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How to Motivate Yourself

Let's Grow Leaders

I had just finished reviewing the syllabus with my Masters level leadership class, and asked my typical follow-up question. “What else would you like to cover?” Lin raised her hand and asked sincerely, “Professor, you are so passionate about what you do, it’s oozing out of you. How do we motivate ourselves to feel like that?” Oh boy, a challenge.

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Three Conversations of a Leader

General Leadership

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. “A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That’s why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet.” Truman Capote. At its core, leadership is about conversations.

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15 Steps To Great Leadership (The More Human Way)

Terry Starbucker

Frank sat back, shook his head, and looked me straight in the eyes. “How did you do this? I mean, to get from where you started to where you ended up must have been a hell of a story.”. It was May of 2010. We had just finished a review of one of our operating centers in Cheyenne, Wyoming. Our company was up for sale, and Frank was with a group representing one of the opening bidders getting a chance to really “kick the tires”.

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Three Senior Technology Positions Open At Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

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You no doubt know the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and are likely aware of some of the incredible work they are doing. A friend in leadership there has informed us of searches being launched for three senior technology positions. Candidates for these senior positions will have a passion for doing good in the world and an enthusiasm for the virtuous missions and values of the foundation.

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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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Managing Millennials: What’s Really Different

Let's Grow Leaders

A working student in my evening MBA program approached me to talk about a work situation that was driving her crazy. She gave me the gory behind the scenes view: a few apathetic employees were fully taking advantage of a system that had let them get away with ridiculous performance for too long. She was a new supervisor and knew what was right. Apparently her instincts had been reinforced in our class that night.

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Entrepreneurship – Why Gender Is Not an Issue

Women on Business

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Datameer and Tableau Host Webinar Highlighting Visual Impact and Data Agility of Their Combined Capabilities

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Datameer and Tableau are hosting a joint webinar at 2pm eastern on 30 July titled " Bring Your Big Data Analytics To Life ". This webinar will be a great update for any agency or organization seeking to operationalize datas and enable more user self-service around analytics. From their invite: What do you get when two leading organizations like Datameer and Tableau join forces?

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Excited vs. Excitable: The Real Secret to Executive Presence

Let's Grow Leaders

The situation would have sent any leader who cared running for aspirin. I asked Mark, the Senior VP, “Are you okay? Are you stressed? What needs to happen next?” Mark responded, “Karin, I don’t get stressed. There’s no use in that. But as it turns out I’m a stress carrier.” In humor lies the truth. Mark had mastered executive presence.

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Tuesday Time Machine: Make Hope a Habit

General Leadership

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. From Our Early Files: Originally Published. 8 March 2013. “Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence!” Helen Keller. A famous 50-year-long study of nuns produced a remarkable finding.

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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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You Have to Get Lost Before You Can Be Found

Women on Business

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The Radiant Group Acquires HumanGeo to Advance Data Analytics and Open Source Capabilities

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Editor's note: Great news for our friends at HumanGeo and Radiant Group and they many customers they serve.-bg. ARLINGTON, VA--(Marketwired - Jul 13, 2015) - The Radiant Group, Inc., a premier provider of technical solutions and services to the Federal Government, announced today that it has acquired The Human Geo Group, LLC, a data analytics and software development company, for cash and stock.

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Deep Motivations, Not Competencies, Drive Leadership Performance

The Empowered Buisness

What if…. You could easily predict the performance of your leaders, your teams and your organization ? You could gain access to the underlying motivators that drive a leader or employee to do their best work? You could eliminate costly hiring mistakes and determine in advance to what extent a candidate will perform well in a role? Such a solution exists and can unleash the potential and performance within your organization.

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Monday Quote

General Leadership

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. “Perhaps those who are best suited to power are those who have never sought it. Those who … have leadership thrust upon them, and take up the mantle because they must, and find to their own surprise that they wear it well. “ J.

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Monetizing Analytics Features

Think your customers will pay more for data visualizations in your application? Five years ago, they may have. But today, dashboards and visualizations have become table stakes. Turning analytics into a source of revenue means integrating advanced features in unique, hard-to-steal ways. Download this white paper to discover which features will differentiate your application and maximize the ROI of your analytics.

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3-Step Check-up to Make Sure Your Social Media Strategy is Working

Women on Business

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20% Discount to Attend Strata + Hadoop World 29 Sep – 01 Oct 2015 in NYC

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Strata + Hadoop World in New York sold out last year with more than 5,500 attendees. Have you seen what's new for 2015? - Over 150 thought-provoking speakers already confirmed: Hilary Mason, Joe Hellerstein, Neha Narkhede from companies like Netflix, Etsy, Airbnb, Lockheed Martin, LinkedIn, and more. - Keynotes, sessions, and tutorials ranging from hard-core data science (web-scale machine learning and fault-tolerant data ingestion) to C-level data business strategy (case studies from Walmart, G

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I Trust First. You?

Steve Farber

“I have been burned by people where I have trusted their pretty words, and not their actions…I’m a bit clueless about dealing with those things. Do you have a quick and easy way of [helping me with this]?” This question from the audience at a recent event in Australia (see the video below) led me to this response: I’ve been burned more than once over the years by trusting someone for all the right reasons and getting either stabbed in the back or abandoned in a busi

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Eight Reasons Why Microsoft Stack Is Still a Viable Choice

Toptal

In today’s world where there are a lot of choices for writing quality software, it’s easy to overlook some tools that are viable options in developing modern software. These software development tools, in competition with each other, often fluctuate in popularity and developer preferences. Many excellent tools are viable options for any given project.

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A Tale of Two Case Studies: Using LLMs in Production

Speaker: Tony Karrer, Ryan Barker, Grant Wiles, Zach Asman, & Mark Pace

Join our exclusive webinar with top industry visionaries, where we'll explore the latest innovations in Artificial Intelligence and the incredible potential of LLMs. We'll walk through two compelling case studies that showcase how AI is reimagining industries and revolutionizing the way we interact with technology. Some takeaways include: How to test and evaluate results 📊 Why confidence scoring matters 🔐 How to assess cost and quality 🤖 Cross-platform cost vs. quality tr

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Rewire or Retire? Gain a Board Seat First

Women on Business

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What Companies Can Learn From the Samsung Galaxy Security Flaw

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The push to adopt bring your own device (BYOD) policies is strong, but many business owners are hesitant to do so. While there may be a variety of reasons for this reluctance, perhaps the largest overriding concern is that of security. Many executives see allowing employees to use their personal devices while on the job as too big of a security risk, and considering recent news related to security breaches, who can blame them?

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Mindful Mondays: How to Be Present and Win

Next Level Blog

We are all familiar with the phrase, “You must be present to win.” Here’s a story from one of my clients, Jessica, about how that idea can play out in real life. Jessica is one of around 30 participants in a Developing Leadership Presence program I’m doing for rising leaders at a well known Fortune 500 company. Like a lot of professionals, she’s working in an environment of constant change that can quickly consume all of a person’s time, attention and energy.

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Android Customization: How to Build a UI Component That Does What You Want

Toptal

It is not uncommon for developers to find themselves in need of a UI component that is either not provided by the platform they are targeting or is, indeed, provided, but lacks a certain property or behavior. The answer to both scenarios is a custom UI component. The Android UI model is inherently customizable, offering the means to create custom UI components in various ways.

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“Build vs Buy Analytics?” The Question ALL SaaS Leaders Need to Answer in 2024

As a SaaS leader, you know that the more metrics, insights, and analytics you add to your products, the more engagement you’ll have – and the stickier your product will become with customers. At what point do you decide to keep building your analytics in-house or invest in an embedded analytics solution? Read our Build vs. Buy Analytics guide to learn: Top 4 benefits of embedded analytics A quick cost comparison of in-house analytics development vs embedded analytics 10 considerations to help yo

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How Etch A Sketch Helps Creativity

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Looking To Work On Things That Matter? Connect with Cognitio

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Cognitio is a strategic consulting and engineering firm with a track record of helping clients address their hardest challenges. Past and current projects include high-end due diligence assessments for the financial industry, cybersecurity assessments and strategies for some of the nation's largest corporations, and service on government programs that helps protect lives and drive technology innovation.

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Sketch Note: 9 Roles of a Great Leader

QAspire

In 2010, I wrote a post titled “ Nine Roles of Great Leadership ”. Here is a sketch note version with visual representation of the ideas. Thanks to Abhijit Bhaduri for inspiring me to use sketch notes as a way to learn, understand and share!

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Sweatshops

The Programmer's Paradox

Decades ago, when I got out of school, I remember being very wary of accidentally working for a software sweatshop. It was a frequent conversation between new grads. All sorts of industries have variations on this theme but in programming, sweatshops had already started to become significant hazards. What we wanted to avoid in those days were jobs with crazy hours, hacking at mediocre code while under humiliating micromanagement.

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How to Migrate From DataStax Enterprise to Instaclustr Managed Apache Cassandra

If you’re considering migrating from DataStax Enterprise (DSE) to open source Apache Cassandra®, our comprehensive guide is tailored for architects, engineers, and IT directors. Whether you’re motivated by cost savings, avoiding vendor lock-in, or embracing the vibrant open-source community, Apache Cassandra offers robust value. Transition seamlessly to Instaclustr Managed Cassandra with our expert insights, ensuring zero downtime during migration.

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5 Reasons these 3 Steps Will Get You Those Top 4 Results

Mills Scofield

The Wizard of Oz © Turner Entertainment Co. We love lists. If we do these 3 things, everything will be alright: our customers will shower us with accolades, our employees will ooze engagement and innovation and we will be profitable beyond belief. It doesn't work that way. The path is not linear. It's not a set of prescribed turns to get to your destination.

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Fed News Roundup 16 July 2015

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The following are some of the hot topics in the federal technology ecosystem (from FedTechTicker.com and TopTechTicker.com ): There's A Plan to Immediately Purge Some DHS Network Surveillance Data - Nextgov NextGov (Today) - There's A Plan to Immediately Purge Some DHS Network Surveillance Data A DHS official told Nextgov that the newly-released plan was part of that original records disposal schedule, but the.

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CSS Layout Tutorial: From Classic Approaches to the Latest Techniques

Toptal

Mastering CSS is an absolute necessity for any solid web designer or developer. This tutorial walks you through the fundamentals of CSS layout principles, from classic CSS2 techniques to the latest approaches in CSS3. Learn more about how to leverage all that CSS has to offer in order to optimize both the user’s experience and the quality of your code.