Let's Grow Leaders
JUNE 25, 2014
'It’s interesting to see leaders who take their servant leadership philosophy seriously at work, but have a more hovering approach when it comes to their children. In an effort to protect and scaffold, they actually overlook natural opportunities for their children to emerge as leaders. The best way to learn the piano is to practice. The best way to learn to do a flip-turn is to get in the pool and get some water up your nose.
General Leadership
JUNE 27, 2014
'“It is a dangerous position to be in when you can’t see, can’t hear and won’t listen…”. Stella Payton. As a lifelong military aviator, I’ve been afforded the opportunity to fly a host of jet aircraft. However, regardless of how different the airframes may have been, one item has always been constant. We pilot types call it the Dash-1.
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N2Growth Blog
JUNE 27, 2014
'By Mike Myatt. Chairman, N2Growth. How do some companies evolve to “it company” status while others languish in relative obscurity? Whether you think of more mature companies like Google, Whole Foods, or Unilever, or early stage marvels like Warby Parker, Vendini, or RevZilla, the hottest companies on the planet understand it’s not what they do or how they do it, but why they do what they do that defines who they are as an organization.
CTOvision
JUNE 27, 2014
'By Gregory Piatetsky. Editor’s note: This post by Gregory Piatetsky first appeared at KDnuggets.com. It it he dives into a key question regarding the possible shortage of data scientists. -bg. Many people have read the McKinsey report on Big Data (May 2011) which predicted . The United States alone faces a shortage of 140,000 to 190,000 people with analytical expertise and 1.5 million managers and analysts with the skills to understand and make decisions based on the analysis of big
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Let's Grow Leaders
JUNE 27, 2014
'Great ideas come in halves , these are the words I hear often from my LGL en Español partner, Kay Valenzuela. I believe it. Work is enhanced by true collaboration. One of the best parts of my entrepreneurial journey has been the amazing collaborations, in writing, in business, in shared passions. I’ve got four deep collaborations in process now, including writing a children’s picture book with Alli Polin and the launch of a Parent’s Guide to Leadership (a free ebook downloa
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Terry Starbucker
JUNE 26, 2014
'Sometimes a leader needs to think like a plumber. Yep, a plumber. How so? Think about pressure for a minute. A plumber deals with pressure all the time – in their case, water pressure. How it is controlled and directed is critical to the overall performance of a water circulation system, especially when heated water is involved. Consequently, plumbers know all about safety valves and their benefits when the pressure gets too high.
CTOvision
JUNE 21, 2014
'By Bob Gourley. The video at this link and embedded below provides an overview of conclusions from CTOvision research into ways to automate the removal of cyber threats (including malware) from your enterprise. It highlights ten requirements CTOs, CIOs, CISOs and CFOs should articulate as critical to success in automating security response. Additional context into this topic is available in our research report downloadable here: .
Let's Grow Leaders
JUNE 23, 2014
'It happens on teams, it happens in training classes, it happens on dates. A rush to achieve without connection will backfire. It’s tempting to rush in, get started and get stuff done. Sure the out-of-the gate progress feels great at beginning, but if you don’t take time to create genuine connections and build relationships, somewhere down the line you’re going to derail.
General Leadership
JUNE 25, 2014
'“…you have to make a decision: to be or to do.”. Colonel John Richard Boyd (1927-1997). The scene – Fighter Weapon School at Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada: “40-seconds and your mine,” snarled a confident Air Force Captain John Boyd to his challengers. “Meet me at 30,000 feet on my tail. I’ll reverse and get you in my guns in 40-seconds…or I’ll give you 40 dollars!
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Lead on Purpose
JUNE 21, 2014
'There are many elements that make a good manager, however, one of the critical qualities is leadership. Leadership and management must go hand in hand, but they are not the same thing.
CTOvision
JUNE 27, 2014
'By Bob Gourley. We have written before about the Security Innovation Network ( SINET ). This post provides some additional information on a 17 July 2014 session they have pulled together in NYC, one that I believe will help the community collectively tackle some key issues. Here is more from the event site : Innovation Summit 2014. “Connecting Wall Street, Silicon Valley and the Beltway”. 17 July 2014.
Women on Business
JUNE 24, 2014
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General Leadership
JUNE 26, 2014
'Senior Curator and GeneralLeadership.com CEO, Brigadier General Michel shares that we must never forget that we are always serving as role models to others. No matter who you are, where you work, or what title, position, or rank you possess, you will leave your mark, for good or bad, on scores of people. Helping us all to understand why role modeling is the most powerful message we will ever send to those around us.… Read the rest.
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.
Next Level Blog
JUNE 26, 2014
'A good friend of mine, who I’ll refer to here as Rick, is a Lt. Colonel in the U.S. Air Force. He’s approaching the end of a 20 year career and just got married a few months ago to a wonderful woman. A couple of weeks ago, much to his surprise, he found out that he’s going to be deployed for six months to a base on the opposite coast and, possibly, to the Middle East.
CTOvision
JUNE 24, 2014
'By Shannon Perry. Hackers have used distributed denial of service attacks (DDoS) for political purposes before. Anonymous, protesting the Albuquerque Police Department’s use of force against two men, recently crashed the police department’s website and subsequently claimed responsibility for the attack with a YouTube video. In the last few years, major American banks have also suffered online outages from DDoS attacks – with many attributing the bank attacks to hacktivists, or ideologically mot
Women on Business
JUNE 26, 2014
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General Leadership
JUNE 24, 2014
'Cruise over to PodBean to hear our latest 200-Second Soundbite entitled “Organizational Communication Tips From a Fruit Fly” or subscribe to our PodCast directly via iTunes at the following link. Senior Curato r and GeneralLeadership.com COO, Lt Col Matthew Fritz shares tips on handling organizational conflict. Leaders find it necessary to confront poor behavior when it happens, if only to prevent poor modeling from becoming a repeatable trend within the Team.
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Next Level Blog
JUNE 23, 2014
'Chances are that sometime today or this week, you’ll find yourself spun up into a low grade version of fight or flight syndrome. As I explain in my forthcoming book, "Overworked and Overwhelmed: The Mindfulness Alternative", to counteract that you want to develop little breaks of rest and digest into your day. I was lucky enough to take an anniversary trip to Pebble Beach this past weekend and took a couple of minutes to film the waves lapping against the beach so I could share them with you.
CTOvision
JUNE 23, 2014
'By Bob Gourley. An upgrade for The CTOvision Mobile Application is available for iPhone , iPad and Android users. The app began as a way to serve our readers with content from CTOvision and that remains a key capability. But we now include feeds from all other major tech blogs, letting you use our mobile app to track all the technology news, analysis and context you need.
Women on Business
JUNE 26, 2014
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The Accidental Successful CIO
JUNE 25, 2014
'The Nasdaq CIO Should Have Known Better Image Credit. The IT department over at the Nasdaq stock exchange had a rough year in 2013. Their exchange, which is used by thousands of traders every day, suffered two debilitating outages. I can understand one outage, things happen. But two? Where was the CIO? Two Outages Too Many. The Nasdaq is a stock market where traders can buy and sell stocks that are traded there.
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QAspire
JUNE 26, 2014
'Today’s business environment is best described as VUCA – Volatile, Uncertain, Complex and Ambiguous. VUCA is, quite simply, the expression of the fact that the rate of change is outpacing our ability to adapt. As a result of this, businesses, industries and careers are disrupted faster than ever before. We have to seriously rethink about how we lead ourselves, others and our organizations.
CTOvision
JUNE 26, 2014
'By Jed Mole. Database marketing: How marketing struggles with social (and what to do about it). Marketing’s landscape is changing. The advance of digital media – social channels especially – has dramatically altered the ways prime prospects expect to be approached. Yet marketers can struggle to understand social. A key factor is adaptation difficulties; social requires people who are used to traditional database marketing, to follow unfamiliar strategies and deal with complex
Women on Business
JUNE 22, 2014
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The Programmer's Paradox
JUNE 27, 2014
I'll start by proposing a significantly wider definition for the word 'technology'. To me it is absolutely 'any' and 'all' things that we use to manipulate our surrounding environment. Under this rather broad definition it would include such age old technologies as fire, clothes and shelter. I like this definition because it helps lay out a long trajectory for how technologies have shaped our world, and since many of our technologies are so firmly established -- like fire or clothing -- it reall
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Coalfire
JUNE 26, 2014
Last week the HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR) issued their Annual Report to Congress on Breaches of Unsecured Protected Health Information (PHI) for calendar years 2011 and 2012. This is their second annual report required by the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act of 2009.
CTOvision
JUNE 26, 2014
'By Shannon Perry. Many techies envision a future where drones are commonplace – quickly and efficiently delivering products, providing Internet access, enabling forecasts by meteorologists, improving traffic reports, or simply watching for illegal activity. Drones will likely provide impressive contributions to our standard of living in the near future, but a recent report by The Washington Post highlights a seldom-discussed challenge associated with more drones.
Rapid BI
JUNE 24, 2014
'“Your resume is bloated with half-truths, false praise, exaggeration and unsubstantiated accomplishments. I’d like to hire you to write our Annual Report.
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