents in Your Organization

Change Starts Here

A new subscriber recently shared with me her top challenge: finding change agents in her organization to be local advocates for her project. The question had me thinking about a process improvement initiative from many years ago. To help manage and implement a process improvement program, I recruited people from all over the organization to […].

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Merck Cyber Attack Will Cause Loss Of Innocent Life

CTOvision

For years we have heard warnings of cyber attacks against manufacturing processes and against infrastructure, and for years we have seen these attacks grow from theoretical to real. We have also seen many who do not know how connected these systems are say that all is well and the threat is being over stated. We […].

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A Deep Dive into Elon Musk’s Investments: The Makings of a Billionaire

Toptal

Everyone is familiar with Elon Musk the Entrepreneur, but what about Musk the Investor? In this article, we will look at how Musk has funded his ventures and managed his personal angel investments over his career, clever tactics that he has applied, and lessons learned from his experiences.

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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 From A Glass Half Full: My 10 Favorite Optimism Quotes

Terry Starbucker

The foundation of my More Human leadership practice and philosophy comes from what I call “ half-fullism ” – dealing with the literal world in a favorable way. In fact, the original title of this blog was “Ramblings From a Glass Half-Full” In my very first post back on December 25, 2005, I noted, Call me an eternal optimist, call me a fool, but I find it’s the best way to live one’s life with the least amount of angst.

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Artificial intelligence: the megatrend that’s first among equals

CTOvision

Artificial intelligence (AI) isn’t business as usual. Because of complementary advances in natural language processing, machine learning, and image recognition, the range of tasks for which AI is well-suited is growing daily. And when a critical level of AI saturation is reached, we anticipate profound disruption in the world of work. Imagine a barrel perched […].

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Heuristic Analysis for UX – How to Run a Usability Evaluation

Toptal

What is a heuristic analysis? How do you run one effectively by employing a group of usability experts to dramatically improve a product’s UX?

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Five ways to change negative perceptions at work

Career Advancement

“Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.”. ~ C.G. Jung ~. Cassidy had overheard some snide comments. She knew people were making snap judgements, based on gossip , about her that just weren’t true. How could she change negative work perceptions and get her co-workers to think more positively about her?

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How to Become a Stay-at-Home CEO

Women on Business

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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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Voting Machines Hacked at DEF CON in Las Vegas

CTOvision

Just how secure are the nation's voting machines, and how much should you worry about a hacker changing voting results? Based on what a group of hackers in Las Vegas, the machines are easily hacked, and voting results are not secure. Every year, there is a conference held in Las Vegas, called DEF CON, where ethical hackers […].

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Guide to Data Synchronization in Microsoft SQL Server

Toptal

Sharing related information among isolated systems has become increasingly important. There are many methods to choose from to perform that task for SQL Server, but it’s important to know which is better for each use case.

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10 tips for new leaders

Lead on Purpose

Leading a new team comes with challenges. You have a group of people who have grown accustomed to doing things a certain way. They may or may not have liked their departing manager.

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Circling Back on Corporate Speak: The History and Impact of Business Jargon

Women on Business

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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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Bringing the Best Data Computing to Mobile

CTOvision

With each passing year, leading smartphone manufacturers unveil a wave of new mobile devices. Each new generation of smartphones is more powerful and capable than its predecessors. We are at the level of technological advancement where anyone with a smart device — smartphone or tablet — has enough computing power to complete most of their […].

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The enterprise technologies to watch in 2017

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

It was a rebuilding year in a sense, as emerging tech for the enterprise steadily proceeded but didn't result in as many new targets to track as last year. Yet it's also abundantly clear the largest digital shifts by far are still ahead of us. Here's how 2017 is breaking down.

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Using Emojis to Manage Sketch Files

Toptal

When it comes to large projects, browsing through layers in Sketch to understand what they do is not exactly a comfortable process even with good naming conventions. Unless you use something visual.like an emoji.

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Why the Boston Startup Scene is Perfect for Women Entrepreneurs

Women on Business

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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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4 Tips to Develop an Automated Feedback System

CTOvision

Businesses need to put up feedback systems that will not only attract customers but retain them. Customers determine everything, from sales to product enhancement and delivery. Putting up an automated feedback system that collects information about customer reactions and desires is useful for decision-making, solving customer issues, and influencing product roadmap.

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In 100 Words: Immersion and Doing Work that Matters

QAspire

We cannot be anxious about something “out there” – a goal, a target, an external reward, a validation from others and generally things that feed our ego – and be immersed in what we do at the same time. To be able to do great work/art that changes others for better, we need to let “joy” rule us instead of “ego”. Then there is no self in the game: self is just a conducive medium for the inspiration to show up in form of work.

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Creating Mind-Bending Illustrations with Sketch and Looper in No Time

Toptal

An image is worth a thousand words. Learn how to create outstanding illustrations with the Sketch plugin Looper.

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5 Project Management Skills to Help You Succeed

Women on Business

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Revolutionizing Contact Centers: Next-Gen Tech for Enhanced CX

Speaker: Liran Meir Frenkel, Performance Management and RPA Sr Product Marketing Manager at NICE; Harpreet Makan, Practice Director at Everest Group; & Santhosh Kumar, Practice Director at Everest Group

As contact centers navigate the challenges of delivering excellence within budget constraints and adapting to evolving employee expectations, optimizing agent tasks becomes crucial. Discover a holistic approach across three pillars - people, process, and technology - that is essential to excel in this dynamic landscape, and explore how next-gen technologies such as generative AI, performance analytics, and process intelligence play a pivotal role in transforming contact centers into advanced CX

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O’Reilly Security Conference NY Oct 29-30 2017

CTOvision

The O'Reilly Security Conference brings together in-the-trenches security practitioners from organizations of every size, across a wide breadth of industries to share actionable insight in a supportive, hype-free environment. It covers interesting successes (and failures), provocative ideas, practical how-tos, proven best practices, and effective new approaches that can benefit all defenders.

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Website performance monitoring tool

Federico Cargnelutti

Monitoring systems allow you to monitor changes to your front-end code base over time, catching any regression issues and monitoring the ongoing effects of any performance optimisation changes. Easy to use dashboards are a must when it comes to monitoring the state of your web apps. Companies like Calibre or SpeedCurve offer this as a professional service, but not everyone can afford them.

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Page Speed 101: A Primer for Mobile UI Designers

Toptal

Want to improve your page load speeds for your responsive website?

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How to Make the Perfect Startup Pitch

Women on Business

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IDC Analyst Report: The Open Source Blind Spot Putting Businesses at Risk

In a recent study, IDC found that 64% of organizations said they were already using open source in software development with a further 25% planning to in the next year. Most organizations are unaware of just how much open-source code is used and underestimate their dependency on it. As enterprises grow the use of open-source software, they face a new challenge: understanding the scope of open-source software that's being used throughout the organization and the corresponding exposure.

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Register Now For Data Event Of The Year: Strata Data New York 25-28 Sep 2017

CTOvision

The yearly Strata Data conference (formerly known as Hadoop World) will be 25-28 Sep 2017. This is the place to be to network with peers, learn lessons from others in the field, and track the status of the greatest technological solutions in the Big Data field. Topics include: AI, Big data & the Cloud, Data […].

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Domain Models - Late Evaluation buys you better Composition

Ruminations of a Programmer

In the last post we talked about early abstractions that allow you to design generic interfaces which can be polymorphic in the type parameter. Unless you abuse the type system of a permissive language like Scala, if you adhere to the principles of parametricity, this approach helps you implement abstractions that are reusable under various contexts.

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Measuring software risk: the forgotten development constraint

TXI

Software risk haunts every development project. And yet we almost never talk about it. Every project manager focuses on the same big three constraints when putting together a proposal: scope, timeline and budget. For all three, you’ll get fancy graphs and analytics, a full, quantified representation. Then software risks come in and blow it all […].