Let's Grow Leaders

APRIL 11, 2017

When I look back on my career at Verizon at the times my teams truly knocked it out the park–the times we increased results exponentially and led the Nation in results or had a major turnaround pulling a team out of the abyss, there is one common characteristic. We had the team laser-focused on the one or two critical behaviors that mattered most at the frontline– and they were doing them consistently.

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Erik Bernhardsson

APRIL 8, 2017

I’ve read about 100 management books by now but if there’s something that always bothered me it’s the lack of first principles thinking. Basically it’s a ton of heuristics. And heuristics are great, but when you present heuristics as true objectives, it kind of clouds the underlying objectives (and you end up with weird proxy cults like the Agile movement ??

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Change Starts Here

APRIL 11, 2017

Change implementation often crosses functional lines in organizations. For example, consider a project designed to improve inventory accuracy, which is driven by the supply chain function, but requires adoption by people in operations who will use the system. The people in operations don’t report to the supply chain function, so the change may not be […].

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General Leadership

APRIL 12, 2017

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. Turn your radio dials to SiriusXM Channel 125 tonight at 9pm Eastern (6pm Pacific) for the #GeneralLeadership Hour on the David Webb Show! On the first Wednesday of every month, we strive to bring you the opportunity to engage with our team and our guests virtually and on-the-air with the radio program and live Twitter stream.

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Toptal

APRIL 13, 2017

In this tutorial, we will look at some common mistakes that are often made by Django developers and ways to avoid them. This tutorial is useful even if you’re a skilled Django developer because these mistakes aren’t just limited to new developers taking their first stab at Django.

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Women on Business

APRIL 14, 2017

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General Leadership

APRIL 14, 2017

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. When things go wrong in your command, start wading for the reason in increasing larger concentric circles around your own desk. – General Bruce D. Clark. Standing on the platform in front of troops and family for the fourth time to take command, this time of a Mission Support Group, I was following a popular and successful commander.

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Toptal

APRIL 10, 2017

PhalconPHP will make your high-load application fast and easy, it's one of the fastest MVC frameworks for PHP available. It's written in C and supplied as a compiled PHP extension, so it doesn’t need to be interpreted at every request. Consider PhalconPHP for your next project, you won't regret it.

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Steve Farber

APRIL 13, 2017

A Lesson from the Un-Friendly Skies of United Airlines. 4/15/17 by Michael Kennedy. “Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson. They’re called “Moments of Truth,” those critical points of customer contact that can make or break a business. Every interaction with a company makes us feel either better or worse than before we arrived.

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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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Women on Business

APRIL 12, 2017

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ShepHertz

APRIL 13, 2017

We all have had our share of in-app messages, haven’t we? Most of the times they appear as soon as we open the app, and more often than not, they appear at specific screens. Regardless of their position and timing, […]. The post Best Practices to Master In-App Messages appeared first on ShepHertz App42 Blog.

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Toptal

APRIL 12, 2017

Persuasive design isn’t evil. It’s a tool, and like any tool, it can be misused. However, with the right research and thoughtful application, it can be a valuable addition to any designer’s toolkit.

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Professor Beekums

APRIL 9, 2017

As a candidate, I have only worked with an external recruiter once. I found it interesting that they told me almost the exact questions to expect during my interviews. After the interview, they asked me what questions I had to answer. I assume this was to improve their data for future candidates. I’ve been told that this is both common and considered a good thing.

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Women on Business

APRIL 10, 2017

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CTOvision

APRIL 12, 2017

Carol M. Evenson. The chief technology officer (CTO) and chief executive officer must work together for the good of the company. The CTO is responsible for focusing on technological matters, such as computers, websites and social networking. The CEO leads the board of directors to make good decisions about company policy and finances. Even if you are a CTO working in a small or midsized business, you are another executive who could run into conflicts with the other one.

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Toptal

APRIL 14, 2017

Internationalizing modern apps, where the front-end and the back-end are distinctly separate from one another, can be a little tricky. AngularJS, with the help of a few tools, makes internationalizing your app a breeze. In this article, Toptal Freelance Software Engineer Mehmet Bajin gives us a step-by-step tutorial to internationalizing and localizing AngularJS apps.

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Steve Farber

APRIL 14, 2017

Movement Mortgage has adopted one of those sweet-sounding mission statements that doesn’t tell you much about what the company does but that tells you plenty about who they think they are. It goes like this: “We exist to love and value people by leading a Movement of Change in our industry, corporate cultures, and communities.”. Those types of mission statements are great, but they always cause me to ask a question: Do they really live it?

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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.

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Women on Business

APRIL 11, 2017

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CTOvision

APRIL 9, 2017

Bob Gourley. Operating, securing and defending the Department of Defense Information Network (DoDIN) network and the data traversing through it is inherently a governmental function for the Armed Forces. To accomplish this, DoD has a skilled workforce, empowered with advanced cyber capabilities, which seeks to detect, mitigate and attribute hostile cyber activity within their networks.

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Toptal

APRIL 12, 2017

Four years on from the signing of the JOBS act, equity crowdfunding remains a small, niche market. In this article, we take a look at the current state of equity crowdfunding in the US and assess some of the challenges the market faces if it wants to grow into its potential.

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Steve Farber

APRIL 10, 2017

“Everybody does have a book in them, but in most cases, that’s where it should stay.” – Christopher Hitchens (maybe). There are several variations of that quote and some dispute as to who first came up with the snarky witticism. But one thing’s for certain: It wasn’t Keith Leon. The co-founder of Leon Smith Publishing has been helping would-be authors become published authors for nearly 15 years.

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ShepHertz

APRIL 13, 2017

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CloudScaling

APRIL 12, 2017

Continuous response—or “CR”—is an overlooked link in the DevOps process chain. The two other major links—continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD)—are well understood, but CR is not. Yet, CR is the essential element of follow through required to make customers happy and to fulfill the promise of greater speed and agility. At the heart of the DevOps movement is the need to greater velocity and agility for the business in our new digital age.

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Next Level Blog

APRIL 14, 2017

Then the trouble for United really began. The airline’s CEO Oscar Munoz issued a corporate-speak statement about his regret about having to “re-accommodate” some passengers on the flight. Then an internal memo he wrote to United’s 86,000 employees in which he sided with the flight crew and gate agents was released. That didn’t go over well and the outrage increased.

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QAspire

APRIL 9, 2017

When everything around is constantly changing, it is easy to: Get carried away by latest fads, best practices etc. Execute changes that may not be significant in shifting results to positive direction. Implement solutions to half-baked problem statements. Isolate people affected by change in a rush to just change things. Get confused between change and transformation initiatives.

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Cory Foy

APRIL 11, 2017

Implementing Agile practices is easy: (Manager to team): “You have new roles! You’re the ScrumMaster, you’re the Product Owner, and the rest of you are the team.” (Manager in meetings): “And we’ll have these new meetings!

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Michal Komorowski

APRIL 10, 2017

In my previous post I wrote about my problem with "empty" projects and Roslyn. The symptom was that in some cases according to Roslyn my C# projects didn't contain any files. For quite a long time, I haven't been able to find a solution. Especially because I couldn't reproduce problem on my local machine. Fortunately, today I noticed exactly the same problem on another computer.

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Kentik

APRIL 14, 2017

ONUG Spring 2017 in SF. Next week, Kentik will be sponsoring and participating in the Open Networking User Group (ONUG) Spring 2017 conference. Running April 25-26 at the Mission Bay Conference Center in San Francisco, this is the first time ONUG has held a conference outside of NYC. We’re excited that one of the main foci is modern instrumentation and analytics.

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