Let's Grow Leaders
MAY 14, 2014
'Credibility is hard to establish and even easier to lose. The sad truth is I’ve seen really good leaders lose the confidence and credibility of their teams by making well-intentioned and innocent mistakes. I’m not talking about the big stuff like lack of follow-through or breaking commitments, but the subtle shifts that undermine all the trust you’re working to build.
Terry Starbucker
MAY 11, 2014
'“Why aren’t you satisfied? We hit the target you set. You raised it. We hit it again. Isn’t that enough? Why do you have to keep raising the bar? Is there no end to this?” I used to get this a lot in the workplace. I never liked hearing it. But I never gave any quarter to it either. To put in the terms of my old stats class in college (I knew I’d find some use for it eventually), I (not) affectionately called it “regression to the mean” That is
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Change Starts Here
MAY 15, 2014
'In this episode, Ankit Patel, Managing Partner of The Lean Way Consulting, discusses how to use the natural information flows in your organization to influence change. Listen in to learn the different types of conversations that happen in organizations, and how to tap into them to get people talking about the right things. Listen to the show here (30 minutes): Be sure to visit the radio show page to listen to past episodes and subscribe to the show.
N2Growth Blog
MAY 13, 2014
'By Grant Wattie. President, N2Growth Australia. Leadership is nothing without action. Every leader needs to identify what they are good at and act on it! With the amount of people being added to today’s marketplaces, you can’t afford to sit back and watch them work with your competition. At N2Growth, we would love the opportunity to help identify your strong areas and come up with a strategy as to how to make the most of our growing world.
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Let's Grow Leaders
MAY 16, 2014
'For May’s Frontline Festival, I asked experts around the world to share their best career advice. It’s amazing how consistent the ideas are across cultures and contexts. Thanks to all the contributors. This great graphic below is from Joy and Tom Gurthrie, Vizwerx Group. Follow Joy @VizwerxGroup. Holding Career Conversations. Jennifer V.
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CTOvision
MAY 12, 2014
'By Bob Gourley. I recently caught up with D-Wave Systems President and CEO Vern Brownell and asked him to provide a bit more context for our readers on what this very unique system is and does. Vern has a very interesting background that instantly grabbed my attention. He has terrific past performance leading a world class enterprise IT company (Egenera, he was the founder at CEO).
Change Starts Here
MAY 13, 2014
'Do you need to take on any of the following challenges to implement change in your organization? Enlist the support you need for change. Get people to slow down and consider the impact of the change. Navigate organizational politics to ensure the right decisions are made. Mediate conflicts that the change ignites. Provide feedback when leaders send inconsistent messages.
Women on Business
MAY 16, 2014
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SoCal CTO
MAY 13, 2014
'Bob Dorf just published a post Where are the Hackers? Solving the Founder-Tech Gap that came out of some fun conversations that Bob and I have been having. A large part of this conversation is what kinds of advisors startups should be looking for. A little while ago, I suggested that Every Web/Mobile Startup Should Have a Technical Advisor. The conversation with Bob was about what the composition of advisors should look like.
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.
CTOvision
MAY 12, 2014
'By Bob Gourley. Editor’s note: I’ve referenced before my participation on the board of Centripetal Networks , and their ability to deliver large scale commercial solutions of MITRE’s IBIP are an area I am particularly proud of. – bg. Over the last several years The MITRE Corporation has published pieces about their development of enhanced security protocols in the construct of Identity-Based Internet Protocol (IBIP).
Steve Farber
MAY 16, 2014
'In response the challenge in my previous post , Bob “Batch” Batcheler launched himself on a personal Do What You Say You Will Do campaign. He shared his experience in the comments: “One of the things that I am trying to do is to write down EVERY commitment/promise that I make. While that may sound obvious, it is a real change in habit for me.
Women on Business
MAY 14, 2014
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Toptal
MAY 13, 2014
A year after Google's launch of Polymer, Toptal engineer Alejandro Hernandez takes it out for a test drive to see if it's yet ready for prime time. This post explores the maturity and stability of Polymer.js as a foundation for large-scale application development. The results and conclusions from this analysis are provided, along with an introductory overview of the technology.
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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.
CTOvision
MAY 11, 2014
'By Bob Gourley. Widely known security practitioner Dave Schackleford is presenting a webinar on Thursday 15 may at 2pm Eastern that should be of high interest to any enterprise technologist seeking to understand the dynamics of the modern data breach. The following is from the invitation: You’re a target for data breach. You may not have realized it, but you are.
Next Level Blog
MAY 15, 2014
'One of the topics I regularly discuss with participants in my leadership workshops is whether or not they should show their anger or frustration when things don’t go well. Most of the time most of the people begin by saying that that’s not an effective leadership move. But, when they think about it a little bit more, though, many acknowledge that there are times when leaders need to show their anger.
Women on Business
MAY 16, 2014
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Toptal
MAY 16, 2014
In this follow-up to his first highly popular AngularJS tutorial, Toptal engineer Raoni Boaventura guides you through the steps of setting up your project, including scaffolding, dependency management, and preparing it for testing.
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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.
CTOvision
MAY 13, 2014
'Editor''s note: our research analyst Chris Scott produces recaps below for industry partners seeking to better serve federal missions. They are produced for our CTOvision Pro readers. For access, sign up here. On 7 May, the Navy again assembled all their leaders in C5ISR to brief Industry on their priorities and requirements. This annual ritual provides a wealth of information essential to anyone trying to do business with Navy.
Ruminations of a Programmer
MAY 12, 2014
I was looking at the presentation that Dean Wampler made recently regarding domain driven design, anemic domain models and how using functional programming principles help ameliorate some of the problems there. There are some statements that he made which, I am sure made many OO practitioners chuckle. They contradict popular beliefs that encourage OOP as the primary way of modeling using DDD principles.
The Accidental Successful CIO
MAY 14, 2014
'The CIO can play a big role in improving customer service Image Credit. Your company’s customer service is something that all too often people who have the CIO job don’t spend a lot of time thinking about. However, considering the impact that a company’s level of customer service can have on its bottom line, perhaps we should be paying more attention to this critical business function.
QAspire
MAY 11, 2014
'“Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean.” — Ryunosuke Satoro. Generally, traits such as vision, charisma, thinking, intellect, decisiveness, clarity, confidence and action-orientation characterize leadership. All of these are important and necessary, but not sufficient. The biggest challenge for a collaborative leader is to drive results from a diverse set of people across geographies who may or may not have a direct reporting relationship with the leader.
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Mills Scofield
MAY 14, 2014
'A 2-fer! One of my favorite companies & sites ! Menasha, 165+ years old, is growing, profitable, solving customers'' real problems and having an impact. Key? Integrity - it truly pays dividends. Read on. "While much has been written about the relationship between integrity, trust and profitability in the last few years, there are companies who have lived this for over 100 years, like a 165 year old, billion dollar plus, 6 generation family business in Wisconsin, Menasha Corp.
Coalfire
MAY 15, 2014
The FedRAMP PMO sent out a notification that they are holding a FedRAMP Industry Day on June 4, 2014 and an Agency Day on June 10, 2014. Items to discuss include the June 5, 2014 deadline, NIST SP 800-53 rev 4 transitions and the 3PAO privitization progress to name a few. We wanted to republish the notification for those that may not have seen the notification.
Rapid BI
MAY 15, 2014
' “At the height of his fame, Elvis got 1000 fan letters every day. I get more spam than that in an hour. I’m bigger than Elvis!
Six Disciplines
MAY 16, 2014
'" The Keys to Strategy Execution: A Global Study of Current Trends and Future Possibilities ", was a research study commissioned by the American Management Association and conducted by the Human Resource Institute. The research identified the leading obstacles that hinder strategy execution and what companies can do to overcome them. The following is a quick review of some of the main findings: Higher performers tend to be better at executing strategies.
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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.
Strategy Driven
MAY 15, 2014
'Internships can be a valuable stepping stone for college students to start on their career path. But when it comes to deciding where to intern, students must consider where they’ll gain the most experience. Should they pursue a big-name firm that offers prestige, or will a small company offering practical, hands-on experience that is directly related to their career goals be a better choice?
Rapid BI
MAY 14, 2014
' “Your mother and I have saved enough money to send you to any college you like. Would you prefer train or bus?
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