N2Growth Blog

MARCH 26, 2012

By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth. Leader Beware – ignorant bliss, no matter how enjoyable, is still ignorant. If you’re in a position of leadership and don’t feel you have any blind spots, you’re either very naïve or very arrogant. All leaders have blind spots – the question is what are they doing about them? The reality is most leaders invest so much time assessing the cultural and functional dynamics of their organizations they often forget the importance of critically

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Terry Starbucker

MARCH 25, 2012

Since I moved to Portland about 16 months ago, I’ve hung out with a lot of entrepreneurs, in coffee shops all over town. (Yes, here I spread my coffee dollars around between the national chains and the local brews). For an hour or so, we just chat about their businesses, and about them – and I have to tell you, these discussions have been revelatory for me.

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Change Starts Here

MARCH 29, 2012

Sometimes change is difficult because the change you want to implement runs counter to the culture. And, sometimes change is difficult because the culture of the organization blocks change in general. The following are cultures that can create an extra burden on change: Everyone For Themselves. In some organizations, it seems that each individual puts his own success over the success of the organization.

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Next Level Blog

MARCH 27, 2012

We hear a lot these days about achieving work/life balance. I’m here to tell you that in an age of doing more with less – or in some cases, less with less – work/life balance is a myth. If you’re a leader in a demanding job, you’re about as likely to find it as you are a purple unicorn. And I. Click headline to continue.

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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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Women on Business

MARCH 27, 2012

Women in technology are finding many successes, but those triumphs are still not the norm. An infographic from IT Manager Daily and Killer Infographics attempts to raise awareness of the impact women are having in the technology field, including their triumphs and barriers. Check it out below to see some uninspiring statistics, inspiring success stories, and resources for inspired women in technology.

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The Programmer's Paradox

MARCH 30, 2012

There is one simple, yet fundamental rule for organization: if someone hasn’t explicitly organized it, then it is disorganized. I believe that one can infer this from the properties of our physical reality. We know for instance, that entropy always wins. What starts as chaos, ends in chaos. Order is a temporary state of affairs. So, without explicit action, order is highly unlikely.

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Next Level Blog

MARCH 29, 2012

What are you holding on to that you need to let go of? That’s a question I ask a lot when I’m working with leaders who need to get different results. These days just about every leader needs to get different results on a continuous basis. When was the last time you even heard the phrase that “someone is resting. Click headline to continue.

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Women on Business

MARCH 26, 2012

“Women and money” is a top subject these days. Recent studies show that women will be the richer gender within the next two years. This leads me to a discussion that we just had in a women’s leadership council the other weekend. After stating this fact, the feminine crowd burst out clapping as if we were winning a race against the men. Are we competing against the MEN, ladies?

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Rapid BI

MARCH 24, 2012

Business Trend - Talent Management & Engagement Whilst looking for some data on the needs of organizations, I came across this visualisation based on some data from Forum. Whilst not comprehensive or universal, some of the key points here resonated wi.

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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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Strategy Driven

MARCH 29, 2012

Some business leaders aggressively pursue every sale believing them to be the ultimate key to corporate success. Sales, however, represent far more than just dollars and cents. In fact, the revenue generated through a sale is just the beginning of the overall financial impact on the business. Sales say a lot about a company and profoundly impact its culture, reputation, and goals achievement.

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Next Level Blog

MARCH 30, 2012

Beginning today, I’ll be posting a roundup of leadership news that’s caught my eye each Friday. This week, I’m highlighting posts on the importance of competence in building trust, the love-hate relationship we have with our smartphones, the secret behind the Disney experience and the role of charisma in a leader’s effectiveness.

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Women on Business

MARCH 28, 2012

As I read about Trayvon Martin and recent tragic events related to his death I find myself thinking about the way we see each other. Every aspect of our lives is shaped by the way in which we perceive the people around us, particularly those we interact with personally. . An inclination to hold a perspective possibly at the expense of alternative perspectives.

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Rapid BI

MARCH 29, 2012

Social Media - Fad or "Business as Usual"? On one discussion group in which I am an active participant, a member (of a closed professional group) said that social media was just a fad. Now this was in the context of the problems that social media is c.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 26, 2012

I’m celebrating my twentieth year of writing about sales, networking, loyalty, trust, attitude, leadership, business social media, and personal development. My core of information transformed into a body of work that includes 11 books – all bestsellers. I did it while you were watching TV. I chose to write instead of watch. Last week was the second part of the celebration talking about the evolution of the selling process and how it will affect you and your sales for the next twenty.

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The Accidental Successful CIO

MARCH 28, 2012

'Just A Few Bad Apples Can Spoil It For Everyone Else. One of the most important jobs that a CIO has to do is to manage the people that work for him or her. I’d like to be able to tell you that all of those people are going to be start performers. However, that’s not the case. Where a CIO can run into real problems is when some of the team are bad apples – lazy, angry, or just downright incompetent.

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Women on Business

MARCH 30, 2012

Today has been a common theme of acknowledging that ‘I guess I should have listened better’. I missed the event details for my daughter’s science competition, missed some bathroom renovation details, and didn’t notice that my client hadn’t signed the check until at the bank even though it was mentioned earlier. As I came to this conclusion I wondered if as bosses we do the same thing with our staff.

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Rapid BI

MARCH 24, 2012

Grammar - how to use Adjectives - some common errors Following on from an earlier graphic about capitalisation, I thought this would make a useful follow up. Source Grammar.net Mike Morrison RapidBI.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 27, 2012

Just as a well-developed organizational performance measurement system helps align an organization to the efficient achievement of its goals, a misaligned performance measurement system diverts focus and resources toward non-value-adding activities. Over time, existing projects finish and new initiatives begin; requiring performance measures within the system be changed.

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Code Simplicity

MARCH 28, 2012

What if every software developer could gain the knowledge of long experience without having to go through the pain of repeated failure? What if, instead of being a continuous chaos of complexity and argument, the process of software development could be a sane, orderly progression that was well-understood by every single programmer involved? What if all programmers and their managers shared a common ground for discussing software development decisions–a common ground that was based on fact

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 25, 2012

Six Pitfalls of Workforce Planning. by SuccessFactors. Know the pitfalls that companies can fall into when doing strategic workforce planning. With aging workforces and a shortage of critical talent being among the biggest challenges facing today’s businesses, strategic workforce planning–the discipline of forecasting future gaps between demand and supply of critical talent–has become one of HR’s most important responsibilities.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 24, 2012

“The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.” Elbert Hubbard (1856 – 1915). American writer, publisher, artist, and philosopher. You just finished reading Leadership Inspirations - Fear of Mistakes ! Consider leaving a comment! If you enjoyed this article, let us keep you up-to-date on other newly published insights by signing up for our complimentary StrategyDriven Newsletter.

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