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Don’t Be Afraid to Try New Things

General Leadership

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. “To be a good leader, you sometimes need to go down the untraveled path. Being bold in the face of uncertainty will help give your team courage and motivate them to keep striving when the going gets tough.”‘ Ilya Pozin.

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“I’m Not Listening!: The Best Way to Get Your Team to Hear Your Feedback

Let's Grow Leaders

“John” and I had spent the better part of the hour talking about what her direct report, “Janis,” needed to be a more effective manager. Bless her heart, Janis had a hard time accepting feedback. If she didn’t improve, her job was on the line, but we didn’t want to put it that way. At least not yet. We isolated the behaviors and built a solid developmental path forward.

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5 Critical Things Entrepreneurs Must Understand about Delegation to be Successful

Women on Business

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RiskIQ Accelerates Momentum Across Entire External Threat Management Solution Set in First Half of 2016

CTOvision

Bob Gourley. Editor's note: We saw this news about RiskIQ and had to share. What the press release does not capture well enough is that RiskIQ is the only firm we have seen that can provide network defenders with true insights into how adversaries are using infrastructure to attack. They are like the SIEM of the Internet and all mobile devices. Love that the use case below mentioned Facebook, which means RiskIQ is really protecting all of us already.

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Get Better Network Graphs & Save Analysts Time

Many organizations today are unlocking the power of their data by using graph databases to feed downstream analytics, enahance visualizations, and more. Yet, when different graph nodes represent the same entity, graphs get messy. Watch this essential video with Senzing CEO Jeff Jonas on how adding entity resolution to a graph database condenses network graphs to improve analytics and save your analysts time.

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Lead at the Speed of Trust

General Leadership

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. “ We judge ourselves by our intentions and others by their behavior.”. ― Stephen M.R. Covey , How fast does a $30B company move, sell, grow and survive? How fast does a start-up develop their foothold in the business environment?

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Amazing Travel UIs

Toptal

From chatbots to swipeable UIs to animations and time-lapse videos, the world of travel and tourism interface design is ripe with excellent examples and opportunities for visionary designers.

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Two Constructs From Biology To Consider Regarding Enterprise IT

CTOvision

Bob Gourley. Two constructs from biology to think about regarding enterprise tech: The Cambrian Explosion and a Malthusian Problem. The Cambrian Explosion is was a period of rapid evolution and an explosion of life. The Cambrian Explosion began around 542 million years ago. Every living plant or animal today can trace its roots to the startups that began then.

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Stop. Drop. Innovate. 3 Steps to Entrepreneurial Innovation

Women on Business

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Management Lesson: Turning Pain Into Laughter

N2Growth Blog

“Pain plus time equals humor.”. That’s a “formula” that the late Garry Marshall, creator and producer of memorable sitcoms like “Happy Days,” “Laverne and Shirley” and “Mork and Mindy,” said he learned from observing comedian Lenny Bruce. Humor emerging from pain is man’s way of coping with something that hurt you. Some people would turn that pain into rage; others turn it into a catalyst for self-improvement.

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Streamlining Database Compliance with CI/CD Integration

IT leaders know the importance of compliance at every level, but the database often gets left behind as other environments are automated for robust protection. This whitepaper emphasizes the importance of robust, auditable, and secure database change management practices for safeguarding organizational compliance. Learn how automating database compliance: Mitigates risk Protects against security vulnerabilities Helps avoid regulatory penalties Aligns database workflows with app lifecycle Turns d

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Leading and Learning: How to Feed a Community

QAspire

When I started this blog in April 2006, little did I understand about how a community works. I would write posts each week only to be read by my immediate colleagues and friends. Till a point when I learned that, “conversation and sharing is the currency of a social community”. I started following many other blogs, take the conversation forward through comments and share along good stuff.

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Tracking The Megatrend of Robotics

CTOvision

Bob Gourley. There are seven key megatrends driving the future of enterprise IT. You can remember them all with the helpful mnemonic acronym CAMBRIC, which stands for C loud Computing, A rtificial Intelligence, M obility, B ig Data, R obotics, I nternet of Things, C yberSecurity. In this post we dive deeper into the trend of Robotics. Operating along a spectrum of human controlled to semi-autonomous to totally independent, robots are already operating in our world.

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Java in the Cloud: Continuous Integration Setup Tutorial

Toptal

More than two decades ago, Java shook the world with its "Write once, run anywhere“ slogan. Today, Java developers have at their disposal a whole set of tools, such as Spring Boot, Docker, Cloud, Amazon Web Services, and Continuous Delivery, to take development and delivery to a whole new universe. In this article, Toptal Freelance Software Engineer Matko Šuflaj presents all these technologies and guides us through a step-by-step tutorial on how to build a small microservice and prepare it for c

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How can I help you do your job better?

N2Growth Blog

A question employees love to hear: How can I help you do your job better? That is one of the most potent questions in management for a senior executive to put to an employee. Offering such assistance is recognition by the executive that his job is to help others do their jobs better. When you hire people who are motivated to stretch themselves to reach goals for themselves and their teams, providing support for them stokes the fire of their engines.

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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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Leadership that stands the test of time

Lead on Purpose

You know for sure whether leadership ideas and practices work by how long they last. The new ideas we come up with today will take time to prove themselves—that’s the tricky part.

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DataRobot: Automating to enable better predictive models and predictions quicker

CTOvision

Research Team. We first ran into DataRobot a year ago as word of this stealthy startup and their highly capable team began to circulate in the community. Over the past year they have revealed much more about their offerings and approach, enough to grab our attention. We are initiating coverage of DataRobot and will be tracking them on our list of Artificial Intelligence and Big Data companies.

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3 Ways to Boost Small Business Online Security

Women on Business

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6 Leaders Worthy of Your Attention

N2Growth Blog

Many business pundits regularly offer their lists of leaders to watch. I’m not a huge fan of this approach because these lists tend to highlight the same obvious names. For certain, people like Larry Page, Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Weiner and Peter Thiel are all incredible entrepreneurs and have earned their place on anyone’s list of great innovators.

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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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Leadership that stands the test of time

Lead on Purpose

You know for sure whether leadership ideas and practices work by how long they last. The new ideas we come up with today will take time to prove themselves—that’s the tricky part.

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Tracking The Megatrend of the Internet of Things

CTOvision

Bob Gourley. There are seven key megatrends driving the future of enterprise IT. You can remember them all with the helpful mnemonic acronym CAMBRIC, which stands for C loud Computing, A rtificial Intelligence, M obility, B ig Data, R obotics, I nternet of Things, C yberSecurity. In this post we dive deeper into the Internet of Things. Today's Internet connects people, governments, academia and business.

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Merging Community Services and Business for Your Dream Career

Women on Business

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A WUP Upside The Head: Part 1.1

Steve Farber

Chapter 1. I live in the Mission Beach area of San Diego, California. It’s a bit different from Michigan, especially in the wintertime, and I was desperately trying to get back there after my conference with the Jims. There are no direct flights from Grand Rapids to San Diego International Airport, unless you had enough cake to hire your own personal jet, which, of course, I didn’t.

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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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The Network Is Your Headphone Cord

Kentik

Netflow Analysis in the Age of Streaming. Music is rapidly completing its astonishing transformation from a physical object — like a CD — that you have and hold to an ephemeral service experience. According to the latest annual report from the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI), streaming music revenue increased 45% in 2015 and now makes up nearly half of worldwide digital music revenue, which for the first time exceeded revenue from sales of physical recordings.

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Access Governance: Managing the who and what of data access rights in a timely fashion

CTOvision

Dean Wiech. Over the past decade, many organizations have, or at least attempted to, implement access governance (AG) applications within their organizations. During a recent presentation to a group of 70 IT managers, one individual mentioned he actually had attempted three separate times to get a system operational. Troubling as this may sound, it’s not always uncommon, but it doesn’t have to be.

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Women on Business Welcomes Charlene Rhinehart to the Contributing Writers Team

Women on Business

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Thoughts on BSides Las Vegas 2016

Coalfire

I recently attended “Infosec Week” in Vegas - Black Hat, BSides and DEFCON. BSides is a high point every year. This smaller Con has a plethora of perks which make it a “must attended” and also offers many of the same benefits or advantages or opportunities as Black Hat and DEFCON.

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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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Bayshore Networks: Cloud- and on-premises-based IoT cybersecurity technology for industrial enterprises

CTOvision

Research Team. With this post we are initiating coverage of Bayshore Networks in our IoT Companies category. The company’s policy-based Information Technology/Operational Technology (IT/OT) Gateway, an alternative to next-generation firewalls in some settings, inspects and filters industrial data for customers in fields such as manufacturing, connected cars and smart cities.

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twitter yammer tips for effective use

Rapid BI

Twitter and other micro-blogs are an increasingly useful communication tool. However like any tool there should be an agreed etiquette. One of the best I have discovered is by Margaret Mason and in the style of a RT (Retweet) on Twitter here I republish this important list: Whether you’re a broadcaster, responder, or newbie, if […]. The post twitter yammer tips for effective use appeared first on RapidBi.

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