Let's Grow Leaders
MARCH 11, 2015
'I would describe our meeting as a roll of the dice. Perhaps someday we will upgrade our relationship to “weak ties,” but yesterday we were just 2/850 at the Great Ideas Conference chatting through our freebie Hyatt sunglasses over lunchtime brisket and gluten-free potato salad. “Joe,” the CEO (named substituted for anonymity and rhyme), seemed genuinely intrigued by our LGL mission.
General Leadership
MARCH 11, 2015
'This is a story about the transition from Technical Expert to Successful Leader. Following a one-year tour in Afghanistan, I was reassigned to an Air Traffic Control (ATC) radar facility. Not just any ATC facility, but one of the larger and busier ones—the 2nd busiest joint-use airfield in the Air Force. The 15-position facility is manned by two 40-person teams, responsible for the safe and expeditious movement of 180,000 annual aircraft operations across 4,600 square miles and six airports.
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Terry Starbucker
MARCH 8, 2015
'Love isn’t a new concept when it comes to great leadership- after all, in one of the oldest leadership books out there, The Art of War (it goes back to the 6th Century BC), Sun Tzu said “He treats them as his own beloved sons and they will stand by him until death”. However, it is not a concept well suited to the typically rough and tumble world of business.
CTOvision
MARCH 9, 2015
'By Bob Gourley. Here is more on the GigaOm Shutdown: Om Malik provided the most important insight to read on his personal blog , reporting that: Gigaom is winding down and its assets are now controlled by the company’s lenders. It is not how you want the story of a company you founded to end. Every founder starts on a path — hopeful and optimistic, full of desire to build something that helps change the world for the better, reshape an industry and hopefully become independent, both metaphorica
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Let's Grow Leaders
MARCH 9, 2015
'Sarah’s face winced as the hourly stack rankings beeped through her smart phone. She didn’t have to say a word, I knew that look from the inside out. I’ve been on the frantic receiving end of such beeps. Hourly results coming in 15 times a day–quality, efficiency, sales–all neatly stack ranked as a constant reminder I wasn’t doing enough.
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Erik Bernhardsson
MARCH 13, 2015
Pinterest just open sourced Pinball which seems like an interesting Luigi alternative. There’s two blog posts: Pinball: Building workflow management (from 2014) and Open-sourcing Pinball (from this week). The author has a comment in the comments thread on Hacker News: Luigi was not available in public, when Pinball starts. So not sure the pros and cons between Pinball and Luigi.
CTOvision
MARCH 12, 2015
'By Bob Gourley. CyberEdge Group surveyed more than 800 security decision makers and practitioners seeking a 360 degree view of threats, defenses and planned investments. Their bottom line up front: IT security spending is increasing, but confidence is falling. Most respondents signaled they expect to be breached in the next 12 months. Before diving into the details of the results we should mention that conclusions from opinion surveys like this are always somewhat generic.
Let's Grow Leaders
MARCH 13, 2015
'Ever since Gallup revealed their findings that 70% of workers are either disengaged or actively disengaged in their work, “employee engagement” has been all the buzz. Quite frankly, none of this is new, and anyone reading this blog knows that and is working hard to change the game. Tonight, I started to write a different post (which I’ll save for Monday), but got sidetracked when for grins, I looked up Employee Engagement in the Urban Dictionary, searching for a pithy opener.
General Leadership
MARCH 13, 2015
'Trust is the glue of life. It’s the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It’s the foundational principle that holds all relationships. Stephen Covey. In order to maintain momentum and focus on a vision for an organization, you will have to offer constructive criticisms and correct certain behaviors. Your effectiveness will depend on how much trust you have built within your organization – your trust bank.
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Erik Bernhardsson
MARCH 13, 2015
Pinterest just open sourced Pinball which seems like an interesting Luigi alternative. There’s two blog posts: Pinball: Building workflow management (from 2014) and Open-sourcing Pinball (from this week). The author has a comment in the comments thread on Hacker News: Luigi was not available in public, when Pinball starts. So not sure the pros and cons between Pinball and Luigi.
CTOvision
MARCH 12, 2015
'By May Gourley. If you’ve ever been worried that the messages you are sending your friends and co-workers via the normal texting applications were not secure enough and you felt unsafe giving out personal information, then Threema might be the application for you to use. What is Threema? Threema is a mobile messaging app that puts security first. With true end-to-end encryption, you can rest assured that only you and the intended recipient can read your messages.
Women on Business
MARCH 11, 2015
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Next Level Blog
MARCH 12, 2015
'There''s a very high likelihood that you''ve heard the counsel to spend your time on the things that are important but not urgent. Easy to advise, hard to do, right? It''s all too easy to end up spending your day reacting to things that are both urgent and important or, worse, not that important to you but urgent to someone else. And, after hours and days of that, burnout can easily occur and you end up wasting your time and attention on stuff that is neither urgent or important just to get som
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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.
The Accidental Successful CIO
MARCH 11, 2015
'The way that you become a better CIO is by experimenting Image Credit: Steve Jurvetson. How good of a CIO are you? I’m willing to bet that no matter how good you think that you are, you also realize that you could probably be better. We all believe this. However, now we run into the big question: how can a CIO become better? It turns out that the answer is actually fairly simple to understand even if it’s hard to do: you’ve got to do some experimenting.
CTOvision
MARCH 13, 2015
'By Michael Johnson. Planet OS is a platform for real-world sensor data integration for ocean, land, air and space sensors. Planet OS has developed a powerful suite specifically focused on indexing sensor and machine data that combines data mining, integration, search and discovery, and data exchange. The data types can be virtually anything from overhead imagery, to sonar data, to unattended sensors, to marine weather sensors.
Women on Business
MARCH 8, 2015
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Next Level Blog
MARCH 9, 2015
'Can you imagine what it would be like to stand up in front of a roomful of strangers and read selections from the journal or diary you kept as a teenager? If you find yourself in Denver on the right evening, you could have the opportunity to find out. There’s a great story in the Wall Street Journal this week about a semi-regular gathering at the Contemporary Museum of Art Denver called “My Teenage Angst.
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Steve Farber
MARCH 9, 2015
'I’m thrilled to officially announce that The Radical Leap: A Personal Lesson in Extreme Leadership is finally available on audio. Lots of folks have been asking for this for years, now, so it’s been a long time a-coming. Even better, this recording marks the arrival of Leap’s 10th Anniversary Edition , which includes a new self assessment.
CTOvision
MARCH 9, 2015
'By Katie Kennedy. Fi nally, after years of anticipation, the Apple Watch has arrived. It was revealed at today''s Apple''s event. What can it do? For one it can tell time (it does so many other things you might actually overlook that point). Since Apple''s goal with this watch is for wearers to stay connected to others and the world it has several communication capabilities built it.
Women on Business
MARCH 9, 2015
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Toptal
MARCH 12, 2015
Over time, the race between DirectX and OpenGL has caused these technologies to become more accessible to developers, along with better documentation and an easier process of getting started with them. This tutorial article shows you how to build a 3D modeling application that generates and renders 3D texts from user inputs.
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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.
QAspire
MARCH 8, 2015
'When we think in parts, we improve in parts. Most of the business improvement is the game of ‘sub-optimization’. You optimize pieces without looking at the whole. When a customer reports problem with your software, you do an incidental root cause analysis and address the code quality problem. You deploy tools, introduce new processes, measure constantly and yet – a few months later, you encounter a similar problem.
CTOvision
MARCH 9, 2015
'By Bob Gourley. By now you must have heard the very bad news about GigaOm and their financial troubles. We feel for the many good people working for GigaOm, many of which we had the chance to serve with over the years. We also feel for the many companies that leveraged GigaOm research to help fuel their strategic plans and operational decisions. GigaOm will be missed.
Women on Business
MARCH 13, 2015
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Toptal
MARCH 11, 2015
In an attempt to make web applications a lot more dynamic, front-end Javascript frameworks like Angular.js, Backbone.js and Ember.js have gained a lot of popularity. However, these frameworks often require a back-end application to be useful, so they are used in conjunction with web frameworks like Ruby on Rails and Django. On the other hand, Volt is capable of managing the back-end and a dynamic front-end; since both functionalities are tightly integrated into its core.
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QAspire
MARCH 11, 2015
'Organizations, teams and individuals are obsessed with doing things themselves when a similar or better solution is already available elsewhere. Thinking that if you have to get it done right then you have to do it yourself is no less than some kind of obsession. I have seen people rejecting better ideas just because they did not contribute in the ideation.
CTOvision
MARCH 12, 2015
'By Bob Gourley. CTOvision is initiating coverage of the startup firm SignalFX. SignalFX is a monitoring platform designed for modern enterprise applications. Their capability provides metrics, streaming analytics and analytics around interactions and services. And they do this at enterprise speed and scale. They have proven to be able to process 10s of billions of metrics daily.
Women on Business
MARCH 10, 2015
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