Sat.Apr 27, 2013 - Fri.May 03, 2013

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10,000 Human Beings

Let's Grow Leaders

'Fred’s Story Fred (not his real name) has a beautiful habit. Every time we discuss a strategy, policy, or project, he stops and asks about the “human beings.” His words are transformative. Fred doesn’t speak of “resources,” “headcount” “people” “employees” or even “team members.” He talks about humans. Fred Asks… “How will this change [.

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Tech Trends To Watch In May 2013 - CTOvision

CTOvision

'The following is the meat from our monthly tech trends report. You can have this delivered to your email each month by visiting our newsletter signup page. Over the last several months we continued to see foundations being.

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The Surprising Thing Not to Do When People Resist Change

Change Starts Here

'It can be frustrating when people resist the change you are implementing. When the people who need to change the way they work are pushing back, procrastinating or otherwise halting progress, the knee-jerk reaction may be to get their boss involved. After all, it’s easier to use the authority that’s already in place to get people to go along with change than it is to influence when you don’t have authority.

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How To Predict The Future

N2Growth Blog

'By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth. Life is just plain easier when you can see what’s ahead of you. Some leaders clearly have poor vision – their most polished skill seems to be running into brick walls. Other leaders simply possess adequate vision – they avoid the obvious speed bumps, but fail to stand out from the crowd. Then there are those leaders who possess legendary vision – the rare few who can see around corners.

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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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Mentoring Moments: Just in Time Support

Let's Grow Leaders

'Someone asks you to be their mentor. You’re not sure you can commit. It’s a lot of time, and you’re already overloaded. Plus you’ve mentored in several formal mentoring programs and it felt forced and awkward. Formal programs can stifle a good relationship. Even organic relationships can lose steam with too much structure.

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The Fine Line of Work-Life Balance [Infographic]

Women on Business

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Trust in Leadership – 5 Key Practices to Earn Trust

Lead on Purpose

'Guest post by Daniela Baker. One recent article in Forbes magazine examined the interesting phenomenon behind a shift in today’s leadership principles. The article’s author asserts that old leadership models were based on power because business was essentially about competition. Today’s more collaborative, creative business models, on the other hand, require leaders with high emotional intelligence – business leaders who can build trust among their colleagues and employees.

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Customers or Employees: Which Comes First?

Let's Grow Leaders

'Chicken Nuggets or Egg McMuffins? Customers or employees? Which comes first? Does it matter? I was intrigued by an Wall Street Journal article revealing McDonald’s efforts to fix customer service. Much conversation about customers. Little about employees. I felt compelled to respond, in an article I published Friday on Lead Change Group, Dear McDonald’s It’s [.

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Survey and Contest: Give us thoughts on the future of Hadoop in.

CTOvision

'Dear readers, We really appreciate your inputs on all matters. Please keep your thoughts coming to us via any path easy for you. We would especially appreciate it if you take a minute to fill out our survey form below. We are.

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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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14-Point Roadmap to Improve Boardroom Diversity and Get More Women on Boards

Women on Business

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Real Leadership Sketches

Nathan Magnuson

'By now there’s a good chance you’ve seen Dove’s latest ad campaign Real Beauty Sketches. Many of my female friends posted the link to the video below on Facebook, so I finally checked it out. I even shared it myself. Not wanting to get into a discussion on body image, I applauded the merits of [.].

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Resources for Building Your Personal Brand

Let's Grow Leaders

'You work hard. You’ve got great results. Your team loves you. You’ve made strong internal connections. That’s a start. But others are doing more. Define what matters most. Build your brand. Share it with the world. Build relationships and find resources beyond your current reach. Don’t wait for tomorrow to matter beyond your current [.

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Using Storify and Vine to Capture Gist of HP's Government Software.

CTOvision

'A big part of the value of technology events like the 16-17 April 2013 HP Government Software Summit is the personal interactions between attendees. Direct engagement with the many tech demos is also something you have.

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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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16 Attributes to Build Trust in Business

Women on Business

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Four Tips for Talking with the CEO

Next Level Blog

'Does the thought of a brief conversation with the top executive in your organization stir up the butterflies in your stomach? If it does, you’re not alone. It’s basically a form of corporate stage fright that lots of people experience. Click headline to continue.

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Teaching Your Team Executive Presence: The Green Jacket Effect

Let's Grow Leaders

'Executive presence is not just for executives. Your team must learn to tell their story. You can help. A Familiar Story You want your team to perform well in front of senior leadership. They’ve practiced their elevator speeches. But, when the exec shows up, they get nervous and eat their shoe. Nerves block circulation. Frightened [.] The post Teaching Your Team Executive Presence: The Green Jacket Effect appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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What Google Can Teach CIOs About Finding Inner Peace (a chief information officer needs an IT strategy to create IT alignment)

The Accidental Successful CIO

'Inner peace is what all CIOs are really looking for. So CIO, what is your life like these days? Are you dealing with long hours at work, demanding peers and customers? An IT department who doesn’t want to talk to you let alone do what you need them to do? Unfortunately all of these things seem to be part of the modern definition of information technology.

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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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Great Leaders Know Diverse Teams are Stronger Teams

Women on Business

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Mindful Mondays – What I Learned About Perfectionism from Yoga

Next Level Blog

'The best coaching question I was ever asked was about 15 years ago when a woman who was coaching me while I was a corporate VP asked, "What would it take for you to stop judging yourself?" That question hit me like a ton of bricks because it cut to the quick of my perfectionism and feeling like I never measured up to my own expectations. I''d like to be able to report that I was immediately transformed by the question and it was all sunshine and roses from there.

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Planting SEEEDs of Innovation

Mills Scofield

'Last week, my daughter Chana and I were attended the SEEED Conference on Social Entrepreneurship at Brown Chana Scofield (''22) & Gladys Ndagire (''14) ~ Sayles Hall, Brown University University. It was an amazing gathering of those doing, funding, supporting, working in and for social businesses. These are Chana''s thoughts on the first day of the conference.

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Powerful Question #5

Nathan Magnuson

'The late Charlie “Tremendous” Jones used to say, “You’ll be the same person in five years as you are today except for the people you meet and the books you read.” Who is one person you’ve met and one book you’ve read in the past year that has had a positive influence on you? Share [.].

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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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Navigating International Engagement

Women on Business

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In 100 Words: There is No Bad Weather

QAspire

'A retired weatherman was once questioned by a friend, “What kind of weather is it going to be tomorrow?”. “The kind of weather I am going to love,” was the instant response with a gentle smile on his wrinkled face. “How do you know that it will be the weather you will love?” the friend was curious. The weatherman went on to explain, “35 years in weather department has taught me just one thing: there is no bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.

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Can Online Forums Damage My Small Business?

Rapid BI

'The fact that word on the Internet travels so quickly can be beneficial to small businesses regarding advertising and word of mouth recommendations, but unfortunately, it can also be detrimental if the wrong this is said. With all the different social media sites and forums online, any business needs to stay abreast of what is [.].

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How the best differ from the rest PART II

Six Disciplines

'3. Disciplined Approach to Business. For some people, the old-fashioned idea of being “disciplined” is a turn-off. But that’s not so for the top performers. They’re rated 114 % stronger than the lowest performers when it comes to taking a disciplined approach to business. Instead of “shooting from the hip,” top-performing small businesses take the time to plan well in advance for changes that are likely to affect their organizations.

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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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Gender Wage Gap in Engineering Driven by Professional Culture

Women on Business

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April's Top 5

Mills Scofield

'May already! And finally some gorgeous weather! No surprise that in April''s top 5 reads, Jessica Esch ''s post was tops again! (See a pattern here!) and, proudly, with only being up two days of the month, my daughter Chana''s post was a top read as well! Thank you Dorie , Tanveer , Jessica and Chana for guest posting! Dorie Clark ''s What''s Your Leadership Narrative ?

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Tools of the trade: Setting up your business

Rapid BI

'Starting up a new business? Then make every penny count. A recession is the perfect time to set up and grow your business in a niche market, as the only way is up. Of course you still need to take into consideration that times are tough, everyone is feeling the pinch. So how is your [.].

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