Sat.Dec 17, 2016 - Fri.Dec 23, 2016

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5 Questions to Help You Resolve Your Conflict

Let's Grow Leaders

We’d both been looking forward to it–our first Thanksgiving together. We’d each been the primary holiday cooks in our previous marriage, which can feel lonely and overwhelming at times. But not this year. Now we had each other. We’d planned the perfect menu the week before while eating sushi over candlelight. We’d had fun shopping.

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The January Effect: How to Make Next Year The Best One Ever

Terry Starbucker

There is a great benefit to the 365-day calendar – the fact that it restarts at January 1, without fail. It’s an annual window of opportunity for recycling, renewal, rebirth, rejuvenation, rejiggering, retooling, rebooting, and whatever other “re-something” you can think of. I call it the “ January Effect “, and as leaders we need to take full advantage of it.

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Top 100 Small Business Blogs on the Web Ranking Includes Women on Business

Women on Business

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Top Change Articles for 2016 at Enclaria

Change Starts Here

Can you believe another year is coming to a close? The following are the most popular posts of 2016 at the Enclaria blog. Which were your favorites, and what did you miss? Thank you for reading and sharing! What topics would you like to see covered next year? Please reply in the comments. Yes, You Should Be a Change Agent… Or Hire One. In response to a Forbes article insisting change agents aren’t needed, I set the record straight about what change agents do (at least the good ones)

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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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The Power of a Good Pause

Let's Grow Leaders

To me the most remarkable part of Christmas is how everything goes from ridiculously busy to a full-on stop. The Winning Well workshops, the keynotes, the 2017 planning, the filming, the travelling (well not that), the rehearsals, the concerts, the shopping, the cooking, the visits, and then the pause. When I walk into a candle lit church, all the chaos seems to melt away.

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Imbalance Can Work: Stop Stressing About Work-Life Balance

Women on Business

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Why Big Data Project Management Can Be So Difficult

CTOvision

Rick Delgado. Big data is extremely beneficial to businesses, and gathering it is now easier than ever with today's technology. When it comes to the management of big data, therein lies the challenge. There is software now which can assist in tracking a company's customers and potential customers. It will collect information such as age, demographics, buying habits, and more.

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10 Reasons to Forgive a Colleague This Holiday Season

N2Growth Blog

The holidays are a great time for reflection. They allow us to think back and review the past year and appreciate all of things that we can be thankful for. They also allow us to consider some of things that didn’t go so well this year and determine opportunities for improving them. One thing that we all can do to improve things for next year is forgive someone that we work with.

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Convert Visitors With These Landing Page Inspirations

Toptal

Landing pages are an essential part of the digital sales funnel. These landing page examples are a great resource for designers looking to help clients convert website visitors into paying customers.

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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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Ergonomic Essentials: Posture-Friendly Props You Need To Invest In

Women on Business

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What’s the delay when it comes to content analytics?

CTOvision

Bob Larrivee. Organizations are dealing with ever-growing amounts of data – and to get value from that data they need to analyze it, so what is the hold up in deploying content analytics? Practically every organization today has more content flowing through its various departments than at any time previously. This content comes in a wide variety of types, forms and formats and is a potential gold mine of insight for those that know how.

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Be careful when you use passion to persuade

N2Growth Blog

Passion can be a real turnoff when it comes to persuasion. The best persuaders seek to connect before they seek to present. Passionate persuaders are just the opposite. They are soapbox orators, not communicators. The challenge is toning down someone who is overly passionate is formidable. Such individuals are so enamored of their own ideas and their own abilities they are difficult to reach.

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Beware of Developers Who Do Negative Work

Professor Beekums

UPDATE 2016-12-25: This post has an important follow-up. At some point in every software developer’s career, we work with someone who does negative work. The notion of negative work may sound a little strange. Someone can do no work by just… not working. How does negative work happen? One example of this is an awful developer that was once at the same company as me.

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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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5 Creative and Fun Team Building Activities

Women on Business

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The First Quantum Revolution: Foundational information for the enterprise CTO

CTOvision

Bob Gourley. Our report on Naturally Better Security dove deep into ways quantum effects can be leveraged to enhance real world cybersecurity. It was our most popular post in November 2016 and the feedback we received was taken as a signal that we should produce more on what CTOs should know about the quantum world. With this post we are kicking off a series of five pieces that will dive into quantum effects.

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Don’t Just Focus on Your Destination. Enjoy the Ride Too.

Steve Farber

Well-intentioned friends used to tell Elise Mitchell that the journey is more important than the destination. She never bought it. And with good reason. By nature, she’d always been a destination leader–one who was hyper-focused on the goal, the desired end result of her business. And it paid off. She built a public relations company from scratch in the northwest corner of Arkansas beginning in 1995 and sold it in 2012 to a Dentsu Inc.

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How to Perform a High Quality After Action Review

Nathan Magnuson

You just finished a project, event, engagement or training exercise. It’s time to get some feedback. What do you do next? The After Action Review (AAR) was originally developed by the U.S. Army to analyze and report on training exercises. Today the military uses a range of formalities (as do countless industries and organizations), but the essence is to capture two elements: what went well and what can be improved in the future.

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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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RouterFreak on Kentik Network Performance Monitoring

Kentik

Excerpts from an in-depth look at Kentik Detect. Earlier this year the folks over at RouterFreak did a very thorough review of Kentik Detect. We really respected their thoroughness and the fact that they are practicing network engineers, so as we’ve come up with cool new gizmos in our product, we’ve asked them to extend their review. Following here, from their latest review, are some excerpts that focus on Kentik NPM, our enhanced network performance monitoring solution.

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Improving the Performance and Security of Mission Applications with Enhanced Networking

CTOvision

Bob Gourley. Latency breeds contempt, this is especially true in the defense and intelligence communities where seconds can be the difference between life and death. Applications supporting national security missions must work and they must work fast. In order to keep pace with rapidly evolving mission demands, agencies are constantly advancing their capabilities in the areas of distributed analytics and private cloud.

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What's top of mind for the CIO as 2017 looms

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

As the push for digital transformation reaches an all-time high, CIOs are increasingly focusing on bringing their entire organizations into the digital future, all while preventing even the smallest hiccup in operations. It's a tall order.

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Don’t Just Focus on Your Destination. Enjoy the Ride Too.

Steve Farber

Well-intentioned friends used to tell Elise Mitchell that the journey is more important than the destination. She never bought it. And with good reason. By nature, she’d always been a destination leader–one who was hyper-focused on the goal, the desired end result of her business. And it paid off. She built a public relations company from scratch in the northwest corner of Arkansas beginning in 1995 and sold it in 2012 to a Dentsu Inc.

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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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Kentik CEO Avi Freedman with PacketPushers on NPM & DDoS

Kentik

Kentik CEO Avi Freedman in Conversation with PacketPushers. I recently had the chance to talk with fellow nerds Ethan Banks and Greg Ferro from PacketPushers about Kentik’s latest updates in the arena of network performance monitoring and DDoS protection. I thought I’d share some excerpts from that conversation, which have been edited for brevity and clarity.

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Recognizing your path to success

Lead on Purpose

Every successful individual I’ve ever met has told me their path to success was filled with surprises and obstacles they never thought about before they started. Things happened they never anticipated. They experienced both positive surprises and disappointing setbacks.

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A new generation of CIO thinking emerges

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

As both business leadership and investment in technology grows outside the IT department in a era of large generational technology shifts, CIOs are considering new ways to think about the nature and role of IT

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Sample Key Performance Indicators – KPIs

Rapid BI

The example KPIs on this page are provided for educational purposes. They are not intended to be used 'as is' as the most effective use of a KPI is when it is aligned to the business strategy and the business plan of the organisation. The post Sample Key Performance Indicators – KPIs appeared first on RapidBi.

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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 Isolate Skill Gaps for Corrective Instruction

PowerSchool

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How Much Should You Pay Your Staff?

Strategy Driven

Photo courtesy of Pixabay. If you’re a start-up business looking to hire employees, you’ll need to consider how much money is enough to keep your staff happy without your business suffering. To stop you skimping out or overspending, here are some ways to budget for your staff and ensure they get the most suitable rate. Know how much you can spare. Consider how much you need to comfortably live on and if you will need to make any cuts.

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What's the organizing principle of today's digital workplace?

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

As companies increasingly seek to update and modernize their digital workplace, along with the supporting skills their workers, they frequently struggle to determine what an effective organizing principle should be.