Let's Grow Leaders
FEBRUARY 26, 2014
'Work should be fun, but should it be playful? Pause here. What were your first reactions when you read those words? Perhaps some of these thoughts are running through your mind… “Work is not fun, that’s why they call it work” “Play” is not good for my leadership image “Sometimes, in the right context.” In […] The post When Work is Play appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.
N2Growth Blog
FEBRUARY 27, 2014
'By Brian Layer , Chair, Organizational Development, N2growth. Not everyone will respond to your leadership. No matter how good you are, there will be skeptics. Leadership is a human endeavor and humans have choices. Still, it’s your duty to find a way to lead them. No matter how big your organization, your message, direction, and motivations flow through a handful of people and leadership is like dancing; it is accomplished one partner at a time.
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General Leadership
FEBRUARY 24, 2014
'“Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.” General George S. Patton, Jr. In my mind, I was the best fighter pilot in the world, but as soon as I took command that no longer mattered. I was in charge of an unfamiliar organization, one in whose mission I was not well versed.
Change Starts Here
FEBRUARY 28, 2014
'Change starts with an idea that something should be different. That idea can come from anyone in the organization. But to affect change, that idea has to get to a point where it can be acted upon. So what does that drop of water look like that propagates out to the rest of the organization? Here are four ways I’ve seen change introduced into organizations.
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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.
Let's Grow Leaders
FEBRUARY 24, 2014
'Like other good things in life, a great boss relationship, taken to extremes, can wreak havoc with your career. I’ve seen otherwise smart and talented people lose credibility by over-aligning with a great boss. Be sure to diversify your relationship investments. Perhaps you’ll recognize these career-derailing characters. Avoid these common traps.
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CTOvision
FEBRUARY 27, 2014
'By Bob Gourley. HP Enterprise Security Solutions to help 33 U.S. government agencies prevent network and system vulnerabilities. PALO ALTO, Calif. — HP today announced the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has awarded the company a cybersecurity contract worth up to $32.4 million—the largest acquisition of software security assurance tools worldwide—under the DHS Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation (CDM) government-wide Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA).
Women on Business
FEBRUARY 28, 2014
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Let's Grow Leaders
FEBRUARY 28, 2014
'“Being Politically Correct means always having to say you’re sorry.” -Charles Osgood As we warm-up to Mean It Madness month on Let’s Grow Leaders, I’ve taken our show on the road. I’m honored to be included in the SmartBlog and Switch and Shift Joint series on Communication. Great authors, great reads. I encourage you to check it […] The post Why To Be Unpopular in a Politically Correct World appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.
Lead on Purpose
FEBRUARY 22, 2014
'Guest post by Andrew Cravenho. I recently watched a rerun of Executive Suite , based on Cameron Hawley’s book of the same name. In this black and white classic, William Holden portrays a junior executive with great vision but limited executive experience. Upon the untimely death of the revered company president, the board must select a new leader. The leading candidate is the scheming CFO played by Frederic March, a passionless, colorless bean counter groping for power, but with no vision beyon
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CTOvision
FEBRUARY 28, 2014
'By Bob Gourley Editor’s note: Gus is my friend and it is awesome watching his open sharing of ideas create value in the marketplace. The news in the press release below is good for us all. – bg. Former CIA CTO Gus Hunt Joins Venture Capital Firm Artis Ventures’ Board of Advisors. Hunt will assist in analyzing new enterprise investment opportunities and work with its portfolio companies, who’ll benefit from his unique experience.
Women on Business
FEBRUARY 24, 2014
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The Accidental Successful CIO
FEBRUARY 26, 2014
'Too much data can cause serious compliance problems Image Credit. What kind of rules does your company operate under? Are there certain things that your employees (sales in particular) are not permitted to tell your customers? How can you determine if they are following the rules? How long do you have to retain your copies of all types of communication?
Toptal
FEBRUARY 25, 2014
The need to adapt legacy code and systems to meet modern day performance and processing demands is widespread. This post provides a case study of the use of Erlang and CloudI to adapt legacy code, consisting of a decades-old collection of multi-user game software written in C, to the 21st century.
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.
CTOvision
FEBRUARY 25, 2014
'By ChrisScott Plugfest is a new phenomenon in the national security technology community, where participants compete in judged evaluations showing how well (and fast) they can create trusted situational awareness in a chaotic/realistic scenario using off the shelf software and existing data sets/streams. Hands down, one of the coolest things I have seen in months was PLUGFEST 2014, held in conjunction with AFCEA West in San Diego 10-13 Feb 2014.
Women on Business
FEBRUARY 25, 2014
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Next Level Blog
FEBRUARY 24, 2014
'Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve spent a lot of time reading through the transcripts of interviews I’ve been conducting for my new book. It’s been a fun process because I’ve had the great good fortune of speaking with some very compelling leaders who take a mindful approach to their work and life. Two of those interviews were with Kaye Foster-Cheek and Danae Ringelmann.
Toptal
FEBRUARY 28, 2014
Elasticsearch provides a powerful, scalable tool for indexing and querying massive amounts of structured data, built on top of the Apache Lucene library. Building on the foundation of Elasticsearch and the Elasticsearch-Ruby client, we've developed and released our own improvement (and simplification) of the Elasticsearch application search architecture that also provides tighter integration with Rails.
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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.
CTOvision
FEBRUARY 25, 2014
'By Bob Gourley Red Owl Analytics has been named the Most Innovative Company by an august panel of highly respected judges at the RSA conference this year. The following is from the RSA conference press release : Congratulations to Red Owl Analytics for being named the Most Innovative Company at RSA Conference 2014! We want to thank all of the finalists for participating and a special thank you to our panel of judges: Asheem Chandna, Partner, Greylock Partners.
Women on Business
FEBRUARY 26, 2014
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QAspire
FEBRUARY 23, 2014
'In a fast paced environment, we notice things that are urgent, immediate and abrupt in nature. We forget to notice the gradual. One small serving of unhealthy food doesn’t seem to harm but many such servings over a long duration increase the odds of having a health problem manifold. One conversation that went wrong now doesn’t seem to have any direct impact on a relationship but with every such conversation, trust is eroded till it reaches a point where relationship ends.
Mills Scofield
FEBRUARY 25, 2014
'I don’t lean in, lean out, lean sideways, lean back…I stand up straight. As a kid, my parents kept telling me to stand up straight and strong. It created an aura of confidence, self-assurance, and supposedly, it was better for your back. In fact, we now know that standing strong can actually change your mood and confidence. Perhaps because I’m short (5’ 1” on my driver’s license), I’ve always stood straight, because I had to.
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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.
CTOvision
FEBRUARY 26, 2014
'With this post we are initiating formal coverage of ForgeRock, a firm we have written about in the past and have informally followed since their formation. ForgeRock creates and supports identity relationship management solutions for the modern web and for enterprises. They serve cloud environments as well as traditional infrastructure. Their open source foundation makes them incredibly interoperable so they work well with legacy IT as well as the most.
Women on Business
FEBRUARY 27, 2014
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The Recovering Engineer
FEBRUARY 24, 2014
'Empowerment is a great thing. Empowered employees show greater commitment, stay more engaged, and create better results. Empowered employees take more initiative and get more done than employees who work in a fear-based, command-and-control environment. As a new supervisor, you hear and read about these organizational performance results, and you decide that you want to empower your employees.
Rapid BI
FEBRUARY 25, 2014
' ”No, Bob is not hearing impaired. Bob is listening impaired.” This of course is just one version of what could have been going on. I would love to here what you think they were saying, add your one liner below!
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CTOvision
FEBRUARY 27, 2014
'By Bob Gourley Note: this is from the official Boeing release at: [link] But I thought I should mention, these guys briefed me on this effort two years ago. This has been a long time in the making. – bg. Security, modularity and productivity delivered – all in one trusted mobile device. The U.S. defense and security communities demand trusted access to data to accomplish their missions.
Radiant Logic
FEBRUARY 27, 2014
In my most recent post , we looked at how today’s static groups are an essential building block in most policies used to “authorize” access to application resources. So when we talk about providing finer-grained authorization for an existing application, we are essentially talking about finding a better way to dispatch users to the different existing roles.
Coalfire
FEBRUARY 26, 2014
With the spate of cyber attackers on US retailers recently, Coalfire’s European Managing Director, Andrew Barratt considers how the attacks on retailers differ outside the US and what the potential impact of similar attacks is in a world where chip and pin technology is more widely deployed.
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