Let's Grow Leaders
JANUARY 6, 2014
'We’d spent the last 5 days reconnecting as a family, completely dark from any semblance of social networking. Alright, I’ll be honest… all networking…each night my husband and I requested a table for 4 on this 5 night cruise to Mexico. It’s cool to meet other travelers… but not this time, we needed family and […] The post Effective Networking: 6 Secrets Your Kids Know appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.
General Leadership
JANUARY 7, 2014
'We hope you enjoyed David Webb’s December broadcast with the troops and General Leadership live from Kabul, Afghanistan. Tonight, you can join us live at 9pm Eastern Time (6pm for you West Coasties!) for our first new show of 2014 as we continue our “ 12 Virtues of Leadership ” series on SiriusXM Patriot Channel 125 and the David Webb Show with the following special guests: - Ken Wahl (Twitter: @KenWahl1 ) and Shane Barbi (Twitter: @Barbi_Twins ). - Papa Joe Bradford (Twitter
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Terry Starbucker
JANUARY 5, 2014
'On my latest More Human Leadership Podcast , I have a lively and inspiring chat with Liane Davey, author of the NY Times best seller “ YOU FIRST: Inspire Your Team to Grow Up, Get Along, and Get Stuff Done” . It was a real treat to have Liane on the show, because of her many years of experience in working with some of North America’s leading financial services, consumer goods, high tech, and healthcare organizations, providing her deep insights into group dynamics to create powerf
CTOvision
JANUARY 10, 2014
'By Bob Gourley Enterprise CTOs are increasingly seeking new ways to enable assistive technologies into mission applications and to assist those with needs in interacting with organizational assets and others in the workforce. This makes the category of Assistive Technologies one of growing importance. We have just established Assistive Technology as a new category at our research site CTOlabs and will be populating it with reviews of the technologies and firms we believe to be most virtuous in
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Let's Grow Leaders
JANUARY 8, 2014
'Bad things happen to good people. Karma doesn’t always show up in time. Even good people may find that the knife in their back sports their own fingerprints. Even the most well-intentioned leaders do stupid stunts from time to time. My time in HR gave me a front row seat to such tragedies. It’s not […] The post 5 Ways to Build Career Resiliency appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.
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Toptal
JANUARY 7, 2014
More often than not, the software we write directly interacts with what we would label as "dirty" services. In layman's terms: services that are crucial to our application, but whose interactions have intended but undesired side-effects—that is, undesired in the context of an autonomous test run. For example: perhaps we're writing a social app and want to test out our new 'Post to Facebook feature', but don't want to _actually_ post to Facebook every time we run our test suite.
CTOvision
JANUARY 8, 2014
'By Bob Gourley It has been a while since I’ve written about ForgeRock and after getting an update from them to day I’m embarrassed to say I should have been keeping you all more informed. If you are a program manager, systems architect, software engineers or CIO/CTO/CISO you should really be tracking what this very virtuous firm is doing.
Let's Grow Leaders
JANUARY 10, 2014
'I’ve always found great joy in singing, and was voted “most likely to spontaneously burst into song” in high school. From grade school through college, I sang in every choir available, always as an alto. My voice was so low, in a pinch, I would help out the tenors. Each time I had a new […] The post The Surprising Way to Expand Your Range appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.
Women on Business
JANUARY 6, 2014
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Lead on Purpose
JANUARY 4, 2014
'No matter what you are facing in life right now, there are things for which you can (and absolutely should) be grateful. Showing gratitude to others helps you see the world as a better place and move forward more effectively during the tough times. You should be thankful for the people who make your life better. Albert Schweitzer said it well: “Sometimes our light goes out, but is blown into flame by another human being.
CTOvision
JANUARY 9, 2014
'By Bob Gourley CIT Announces Second of Two FY2014 Solicitations for the Commonwealth Research Commercialization Fund (CRCF) . Eligible applicants invited to apply for nearly $5M in CRCF funds. January 9, 2014 (HERNDON, Va.) – The Center for Innovative Technology (CIT) announced today the Request for Proposals (RFP) for the Commonwealth Research Commercialization Fund (CRCF) FY2014 spring solicitation.
Next Level Blog
JANUARY 6, 2014
'As the first full work week of the new year begins, it’s going to be all too easy to get caught up in the swirl of the “human doing” and lose sight of the “human being.” Here’s a simple idea to help you stay connected with what matters most as the pace picks up. At least once this week, stop in whatever room you’re in and look around for a few minutes.
Women on Business
JANUARY 4, 2014
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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.
Nathan Magnuson
JANUARY 6, 2014
'Have you ever taken a personality assessment? What were your results? Were you an INFP? A “high D and low I?” A fire with a bit of earth mixed in? An eagle or an otter? If you spend much time on social networks, you’ve probably even seen personality quizzes that blend with pop culture. Which Lord of the Rings character are you? Or Disney character.
CTOvision
JANUARY 8, 2014
'By Bob Gourley Pentaho enables very powerful, analyst-focused solutions over enterprise data holdings, and is designed to work incredibly well with advanced Big Data infrastructure and other tools, including Cloudera’s CDH, Search and Impala. If you are an analyst in law enforcement, defense or intelligence the demo at this link and embedded below will be of particular interest: The video is a fast paced overview showing the power of @Pentaho and @Cloudera in a law enforcement use case.
QAspire
JANUARY 8, 2014
'I have been hosting the annual management improvement carnival (organized by John Hunter ) for last 3 years and I am glad to be continuing that streak. This year, I am reviewing three blogs and featuring their best 3 posts that I enjoyed reading. This is also my opportunity to thank them for all the lessons they share through their blogs. Jesse Lyn Stoner’s Blog.
Women on Business
JANUARY 10, 2014
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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.
The Accidental Successful CIO
JANUARY 8, 2014
'This is no way to treat your company’s customers! Image Credit. It’s starting to get to that point in the year where we all start to think about the importance of information technology and what our goals for next year should be. Most CIOs will of course be thinking about all of the things that you think that CIOs should be thinking about: clouds, mobility, optimization, etc.
Rapid BI
JANUARY 10, 2014
'In recent years the 70:20:10 approach to workplace learning has become increasingly popular. But is it about more than just blending on and off the job training? Common descriptions say that it is 70% on the job, 20% coaching and 10% from courses, but is that really the case? And is it a universal tool? […].
Mills Scofield
JANUARY 8, 2014
'This guest post is by fellow mentor/advisor to the Social Innovation Fellowship (formerly C.V. Starr Fellowship) Robin Pendoley , Founder/CEO of Thinking Beyond Borders. This is a must read for innovators and entrepreneurs of any type. Please read on! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~. “I have failed.” This phrase opened Natasha Blackadar’s summer blog post about her first social venture.
Women on Business
JANUARY 9, 2014
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Six Disciplines
JANUARY 10, 2014
'“Why is strategy execution so difficult? …Let’s look at managing change. It should be hard: success means growth, growth means change, and change means uncharted territory. If these more obvious changes aren’t enough, every individual in your organization is growing and changing, too. Also the industry and your competitors are growing and changing—and you can’t afford to be left behind.
Rapid BI
JANUARY 7, 2014
'““If you think training is expensive, try ignorance”. Peter Drucker” Training can be in many forms, on-the-job, off-the-job etc. But not doing that training can have costs that as a manager and business we could be paying for many years. For example, if you have a small team, having one person trained to help and […].
Mills Scofield
JANUARY 5, 2014
'Shawn Murphy used my quote to spur our conversation on Work That Matters : " When we don’t give our people the space to take calculated risks, learn, apply, and iterate, we are really risking our future." What a chat! Listen here.
Women on Business
JANUARY 7, 2014
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Strategy Driven
JANUARY 8, 2014
'“It just completely caught us off guard.”. That’s a statement you never want to hear as a business leader. But today’s VUCA (volatile, uncertain, complex, ambiguous) world makes it incredibly difficult to plan and predict the future. At the same time, we’re all under pressure to move faster and get more done. So while thinking – and strategic thinking, in particular – is a key leadership responsibility, it often gets pushed aside in the midst of the day-to-day challenges of running
Nutanix
JANUARY 9, 2014
My primary role as part of the Solutions and Performance Engineering team is to help develop the platform, solutions reference architectures, and best practices for Business Critical Applications. One of the areas I’m working on right now is Oracle on Nutanix.
Mills Scofield
JANUARY 8, 2014
'Seriously ! Thank you Switch & Shift for hosting my (anti)-New Year''s post! "Ah, New Years hype! New resolutions, habits, goals, priorities. We make it so grand and complicated that we set ourselves up for failure. Seriously, what’s the difference between December 31st and January 1st? Is it really different than June 30th and July 1st or October 31st and November 1st?
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