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The 7 Deadly Sins of Skip Level Meetings

Let's Grow Leaders

Skip level meetings always seem like a good idea at the time. A little MBWA (management by walking around) never hurt anyone. Or did it? Done well, skip level meetings are a remarkable tool in your Winning Well toolkit. Skip level meetings help you connect “what to why,” reinforce the MIT (most important thing), help you build genuine relationships, give you a chance to ask strategic questions to learn what’s really going on, and most importantly, to build genuine relationshi

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Leading Teams to Greatness – Part 2

General Leadership

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. “A good plan, violently executed now, is better than a perfect plan next week.”. General George S. Patton. After all the instruction and practice on the beach, it was time to actually put my board into the ocean and paddle out to the break.

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What’s Your Employee Value Proposition?

N2Growth Blog

Nearly every business leader recognizes the importance of their organization’s value proposition. It’s the elevator pitch, the one thing that your business can deliver to its customers that separates it from every other business out there. Your value proposition is so intrinsic to your business that, if I were to ask what it is, I bet you would be able to spout it off in a nanosecond.

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DDoS: Understand The Growing Threat From Botnet #14

CTOvision

Thomas Pore. DDoS attacks are one of the largest attack methods threatening the stability of the Internet. These events are perpetrated by a collection or botnet of Internet facing devices that communicate with a command and control center for instructions. One of the more infamous groups of bots is referenced as Botnet #14. Botnet #14 is one of many Mirai botnets currently operating within the DDoS space.

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Embedding BI: Architectural Considerations and Technical Requirements

While data platforms, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and programming platforms have evolved to leverage big data and streaming data, the front-end user experience has not kept up. Holding onto old BI technology while everything else moves forward is holding back organizations. Traditional Business Intelligence (BI) aren’t built for modern data platforms and don’t work on modern architectures.

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The 7 Deadly Sins of Skip Level Meetings

Let's Grow Leaders

Skip level meetings always seem like a good idea at the time. A little MBWA (management by walking around) never hurt anyone. Or did it? Done well, skip level meetings are a remarkable tool in your Winning Well toolkit. Skip level meetings help you connect “what to why,” reinforce the MIT (most important thing), help you build genuine relationships, give you a chance to ask strategic questions to learn what’s really going on, and most importantly, to build genuine relationshi

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Temperament: What It Takes to Lead

N2Growth Blog

By definition, temperament connotes disposition — an outlook on the world but also a sense of individuality that radiates self-assurance. In my experience, those with a good temperament are those who bring people toward them. Why? Because they invite smart people and feel warmed by their presence. That in turn encourages a spirit of contribution that leads to collaboration.

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How Far has Face-Tracking Technology Come in 2016?

CTOvision

Ellie Martin. The latest Snapchat lens that gives you fox ears may be nothing more than a passing distraction to send to your friends, but that lens, colloquially known as a “filter,” utilizes surprisingly advanced face tracking technology. Looksery, the Ukrainian startup that developed Snapchat’s filter technology (which Snapchat acquired for $150 million), created software that can not only recognize a human face, but accurately map it to ensure that those fox ears are on top of your head and

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41 Business, Marketing, and Web Tools We Can’t Live Without

Women on Business

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The Definitive Guide to Building Apps For Children

Toptal

With 75% of children under 8 having access to smart devices, there’s a great opportunity and responsibility for digital designers to influence tomorrow’s generations in a positive way.

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Get Better Network Graphs & Save Analysts Time

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.

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The value of hard work and perseverance

Lead on Purpose

Recently I was reminded of a story about a young man who lived during the 1849 Gold Rush. An older, wiser man observed him passing by obvious ‘flecks’ of gold in the stream, and asked him why.

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We are using less paper than ever – but there is still progress to be made

CTOvision

Bob Larrivee. Recent AIIM research into paper-use in the workplace revealed good news - there is a rise in the demand for paperless processes, and the amount of paper arriving at office doors is decreasing for half of organizations. But we’ve got to ensure this paper-free momentum continues if we really are to realize the dream of paper free processes all across the business.

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How to Start a U.S. Business When You Are a Foreigner

Women on Business

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An HDFS Tutorial for Data Analysts Stuck With Relational Databases

Toptal

The Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) is a scalable, open source solution for storing and processing large volumes of data. With its built-in replication and resilience to disk failures, HDFS is an ideal system for storing and processing data for analytics. In this step-by-step tutorial, Toptal Database Developer Dallas H. Snider details how to migrate existing data from a PostgreSQL database into the more efficient HDFS.

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Streamlining Database Compliance with CI/CD Integration

IT leaders know the importance of compliance at every level, but the database often gets left behind as other environments are automated for robust protection. This whitepaper emphasizes the importance of robust, auditable, and secure database change management practices for safeguarding organizational compliance. Learn how automating database compliance: Mitigates risk Protects against security vulnerabilities Helps avoid regulatory penalties Aligns database workflows with app lifecycle Turns d

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The value of hard work and perseverance

Lead on Purpose

Recently I was reminded of a story about a young man who lived during the 1849 Gold Rush. An older, wiser man observed him passing by obvious ‘flecks’ of gold in the stream, and asked him why.

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The Data Cars Will Be Capturing by 2030 Can Only Be Described As “Big”

CTOvision

Rick Delgado. If you haven't imagined it, think about this: automobiles of the future and to some extent even current vehicles are able to collect all sorts of data while you are driving them. As manufacturing designs and computer functions improve, cars will become smarter in a rapidly accelerating stream. Thanks to increasingly networked vehicles, cars of the future will then be able to collect all sorts of data about the vehicle, the roads it is driving on, your driving habits, other vehicles

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4 Goals You Should Add to Your To-Do List After Attending a Conference

Women on Business

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Let’s Redesign Facebook: 10 Inspirations to Get You Started

Toptal

Facebook is a popular product for designers to redesign, since virtually everyone knows the interface. But that makes it controversial, as most designers have strong opinions on how to improve it.

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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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Named a Leader in API Management Solutions

Akana

We just announced Monday that Akana has been named a Leader in Forrester’s new report, “The Forrester Wave™: API Management Solutions, Q4 2016.” It’s very gratifying. to be acknowledged because Forrester Research is unique in their approach to assessing the market. They differentiate themselves by performing the most detailed and hands on inspection of every.

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Situational Awareness Is Key To Enhancing Your Cyber Security Posture

CTOvision

Bob Gourley. We publish the daily Threat Brief to provide actionable intelligence for busy decision-makers. Every day at 8am eastern our daily provides a succinct overview of information that can help you better defend your organization. A feature of every daily is a quickly skimmable index to stories that lets you decide what to focus on. Topics today include: Will data breach notification laws be good for partners?

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How to Avoid 4 Major Marriage Pitfalls for Women Entrepreneurs

Women on Business

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Agnes 1.8

Steve Farber

Chapter 18. It’s funny how things work. As I look back on the trajectory of my own life, it seems to me that all the things I’ve done and all the people I’ve met have yielded lessons that have built on each other in increasingly meaningful ways. Some are convinced that the human experience is random and our time on this earth is not only infinitesimal but insignificant as well, the life’s-a-b h-and-then-you-die school of thought.

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How to Leverage AI for Actionable Insights in BI, Data, and Analytics

In the rapidly-evolving world of embedded analytics and business intelligence, one important question has emerged at the forefront: How can you leverage artificial intelligence (AI) to enhance your application’s analytics capabilities? Imagine having an AI tool that answers your user’s questions with a deep understanding of the context in their business and applications, nuances of their industry, and unique challenges they face.

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It's Time for NPM Appliances to Go Bye-Bye

Kentik

I recently had the chance to talk with some editors at TMCNet, specifically for Cloud IT Week, and we had a good conversation about the need for NPM to move beyond aging appliances and into cloud models. It was one of those rapid, speed-dating type conversations and you never know how it will work out, but I just the article and they really captured things well.

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CTOvision Partners with 13-16 March 2017 Strata + Hadoop World San Jose: Save 20% Off Registration

CTOvision

Bob Gourley. Once again, thanks to O'Reilly Media, we are able to offer a discount for all CTOvision readers who can attend the San Jose Strata Hadoop World. This is the biggest Big Data event of the year. Strata + Hadoop World is a rich learning experience at the intersection of data science and business. Thousands of innovators, leaders, and practitioners gather to develop new skills, share best practices, and discover how tools and technologies are evolving to meet new challenges.

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Denise Damijo Joins the Women on Business Contributor Team

Women on Business

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Holiday hacking: Cyber-attacks on Cyber Monday

Darktrace

Every year, on the first Monday after Thanksgiving, two things happen. First, online retailers slash prices and the internet goes on its annual shopping spree. And second, criminals swarm on unwitting businesses, launching large-scale hacks and clever scams.

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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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Agnes 1.8

Steve Farber

Chapter 18. It’s funny how things work. As I look back on the trajectory of my own life, it seems to me that all the things I’ve done and all the people I’ve met have yielded lessons that have built on each other in increasingly meaningful ways. Some are convinced that the human experience is random and our time on this earth is not only infinitesimal but insignificant as well, the life’s-a-b h-and-then-you-die school of thought.

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Named a Leader in API Management Solutions

Akana

We just announced Monday that Akana has been named a Leader in Forrester’s new report, “The Forrester Wave™: API Management Solutions, Q4 2016.” It’s very gratifying. to be acknowledged because Forrester Research is unique in their approach to assessing the market. They differentiate themselves by performing the most detailed and hands on inspection of every.

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The Dyn & Mirai Horror Show: The Weaponization of DDoS using Botnets

Kentik

What Those 70s Shows Tell Us About the DDoS Threat. Back when I was a kid in the 1970s (sorry, I’m aging myself), a major component of the very limited lineup on network television was the variety show. As you can tell from the name, these shows featured a variety of different acts, including music, stand-up comedy, and dance routines. Just like the success of Survivor and American Idol in the 1990s spawned a profusion of reality shows of different stripes, the seventies had a huge glut of varie

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