Sat.Dec 05, 2015 - Fri.Dec 11, 2015

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What Are You Blind To?

General Leadership

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. “Was blind, but now I see.” . John Newton, Amazing Grace. What are you blind to as a leader? This is obviously a loaded question. “How can I know what I am blind to if I am blind to it?” you ask.

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8 Reasons Your Peers Rate You Low on Your 360 Feedback Assessment

Let's Grow Leaders

Without a doubt, the peer rating is by far the most consistent shocker for folks taking a 360 degree feedback assessment. Managers usually have a good grip on what their boss thinks, and at least an inkling of the pain points for their direct reports, but for some reason peer feedback tends to feel like stepping on a lego in the middle of the night– yikes, where did THAT come from?

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DC Cybersecurity Professionals Gathering 15 Dec at Cyber Playbook Event

CTOvision

On Tuesday 15 Dec at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in DC cybersecurity professionals from across the public sector will gather with some of the nation's most capable technology vendors to strategize on ways to improve enterprise cybersecurity. This event, titled the 2015 Cybersecurity Playbook, includes presentations from thought leaders and highly regarded professionals such as.

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How to Overcome “Not Invented Here” Syndrome

Change Starts Here

Over time, individuals and teams develop practices that work for them. When another way comes along that could improve results, they often put up a wall that says, if it wasn’t invented here, then it won’t work for us. Even people who genuinely want to improve results and who admit others’ success with different practices can find ways to block having to adopt those practices for themselves.

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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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Monday Quote

General Leadership

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. “Do what is right, not what you think the high headquarters wants. or what you think will make you look good. “ General Norman Schwarzkopf. . How did you enjoy today’s post?

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New Drone Is Both A Submersible and UAV: Think of the use cases of this incredible breakthrough

CTOvision

The video at this link and embedded below shows a drone that can fly and maneuver underwater. A new type of drone that has never existed before. it is a rare vehicle that can operate in multiple environments. Watch as it transitions from water to air and flies and then transitions back. Imagine the missions that can be done by this new robot, both in government and across multiple sectors of the economy.

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3 Steps to Turn Your Staff into Brand Ambassadors

Women on Business

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Time Machine Tuesday: Be Grace-Full

General Leadership

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. 02 April 2014. I do not at all understand the mystery of grace – only that it meets us where we are but does not leave us where it found us. Anne Lamott.

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The Inside Story

Let's Grow Leaders

As we prepare for our Winning Well speaking tour, I’m deeply grateful for the opportunity to talk with the media about our mission to help leaders Win Well–without losing their soul. Today, I’m sharing My Interview with Dr. Gayle Carson. We discuss: Why I left Verizon to pursue this dream. The most difficult part of transitioning from executive to entrepreneur.

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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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The Megatrend of Robotics: An update for technology decision-makers

CTOvision

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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Disciplines of a Learning Organization: Peter Senge

QAspire

If there is one book that has influenced my business thinking the most, it is Peter Senge’s “ The Fifth Discipline – The Art and Practice of Learning Organization ” and I have referred to it many times over past years on this blog. Written in 1990, the insights contained in this book are even more relevant today when the rate of change has only accelerated – probably a reason why HBR identified this book as one of the seminal management books of the previous 75 years.

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Tune in Tonight! – 9pm Eastern – SiriusXM Patriot Channel 125!

General Leadership

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. It’s that exciting time of the month again when you have the opportunity to interact with us LIVE on SiriusXM Patriot Channel 125 at 9pm Eastern (8 Central, 7 Mountain, 6 Pacific) Wednesday, 2 Dec 2015.

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Single Responsibility Principle: A Recipe for Great Code

Toptal

Maintainable code is something we all desire and there are no shortage of coding principles that promise it. It is not always apparent how tremendously useful these principles are during the early stages of development. Nonetheless, the effort put in to ensure these qualities certainly pay off as the project grows and development continues. In this article, Toptal engineer Adel Fayzrakhmanov discusses how the Single Responsibility Principle is one of the most important aspect in writing good mai

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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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Going 100% SaaS

CTOvision

I was first introduced to SaaS (then ASP) in January 2000 when I joined Brassring, a rollup of 9 small companies in the Recruitment space, as its first CTO. Our flagship product, HireSystems, was the leading Applicant Tracking System delivered as a service to our large enterprise customers. Within a few months of joining Brassring, I realized that this was the how Enterprise technology will be delivered in the future.

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Standing Desks Less Popular in Wake of New Study

Women on Business

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What 3 Questions Should CIOs Be Asking?

The Accidental Successful CIO

CIOs become better by asking the right questions Image Credit: Tom. As a CIO we are always searching for ways that we can better communicate the importance of information technology in order to improve ourselves, our IT shop, and, of course, our company. Exactly how go about doing this is one of life’s greatest mysteries. It turns out that each and every one of us has the skills that it takes to make this kind of improvement happen.

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Introducing Security Flaws at Agile Speed

Dzone - DevOps

This article is featured in the DZone Guide to Application Security. Get your free copy for more insightful articles, industry statistics, and more. As organizations adopt agile software development patterns, many continue with the same waterfall-oriented testing strategy they’ve used for years. This not only misses opportunities to improve software quality; it risks losing any speed and efficiency to market by also increasing the speed at which you introduce security vulnerabilities.

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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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Veterans Finding Success In Cybersecurity

CTOvision

We were pleased to see CSO magazine produce a feature focused on military veterans who have made the transition from active duty to civilian life in the cybersecurity domain (see: Hacked Opinions: Veterans who transitioned into InfoSec ). The write-up featured Armor CSO Jeff Schilling, a retired U.S. Army Colonel. Regarding skills that military veterans bring to the private sector he said: “That is one of the great experiences that soldiers bring to InfoSec, experience in managing security opera

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“Dear Hallmark, Where’s My Section?” The Working Woman’s Missing Greeting Cards

Women on Business

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Guide Conversations to Action with GROW

Nathan Magnuson

When was the last time someone came to you with a problem? Did you solve it for them? If so, you may have missed out on a development opportunity – both for that person and yourself. If you’re looking for problems to solve, you’ll find them everywhere. New managers want to pick up the slack. Department leaders can find it easier deal with problems themselves than let others handle them.

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Re-Igniting Your Leadership Fire

The Empowered Buisness

The Secret Groundwork to an Extraordinary 2016. A new year is just around the corner. Another year is about to end. Be honest with yourself …. · Are you feeling tired, stressed or depressed? · Are you feeling disconnected from what really matters to you? · Are you feeling like you have lost your way, not even realizing it ? In my experience, when December hits, many leaders are burned out and depleted.

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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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Vendor-Side DevOps Practices Can Still Deliver Better Value While Client-Side Government Processes Catch Up

CTOvision

With the private sector making the cultural and technological shift to better DevOps practices, it was only a matter of time before private providers to government clients began to probe how DevOps practices can positively impact application delivery for DoD (and other) clients. I heard a lot of questions targeted to this exact area at a recent event I attended in Washington, D.C., where I was on an expert panel regarding accelerating application delivery in the government.

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Cold War Tech: It’s Still Here, And Still Being Used

Toptal

The long-term effect of the Cold War on science and technology is more profound than Nena’s 99 Luftbalons, or any Oliver Stone Vietnam flick. If you are reading this, you’re already using Cold War technology; The Internet. That’s not all. A lot of tech and infrastructure we take for granted was developed, or at least conceived, during these tumultuous decades.

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Guide Others to Action with GROW

Nathan Magnuson

When was the last time someone came to you with a problem? Did you solve it for them? If so, you may have missed out on a development opportunity – both for that person and yourself. If you’re looking for problems to solve, you’ll find them everywhere. New managers want to pick up the slack. Department leaders can find it easier deal with problems themselves than let others handle them.

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Preventing the Downstream Effects

Next Level Blog

During a long walk on Saturday, I was listening to Krista Tippet’s podcast, On Being. In this episode, she was moderating a panel discussion on The Evolution of Medicine with Mark Hyman , James Gordon and Penny George. If you are interested in or concerned about the health and well-being of yourself and those you care about, I strongly recommend listening to the conversation.

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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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What to Know When Prioritizing Your IT Projects

CTOvision

IT projects have become a common sight in the business world as companies continue to adopt and integrate new technologies to improve their organizations. This is simply a common sense strategy, one that keeps businesses competitive as the world around them changes. Though IT projects can be extremely useful, they can also quickly become a disorganized mess as organizations become filled with them.

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Cold War Tech: It’s Still Here, And Still Being Used

Toptal

The long-term effect of the Cold War on science and technology is more profound than Nena’s 99 Luftbalons, or any Oliver Stone Vietnam flick. If you are reading this, you’re already using Cold War technology; The Internet. That’s not all. A lot of tech and infrastructure we take for granted was developed, or at least conceived, during these tumultuous decades.

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2016 Cybersecurity Predictions

Coalfire

The lessons learned from this past year teach us that no one is immune to cyber threats. The sooner corporate boards and executives come to understand that cybersecurity breaches are a very real and pervasive threat; then the hard work can begin to take preemptive measures and prepare an appropriate response and recovery strategy.