Let's Grow Leaders

JUNE 10, 2015

We had no intentions of actually going in. Sebastian and I were just trying to figure out the best way to walk to the new school he’ll be attending next year. But there we were, his nose pressed against the glass and me in my moving cut-offs and tee-shirt. “Mom, lets just sneak in like ninjas and look around.” Knowing there’s no way “sneak in” to schools these days and worried about the impression we’d make showing up scruffy with no appointment, I pause

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General Leadership

JUNE 10, 2015

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. “ I’m Maverick.” Says Maverick on his initial gambit with the gorgeous Charlie. “Did your mother not like you?” Says Charlie back to Maverick. “No, it’s my call sign.” Replies Maverick. The movie Top Gun forever put the names of Maverick, Goose and Iceman into our lexicon and gave the common person a feel for what a call sign is.

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CTOvision

JUNE 7, 2015

The list below is an update to our reference of "Cyber Security Wake-Up Calls." What does it take to be on the list? Generally each of the events below was so significant policy makers were loudly proclaiming to all who would listen that they were a wake-up call. This means there are reflections in public policy documents, speeches and the press that cite leaders using the phrase.

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Terry Starbucker

JUNE 7, 2015

Look at business like a labyrinth, not a maze (thanks Ken Tomita of Grovemade). OK, I’m going to come clean here. I’m pretty set in my ways. As befitting my nearly 56 years on this planet, I’ve gotten to the point where my likelihood to alter behaviors, look at things differently, or, more pertinent to this website, change the way I define and practice great leadership, is pretty low.

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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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Let's Grow Leaders

JUNE 8, 2015

You know your boss cares deeply about customers, employees, and doing the right thing for your business. And you’ve built a passionate team of customer advocates, who want to make a good living and feel good about coming to work every day. And yet here you are precariously squashed amidst the intensity of all this passion and good intentions. At the core, everyone wants similar outcomes… you get it.

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CTOvision

JUNE 9, 2015

Monday, Hortonworks unveiled a new version of of their Hortonworks Data Platform which will ease enterprise adoption by eliminating administration complexities, improving developer productivity, enhancing security and data governance and delivering proactive cluster monitoring. The Hortonworks Data Platform v2.3 gives Hadoop administrators guided configurations to make installation and configuration of HDFS, YARN, Hive and HBase more predictable.

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Change Starts Here

JUNE 9, 2015

Download brochure. Fundamentals of Change Management. How to Design and Influence Change at Work. Three-Day Workshop. Atlanta, Georgia. September 28-30, 2015. Fundamentals of Change Management is a foundational course for anyone who influences change at work. This three-day workshop will help you design your change initiative to go as smoothly as possible and overcome the inevitable challenges when they occur.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JUNE 12, 2015

This is a guest post by LGL Community member Scott Huntington. Although many companies caution workers about using social media, utilizing sites like Twitter and LinkedIn can go a long way in positioning you within your own company and as a leader in your industry. Obviously you need to be smart about how you use social media. Never lambast your company or post anything inappropriate. 1.

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General Leadership

JUNE 9, 2015

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. From Our Early Files: Originally Published. 1 Sep 2013. Lieutenant Colonel Ray Stark Picture Courtesy of the Author. “They never have enough time for us to do it. right, but they always find the time for us to do it over.”.

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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.

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CTOvision

JUNE 10, 2015

The video embedded below and at this link provides lessons learned, use cases and architecture elements of use to enterprise architects. It focused on the power of SAS and Apache Hadoop, and features two of SAS's most highly regarded thought leaders, Doug Liming and Erin Stevens. We would also like to bring your attention to a white paper which captures more details on these lessons learned and use cases, which can be downloaded here: Download “SAS and Apache Hadoop for Government”

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Women on Business

JUNE 7, 2015

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Toptal

JUNE 8, 2015

Some designers are bypassing traditional design tools, going straight to code, building and adjusting designs in-browser, and testing their designs as they would appear to people in real-time.

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General Leadership

JUNE 8, 2015

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. “There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure. “ Colin Powell. . How did you enjoy today’s post? If you liked what you read, sign up for our frequent newsletter by clicking HERE — and you’ll also receive our handy Leader’s Reference List. . … Read

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CTOvision

JUNE 9, 2015

On 15 April 2015, Chris Dorobek hosted a GovLoop discussion between Karen Evans , former CIO of the federal government and currently national director of the US Cyber Challenge, Alan Paller , the highly respected founder and research director of the SANS Institute, and me ( Bob Gourley ), a student of cyber security and enterprise technology. The topic of the broadcast was " Don’t Get Hacked: Tips For Combating Cyberthreats ".

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Women on Business

JUNE 6, 2015

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Next Level Blog

JUNE 8, 2015

So, it’s not every day when you can say that one of your lifelong best friends just won a Tony award. Today is actually the second time I’ve gotten to do that. The fact that today is actually National Best Friends Day makes it even more fun. Last night, one of my best friends since third grade, Michael Cerveris, won his second Tony award. His latest is best lead actor in a musical for playing the role of Bruce Bechdel in the ground-breaking show, Fun Home.

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Steve Farber

JUNE 9, 2015

At a recent conference in Australia, I had the opportunity to raise the personal nature of my business another significant rung. For the last 25 years, my friends have been telling me to find some way to bring my passion for guitar, singing, and songwriting into my leadership work. But I’ve resisted. I didn’t want it to be a frivolous or gratuitous thing.

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CTOvision

JUNE 7, 2015

Bob Gourley was interviewed by AP radio news for context on the recent OPM hack. Listen to the result here : Do you agree with the point about the value of this information to adversaries? Track these and other cyber threats by subscribing to our Daily Threat Brief , where we examine adversary actions, capabilities and intentions in ways that can inform your decision-making.

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Women on Business

JUNE 9, 2015

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Next Level Blog

JUNE 10, 2015

One of the elements I love the most about our leadership development programs like Next Level Leadership® group coaching and Developing Leadership Presence is the peer coaching. In both of those programs, the participants are expected to pair up with a peer colleague and spend 20 minutes a week coaching each other. That might sound complicated, but it's not.

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Toptal

JUNE 9, 2015

With an ever-growing device landscape, it is becoming increasingly difficult to design consistent user interfaces across all devices. Learn how the web browser can be used to solve such design issues.

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CTOvision

JUNE 9, 2015

On Monday, 8 June 2015, Tony Scott, Chief Information Officer for President Obama, issued a memorandum that requires all federal websites and services to switch to HTTPS , a more secure method of connection than plain HTTP , by December 31, 2016. This change means all traffic is treated as sensitive, rather than leaving it up to web designers to make a determination as to data content, and closes some of the doors used by hackers to gain passwords, identity, search terms, and other user-submit

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Women on Business

JUNE 8, 2015

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The Accidental Successful CIO

JUNE 10, 2015

Online worker complaints have to be handled carefully by CIOs Image Credit: Rev. Xanatos Satanicos Bombasticos (ClintJCL). As the person with the CIO job, how can you tell if you are doing a good job? Sure, there should be all of the standard business indicators – your IT budget is operating within its budget, you are meeting the needs of the rest of the company, the network is secure, etc.

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Toptal

JUNE 10, 2015

While Ruby has Rails and Python has Django, the dominant application development framework for Node has yet to be established. But, there is a powerful contender gaining steam: LoopBack, an open source API framework built by StrongLoop, the creators of Express. Let's take a closer look at LoopBack and it's capabilities by turning everything into practice and building an example application.

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CTOvision

JUNE 11, 2015

Distracted driving is on the rise, an now new technologies are emerging to combat this issue. Some of this new technology includes: a camera that detects where your car is in busy highway lanes, a wheel that will start to shake when your car is drifting lanes, and cruise control options to set the distance between your car and the one in front of you.

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Women on Business

JUNE 12, 2015

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QAspire

JUNE 8, 2015

“The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say ‘Thank You’. In between, the leader is a servant.” – Max De Pree. Gone with the industrial age is the concept of traditional leadership where people at the top of pyramid exercise the power in a hierarchy. In a creative and connected economy, a leader’s first and foremost job is to serve to the needs of people they lead.

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