Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 5, 2014

'Executives are naturally a tough audience. They’ve got limited time, competing priorities, information overload, demanding bosses, and pressure to make great decisions quickly. Your job is to give them all the information they need in a way they can easily digest. Most of us have stories of times when the message we tried to send was not the message received, and the tidy PowerPoint presentation spiraled downward in a frenzied fiasco. 9 Mistakes To Avoid When Presenting to Executives. 1.

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General Leadership

DECEMBER 5, 2014

'“Thunderbirds Check…. Two, Three, Four, Five, Six”. “Lets Run’em Up…”. “Smoke On – Ready…. Now”. “Smoke Off – Ready… Now” “Release Brakes – Ready…. Now”. With these simple commands, Thunderbird 1 initiates the roar of afterburners which thrust the Air Force Thunderbird demonstration team skyward. With high-G, high-speed, split-second accuracy and precision, the men and women of the USAF Thunderbirds leave spectators spellbound evertime.

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Change Starts Here

DECEMBER 4, 2014

'One of Enclaria’s training programs is Leading Your Team Through Change, a workshop to help leaders effectively leverage their authority to influence change within their teams. During a recent session with senior leaders of a large organization, one of the participants interjected, “What if we don’t like it ourselves?”. It’s not enough to know what you need to do to implement change.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 4, 2014

'By Grant Wattie. President, N2Growth Australia. The Red Badge of Courage is a novel by Stephen Crane (1871–1900). Taking place during the American Civil War, the story is about a young private of the Union Army, Henry Fleming, who flees from the field of battle. Overcome with shame, he longs for a wound, a “red badge of courage,” to counteract his cowardice.

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Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 3, 2014

'“What’s the best way for John to improve?” I asked, one of those coachy-interviewing questions people like me say to bosses and peers of folks we’re working to support. “Honestly, I wish he would just stop trying so hard to improve, and just lead. We’ve all given him plenty of advice. He’s taken a gazillion courses.

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Terry Starbucker

NOVEMBER 30, 2014

'It’s so tempting, once leaders get their marching orders to deliver profit targets, to dive right into the details of execution. After all, it’s the nature of a business - going from Point A to Point B as quickly and efficiently as possible, to gain a competitive advantage and secure the market share necessary for success. But before we go charging up that hill, we need to take a very necessary first step – to make sure the rest of the team is behind us, aligned, motivated, an

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CTOvision

DECEMBER 5, 2014

'By Bob Gourley. On 11 Dec 2014 we will be providing a briefing on lessons extracted from our research into the new Cloudera and Intel partnership. This presentation is designed to arm architects with the information they need to efficiently modernize and deliver cost-saving, mission-supporting capabilities to their enterprise. This webinar format will enable us to dynamically present and then interact with the architects, program managers and technology executives attending.

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Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 1, 2014

'The band had travelled 13 hours on 14 buses for this once in a lifetime experience. Now slime was falling from the sky. The 500 piece band had planned to hold their final rehearsal on the fields of Newark airport. Now they were stuffed into the Marriott ballroom. It was raining, sleeting and blowing on their parade. David Starnes, the band’s director, stood on the makeshift podium– a pile of chairs– on the far edge of the ballroom,”I know this is not ideal, but sometimes

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General Leadership

DECEMBER 2, 2014

'Digit Murphy, David Webb, Matthew T. Fritz, John E. Michel, Hilary Knight. It’s that exciting time of the month again when you have the opportunity to interact with us LIVE on SiriusXM Patriot Channel 125 at 9pm Eastern (8 Central, 7 Mountain, 6 Pacific) Wednesday, 3 Dec 2014. This special “12-Talents” broadcast will feature David Webb, newly-retired General John E.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2014

'By Damian D. “Skipper” Pitts. Chair, Organizational Development, N2Growth. The extension process within the Crisis Leadership & Performance-Driven Execution framework’s Leadership GPS System evolves from the new reality in business analytics and organizational design. Preemptive Crisis Analytics, an extension of the Five Ws Agenda within the Leadership GPS System, examines incoming data and decision sciences to increase productivity, efficiency and effectiveness for leaders an

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CTOvision

DECEMBER 5, 2014

'By SeanLawson. On October 27, 2014, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) issued a new Notice to Airmen (NOTAM) that bans the use of “unmanned aircraft and remote controlled aircraft” near stadiums. The move comes in the wake of a number of reports worldwide , including within the United States , of “drone” use at sporting events. Though these incidents certainly raise legitimate safety concerns, the FAA’s response is problematic for a number of reasons.

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 4, 2014

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General Leadership

DECEMBER 1, 2014

'“Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.” Peter F. Drucker. … Read the rest. The post Monday Quote: appeared first on General Leadership.

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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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Next Level Blog

DECEMBER 4, 2014

'Over the course of my career, I’ve had the good fortune to have a number of mentors who have helped shape my life and career. I wrote about one of them in a pre-Thanksgiving post I wrote last week. I don’t think I ever set out to recruit a particular person as a mentor. The relationships just sort of naturally evolved with the people who ended up being my mentors.

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CTOvision

DECEMBER 4, 2014

'By Bob Gourley. Here is the latest technology news from across the tech community: What’s the right relationship between technology companies and journalism? Last week technology news site Re:Code announced that it would stop hosting comments on its own sites as the conversation around stories was already happening on social media. We like to self-flagellate in journalism, and here is another birch twig to … Read more on The Guardian (blog).

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Women on Business

NOVEMBER 30, 2014

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Nathan Magnuson

DECEMBER 1, 2014

'Who gets to be a leader? From time to time, I hear an someone admonish a group of individuals by saying “you are all leaders.” Other times, I see organizational messaging indicating “leadership” is reserved for a small group of individuals who occupy certain positions. Which is it? Are we all leaders, or only some of us? And how do we get more leaders in our organizations?

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Toptal

DECEMBER 4, 2014

This article provides an overview on building a great Android application, from defining an idea to releasing an application to the store. Toptal developer Ivan Dimoski gives us a chance to learn from his experience in making Ooshies, an Android Live Wallpaper designed to give you a hug and make you feel loved each time you interact with your Android device.

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CTOvision

DECEMBER 1, 2014

'The annual C5ISR Summit in Charleston, SC turned out a record number of attendees (over 1200) this year. While many Defense Contractors are finding it hard to make money from this market, in part due to the reducing DoD Budget, SPAWAR System Center Atlantic’s scale-back of Non-Navy Work, and a locked-in, post-pillar (multi-year multiple award contract vehicles) environment, there were many new faces at the event, indicating hopes for a brighter future.

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 2, 2014

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Mills Scofield

NOVEMBER 30, 2014

'Data isn’t important in decision-making. What? Shocking! Then why aren’t we shocked when someone says that all decisions must be totally data driven? Perhaps it depends what we mean by data, which is usually something quantitative. We need to get out into the world and gather data by watching, observing, listening, asking – qualitative data.

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Toptal

DECEMBER 2, 2014

Apple has released a fully functional WatchKit and SDK that enables iOS developers with all the tools to start building their Apple Watch applications. This article provides quick overview of the Apple Watch functionalities from a developers perspective.

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CTOvision

DECEMBER 1, 2014

'By Bob Gourley. If you are an enterprise technologist you are bombarded with requests to participate in technology events. Some of these events are great! They can be fantastic ways to learn from peers, to give back to the community and share lessons learned. Others are unfocused, sub-optimized and a waste of time. How do you tell the good ones from the time-wasters?

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 5, 2014

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Mills Scofield

DECEMBER 3, 2014

'Many thanks to Barbara Kimmel of Trust Across America TM for letting me contribute to Trust Inc.: 52 Weeks of Activities and Inspiriations for Building Worldplace Trust (Vol 3.). My mantra, Experiment-Learn-Apply-Iterate , is a way to start building trust in one''s own capabilities and one''s team (pg 29). Get the book, try out these various ways and you''ll be surprised at how it works!

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Toptal

DECEMBER 4, 2014

As mobile and tablet devices come closer to achieving final world domination, web technology is in a race to accommodate the ever-growing number screen sizes. However, devising tools to meet the challenges of this phenomenon brings a whole new set of problems, with one of the latest buzzwords to emerge being "responsive web".

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CTOvision

DECEMBER 1, 2014

'16-21 Nov 2014 the International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis (SC14) was hosted in New Orleans and once again it did not disappoint! Each year SC14 brings together a large number of folks from the High Performance Computing (HPC) community, basically thousands of scientists and engineers that are doing really awesome things in the HPC and computational analytics space.

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 3, 2014

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