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What’s Really Killing Morale and Employee Engagement

Let's Grow Leaders

Janice shared: I’d had enough: the gossip; the veterans scaring the new hires; more and more people doing just enough to get by… And I was frustrated because we’d done so much to foster employee engagement. I changed out some toxic leaders. We revamped our coaching program to focus on the positive. I’m here every Saturday right along with them.

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End Meeting Nightmares: Manage Results, Not Activity

General Leadership

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. “A meeting is an event at which the minutes are kept and the hours are lost.” Unknown. Want to review housekeeping details weekly? Open a maid services franchise. Admit what you already know: Your meetings are ineffective.

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10 Leadership Lessons From My Favorite Clint Eastwood Movie Quotes

N2Growth Blog

Regular readers of my weekly column have come to expect me to do my best in presenting them with fresh perspectives on how to manage the challenges that most of them face as leaders in their respective organizations. But, this week I decided to lighten it up a bit and look to what can be learned from some of my favorite Clint Eastwood movie quotes. So, let’s have some fun!

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A Timeline of Big Data Analytics

CTOvision

Rick Delgado. The world seems to run on big data nowadays. In fact, it’s sometimes difficult to remember a time when businesses weren’t intensely focused on big data analytics. It’s equally difficult to forget that big data is still relatively new to the mainstream. The amount of data being generated in the world today is immense, and it’s only getting bigger.

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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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Four Facets of Measuring Change

Change Starts Here

When I was an industrial engineer early in my career, one of my core responsibilities was measuring things. It’s no coincidence that my transition to change practitioner included balanced scorecards to measure strategy execution. Even now, my work helping people influence change still includes identifying measures to track progress and increase accountability.

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‘Sell’ Is A Four Letter Word All Of Us Can Use

N2Growth Blog

He’s just trying to sell you something. She’s just a salesperson. Comments such as these – and many more – reflect the public’s attitude toward sales and the sales process. Is there any business process more despised than sales? Yet we all know the maxim – without the customer there is no business. If sales is held in such low esteem then how are customers supposed to come to us?

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Cognitio and ThreatBrief in People Magazine: Security tips for the general public

CTOvision

Bob Gourley. One of the key lines of business at Cognitio is our cybersecurity practice. We help enterprises build action plans to mitigate risks and improve their security posture. Increasingly we are also asked to provide tips and techniques for employees to consider in their personal lives. Every person with a computer or phone has information at risk and should take personal responsibility for improving their security posture.

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The Must-Dos: My 10 Most Enduring Leadership Lessons

Terry Starbucker

Great leadership lessons are the ones that stand the test of time because they become a part of who you are, and how you lead, every hour of every day. In my 34 years in the business world, I’ve been fortunate to have had a chance to observe and work with great (and not so great) leaders, to read many excellent (and not so excellent) books about leadership, and gain many years of experience as a leader (and now entrepreneur, startup investor, and business consultant) myself, through both success

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How Sequel and Sinatra Solve Ruby’s API Problem

Toptal

The rise of the web and mobile applications has led to an increased need for back-end API services. Ruby on Rails' philosophy seemingly makes it the ideal framework for creating back-end APIs. However, using Rails only for the API is overkill. In this article, Freelance Software Engineer Boško Ivaniševi? explores alternatives to Rails and introduces us to two very mature and powerful gems, Sinatra and Sequel, which in combination provide powerful tools for creating server-side APIs.

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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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Visit people where they work

N2Growth Blog

Visiting with employees in their work space is a good habit that not only shows respect but also allows the leader the opportunity to get an up close and personal look at how the work is going. At the same time, a leader’s time is valuable; she must ration it carefully so here are some suggestions for when to visit a subordinate. So here are four reasons to do it: To clear the air.

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Snakes in the Satellites: PassiveTotal provides an update on a massive adversary infrastructure

CTOvision

Bob Gourley. For the last year Passive Total has been providing open analysis on an interesting piece of adversary infrastructure and in doing so are shedding informative light not just on that particular adversary activity but on how multiple sources of information can be pulled together to form a more complete picture of what is going on. For example, by understanding the relationships between datasets including open source intelligence, historical DNS records, known malicious domains, histori

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7 Mistakes Small Businesses Make Choosing a Point of Sale System

Women on Business

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The 3 C’s for success

Lead on Purpose

Success is a clear, yet complex word that means different things for different people. The measurements vary, the approaches to achieving change and the commitment to achieving fluctuate over time.

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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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When “no” can lead to “yes”

N2Growth Blog

The most valuable resource a good executive employs is her time. In her book “ Year of Yes ,” television executive producer and writer Shonda Rhimes shares that her way of budgeting time was to say “no” to everything but work in order to spend more time at home. This was a strategy that enabled Rhimes to devote time to her children as well as find time to write.

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Innovative Thinking Is Hurting Security; We Need Disruptive Ideas

CTOvision

Junaid Islam. Security professionals by their nature are risk averse. Thus it’s no surprise that the security industry is defined by incremental innovation. Start with something that works and make it better. Unfortunately "innovative security" strategy is leading to an increase in cyber security failures. Increased spending and increased cyber failures now characterize the security industry.

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4 Important LinkedIn Updates For Busy Women on the Move

Women on Business

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A WUP Upside The Head: 1.5

Steve Farber

Chapter 7. Cam just about swallowed his tongue. “You were the chief information officer of Maritime and Son?” he asked incredulously. “No, sir, I was not.” “But you just said…”. “I said CIO, not chief information officer. Really, Buck, do I look like the type?” And here came the rippling, deep laughter that I loved so much. “I was the clear insight officer, is what I was.

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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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Your Employees, Leadership, Strengths and Diversity

CoachStation

Understanding what your employees want, who they are and what they are naturally good at provides a solid platform for success: personally, professionally and organisationally. Helping your employees by taking the time to find out these things is good leadership. A gap exists between what employees want and what leaders deliver. So, what is this difference, between what has proven to work, what should leaders be doing and what actually happens in most organisations?

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Solarflare: Revolutionizing the way enterprises scale, manage and secure data centers

CTOvision

Research Team. With this post we are initializing our coverage of Solarflare. Solarflare is a leading provider of application-intelligent networking I/O software and hardware that facilitate the acceleration, monitoring and security of network data. We are tracking Solarflare in our Disruptive IT Directory in two categories. They are a top player in infrastructure including the critically important Data Center so we track them in our Leading Infrastructure Companies category.

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When the Dentist has a Toothache, or How to Prepare Your Clients for Emergencies

Women on Business

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The Neo-Generalist

QAspire

The books I love the most are not the ones that offer off-the-shelf “solutions” but ones that start a conversation, catalyze thinking, elevate understanding and help in thinking about a topic in novel ways. And that’s why I loved reading “ The Neo-Generalist ” by Kenneth Mikkelsen and Richard Martin. It is a book that bridges the gap between two extremes of specialism and generalism and introduces a neo-generalist as: “The neo-generalist is both specialist and generalist, often able to master mu

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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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3 Simple Ways to Make the Most of Your Best Workers

N2Growth Blog

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Cloud Communications Alliance and Cyber Threats in the Cloud

CTOvision

Bob Gourley. The Cloud Communications Alliance is an industry peer association dedicated to fostering the growth of cloud communications. They promote awareness, adoption and understanding of cloud communications services and their benefits. In doing so they are enabling and nurturing a key element of cloud disruption and are adding value to billions of people in doing so.

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From Data to Actionable Insights: Giving Data a Purpose

The Kini Group

Does the term “actionable insights” feel like a business buzzword to you? It does to me. Most of the time, only big data and data science nerds really understand what it means and the power it illustrates. But what it represents is crucial to the future of your business. So, I’m here to bring you into the loop. Actionable insights have two main characteristics: They are borne from the partnership between conscientious reporting and focused analysis.

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Switching Costs in Software Development

Professor Beekums

Switching costs are an important part of software development. When my software relies on one service, the amount of time I have to spend moving it to another service is called a switching cost. In general, you want these to be as low as possible. The reason is that if the service you are dependent on ever becomes unsatisfactory or even harmful to you, then you need to be able to switch to a competitor service.

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Monetizing Analytics Features

Think your customers will pay more for data visualizations in your application? Five years ago, they may have. But today, dashboards and visualizations have become table stakes. Turning analytics into a source of revenue means integrating advanced features in unique, hard-to-steal ways. Download this white paper to discover which features will differentiate your application and maximize the ROI of your analytics.

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3 Steps You Can Take Today to Be a Visionary Leader

N2Growth Blog

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TechNet Augusta 2016: Defensive Cyber

CTOvision

ChrisScott. This is the sixth in our series of posts on US Army systems and mission needs based on the AFCEA Augusta Technet. The US Army must ensure they have the ability to maneuver in cyberspace. There were considerable discussions on defensive and offensive cyber operations and how they will occur in a conflict. Defensive cyber includes passive and active cyberspace operations intended to preserve the ability to utilize friendly cyberspace capabilities and protect data, networks, net-centr

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How Much Time Do You Need to Not Feel Stupid?

Next Level Blog

Last week I was on the phone with an executive coaching client who, like many of the people I work with, was lamenting the insanity of her schedule. It was Friday and she was finishing up a week of back-to-back meetings every day, all day. (To her credit, she kept her coaching call with me!). In talking about her schedule, she described the impact in a way that I had never heard before.