Let's Grow Leaders
MARCH 19, 2014
'Sales gets a bad rap. No one wants to be that smooth-talking guy pushing a vacation club or spamming us on LinkedIn (p.s. if you’re that guy, please stop, I will never buy a program from a LinkedIn spammer). But the truth is, leadership and sales have a lot in common: Inspiring a vision; building […]. The post 7 Sales Skills for Leaders appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.
General Leadership
MARCH 16, 2014
'First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do. Epictetus. Picture the scene: In a remote part of Afghanistan, near the mountainous border with Pakistan, helicopters carrying dozens of elite Army Rangers race over the rugged landscape. Their target on this high-risk mission is an insurgent compound. It is broad daylight and the Rangers know the insurgents are heavily armed.
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N2Growth Blog
MARCH 17, 2014
'By Joel Garfinkle. Chair, Executive Coaching, N2Growth. Employees want feedback. They want an honest assessment of their behavior to help them improve their work. They know that if they listen to, and take action on, clear and constructive feedback, their overall performance will improve. And so will their job satisfaction. However, most managers feel uncomfortable delivering feedback, especially when it involves a problem or concern.
Terry Starbucker
MARCH 20, 2014
'When I lived in Los Angeles back in the late ’80s, I would spend some sunny Sunday afternoons at the Santa Anita racetrack, watching great thoroughbred horses blaze around the oval course. I wasn’t that much of a gambler (I just liked the scene of it all), but once in a while I’d put some pocket money down on something called the “Trifecta” It was a high risk bet with a huge reward, because of its difficulty – you had to pick the top 3 horses in a particular
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.
Let's Grow Leaders
MARCH 21, 2014
'As part of our “Mean it Madness Month,” I invited Kathryn Cramer to share her approach to speaking with authenticity. Say it with soul. Saying it With Soul: A Guest Post from Dr. Kathryn Cramer Saying it with soul is about meaning what you say—and saying something meaningful. It’s about putting yourself and your message […]. The post Saying it With Soul #meanit appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.
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N2Growth Blog
MARCH 21, 2014
'By Mike Myatt. Chairman, N2Growth. * This post was originally published on LinkedIn. I’ve always been amazed at the number of tremendously gifted leaders who underutilize the one asset most responsible for their success – their brain. It’s not that leaders don’t think; it’s that they don’t think enough. And when they do find time to think, many leaders often think about the wrong things, in the wrong ways, at the wrong times.
Change Starts Here
MARCH 18, 2014
'Jason Little, author of Lean Change Management, joins the show this month to discuss his collection of innovative practices for managing organizational change. He combines ideas from many communities, including the Lean Startup, Agile and Lean worlds, to create an adaptable and scalable model for managing the complexity of change in today’s world.
Let's Grow Leaders
MARCH 17, 2014
'As the “Mean it” Madness continues, I’m delighted to share insights from sincere people around the world who have reached out to share their stories. Today’s post is inspired by Cat Willliams a relationship counsellor and author of Stay Calm and Content. She shares how meaningful conversations start by telling yourself the truth.
Erik Bernhardsson
MARCH 21, 2014
So Luigi , our open sourced workflow engine in Python, just recently passed 1,000 stars on Github, then shortly after passed mrjob as (I think) the most popular Python package to do Hadoop stuff. This is exciting! A fun anecdote from last week: we accidentally deleted roughly 10TB of data on HDFS, and the output of 1,000s of jobs. This could have been a disaster, but luckily most of the data was intermediate, and luckily everything we do is powered by Luigi meaning it’s encoded as a big huge dep
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N2Growth Blog
MARCH 19, 2014
'By Damian “Skipper” Pitts. Chair, Organizational Development, N2Growth. IT’S TIME TO TAKE CHARGE OF YOUR ORGANIZATION’S HEALTH! Schedule an appointment with your organization’s health care provider (you do have one right?) to discuss what operational screenings and organizational development exams you need and when you need them.
CTOvision
MARCH 18, 2014
'By Bob Gourley. I was recently speaking with a friend who formed a business. His background is perfect for what he is doing, his ideas are solid, his product addresses a pain point in most modern enterprises. And he has the stamina and work ethic of a champion. But still there is no certainty in his future. Even hard working, rightly focused CEOs like this one need every advantage they can get.
Women on Business
MARCH 20, 2014
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Erik Bernhardsson
MARCH 21, 2014
So Luigi , our open sourced workflow engine in Python, just recently passed 1,000 stars on Github, then shortly after passed mrjob as (I think) the most popular Python package to do Hadoop stuff. This is exciting! A fun anecdote from last week: we accidentally deleted roughly 10TB of data on HDFS, and the output of 1,000s of jobs. This could have been a disaster, but luckily most of the data was intermediate, and luckily everything we do is powered by Luigi meaning it’s encoded as a big huge dep
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Nathan Magnuson
MARCH 17, 2014
'Several years ago I needed to perform a complicated banking transaction on a certain day but wasn’t going to be able to arrive during lobby hours. Having worked as a bank teller back in the day, I knew it would probably prove an impossible request. But to my surprise the bank informed me it would be no problem and they would have an envelope waiting for me in the drive-through.
CTOvision
MARCH 19, 2014
'DISA released the information below as an update on milCloud, an integrated suite of capabilities designed to drive agility into the development, deployment and maintenance of DoD applications. I have no insider information on this activity, but reading between the lines leads me to conclude there are two key risks to this program. My sense is that due to the need to build in enhanced security (which is critically important to DoD missions) significant eng.
Steve Farber
MARCH 17, 2014
'It’s not every day you get to sit down and chat with a rock star, is it? Jay Jay French is the founder, manager, and guitarist for the iconic rock ‘n roll band, Twisted Sister. And after performing over 9000 shows in front of millions of people, he found himself in the unusual situation of sitting with a relatively intimate group of business folks, entrepreneurs, educators, and other leaders to share his remarkable experiences – and the lessons he’s learned from them – in the
Erik Bernhardsson
MARCH 21, 2014
In case you missed it, we just acquired a company called Echo Nest in Boston. These people have been obsessed with understanding music for the past 8 years since it was founded by Brian Whitman and Tristan Jehan out of MIT Medialab. We think this is such a great fit in a lot of ways. In particular, they have focused on very complementary things to what we have.
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Women on Business
MARCH 18, 2014
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CTOvision
MARCH 17, 2014
'By Bob Gourley. Loren Siebert is someone I really admire. He is known for delivering real world solutions that work in enterprises, and he has a track record of doing that in ways that help everyone around him. He never crows about this so I’ll do some of that here: I credit him with the hard work and teamwork-building/mission-focused actions that led to some of the most virtuous improvements in citizen service in a decade.
Toptal
MARCH 19, 2014
Writing concurrent programs is hard. Having to deal with threads, locks, race conditions, and so on is highly error-prone and can lead to code that is difficult to read, test, and maintain. This post provides an introductory guide to the Scala-based Akka framework, showing (with code samples) how Akka facilitates and simplifies the implementation of robust, concurrent, fault-tolerant applications.
Erik Bernhardsson
MARCH 21, 2014
In case you missed it, we just acquired a company called Echo Nest in Boston. These people have been obsessed with understanding music for the past 8 years since it was founded by Brian Whitman and Tristan Jehan out of MIT Medialab. We think this is such a great fit in a lot of ways. In particular, they have focused on very complementary things to what we have.
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“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.
Women on Business
MARCH 19, 2014
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CTOvision
MARCH 18, 2014
'By Bob Gourley. I just read a review of a a 13 March session of the Association for Federal Information Resources Management (see AFFIRM ). AFFIRM is a non-profit collective seeking to improve the management of information and related systems in the federal government. Lord knows we need AFFIRM now! The panel of 13 March was part of their monthly speaker series and included.
Next Level Blog
MARCH 17, 2014
'From the archives of the Department of Irony, I found myself overwhelmed this past week while working on a book whose title is Overworked and Overwhelmed: The Mindfulness Alternative (coming to a web site or book store near you this Fall). I was at the point in the process where I had to read through about 400 pages of interview excerpts and sort them into working files for each of the 19 chapters of the book.
Toptal
MARCH 20, 2014
I love and use Django in lots of my personal and client projects, mostly for those involving relational databases and more classical web applications. However, by design, Django is very tightly coupled with its ORM, Template Engine System, and Settings object. Plus, it's not a new project: it carries a lot of baggage from the past to remain backwards compatible.
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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.
Women on Business
MARCH 16, 2014
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CTOvision
MARCH 17, 2014
'With this post we are initiating coverage of Actian, providers of an analytics platform designed to enable positive disruption of enterprise analytics environments. Actian Corporation enables organizations to transform big data into business value with data management solutions to transact, analyze, and take automated action across their business operations.
The Accidental Successful CIO
MARCH 17, 2014
'It’s not enough to just give a speech, you have to command the room. Image Credit. One of the joys (?) of being the person with the CIO job is that you often get asked to make speeches where you can talk about the importance of information technology. Everyone thinks that you know what is going to happen in the future and they are hoping that if they can get you to deliver a speech, you just might let a hint of the future slip out.
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