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5 Conversations Your Millennial Employees Are Longing To Have

Let's Grow Leaders

Morgan (a family friend who also happens to be a millennial) was practically screaming in frustration as we began our mentoring session, “Arghhh, Karin, I’m just so frustrated. They want me to do all this crap… none of it seems important, and it’s getting in the way of my real work.” It would have been tempting to just take Morgan’s word for it– that the “crap” she was being asked to do made no sense.

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Veterans Day – Solemnly Remember

General Leadership

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. Armistice Day parade – 1929 – Boston (Source: Boston Public Library). “…solemnly remember the sacrifices of all those who fought so valiantly on the seas, in the air, and on foreign shores, to preserve our heritage of freedom.”.

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How Big Data Drives The Sharing Economy

CTOvision

Brigg Patten. Your data is being tracked. Don't worry, you aren't alone. The advent of "Big Data" has resulted in an internet landscape where every major company tracks their users' information. When a website warns you that it wants to use cookies to track your information, that's a clear sign of big data at work. We often hear about the sharing economy, big data, and other technical terms that seem a bit mysterious.

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Why Above All Else, Leaders Must Teach and Not Tell (and 6 Ways To Do It Right)

Terry Starbucker

The teaching element of leadership is so often overlooked and overshadowed by more glamorous things like vision, strategy and execution. But in the end, it is probably the most gratifying part of leadership, because when you do connect with someone this way, and they get it, they thrive and grow, and even surpass you, the resulting feeling of satisfaction is unlike anything else.

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Get Better Network Graphs & Save Analysts Time

Many organizations today are unlocking the power of their data by using graph databases to feed downstream analytics, enahance visualizations, and more. Yet, when different graph nodes represent the same entity, graphs get messy. Watch this essential video with Senzing CEO Jeff Jonas on how adding entity resolution to a graph database condenses network graphs to improve analytics and save your analysts time.

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The Morning After: 6 Sure-Fire Ways to Ensure Your Training Sticks

Let's Grow Leaders

“John” glanced excitedly at the conference room walls filled with easel sheets, plans and ideas. And then sighed deeply as he shuffled though his deep pile of notes and action items. “Karin, I guarantee you, I’ll be a better leader tomorrow morning as a result of your Winning Well bootcamp. And I’m almost certain I’ll still be a better leader the following week, and maybe even the week after that.

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The Cyber Threat On Election Day: No need to panic, expect some nuisance attacks and exaggerated reporting in press

CTOvision

Bob Gourley. Everything I'm seeing and hearing in the security community says there is no need to panic about cyber attacks on election day. There will be attacks, but guess what? There are attacks every day now, that is the new normal. More specifically, we can say there will likely be some nuisance attacks against election infrastructure and some of those will be reported in the press.

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5 “NEXT PRACTICES” WHEN HIRING A GENERAL COUNSEL

N2Growth Blog

Today’s Executive Search and Management Consulting firms are famous for espousing “Best Practices.” But guess what? Nothing could be more detrimental to your organization. Think about it this way: Why would you and your organization want to “follow the herd”? At N2Growth, we’re not just another consulting firm espousing best practices. We are strategic thought partners co-creating Next Practices with our clients.

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5 Steps to Develop a Viable Digital Marketing Strategy for Small Business

Women on Business

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Happy 241st Birthday to the United States Marine Corps!

General Leadership

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. “Admiration of the Nation. We’re the finest ever seen. And we glory in the title. Of United States Marines” Early words to the last stanza of the first verse of the “Marines’ Hymn”. Happy 241st Birthday to the U.S.

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Embrace AI: Make Your VoIP Service Stand Out

Dialogview is revolutionizing VoIP services with its AI-powered platform, which is now available for white labeling. Our solution autonomously resolves over 68% of customer queries in more than 40 languages, dramatically reducing your team’s workload. With advanced conversational AI, Dialogview understands customer sentiments and queries in real time, without any button presses needed by users.

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Election Impact 2016: 10 Nov on Capital Hill

CTOvision

Michael Johnson. CG Roll Call is hosting Election Impact 2016 on 10 Nov at the Hyatt Regency Washington on Capitol Hill. This event is an opportunity to hear directly from leaders in DC on the impact of the Congressional and Presidential elections, including diving deep into topics like cybersecurity, healthcare, defense, energy, technology and budgets.

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A Comprehensive Introduction To Your Genome With the SciPy Stack

Toptal

Genome data is one of the most widely analyzed datasets in the realm of Bioinformatics. The SciPy stack offers a suite of popular Python packages designed for numerical computing, data transformation, analysis and visualization, which is ideal for many bioinformatic analysis needs. In this tutorial, Toptal Software Engineer Zhuyi Xue walks us through some of the capabilities of the SciPy stack.

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Balancing Your Work and Home Life

Women on Business

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Leadership Lessons From the CEO of Scripps

Steve Farber

More than 30 years ago, a young police officer named Chris Van Gorder was nearly killed while responding to a domestic dispute. The city retired him from law enforcement and he spent the n. ext year in and out of hospitals. While he describes the day he was injured as “the worst day his life,” Van Gorder unexpectedly discovered his passion for healthcare in the very hospital that treated him, and he went to work as their security guard.

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Streamlining Database Compliance with CI/CD Integration

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

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Cyber Intelligence and Defense for the Public Sector, Part 1

CTOvision

Marty Meehan. Part 1: The Challenge. In today’s connected society, the threat posed by cyber actors and the reality of countless high-profile breaches have catapulted cyber security to a top priority for most organizations. According to recent studies , today, cyber crime and cyber espionage are estimated to cost the global economy over $400 billion each year.

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Write or Fade Away as a Designer

Toptal

Freelance designers need to take advantage of any way they can to better leverage their skills to enhance their career. Writing is one of the highest ROI skills designers can master.

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Are Old Habits Getting in the Way of Success?

Women on Business

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How Leaders Lead on Purpose in Crisis

Lead on Purpose

Guest post by James E. Lukaszewski One of the most common weaknesses I see in crisis response is the lack of specific roles and assignments for top management.

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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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The Best Ways to Get Rid of Unwanted Data

CTOvision

Rick Delgado. Big Data holds a lot of profitable potential for a business. While you’re looking at how much consumer interest can be gleaned from the lakes upon lakes of data, enabling you to better predict their interest and better tailor your services to reach the right audience more effectively – what you’re missing is how much room it takes. Big Data lives up to its name; it’s massive.

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Get Your Idea Off the Ground

Nathan Magnuson

How do you get your big idea across in the age of information? A quick keyword search can provide anyone with much more data than they could ever hope to use. What’s the secret to getting your idea past all the clutter and into the land of reality? It’s been well over a decade since Malcolm Gladwell published his bestseller The Tipping Point.

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How Using a PDF Editor Saves Your Business Money

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Secular Sermon

Steve Farber

[ Today’s guest post is from my friend and colleague Richard Corder Richard is a passionate advocate for patient safety and a high-level coach and consultant in the healthcare industry. He also happens to be a Certified Facilitator of The Extreme Leadership Workshop. —SF ]. Extreme Leadership by Richard Corder. I’d like to share some thoughts and stories that embody leadership for me.

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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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Digital Risk Management Leader RiskIQ Raises New Funding To Expand Platform Ecosystem, Sales and Digital Risk Applications

CTOvision

Bob Gourley. Editor's note: When I read of a great firm like RiskIQ investing to expand their platform I immediately think of the positive impact to current and future customers. But strategically this also means that large teams of investors believe strongly in the powerful capabilities and strong future of this company. With that in mind we share a RiskIQ press release below -bg.

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How Leaders Lead on Purpose in Crisis

Lead on Purpose

Guest post by James E. Lukaszewski One of the most common weaknesses I see in crisis response is the lack of specific roles and assignments for top management.

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How Writing a Book Can Launch a Brand

Women on Business

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CIOs Need To Understand That Reviews Come With Risks

The Accidental Successful CIO

The standard review process for employees comes with a great deal of risk Image Credit: GotCredit. As your company’s CIO, one of your jobs is to evaluate the performance of your direct reports as it relates to the importance of information technology. How you go about doing this and how often you do it have been the subject of much debate over the past few years.

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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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Get Inspired with These Data Visualizations

Toptal

If data isn’t shown properly, it’s essentially useless. No one wants to spend hours trying to interpret data. But clever, interactive, intuitive visualizations can massively differentiate designers.

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How to use iOS 10 Speech Recognition API to convert Voice to Text

Enlume

Speech Recognition is transcription of human speech or audio to text. The system should be able to recognize and translate the spoken language of the speaker to text format. It is also known as ,”Computer Speech Recognition” or “Automatic Speech Recognition(ASR)” In iOS 10, Apple introduced Speech Recognition API, a new framework that allows a pps to support continuous speech recognition from either live or prerecorded audio and transcribe it into text.

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Optimizing your PCI Compliance Investments

Coalfire

Everybody knows that the cost of a breach is high. Given the fact that the chance of a data breach for all merchants is nearly 1-in-4, it’s important to not only have PCI compliance in place, but also the right solutions to optimize your compliance spend.