Sat.Jan 21, 2012 - Fri.Jan 27, 2012

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What’s The Right Stuff of Leadership? Think Dog, Turtle, and Cockroach

Terry Starbucker

Growing up in the 60′s and 70′s I was utterly fascinated by the US Space Program, and its corps of courageous astronauts. They were my childhood heroes, and I still vividly remember that night in July of 1969 when I ran outside moments after Neil Armstrong uttered that famous “one small step” line and stared at the moon, utterly captivated by the notion that a man was walking on it at that very moment.

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Leadership and integrity

Lead on Purpose

Integrity is one of the top attributes of a great leader. It is a concept of consistency of actions, values, methods, measures, principles, expectations and outcomes. It connotes a deep commitment to do the right thing for the right reason, regardless of the circumstances. People who live with integrity are incorruptible and incapable of breaking the trust of those who have confided in them.

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Passion or Work Ethic? Which Comes First?

Steve Farber

My good friend and work-ethic expert, Eric Chester , (author of the fantastic Reviving Work Ethic: A Leader’s Guide to Ending Entitlement and Restoring Pride in the Emerging Workforce ) recently shared with me his perspective on the relationship between passion and work. Please read his words and comment away! Passion doesn’t fuel work ethic; work ethic fuels passion.

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3 bad habits of fake leaders — and how to avoid them

Next Level Blog

There was an interesting movie that came out last year called "The Adjustment Bureau" starring Matt Damon and Emily Blunt. In it, Damon plays a rising young congressman named David Norris. He’s headed for a big victory in a campaign for the U.S. Senate until a picture comes out of him mooning his fraternity brothers at a college reunion. He loses big and starts giving his supporters the big, inspirational, we’ll-be-back concession speech.

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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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Women, Leadership, Self-Care, and BLUE MONDAY

Women on Business

You wake up Monday morning, pour yourself a glass of orange juice, and get breakfast ready for your clan. Off to the office , you battle the traffic, thinking about how to tell your rebel employee that there have been complaints about his behavior. You dread the meeting and yet know it can’t wait. Pulling into the parking lot you feel a wave of frustration , seeing that someone has parked in your reserved spot and the rain is now coming down in buckets.

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Join Me in San Diego?

Steve Farber

Many of you have been asking for this opportunity for a long time. Well…it’s finally here! Over the last couple of years, we’ve developed, piloted and field-tested The Extreme Leadership Workshop, and now, for the first time, we’re offering it in a public forum. You now have a chance to participate in the workshop and become certified and licensed to facilitate it for others—your team, your company, or your clients.

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Gabrielle Giffords: The Courage and Wisdom to Step Back

Next Level Blog

This past weekend, I watched one of the more moving and inspirational videos I’ve seen in awhile. It’s this two minute announcement from Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords that she is resigning from Congress this week. It’s been just over a year since a gunman shot Giffords in the head and almost killed her at a constituent meet and greet outside an Arizona supermarket.

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Lessons from J.C. Penney

Women on Business

Earlier this week, J.C. Penney announced that it was going to undergo a major overhaul in the way it does business and communicates with its customers. As we watch this change unfold and wait for customer reactions, here are some of the more positive things business owners can pull from the strategy. Simplify, Simplify Simplify. This is the best part of the strategy, even though the J.C.

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Fostering Autonomy in a Team: 7 Lessons

QAspire

“…leadership may be defined as: the ability to enhance the environment so that everyone is empowered to contribute creatively to solving the problem(s).” – Gerald M. Weinberg. People do their best work when they are “intrinsically motivated” and one of the most important intrinsic motivator for people is autonomy in work. People need a space to perform and they need a say in how their work should be performed.

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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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Big News! SailPoint Well Positioned in Two IdM Magic Quadrants

Sailpoint

You may have missed it during the year-end holiday break, but we have exciting news! Gartner published two major identity management Magic Quadrants that positioned SailPoint as a leader and visionary, respectively. Both reports are based on an exhaustive process that included an in-depth product and company evaluation and interviews with SailPoint customers.

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Social media expert or wannabe?

Rapid BI

Social media expert or wannabe? - or how to spot a fake social media expert. This piece aims to show how you can spot a real "expert" amongst all the noise, & the difference between say & do.

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3 Benefits of Having an Irresistible Website

Women on Business

Having a website that is irresistible can make a huge difference for you and your business. In fact, I would even say that it’s vital for your website to be absolutely irresistible, and without that your site is not going to be as effective as it’s meant to be. So why does your website need to be irresistible? Here are 3 benefits that you will see when you have an irresistible website: 1.

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Are CIOs Ready To Battle The X-Men (and X-Women)? (a chief information officer needs an IT strategy to create IT alignment)

The Accidental Successful CIO

'CIOs Need To Be Careful Who They Decide To Fight. Isn’t a global recession just great? For CIOs it has been: it pretty much got rid of one of their biggest headaches – having their star talent leave. Now that things are improving, a new challenge is starting to show up for CIOs: how to turn their Generation X workers into the IT leaders that the company is going to need for tomorrow….

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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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Intangible Loss of Outsourced Innovation

Mills Scofield

Today’s New York Times front page features “ How U.S. Lost Out on iPhone Work ” about the loss of American jobs overseas and the implications for our middle class. I’ve been thinking about the 2 nd , 3 rd order effects of outsourcing, especially now that some companies are either doing or seriously considering insourcing. In November, I spoke with Bernard Charlès , CEO of Dassault Systèmes , (DS), creator of 3D simulation products for manufacturing to life s

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Today’s thoughts January 25, 2012

Rapid BI

How many People us LinkedIn? How many People us LinkedIn? Official stats from LinkedIn on users & usage Interesting stuff Why are they releasing this now…? Mike Morrison RapidBI.com Blog: Training & Developing Remote workers Training & Developing Remote workers Mike Morrison RapidBI.com Blog: RapidBI is an organizational effectiveness consultancy based in the UK but [.].

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Quality: Setting Right Goals

QAspire

Most improvement initiatives are heavily focused on internal goals – increasing productivity/efficiency, eliminating waste, reducing defects/costs and so on. Processes around these goals are written and implemented. People are trained, tools are implemented, energies are directed and everyone starts working hard to meet these goals. Some improvement is seen, some re-alignment is done and it seems to be working fine, till…the customer starts complaining again.

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The Benefit-to-Cost Ratio of a Performance Excellence Program

Six Disciplines

According to a newly released study from NIST, the benefit-to-cost ratio of a performance excellence program (like Baldrige) is 820-to-1. In their research, economists Albert N. Link, and John T. Scott (University of North Carolina, and Dartmouth College, respectively) used their economic tools to measure the net social value of the Baldrige Performance Excellence Program.

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business. That’s what drove the five companies in this e-book to change their approach to analytics. Download this e-book to learn about the unique problems each company faced and how they achieved huge returns beyond expectation by embedding analytics into applications.

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Recommended Resource – The No Asshole Rule

Strategy Driven

The No Asshole Rule : Building a Civilized Workplace and Surviving One That Isn’t. by Robert Sutton. About the Reference. The No Asshole Rule by Robert Sutton provides methods for constructively dealing with the workplace bullies, creeps, jerks, tyrants, tormentors, despots, backstabbers, and egomaniacs – regardless if they are seniors, peers, or subordinates.

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Today’s thoughts January 27, 2012

Rapid BI

Everything You need to know about QR Codes Everything You need to know about QR Codes and the neat thing is… this image still works! Mike Morrison RapidBI.com Blog: The real difference is marketing – a case study The real difference is marketing – a case study Take 2 products – one could argue that [.].

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Even the obvious causes of behavior are easy to miss

Change Starts Here

There are some things right in front of you that, until you look for them, are completely invisible. For several months, we’ve noticed independent behavior changes in our 11 year old dog, Sadie. She had become increasingly disobedient, especially not coming when she was called. She had become a whiner. Whenever she wanted something, she would whine, but whenever we went through the list of options (“Are you hungry?

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The First Principle of Software

The Programmer's Paradox

The very worst thing that any computer can do is lie to you. You have to be able to trust it when it says it will accomplish some work on your behalf. If it tells you one thing, then goes off and does something completely different -- causing a huge mess -- you have the right to be mad. If it shows you deliberately incorrect or misnamed data then you should be pissed.

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Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI

“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.

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Corporate Cultures – Supervisor Initiated, Rules and Standards Controlled Environment

Strategy Driven

The Supervisor Initiated, Rules and Standards Controlled Environment is the centerpoint of StrategyDriven Culture-base Work Performance Model. This culture set represents a moderation of most benefits and risks. Subsequently, organizations can more easily flex in the cultural direction needed to implement a change. Conversely, these moderated cultural characteristics may lack the significant intensity necessary to rapidly drive change.

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Today’s thoughts January 24, 2012

Rapid BI

iOS or Android – tablets levelled? iOS or Android – tablets levelled? Hear from a seasoned Apple enthusiast… What do you think? Mike Morrison RapidBI.com Blog: Social Media & your Business Communication Strategy Social Media & your Business Communication Strategy Many of us believe in social media, but do we really have a clear strategy?

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List Algebras and the fixpoint combinator Mu

Ruminations of a Programmer

In my last post on recursive types and fixed point combinator, we saw how the type equations of the form a = F(a) , where F is the type constructor have solutions of the form Mu a. F where Mu is the fixed point combinator. Substituting the solution in the original equation, we get. Mu a. F = F {Mu a. F / a} where the rhs indicates substitution of all free a's in F by Mu a.

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TEDxMaui -- Hack Yourself First

Jeremiah Grossman

Update 04.12.2012: Video of the presentation embedded below. Ten years ago if you would have told me that I'd be back living in Hawaii, founder of a fast growing technology company, and a TED speaker -- I would've said, "What's a TED?" Preparing for TEDxMaui was extremely difficult. The presentation format is completely different than anything I’ve ever done before.

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Revolutionizing Contact Centers: Next-Gen Tech for Enhanced CX

Speaker: Liran Meir Frenkel, Performance Management and RPA Sr Product Marketing Manager at NICE; Harpreet Makan, Practice Director at Everest Group; & Santhosh Kumar, Practice Director at Everest Group

As contact centers navigate the challenges of delivering excellence within budget constraints and adapting to evolving employee expectations, optimizing agent tasks becomes crucial. Discover a holistic approach across three pillars - people, process, and technology - that is essential to excel in this dynamic landscape, and explore how next-gen technologies such as generative AI, performance analytics, and process intelligence play a pivotal role in transforming contact centers into advanced CX

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Complimentary Resource – Overseas Business Travel Risk

Strategy Driven

Overseas Business Travel Risk. by Zurich Financial Services Ltd. Get FREE access to Zurich’s white paper on preparing for overseas business travel risks! This white paper shares potential overseas business travel risks: Health risks. Security risks. Safety risks. StrategyDriven has partnered with TradePub.com to offer you complimentary one-year subscriptions and/or free trials to dozens of leading business publications.

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Today’s thoughts January 23, 2012

Rapid BI

Social Content Marketing Social Content Marketing The what’s, why’s and wherefore’s of Social media marketing and content. Mike Morrison RapidBI.com Blog: Community education/ engagement project – help needed Community education/ engagement project – help needed Hi all I have had an idea in my head for some time & feel it is time to take [.].

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Today’s thoughts January 21, 2012

Rapid BI

#keyword of the week here on the blogs. thoughts? #keyword of the week here on the blogs. thoughts? For many the blogs are for sharing thought, for others getting notices. But one use that is not used to its fullest extent is for “backlinks” Now I know that William has mentioned about “no-follow”, but it [.].

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