Let's Grow Leaders
OCTOBER 11, 2012
For a variety of reasons, many manager/employee relationships stay formal, cordial, and don’t realize their full potential. The conversation stays focused on the work at hand, and hopefully there is some discussion of strengths and development needs, along with a plan to improve on them. There is often real reluctance to go deeper. Why? Choices, [.
Lead on Purpose
OCTOBER 6, 2012
Guest post by William Lewis. A sound education in business is just one component of being a good leader; to truly take your company to the next level, you must also possess certain qualities that come from within. Think about some of the business leaders you admire – maybe it’s someone famous who has changed the world with their product or service; maybe it’s your own father or mother, someone you’ve grown up with in close proximity and had years to study.
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Women on Business
OCTOBER 10, 2012
NEWS AND INSIGHTS UPDATE: Are you handing out business cards because it’s a habit or because you think that’s what you’re supposed to do when you meet someone new? If so, you’re wasting time, effort, and paper. Erica Nicole of YFS Magazine explains three things you should do before you hand your business card to someone so the effort benefits you and the other person: 1.
Change Starts Here
OCTOBER 9, 2012
During the course of any change initiative, you may come across those whom you prefer to keep at arm’s length from the change. Some are too busy to fully commit the personal energy required to participate. Some are too far from the situation to make a useful contribution. And then there are those people in the organization that you wish would just stay out of the way because you know they are going to cause trouble.
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Let's Grow Leaders
OCTOBER 9, 2012
Developing real trust takes time. The people we lead come to us with history, memories, and experiences–they recall times of trust inspired and trust betrayed. When we are in a new gig, our teams watch even more closely. “Can I trust you?” “Are you like the last guy?” When we have been with a [.] The post A Matter of Trust: Why I Trust You, Why I Don’t appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.
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Women on Business
OCTOBER 6, 2012
NEWS AND INSIGHTS UPDATE: Referred to as the “third billion,” nearly one billion women will enter the global economy for the first time during the coming decade, and they’ll change the way the world works. That’s according to DeAnne Aguirre of Fortune who explains that these women will affect the economy as significantly as the billion-plus populations of China and India have previously.
QAspire
OCTOBER 10, 2012
Appreciation is a fuel that helps others move forward in direction of their goals, yet we often see that managers take others/their work for granted thinking, “So what if they’re doing it – they’re paid to do just that.” When organizations establish 1:1 link between outcomes with pay, they breed mediocrity because people will also reciprocate by doing minimum that is required to get that paycheck.
Let's Grow Leaders
OCTOBER 6, 2012
A Saturday Salutation Guest Post Sebastian Hurt, Age 7 Sebastian is my son, and a First Grader. He loves Jiu Jitsu, beyblades, and climbing new mountains. After much dinner table conversation on leadership and posts… he asked to write his own. I served only as typist. What a fantastic conversation. He was troubled with [.] The post Leadership from A Kid’s Point Of View (Lucky or Skillful?
Mills Scofield
OCTOBER 12, 2012
Another wonderful guest post by a friend & client, Lisa Lehman at Thogus. It's not that I'm abandoning my posts here, it's just that so many wonderful things are happening that I want to share. Thogus's president, Matt Hlavin , is blessed with 2 brains - one in his head and the other in Lisa's. Her initiative to create a family tree at Thogus Family Tree Thogus has had an impact beyond expectation.
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.
Women on Business
OCTOBER 10, 2012
Focus on your strengths, hand over the rest. We all fall into the trap of thinking we can do it all, or taking on too much. This goes right along with getting help when you need it, but expands upon that thought even more… make sure you are passing over the right tasks. What are you good at? Maybe you are great at sales, but then dealing with the nitty gritty, invoicing, payment collections…you hate, or just aren’t that great at it.
Rapid BI
OCTOBER 11, 2012
Introduction. Have you noticed that over the past few years the use of the word ‘coaching’ has been increasing within the business environment? What started this trend? Was it that coaching really works or was it that companies started to outsource their training departments and as a consequence it was more cost effective to ‘train’ one on one? What ever the reason the reality is that coaching is here and it is here to stay.
Let's Grow Leaders
OCTOBER 10, 2012
I was attending a breakout session on social media strategy at the International Customer Service Association conference, when the presenter asked, “who allows their reps to have Facebook on their work computers?” This is not the norm in the call center space, but one guy raised his hand. I knew immediately whose table I wanted to sit at [.] The post Small Gestures of Trust Build Great Results appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.
The Programmer's Paradox
OCTOBER 10, 2012
To me ‘intelligence’ is basically raw human thinking power. It’s our ability to work through problems. In order to employ intelligence effectively in our world, we need data. And that data needs to be structured and interconnected to make it usable to us. Usable, organized data is what I take to be ‘knowledge’. Its all ready to be utilized. Our various endeavors are categorized into a huge number of fields (or domains) such as law, medicine, finance, physics, math, biology, etc. each of which is
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Women on Business
OCTOBER 11, 2012
NEWS AND INSIGHTS UPDATE: Women make up half of the total workforce in the United States, but they make up only 25% of the workers in the technology industry and hold just 15% of senior management positions. Julie Kantor, co-founder of Barrel of Jobs, shared those statistics from an Inc.com report in a recent article she wrote for Venture Beat. Julie also shared advice from a number of female tech company founders to inspire, motivate, and challenge women who are considering careers in tech or s
Rapid BI
OCTOBER 9, 2012
A General Introduction to Accelerated Learning Techniques. 1. Conceptual clarity: It is seen more often than not the term Accelerated or Brain Friendly Learning Technique is used in a loose manner to mean ‘any learning activity’ that expedites the learning process. While it encompasses within itself an activity of learning, yet it does not convey the true import of the concept whose objective is to teach the whole person in order to impart the core elements to the learners (students)
The Accidental Successful CIO
OCTOBER 10, 2012
'Image Credit Practical analytics is more than just pretty pictures. Every CIO knows that analytics is all the rage in almost every company now and has almost become a part of the definition of information technology. The CEO has been reading those magazine articles that say now that databases have grown large enough to hold virtually every piece of data that the company collects and servers have become cheap enough to throw at any number crunching problem that the IT department might have.
Mills Scofield
OCTOBER 9, 2012
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Women on Business
OCTOBER 11, 2012
NEWS AND INSIGHTS UPDATE: Have you considered becoming a certified woman-owned business? It’s a time consuming and costly process, so it’s important to determine whether or not becoming WOB certified will offer enough benefits to your business before you start the certification process. Recently, a LinkedIn member posed the question, “Is woman owned business certification worth it?
Rapid BI
OCTOBER 6, 2012
Four step learning ladder – a model for learning to learn. Personal learning four steps, conscious competence. The Learning Ladder describes the steps we go through when learning a new skill. Four levels or steps of learning. Unconscious incompetence – We don’t know what we don’t know. Conscious incompetence – We know what we don’t know.
Strategy Driven
OCTOBER 9, 2012
Individuals within organizations of all types frequently perform repetitive tasks demanding high levels of consistency and/or quality. In these circumstances, logically sequenced lists of activities serve to drive the desired consistency and quality without themselves being overly burdensome or time consuming. The text above is only a small portion of this article.
Nutanix
OCTOBER 11, 2012
When you are selling for an emerging technology company, a lot of things go against you, such as brand recognition, marketing budget, size of installed base and lack of executive sponsorship in most accounts. But, at least when it comes to Nutanix, customer support is not one of them.
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Women on Business
OCTOBER 10, 2012
NEWS AND INSIGHTS UPDATE: Are you getting enough sleep? In an article published on LinkedIn, Arianna Huffington, President and Editor-in-Chief at The Huffington Post Media Group, explains that sleep deprivation limits productivityandinnovative thinking. She writes, “Forty-one million Americans, almost a third of all adult workers, clock six or fewer hours of sleep per night.
Rapid BI
OCTOBER 11, 2012
Who are your “Thought Leaders”? but before any of us can answer that we need to know What or who is a thought leader ? According to the great research “god” Wikipedia: The term was coined in 1994 by Joel Kurtzman, editor-in-chief of the Booz Allen Hamilton magazine, Strategy & Business. “Thought leader” was used to designate interview subjects for that magazine who had business ideas that merited attention.
Strategy Driven
OCTOBER 11, 2012
StrategyDriven Podcasts focus on the tools and techniques executives and managers can use to improve their organization’s alignment and accountability to ultimately achieve superior results. These podcasts elaborate on the best practice and warning flag articles on the StrategyDriven website. Episode 42 – Acquiring Management Experience focuses on how to gain management experience even if one does not currently hold a management position.
Nutanix
OCTOBER 11, 2012
If you are one of those early customers who made NetApp, we want you. If you are one of those business partners who made NetApp in your region and enjoyed healthy margins on every deal but are now seeing those margins slipping, we want you.
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Women on Business
OCTOBER 12, 2012
NEWS AND INSIGHTS UPDATE: At the 14th annual Wharton Women on Business Conference held earlier this month, successful Wharton women graduates shared tips and advice with the audience of aspiring business women. Amanda D’Amico of Wharton Magazine shared some of those tips: “Be careful who you befriend, because you never know who you manage.” –Kimberly Kitchings, vice president of corporate and strategic planning program metrics for Cotton Inc. “I take copious notes o
Let's Grow Leaders
OCTOBER 8, 2012
If you are like most leaders, you are concerned about your image and your brand. You want to show up strong, confident, and worthy of being followed. But what happens when you’re not feeling strong? What happens when life throws you curve balls to juggle on top of your leadership? What’s the risk of disclosure? [.] The post Disclosure in Leadership?
Strategy Driven
OCTOBER 8, 2012
I get a ton of emails from people seeking insight or asking me to solve sales dilemmas. Here are a few that may relate to your job, your life and, most important, your sales thought process right no. Jeffrey, I am a marketing and sales rep for a company that sells emergency cleanup services. I visit prospective customers almost daily, mostly insurance agents and property managers, and provide value.
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