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8 Questions You Should Ask Your Boss

Let's Grow Leaders

'Every time “Elizabeth” asks her boss, “Carol” for feedback, Carol tells her she’s “doing great.” But this is Elizabeth’s 5th year in the same job and she’s starting to wonder. She’s watched peers who don’t seem any more qualified get promoted or selected for special assignments. Her performance reviews are always solid, but never outstanding. […] The post 8 Questions You Should Ask Your Boss appeared first on Let'

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LEARN to be that Somebody

General Leadership

'“To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.”. Bertrand Russell. In the year 1540, ten men with no capital and no business plan, but with relentless commitment, built what is today considered the most influential business of its kind. The founders (and those who would follow them) were so successful at everything they did they quickly became confidants and advisors to kings and emperors around the world.

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Why Your CEO Just Doesn’t Get It

N2Growth Blog

'By Mike Myatt , Chief Executive Officer, N2growth. * This column was originally published on Forbes.com. Quality leadership or a lack thereof is easy to spot if you know what to look for. The problem is most people don’t know what to look for in a leader, and according to a recent study by Chief Executive magazine many CEOs don’t seem to know what to look for either.

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Five Ingredients of a Successful Internal Change Management Program

Change Starts Here

'As change becomes ubiquitous in the workplace, more organizations are developing internal change management capability to help keep the pace. Rather than leaving change implementation up to individual departments and projects, some organizations are opting for a more structured process and a standardized set of tools to help ensure success. The following are five steps organizations are taking to successfully implement change management programs: Form a Centralized Team.

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Peak Performance: Continuous Testing & Evaluation of LLM-Based Applications

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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What Great Customer Service Looks Like

Let's Grow Leaders

'“Our DNA is as a consumer company – for that individual customer who’s voting thumbs up or thumbs down. That’s who we think about. And we think that our job is to take responsibility for the complete user experience. And if it’s not up to par, it’s our fault, plain and simply.” -Steve Jobs The […] The post What Great Customer Service Looks Like appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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The Brave (And Oh So Vulnerable) Leaders – Going Where Others Fear To Tread

Terry Starbucker

'Before we chat today, I’d like you to read these two quotes: “Owning our story can be hard but not nearly as difficult as spending our lives running from it. Embracing our vulnerabilities is risky but not nearly as dangerous as giving up on love and belonging and joy—the experiences that make us the most vulnerable. Only when we are brave enough to explore the darkness will we discover the infinite power of our light.” - Brené Brown.

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The Guide To Professional Hadoop Solutions For The Enterprise

CTOvision

'By Bob Gourley I’ve known Kevin Smith of Novetta Solutions for years and have been a huge fan of both his ability to write about technology and his ability to field enterprise grade solutions that really work. He knows real enterprise solutions require focused planning, solid designs and an attitude of enterprise-focused teamwork. He is the kind of author that writes well because he writes frequently and writes relevant because he fields real solutions.

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3 Listening Lessons We Can All Use From Political Leadership

Let's Grow Leaders

'A Guest Post from Rose Fass, CEO, fassforward Many leaders talk a good game. Some have even managed to talk their way to the top. But ironically, there’s one leadership quality that often gets the silent treatment. It’s listening to how the message was received. Politicians are masters of message discipline. They speak in sound […] The post 3 Listening Lessons We Can All Use From Political Leadership appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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On the SiriusXM Radio TONIGHT — Tune In!

General Leadership

'Believe it or not, it’s already been a month since our last show! The conversation was terrific and we were honored by your active Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn chatter. Tonight, at 9pm Eastern Time (8 Central, 7 Mountain, 6 Pacific) you can join us for this month’s featured virtue from our 12-Virtues of Leadership Series : #Creativity !

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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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5 Mistakes Entrepreneurs Must Avoid When Starting Businesses

Women on Business

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Enhance Your Security Posture: Doing Four Things Can Reduce Unauthorized Penetrations by 85%

CTOvision

'By Bob Gourley We often highlight the importance of applying security controls to your enterprise. Our favorite model for doing that is the 20 Critical Controls coordinated by community leaders and curated at SANS (available here ). When you read of a government agency being penetrated or a corporation losing data I can almost always guarantee you that they have failed to implement and measure these controls.

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Mindful Mondays: A Bunch of Yogis Just Won the Super Bowl

Next Level Blog

'For the first time in a long time, the Super Bowl was blowout. The Seattle Seahawks best defense in the NFL totally shut down the Denver Broncos league best offense in a 43 - 8 rout. While Peyton Manning and his team struggled to get anything going, Russell Wilson and the Seahawks seemed focused, faster and, if its possible to be so in the biggest game of the year, relaxed and having fun.

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#Whatif We Valued Trying?

Mills Scofield

'We humans love to divide the world: yes, no; either, or; black, white; true, false; winners, losers; successes, Arianna Huffington, Co-Founder Huffington Post (designed by behappy.me) failures. Yet little in life is really that nice and tidy, despite how much we want it to be. And our world is not going in that direction anymore. Many of us know that new discoveries, the disruptions, the innovations are found in the grey – in between the extremes, by recombining what is out there through

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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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All Briefcase and No Smile. Heck, Where’s Your Personality?

Women on Business

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Enterprise IT in 2014 – Under-the-Radar Challenges with WAN Bandwidth, BYOD, and XP Security

CTOvision

'By Deepak Kumar Editor’s note: This guest post is by Deepak Kumar, Founder and CTO of Adaptiva. – bg. Over the last year, IT budgets saw modest growth as departments embraced mobile, cloud and virtualization in record numbers. New technologies like these are delivering dramatic efficiency gains in many areas; however, they are stressing infrastructure and creating unrealistic expectations.

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In 100 Words: The Cracked Pot and Leadership

QAspire

'An elderly woman used two pots to fetch water, each hung on the ends of a pole. One pot was perfect and delivered full portion of water while the other had a leaking crack. The imperfect pot felt very ashamed and this went on for a year. One day, the woman told the cracked pot, “Do you see flowers on one side of the road? They are your gift to this world.

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3 Ways That CIOs Look At The World Differently Than Everyone Else

The Accidental Successful CIO

'CIOs have to see the world differently than everyone else Image Credit. In order to be a successful CIO, you need to be able to look at the world around us differently than everyone else. All of the things that you’ll be seeing will be the same things that everyone else sees; it’s just how you interpret the things that you see that needs to be done differently.

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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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Impactful Blogging Class Led by Women on Business Founder in Orlando, Florida

Women on Business

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DARPA Open Catalog: A repository of DARPA-sponsored software and publications

CTOvision

'By Bob Gourley DARPA funds research in many areas and their wide and deep connections in academia, industry and with many private citizens means much of this is already shared. But in a continuing effort to find better ways to share what can be shared they have just built an online catalog for sharable code and peer-reviewed research. The first focus area is the ongoing DARPA XDATA activity.

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How to Become Successful in Business

Lead on Purpose

'Guest post by Sarah Brooks. Successful business leaders emerge from a variety of circumstances, each finding a unique path to the top. But the cream of the crop shows some similarities across its members. Certain habits lead to success in business. Whether you work for yourself or an employer, these five tips will help you succeed in business: 1. Know Your Limits.

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January's Top 5 Posts

Mills Scofield

'The top 5 posts for January includes 1 from 4 months ago! Yes, Hanna McPhee'' s post on Design & Science is still a top post - as it should be!! Here are the top 5: Thank You for Your Service by Lt. Col. Matthew Fritz ~ read, reread, be grateful! The Slippery Slope of Not Asking Why (me). Let Them Fail by Robin Pendoley ~ we need to accept & learn from failure in all sectors, including non-profits -- Yes!

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

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.

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When Emotions Run Strong in the Boardroom

Women on Business

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Tech CEO’s: Is it time to stand up a federal office?

CTOvision

'By Bob Gourley Has your startup been growing? Awesome. You may be wondering if it is time to stand up a dedicated federal office. You will want to time this just right. If you do it too early you will be wasting money. If you do it too late you will be losing an opportunity to grow and to serve the nation. Here are some tips that can help you think through the timing of your federal office standup: List of Considerations for Deciding When to Stand Up Your Federal Office.

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Developing Leaders: Why Training Interventions Fail?

QAspire

'Companies spend considerable amount of time and money on developing leaders through training programs and workshops. My experience so far suggests that these time-bound and finite interventions fail over a long run in developing leadership capabilities. I have attended a number of such training programs and workshops and have observed the impact of these interventions.

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The Role of Social Collaboration in Knowledge & Document Management #socialbiz

Rapid BI

'Social business is a real buzzword, but what does it mean, and will it impact your business or organization? In organizations there is often confusion between terms such as Knowledge Management, Document Management, Social networking or communications (Lync, Yammer etc) and more recently Social Business or Social Collaboration. Whilst preparing for a presentation on using Social […].

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How Embedded Analytics Helps Product Managers Exceed Their KPIs

Embedded analytics can help you deliver cutting-edge analytics experiences to your end-users that align with KPIs that are critical to the growth and success of your business. Read this eBook to learn how an embedded analytics platform, like Qrvey, can help PMs exceed the following KPIs: Growing revenue while improving customer retention rate Delivering rapid time to value Earning a high net-promoter score Increasing Gross Margin / Profitability Conversion rate from trial to paid Don’t just meet

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A Screen Full of Clutter

Women on Business

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Couldn’t Attend @FedCyber? Catch What You Can Here

CTOvision

'By Bob Gourley FedCyber hosts events that are off the record. We do that because this is a gathering to work big issues and we need an environment where real decision-makers can feel free to speak their mind. Attendees capture info to take back to their organizations, and some summary minutes and action items are captured, but that is all. At least, that is all from the plenary sessions.

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How To Build Accountability Into Your Organization

Six Disciplines

'Many of the top-performing organizations we work with every day - have expressed a real need to build accountability into their organization. Take a quick minute – and consider the following key questions: Does each of your team members understand exactly what they are responsible for? Does your leadership team set consistent expectations for accountability?