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7 Ways to Inspire Courage

Let's Grow Leaders

'You know they can do it. They’re scared. Their lack of courage is a downward spiral. Fear stops trying. Lack of trying creates doubt. Doubt affirms negative self-perceptions. It breaks my heart to watch highly qualified, talented people let scared stop them. And yet, it’s hard for those born with a few extra confidence genes [.] The post 7 Ways to Inspire Courage appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Leaders: How do you say Hello?

N2Growth Blog

'By Brian Layer , Chair, Organizational Development, N2growth. Hello is one of those words where a change in pitch changes definition. It can be a warm invitation to a new relationship or a cold indication that you’re too busy to talk. When you begin a leadership position, you only get one opportunity to say hello and most leaders, overwhelmed with their new responsibilities, say hello in the wrong pitch: “Nice to meet you but I’m too busy to talk.”.

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Pop! Why Leadership Is All About Piercing Bubbles

Terry Starbucker

'I worked for a company that had 1,200 employees. Every one of us had a job to do, all related to providing broadband cable services to residential and commercial customers. Since it was a business, it had owners that had certain expectations – a healthy return on their investment. On that high level, the objective was clear - build the company up by steadily increasing its profits, until it is attractive enough to be sold with that healthy return.

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A look at Facebook's Graph Search - CTOvision

CTOvision

'facebook. It seems to me that Facebook as an odd habit of changing their home screen as soon as I become accustomed to the previous layout. This is true about the newest change to Facebook, which took place over the last.

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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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Frontline Festival: July- Teams and Teamwork Edition

Let's Grow Leaders

'Welcome to the July, Teams and Teamwork Edition of the Frontline Festival. I am pleased to bring you another International line-up of thought leaders sharing their best posts on teams and teamwork. Skip Prichard, of Skip Pritchard, shares a fantastic list, 10 Lessons in Teamwork, Top 3: Make the team the rock star; Remove all excuses for [.] The post Frontline Festival: July- Teams and Teamwork Edition appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Women of Innovation – Karie Willyerd, PhD

Women on Business

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An Interview with Reagan Kling of Platfora - CTOvision

CTOvision

'Podcast: Play in new window | Download. In this podcast I interviewed Reagan Kling, Director of Federal Programs at Platfora. Reagan has over 25 years of experience working with the federal government. Platfora transforms.

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Frustrated and Fuming: 5 Ways to Still Lead Well

Let's Grow Leaders

'“I’m just so frustrated,” his eyes had changed from fuming to weary. He shared, “I know anger isn’t working… but as my wife would say, “I didn’t yell the first 5 times.” The situation was complex. We were both frustrated with the stagnant results, and had been collaborating on several strategies.

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How Edward Burkhardt Is Making The Lac Megantic Accident Even Worse

N2Growth Blog

'By John Baldoni , Chair, Leadership Development, N2growth. If you want to know why there is a perceived crisis of leadership you have only to look at the behavior of Edward Burkhardt, president of Rail World, which owns the Montreal, Maine and Atlantic (MM&A) railroad. It was a runaway train owned by MM&A that destroyed the little town of Lac Megantic in early July.

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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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Work or Play: Staying Motivated at the Office During Summer

Women on Business

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Mindful Mondays: Five Ways to be a Human Being Instead of a Human Doing

Next Level Blog

'I don''t remember where I first heard it, but one of the best questions I was ever asked was are you a human being or a human doing? A big portion of my life has been spent as a human doing. Lately, though, I''ve spent time and attention on being in the midst of all the doing.My schedule is usually pretty crazy and I''m guessing yours is too. It sort of comes with the territory when you''re a leader.

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What Keeps Leaders Up at Night: A Podcast Interview w/ Nicole Lipkin

Let's Grow Leaders

'What keeps you up at night? What separates your “good boss” days from your “bad boss days?” I interviewed, Dr. Nicole Lipkin, author of What Keeps Leaders Up at Night as part of the Let’s Grow Leaders podcast series. Nicole explores 3 challenges common leadership challenges that causes “good bosses” to become “bad bosses.” [.

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Your Organization Absolutely Needs Name Tags

Nathan Magnuson

'You walk down the hallway at work and just as you are about to greet a co-worker, he instead stares at the floor as he passes by. Later on, you realize in a meeting that a “random” co-worker you smile at each day actually provides your most important reports. So you finally break the ice [.].

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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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Global Business Attitudes to Risk – What are the Facts?

Women on Business

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Leadership Lessons from the San Francisco Plane Crash

Next Level Blog

'My friend and Georgetown leadership coaching colleague sent a thought provoking email to his friends and clients last week on the recent crash of an Asiana 777 jet liner at San Francisco International Airport. In it, Bob raises a lot of important questions for leaders and their colleagues to consider. With his permission, I’m sharing his thoughts on the Next Level Blog.

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What Needy Needs: 8 Ways to Empower Past Dependency

Let's Grow Leaders

'Needy drains energy. Needy distracts. Needy wastes time. Needy surfaces guilt… “gosh, maybe they really do need more.” You want to help. Helping too much hurts… them, you, and the rest of the team. Dig deeper to get to the root cause of dependency. Maybe it’s them. Be sure it’s not you. Causes of [.] The post What Needy Needs: 8 Ways to Empower Past Dependency appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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The Ultimate Remote Team Culture

Toptal

At Toptal, we’re building a software product that aims to revolutionize team creation, contracting, and human resources. Our team is completely distributed: we have no office, and we work from all around the globe. And when I say “all around the globe”, I mean “_all_ around the globe”: our internal staff consists of nearly 50 full-time individuals from Brazil, USA, Russia, Argentina, Czech Republic, Ukraine, Hungary, and more.

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Monetizing Analytics Features

Think your customers will pay more for data visualizations in your application? Five years ago, they may have. But today, dashboards and visualizations have become table stakes. Turning analytics into a source of revenue means integrating advanced features in unique, hard-to-steal ways. Download this white paper to discover which features will differentiate your application and maximize the ROI of your analytics.

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Building a Customer-Centric Brand with Social Media

Women on Business

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How CIOs Can Ace Giving Interviews

The Accidental Successful CIO

'Make sure your next interview is something that you’d be willing to listen to again… Image Credit. One of the most important jobs that CIOs do which is an even bigger deal these days given the importance of information technology, is to interview candidates who would like to join their IT department. As important as this job is, very few of us have ever been trained on how to properly conduct an interview.

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Switch & Shift - Now!

Mills Scofield

'I was honored and flattered when Ted Coine asked me to do an episode of Switch & Shift TV - and we had a blast, which is par for the course with Ted and the gang!

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The Six Disciplines Organizational Performance Assessment

Six Disciplines

'The Six Disciplines® Organizational Performance Assessment is the fastest and most effective way to gain clarity about your organization''s performance on the key Baldrige performance excellence dimensions of: . Leadership / Culture. Strategy. Customer Focus. Measurement . People. Processes. Results. Expertly designed and analyzed by our professional staff of certified business coaches, the Organizational Performance Assessment service uses questions that map to the Baldrige performance excell

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A Tale of Two Case Studies: Using LLMs in Production

Speaker: Tony Karrer, Ryan Barker, Grant Wiles, Zach Asman, & Mark Pace

Join our exclusive webinar with top industry visionaries, where we'll explore the latest innovations in Artificial Intelligence and the incredible potential of LLMs. We'll walk through two compelling case studies that showcase how AI is reimagining industries and revolutionizing the way we interact with technology. Some takeaways include: How to test and evaluate results 📊 Why confidence scoring matters 🔐 How to assess cost and quality 🤖 Cross-platform cost vs. quality tr

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How to manage work loads during the summer

Women on Business

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Evaluation and Control Best Practice 6 – Identify Data Relationships

Strategy Driven

'“ Information is data that has been processed in such a way as to be meaningful to the person who receives it. ” Answers.com. Quality information supports effective decision-making. Data by itself, however, is not information. Organizations are frequently data rich and information poor. Without proper contextual interpretation, data remains as sets of discrete points and offers little value to the complex decision-making necessary for organizational success.

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Unplugging for a bit

Mills Scofield

'For the next few weeks, I''ve taken the position of Tide-Watcher for Pemaquid Harbor, Pemaquid Maine. I will be unplugging from blogging during this time so I can assure "watching accuracy". If you''d like to help, check out the tides here.

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Celebrity Leaders

Lead on Purpose

'Guest post by Al Gini and Ronald M. Green. As a species, we are fascinated by the concept of leadership and the conduct of individual leaders. But while we are enthralled by leaders, we are sometimes uneasy in regard to our relationship to them. We alternatively love them, hate them, desire them, despise them, seek them out, shun them. Yet, despite our confusion, we are constantly in search of the latest candidate for fame, the newest model off the assembly line, the next great hope.

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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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Branding Your Business: 6 Tips Every Business Should Follow

Women on Business

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Help! My main contact left, and I’m panicked!

Strategy Driven

'Letter from a fan: Dear Jeffrey, I sell copiers in NYC, and this year I finished as the number one rep in the nation. I truly believe that would not have been possible had it not been for your Little Red Book of Selling. I do have a question and would greatly appreciate your advice. Recently I have been noticing a high turnover of people (including executives) at my accounts.

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Why emailing Cloud content has just become smart

Women on Business

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