General Leadership
FEBRUARY 6, 2017
GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. “The key to leading today is influence, not authority.” Ken Blanchard. So you have a boss. Does that mean you just sit back, follow orders and float down the river of life? No! Just because you are not in charge doesn’t mean you can’t be a leader.
Change Starts Here
FEBRUARY 8, 2017
Much of the focus of change initiatives is on motivating people to change. However, even if someone wants to change, they still need to be able to do it. When people resist change, it may not be that they won’t change, but that they can’t. Your job as a change agent is not just to convince people to change, but to enable them to do it. Enabling people to change goes beyond training.
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Let's Grow Leaders
FEBRUARY 7, 2017
She looked right at me and yelled across the gym floor with conviction, “You are a dancer!” Now there are a lot of labels I’m ready to buy: “You are a leader!” I hope so. “You are a Mom!” Well, that one could go both ways, couldn’t it? Anything from “Good job, Mom” to “Is this your kid?
CTOvision
FEBRUARY 4, 2017
Bob Gourley. Planet is designing, building and launching satellites faster than any company or government in history. They use commodity consumer electronics to build highly capable satellites at drastically lower costs. With the most advanced satellites launching into orbit every 3-4 months, their capabilities are on the cutting edge and always advancing.
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IT leaders know the importance of compliance at every level, but the database often gets left behind as other environments are automated for robust protection. This whitepaper emphasizes the importance of robust, auditable, and secure database change management practices for safeguarding organizational compliance. Learn how automating database compliance: Mitigates risk Protects against security vulnerabilities Helps avoid regulatory penalties Aligns database workflows with app lifecycle Turns d
General Leadership
FEBRUARY 10, 2017
GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. Leadership to me means duty, honor, country. It means character, and it means listening from time to time. -George W. Bush. This month, I continue my series on successful leadership transition. If you missed the first part, y ou can go back and read it here.
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Career Advancement
FEBRUARY 6, 2017
“Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson~. Caleb, a manager in his workplace, often found himself fumbling for words. He wanted to learn how to make the most of his daily interactions with employees, even the brief ones. He reached out to several mentors in leadership positions.
CTOvision
FEBRUARY 9, 2017
Bob Gourley. 21.co is known as the company making Bitcoin useful for developers. They provide capabilities like the 21 Bitcoin Computer which gives developers everything they need to build Bitcoin enabled apps. Perhaps more importantly they have provided tutorials, tips, FAQs and a place for developers to directly interact on all topics Bitcoin. The company is now providing a new capability that will be of interest not only to developers but to a wide range of technologists and soon perhaps to t
Women on Business
FEBRUARY 4, 2017
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Toptal
FEBRUARY 8, 2017
We can harness the power of constraints by consciously choosing to place strict limits on design options, and we needn’t look beyond our own smartphones to find compelling examples of how this works.
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.
Lead on Purpose
FEBRUARY 6, 2017
Guest post by Frank Song Many working professionals are stuck in underpaid, intellectually unstimulating jobs, and at companies with no career growth potential. Do you know anyone in this position? Does this describe your situation?
CTOvision
FEBRUARY 7, 2017
Bob Gourley. There are seven key megatrends driving the future of enterprise IT. You can remember them all with the helpful mnemonic acronym CAMBRIC, which stands for C loud Computing , A rtificial Intelligence , M obility , B ig Data , R obotics , I nternet of Things , C yberSecurity. In this post we dive deeper into the trend of Robotics. Operating along a spectrum of human controlled to semi-autonomous to totally independent, robots are already operating in our world.
Women on Business
FEBRUARY 5, 2017
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Toptal
FEBRUARY 7, 2017
For young companies, the value of a full-time CFO is hotly contested. At the debate’s core, is the trade-off between the sheer expense of an experienced CFO at such an early stage (not cheap), and the value said individual posits to confer where growth, strategy, fundraising, and operations are concerned. Borrowing elements from Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs and adapting them for this purpose, Toptal Finance Expert Scott Brown introduces a unique framework for how startups might go about thinking
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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.
CO2 Business Leadership
FEBRUARY 6, 2017
Business Succession Planning: When to Start? Harry Levinson, who ran the well-respected Menager Clinic for Senior Executives, once asked the new president of Brandeis Univesity, “Whom have you chosen as your successor?” Another member of the faculty became quite agitated by Harry’s question, considering it was the first day of the new president’s reign.
CTOvision
FEBRUARY 10, 2017
Rick Delgado. Data is becoming an increasingly important component of business models and marketing mixes. As a result of this, we are seeing the emergence of a culture of data collection that is startlingly creative and in some cases, arguably invasive. In the current data-obsessed business and tech environment, almost anything anyone does can be quantified and collected as data.
Women on Business
FEBRUARY 6, 2017
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Toptal
FEBRUARY 6, 2017
It’s every developer’s dream to be more efficient. In this article, you’ll learn how one engineer saved himself from typing more than 20,000 characters over six months and prevented 1,000 bugs in the process.
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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.
Dzone - DevOps
FEBRUARY 5, 2017
This article is featured in the new DZone Guide to DevOps: Continuous Delivery and Automation, Volume IV. Get your free copy for more insightful articles, industry statistics, and more! Microservices and containers have recently garnered a lot of attention in the DevOps community. Docker has matured, and is expanding from being predominantly used in the Build/Test stages to Production deployments.
CTOvision
FEBRUARY 10, 2017
Carol M. Evenson. It's safe to say that the advent of computers changed the way business is done. As computing has continued to evolve, so is business changing to leverage the new technologies and new techniques that better computing provides. Technological changes happen so fast that most businesses struggle to keep up, and are forced to adopt a philosophy of innovation and streamlined operations to stay competitive.
Women on Business
FEBRUARY 7, 2017
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Toptal
FEBRUARY 7, 2017
In this tutorial, you will learn how automated testing works for the iOS platform and how to implement it in your project.
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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.
Steve Farber
FEBRUARY 6, 2017
Would you gag if I told you that I’m going to several conferences next year? Well, that just means you aren’t going to the right ones. As the year bends toward its end, you should be thinking about how you’re going to grow yourself and your business in 2017. Attending a quality conference can help. So, how do you avoid the conferences that make you gag and only go to the ones that make you great?
Nathan Magnuson
FEBRUARY 6, 2017
As a talent development professional, I’ve been privileged to lead, observe and participate in many types of learning and training events. I’m often invited by vendors to sit in on their training in the hopes I’ll make a purchase. I can say first hand there are some amazing learning events out there. Unfortunately, for every great one, there’s several mediocre ones.
Women on Business
FEBRUARY 9, 2017
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The Accidental Successful CIO
FEBRUARY 8, 2017
Diversity is important, but why is there so little of it in IT? Image Credit: DryHundredFear. I’m not sure if you’ve been following this story in the news, but out in Silicon Valley all of those famous companies that you’ve been hearing about, Apple, Google, Facebook, etc. have just gotten done taking a look at their global workforces.
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“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.
Steve Farber
FEBRUARY 10, 2017
Chapter 31. I drove back to my apartment in silence. That may not sound strange given that I was by myself, but usually I’ve got the music cranked up—a little Stevie Ray or John Hiatt, maybe—and I’m yowling along like an auditioning American Idol contestant. I was thinking about Cam, of course, and trying to come to terms with the whole deal. Who knows?
Kentik
FEBRUARY 6, 2017
Why Industry Validation of APM Makes Us ‘Appy. Six months ago Cisco made a big-time splash in the network analytics pool with the introduction of Tetration Analytics. Now, with the late-January announcement of its $3.7 Billion acquisition of AppDynamics, Cisco has made another blockbuster analytics-related move. On top of feeling happy for our friends at AppDynamics, we’re also very excited about what this means for our space!
Women on Business
FEBRUARY 8, 2017
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