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What is your Commencement Address?

General Leadership

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. Leadership is not about the next election, it’s about the next generation. Simon Sinek. The class of 2016 at my high school nominated me to give the commencement address. This was a great honor. As I thought about what to say, it was not as easy as I thought.

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The Simple Truths Behind The 8 Principles Of More Human Leadership

Terry Starbucker

Humility. Trust. Values. Teaching. Accountability. Metrics. Positivity. And… Love. Behind the 8 Principles of More Human Leadership ( click HERE to see them on a separate PDF ) are simple truths, and the secrets to the success trifecta – a profitable company, a happy team, and a fulfilled YOU. That is why I believe in them so strongly, and you should too.

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Two Questions to Ask on a Regular Basis During Change

Change Starts Here

Several years ago, in preparation for a transformation workshop with a client’s top management team, I was designing the feedback to collect at the end of the session. At the time, the workshop was thought to be a one-time event for this client, so collecting feedback about what they thought about the workshop seemed self-serving. Instead, I wanted to select questions that would help them move forward as a team, but which would have the added benefit of telling me if they got what they nee

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Testing Your Go App: Get Started The Right Way

Toptal

When Golang first came out, there were next to no resources available about how to efficiently test your Go-written application. Even now, with plenty of guides and recommendations available, many bright-eyed developers still try to apply their Ruby or JavaScript mindset and use external frameworks to test apps written in Go. In this article, Toptal Freelance Developer Gabriel Aszalos first explains Golang philosophy and then covers the basics of testing in Go, from table testing to JSON respons

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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: This AND That, Not This OR That

General Leadership

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. “Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.” Dwight D. Eisenhower. The word “AND” is one of the most frequently used in the English language.

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Increase Your Productivity Levels with a Treadmill Desk

Women on Business

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Scaling Scala: How to Dockerize Using Kubernetes

Toptal

Are you a Scala developer hoping to scale your application in the cloud? If so, meet Kubernetes, a cluster manager for Docker applications. Developed by Google, it's the latest in new open source tools making major waves. In this article, Toptal Freelance Software Engineer Michele Sciabarra guides us through a step-by-step tutorial on how to take a generic Scala application and implement Kubernetes and Docker to launch multiple instances of the application.

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Environment Impacts Communication

General Leadership

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. “Precision of communication is important, more important than ever, in our era of hair trigger balances, when a false or misunderstood word may create as much disaster as a sudden thoughtless act.”. James Thurber.

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An Update on 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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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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My Dad’s Best Advice

N2Growth Blog

Father’s Day has become a bit of a solemn day for me. I lost my father a few years ago and, while my kids do their best to celebrate the day with me, I can’t help but to feel the loss of my father in my life. Just the same, Father’s Day does provide me with the chance to reflect back on some of the sage advice that I got from him over the years and consider how it has informed my approach to work and to life.

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Gulp: A Web Developer's Secret Weapon for Maximizing Site Speed

Toptal

When dealing with web-based projects that run in the production environment, being able to build and deploy changes quickly is a top priority. However, repetitive processes such as building front-end assets, when not automated, can be prone to critical errors. In this article, Toptal Freelance Software Engineer Anton Kanevsky shows us how Gulp can solve various challenges of build automation through simple JavaScript routines.

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Is Your New Recruit a Good Fit for the Position?

Women on Business

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The Cyber Threat updated for 2016: Kindle version provided free 22, 23, 24 June 2016

CTOvision

Bob Gourley. Thanks to Amazon.com we are able to provide our readers with a free copy of the Kindle version of our book on The Cyber Threat during a special three day promotion running 22, 23 and 24 June 2016. The book was written to provide actionable insights into the cyber threat specially aimed towards the leader who should know more about threats to protect business objectives.

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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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Mindful Mondays: The Secrets of a 30-Year Partnership Revealed

Next Level Blog

So, it was back in March of 1985 when I was dared to ask Diane Dougherty out on a date. She worked in an office across the hall from mine in a Washington, DC trade association. It was my first real job out of college and she was an intern in town for a semester. I was coming back from lunch with an older, married guy co-worker named Dick Loomis and Diane passed us in the hall.

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Why leadership is an endurance race

Lead on Purpose

Success is a marathon, not a sprint. The only way to truly prepare for a marathon is to train, to practice, to run. You need to get out on the road. You need to put in the miles.

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Common Sense Web Design Choices You Have to Make Properly

Women on Business

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See How Active Threat Protection Keeps Small and Mid-sized Businesses Safe

CTOvision

Michael Johnson. The number of cyber threats targeting small to mid-sized enterprise has never been greater, and what’s troubling is that most mid-market organizations aren’t aware that they’re a prime target. These attacks are becoming more sophisticated and much harder to detect. Yet traditional cybersecurity technologies haven’t evolved at the same pace and as a result, fail to effectively protect these organizations from today's sophisticated attacks.

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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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Outward Bound Hiring Director of Development

CO2 Business Leadership

Position Profile – VOBS – Director of Development Position Profile On behalf of our client, Voyageur Outward Bound School, CohenTaylor Executive Search Services is conducting a retained search for Director of Development Voyageur Outward Bound School at a Glance · Founded in 1964 in the Boundary Waters of Northern Minnesota · Program areas in Minnesota and Texas · First Outward Bound school in the nation to run urban youth expeditions · Partners with educational institutions, bus

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Get More Initiative From Your People

Nathan Magnuson

“I don’t know that I’ve ever had someone come to me with that level of initiative. If they did, I think I’d be blown away.” I heard these words from an executive at a leadership event a couple weeks ago. His frustrations weren’t anything new. Why can’t employees take more initiative to solve organizational problems?

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What To Do When Your Boss Is Younger Than You Are

The Accidental Successful CIO

When you work for a younger boss, you’ll have to make some adjustments Image Credit: Christopher Lance. What have you always pictured your boss looking like? If you are anything like me, you’ve always pictured them as a grumpy old man. Or a grumpy old woman if you want to get all modern. However, there is one thing that I’ve never really pictured my boss as being – younger than I am!

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Writing an Agile Article for a Proper Journal

Storm Consulting

The work of the agile business analyst is never done is one of the conclusions reached in my first agile article for online journal InfoQ User Stories Are Placeholders for Requirements. At 3500 words plus five key take-away points, and with editorial and peer-review by the wonderful agile writer and educator Ben Linders , this was by far the longest agile article I’ve written in many years and it took several attempts to reach the high standards of authorship required.

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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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Common Ground for CIOs and CISOs

Kentik

Cooperation on Network Analytics Brings Better Business Outcomes. Whether your title reads Chief Information Officer or Chief Information Security Officer, there’s an ever-growing list of concerns driving your agenda. For CIOs, the focus is on operational issues such as network and application performance, uptime, and workflows. For CISOs, the stress is about malware, access control, and data exfiltration.

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Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

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Do Management Models and Theories Work?

Rapid BI

“What Management & Business Methods, Models and/or Theories have provided executives/managers and their organizations (e.g. company, institution, team) benefits and improvements” Over the years I have used many of the management, leadership, business and change models and theories and unfortunately the answer to “do they work?” is YES and NO. One of the difficulties with […].

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Dogster at the doctor

Dan Pupius

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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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How To Find A Mentor

Strategy Driven

How does one find, or how did you find, a mentor/mentee? Before finding a mentor, a person should ask “what do I want to be the best at?” and then find the person whom they feel is currently the best at whatever they want to me the best at. Once you identify this person, you become a scholar at their life’s work and then you make every effort possible to make contact with this person.

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Links for 2016-06-18 [del.icio.us]

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

Sponsored: 64% off Code Black Drone with HD Camera. Our #1 Best-Selling Drone--Meet the Dark Night of the Sky!

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Stop Start Continue Change – a Management and facilitation Model

Rapid BI

The Stop Start Continue Change is a management and facilitation model that can be applied to a wide range of situations where we need to improve processes, polices and behaviours etc. Stop – Start – Continue – Change The Stop – Start – Continue – Change four step change model is a simple yet often […]. The post Stop Start Continue Change – a Management and facilitation Model appeared first on RapidBi.