Sat.Mar 14, 2015 - Fri.Mar 20, 2015

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Experts Share Advice on Inspiring Breakthrough Results: A Frontline Festival

Let's Grow Leaders

'Welcome back to the Let’s Grow Leaders Frontline Festival. Our March Festival is all about inspiring breakthrough results. Thanks to Joy and Tom Guthrie of Vizwerx Group for the great pic and to all our contributors! Next month’s Festival is all about “Spring Cleaning” for your leadership or team (e.g. renew, refresh, planting seeds).

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Prepare for The Cyber Threat : What Executives Need to Know to Manage Risk

CTOvision

'By Matt Southmayd. Cybersecurity is one of the most high-profile topics for organizations today and one of their biggest sources of risk. Numerous recent incidents have heightened awareness of and sensitivity to this risk, and have made it even more critical that they assess their cyber readiness. Available data suggest that 84% of corporations have malware on their networks.

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6 Foundations of Followership

General Leadership

'“It is the [people] behind who make the [person] ahead.”. — Merle Crowell. As military members, we are commonly told our most marketable skill after retirement is leadership. Yet, as you progress through the ranks and attend various military colleges, we always seem to be looking to civilian authors and courses for lessons on leadership. What is the magic dust that makes military leaders great?

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Use It Or Lose It: Leveraging Pride In The Workplace

Terry Starbucker

'One of the keys to being a good leader is the ability to leverage a basic human trait that exists in every workplace. That is, unless you destroy it by how you lead. Among those who serve the customers, or make the widgets, or support those who do either of these things, is a strong desire to do their jobs to the best of their abilities. It’s called pride.

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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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3 Ways Thinking Small Will Improve Employee Engagement

Let's Grow Leaders

'Great entrepreneural companies have a passionate spirit that feels like a gust of warm wind sweeping you off your feet as you walk through their door. It may be a bit hectic, but you want to tighten your shoelaces and run along. I’ve been working with some of these guys on strategy and growth, and it’s an exhilarating journey. There are challenges of course, but I’m not finding them in the employee engagement arena.

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So Say We All: Finding Earth

General Leadership

'“It won’t be an easy journey. It’ll be long, and arduous. But I promise you one thing: on the memory of those lying here before you, we shall find it, and Earth shall become our new home. So say we all!” Commander Bill Adama. Battlestar Galactica. Studying fictional leaders is sometimes as profitable as studying actual ones.

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Interview: Creating a Deliberately Developmental Organization

Change Starts Here

'Andy Fleming, CEO & Founding Principal at Way to Grow, Inc. joined the show this month to tell us about Deliberately Developmental Organizations. Listen to learn what they are, and why you’d want your organization to be one, and how to go about implementing it in your organization.

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The Future of Sales Belongs to Women — If They’ll Take It

Women on Business

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Influential National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) Moves On Cyber

CTOvision

'By Bob Gourley. Cybersecurity practitioners and policymakers have long been discussing the potential positive benefits of smart insurance policy and standards to reduce risk. Of the many actions and activities we see in the insurance world today, the news of NAIC involvement is seen as particularly interesting. What is the NAIC? The National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) is the U.S. standard-setting and regulatory support organization created and governed by the chief insurance

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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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Ten Ways to Lead Bigger

Next Level Blog

'As I wrote here a few months ago, the biggest development opportunity for many of the rising leaders I work with as an executive coach is to play a bigger game. Once a leader achieves a level of mastery in leading his or her functional team, the next step is to play a bigger leadership role (informal, formal or both) in the broader organization. This dynamic has come up in a couple of coaching conversations I’ve had lately which prompts me to share these ten tips for how you or the rising leade

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7 Types of Waste Productivity Leaders Eradicate

Nathan Magnuson

'How much is waste costing your organization? It’s possible you may not have thought much it before. After all, things are busier than they’ve ever been and we all have our jobs to do. As long as we can get the work done and enough funds are coming in the door, it’s a good day, right? You’ve heard the old adage “a penny saved is a penny earned.” But consider the following business scenario: if your operating profit is 10% and you are able to eliminate enough w

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Top 40 Blogs for Entrepreneurs in 2015 Includes Women on Business

Women on Business

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Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC) Best of Breed March 24 at International Spy Museum

CTOvision

'By Katie Kennedy. On Tuesday March 24, the DC identity community is hosting the annual Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC) event at the International Spy Museum. Could there be a better venue for discussing multiple identities and hidden individual attributes? Attribute Based Access Control is the key to protecting data and ensuring it can be utilized only by those that should have access.

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How to Migrate From DataStax Enterprise to Instaclustr Managed Apache Cassandra

If you’re considering migrating from DataStax Enterprise (DSE) to open source Apache Cassandra®, our comprehensive guide is tailored for architects, engineers, and IT directors. Whether you’re motivated by cost savings, avoiding vendor lock-in, or embracing the vibrant open-source community, Apache Cassandra offers robust value. Transition seamlessly to Instaclustr Managed Cassandra with our expert insights, ensuring zero downtime during migration.

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Mindful Mondays: One Less, One More

Next Level Blog

'We’ve all heard the phrase less is more. Perhaps it’s also true that more is less. I think that’s where Robbie Vorhaus is coming from with his recent book, "One Less. One More. Follow Your Heart. Be Happy. Change Slowly". Vorhaus is a well respected crisis expert and communications strategist with years of experience advising corporate leaders, government officials and celebrities about how to get things back on track when they’ve run off the rails.

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Some Gentle #Leadership Reminders

QAspire

'You are a leader only when people who choose to follow you see you as a leader. Which means, it helps to see yourself through the eyes of those who have opted to believe in you. Then live the traits your tribe is looking for in their leader. While your greatness may be the starting point of influencing others, you don’t lead others by constantly showing them how great you are.

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Help a Reporter Out And Everybody Wins

Women on Business

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New Whitepaper: Breaking the Attack Kill Chain

CTOvision

'By Katie Kennedy. This is part of Cognitio''s Sponsored Post Program. Cybercrime is now a trillion dollar industry. Cyber criminals are becoming more sophisticated; therefore, a new solution is needed. The newest white paper added to the CTOvision Research Library highlights cybercrime and how to detect and prevent cyber attacks with the Enterprise Security Platform.

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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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Primacy and Recency Effects in Learning

Rapid BI

'Recency Effect in Learning When we talk about the Primacy Effect and the Recency Effect, we are talking about the theory and application of the following: “. the Primacy Effect. you remember some things at the beginning of a list because it occurred first. There is the beginning, a long […]. The post Primacy and Recency Effects in Learning appeared first on.

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CIOs Need Learn How To Defend Against The Bad Guys

The Accidental Successful CIO

'CIOs have to learn how to defend against the bad guys Image Credit: Alyse & Remi. The person with the CIO job needs to understand that his or her company is under constant attack. Yes, some of the attacks come from hostile hackers who are always probing your company’s IT defenses trying to find a way in; however, we must not forget the impact that severe weather can have on the operations of both our IT departments and our company.

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6 Powerful Women and the Degrees They Earned

Women on Business

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Visual Search by Blippar: The Latest Technology Companies Want

CTOvision

'By Katie Kennedy. Many times the most disruptive technologies are the ones you always needed but didn''t quite know how to say you needed. Here is one that every consumer and enterprise can clearly use, so will very likely have a disruptive impact on the IT world. The latest technology companies are racing to get their hands on is visual search. This technology enables you to discern various information with a quick phone pic.

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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 Future of Healthcare Cybersecurity: The Best Defense is a Good Offense

Coalfire

In the last five years with the increasing digitalization of health information, healthcare security breaches have increased four-fold with the industry experiencing more breaches than any other in 2013. With a large number of potential targets and the high value of personal medical information on the black market, healthcare organizations will continue to be more appealing targets.

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The Seven Critical Elements of Strategy Execution

Six Disciplines

'"The greatest strategy in the world is useless - if you cannot execute it.". Here are the seven critical elements of strategy execution: People. Strategy formulation often gathers the "smartest people in the room." However, it''s not the senior leadership team that executes strategy - it''s everyone in your workforce. Get the right people in the right positions.

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Mining the Collective Intelligence of Your Board of Directors

Women on Business

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FCC Releases New Net Neutrality Rules

CTOvision

'By Shannon Perry. Net neutrality became a buzzword in 2014, as many media sources and public figures voiced their opposition to the FCC’s “fast lanes.” In order to accommodate ballooning quantities of web traffic, the FCC proposed that content providers (like Netflix) could pay Internet service providers (like Comcast) in order to access special, faster broadband connections, resulting in high quality media that would quickly outshine other sites with slow connections.

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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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Fun Friday – weekly office cartoon #259 #ff

Rapid BI

'Some Fun for a Friday Office Cartoon If you’re going to use sports analogies to inspire your team, use football or baseball… not duck duck goose If you like our Fun Friday office cartoon please share with your colleagues or social network. Office based cartoons, funnies or humor can help to communicate important […]. The post Fun Friday – weekly office cartoon #259 #ff appeared first on.

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Take Charge of Your Meetings!

Strategy Driven

'Meetings are essential for any business. They give everyone an opportunity to share ideas and be kept up-to-date on important information. However, all too often, poor communication can turn a meeting into a drawn-out, ineffective waste of time. There are several techniques that you can master to transform your communication skills and conduct your meetings like the effective business leader you are.

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Make Your Own Luck

Women on Business

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