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How to Motivate Yourself When You’re Exhausted

Let's Grow Leaders

You’ve been working long hours, fighting the political and logistical battles to do what’s right for the business– and just as you think everything’s on track, the landscape changes… a merger, a reorganization, reduced funding… and you feel like you’re starting all over again. Most of the time when people come to me feeling burned out and exhausted–or even feel like they’re “losing their soul” it’s not that they no longer ca

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Fun with trigonometry – the world's most twisted coastline

Erik Bernhardsson

I just spent a few days in Italy, on the Ligurian coast. Even though we were on the west side of Italy, the Mediterranean sea was to the east, because the house was situated on a long bay. But zooming in even more, there were parts of the coast that were even more twisted – to the point where it had turned a full 360 degress so you ended up having the sea to the west again.

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Autonomous Capabilities for DoD Summit 26-26 Sep 2017

CTOvision

On September 26-27, 2017, senior leaders within the U.S. Military Services, DoD, Industry and Academia will convene in Alexandria, VA, for two days of off the record, non attribution briefings and senior level discussions at Defense Strategies Institute’s “Town Hall” Autonomous Capabilities for DoD Summit. The dialogue will focus on achieving and applying levels of […].

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New reality of ransomware attacks spikes FUD in cybersecurity

Kacy Zurkus - CSO Online

I've been listening to NPR and my local station, WBUR, for the better part of the last two decades. During that same time frame, the NSA has been investing billions of dollars into building offensive hacking tools. Unfortunately, Shadow Brokers got their hands on a list of weapons and released them in a data dump. However, until WannaCry struck in May , there hadn't been many stories about what's happening in IT and cybersecurity.

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Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI

“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.

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Code Optimization: The Optimal Way to Optimize

Toptal

Optimization sounds ideal. Ironically, the very aspect of our code we are trying to optimize can be sabotaged by this process, taking out innocent bystanders along the way. Is it a perfectionists' goldmine.or minefield? In this article, Toptal Freelance Software Engineer Kevin Bloch offers a more balanced approach to the art and science of optimization.

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Change Agents, Your Boss Secretly Wants You to Stop Doing This

Change Starts Here

In my work helping people influence change in their organizations, I’ve met a lot of senior change leaders who manage a team of change agents. When asked what they’d like their teams to be able to do better, the answer is usually, “Influence without me.” They’re tired of having issues escalated to them because change […].

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How the Gig Economy Is Reshaping the Digital Marketing Industry

Women on Business

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A Product Designer's Guide to Competitive Analysis

Toptal

A competitive analysis can dramatically improve customer satisfaction and conversion rates as well as give assurance that you stand apart from your competitors.

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The Latest Developments In Corporate Data Security

CTOvision

The Latest Developments In Corporate Data Security Corporate data security is defined as the processes by which sensitive information is accessed only by authorized individuals and then destroyed when it is no longer needed. Proactive measures, including software purchases, third-party services, and internal company policies, offer data security solutions that would prevent most types of […].

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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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How Love Turned This Veteran’s Life Around and Led to Her Life’s Work

Steve Farber

Michelle Poitier doesn’t just say that love is important to her business , she has built her business around that belief. Michelle is the founder and executive director of Healing Women Healing Nations of Northeast Florida, a nonprofit organization that works primarily with homeless female veterans and their children. It’s a work founded on love, run with love, and that generates love.

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Winnti Evolution - Going Open Source.

ProtectWise

ProtectWise recently observed a burst of activity and change of tactics from an advanced actor group commonly referred to as “Winnti.” The purpose of this post is to share details of the group’s recent activity in an effort to assist the public in searching for related activity in their networks and preventing future attacks. About Winnti.

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Experts’ Corner: Pitch Deck Tips for Fundraising Success

Toptal

Fundraising, for companies at any stage, is undoubtedly a challenging process. Even for seasoned entrepreneurs and startups already experiencing market traction, a compelling pitch and accompanying pitch deck are still necessary. While there is variance around stylistic delivery of the pitch and aesthetic of the deck itself, you might be relieved to hear that the infamous pitch deck boils down to a formula.

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Are aerial deliveries the future of logistics?

CTOvision

Two years ago, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos announced that his company would soon deliver packages using drones. The idea sounds like it came straight from the pages of sci-fi novel but in reality, it might not be long until we see the launch of the service. Drone deliveries are slowly becoming a reality thanks to […].

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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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Your Defense Mechanisms Could Sabotage Your Career

Women on Business

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Change Agents, Your Boss Secretly Wants You to Stop Doing This

Change Starts Here

In my work helping people influence change in their organizations, I’ve met a lot of senior change leaders who manage a team of change agents. When asked what they’d like their teams to be able to do better, the answer is usually, “Influence without me.” They’re tired of having issues escalated to them because change […].

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Managing Remote Freelancers? These Principles Will Help

Toptal

As remote freelance work grows more prevalent, managers need new skills. Jon Younger, Founder of the Agile Talent Collaborative, introduces five principles to help managers lead distributed teams of agile talent.

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Pursue Your Goals With Passion

Steve Farber

The summit of Denali (formerly known as Mount McKinley) is 20,310 feet above sea level, and Werner Berger was 200 feet from the peak. Just another 20 minutes of climbing and he would cross the tallest mountain in North America off his list. The weather, however, had turned nasty. And rather than risk getting caught in a whiteout, Berger’s group turned back. “Everybody was so disappointed for me and wondered how we could possibly quit that close,” Berger told me. “And for

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Revolutionizing Contact Centers: Next-Gen Tech for Enhanced CX

Speaker: Liran Meir Frenkel, Performance Management and RPA Sr Product Marketing Manager at NICE; Harpreet Makan, Practice Director at Everest Group; & Santhosh Kumar, Practice Director at Everest Group

As contact centers navigate the challenges of delivering excellence within budget constraints and adapting to evolving employee expectations, optimizing agent tasks becomes crucial. Discover a holistic approach across three pillars - people, process, and technology - that is essential to excel in this dynamic landscape, and explore how next-gen technologies such as generative AI, performance analytics, and process intelligence play a pivotal role in transforming contact centers into advanced CX

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Continuous Business Optimization is a 21st Century Next Practice

N2Growth Blog

Business optimization efforts have been around for years and are aimed at redefining the way work is performed within a business area. They explore issues surrounding what work is performed, how it is accomplished, when it’s done and by whom. It’s not unusual for a firm to totally reconstruct its departmental workflow and reorganize its workers during a business optimization.

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4 Customer Behavior Challenges and How Web Push Notifications Address Them

Women on Business

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Wireframe Mapping: How to Avoid Scope Creep

Toptal

A wireframe map is handy as a tool for estimating work at the start of a project and as a checklist to keep you on track throughout the design process.

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CollabNet Makes SD Times 100 for Fourteenth Year

CollabNet VersionOne

CollabNet receives accolades each year for our market leadership as a company and the excellent attributes of our products. One of these awards in particular means a lot to our team—the SD Times 100, a list of the most influential and innovative companies in software development. As of 2017, we have been recognized fourteen years in a row by this program!

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A Tale of Two Case Studies: Using LLMs in Production

Speaker: Tony Karrer, Ryan Barker, Grant Wiles, Zach Asman, & Mark Pace

Join our exclusive webinar with top industry visionaries, where we'll explore the latest innovations in Artificial Intelligence and the incredible potential of LLMs. We'll walk through two compelling case studies that showcase how AI is reimagining industries and revolutionizing the way we interact with technology. Some takeaways include: How to test and evaluate results 📊 Why confidence scoring matters 🔐 How to assess cost and quality 🤖 Cross-platform cost vs. quality tr

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Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest Word

Nathan Magnuson

Over a decade ago I received a DVD of a past Chick-fil-A franchisee seminar. As I watched, the late founder Truett Cathy took the stage to deliver his opening remarks. They weren’t what I expected. He opened by saying, “If any of you has something against someone in this room, I want you to make it right.” Then he promptly left the stage and approached someone in the audience for a conversation.

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How to Take Your Dental Office Design to the Next Level

Women on Business

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Dead or Alive and Kicking? Big Data Helps Retail Revive

SQream

So, is Amazon killing retail? With over a thousand US retail stores having recently shuttered, many analysts are predicting the apocalypse for brick-and-mortar shopping. Yet despite the dire predictions, new technological innovations are quietly reimagining physical stores to serve customers in ways that even e-commerce can't. For retailers, information has become a game-changer, and perhaps even a life-saver.

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When Is A Developer's Job Done?

Professor Beekums

This may sound like a silly question. “When is a developer’s job done?” It seems obvious at first. Developers write code. Their job is done when code is written. I used to have this view. My first job out of college had 3 month code freezes before each release. That 3 months was for the QA team to fully test things. The code I wrote was often tested weeks after I wrote it.

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“Build vs Buy Analytics?” The Question ALL SaaS Leaders Need to Answer in 2024

As a SaaS leader, you know that the more metrics, insights, and analytics you add to your products, the more engagement you’ll have – and the stickier your product will become with customers. At what point do you decide to keep building your analytics in-house or invest in an embedded analytics solution? Read our Build vs. Buy Analytics guide to learn: Top 4 benefits of embedded analytics A quick cost comparison of in-house analytics development vs embedded analytics 10 considerations to help yo

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Innovation in Practice

Talent Anarchy

In many organizations, innovation remains an almost-mystical thing. We talk about it, we talk about its importance, but we do not talk about how it happens. The great opportunity for most organizations is to take innovation off of its pedestal in order to identify individual and group practices that make it real. Consider group processes—our meetings and conversations where information is shared, decisions are made and problems are solved.

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How to Start a Business “DISRUPTED”

Keith Manthey - Dell EMC

Recently I blogged about the huge transformation underway in the financial services space and how the industry is being fueled by a wave of innovation and entrepreneurialism that mirrors that of the tech industry. Today, there are more alternative financial companies that I’ve ever seen in my entire life. Whether its new forms of payment technology, emerging models for lending capital to business, or new devices that make financial transactions faster and more convenient, the fintech space is th

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My example, my hero

Lead on Purpose

My heart is heavy as I write this article; my father passed away a few days ago.