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Walking the Talk of Leadership: It Has to be More than Skin Deep (Barbara Mannino)

Let's Grow Leaders

Winning Well Connection. I first met Barbara when she interviewed me during the launch of my first book, Overcoming an Imperfect Boss. Here’s a taste of some of the work we did together Tips for Dealing with a Difficult Boss and 7 Tips to Turnaround Career Stagnation. What I appreciate most in working with Barbara is that she truly role models the balance of results and relationships, working to make a human connection with the people she interviews and maintaining the integrity of

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A Mother’s Day Perspective

General Leadership

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. On the eve of another Mother’s Day , as I’ve unfortunately done a few times in my history, I needed a not-too-subtle prompt, this time from an internet ad, to get me moving on buying my mom something for the day.

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The Greek Debt Crisis Explained

Toptal

After several months of relative quiet, Greece is back in the spotlight as the latest repayment deadline on its bailout debt comes due in July. We take the opportunity to review the root causes of the crisis, what has been happening since it kicked off, and what needs to be done to resolve the situation.

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Solarflare’s Open Compute Platform, Software-Defined, NIC Card

CTOvision

Marty Meehan. Solarflare, a global leader in networking solutions for modern data centers, is releasing an Open Compute Platform (OCP) software-defined, networking interface card, offering the industry’s most scalable, lowest latency networking solution to meet the dynamic needs of the enterprise environment. The SFN8722 OCP offers 10GbE performance, which is critical for today’s data centers where ultra scale dominates the market, supports 1000s virtual NICs and dual 10 GbE ports, and provides

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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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Create Customer Confidence By Delivering Consistent and Predictable Experiences (with Video) (Shep Hyken)

Let's Grow Leaders

Winning Well Connection. I first met Shep when we were both keynoting at International Customer Service Association conference in Florida. It was my very first external keynote (I was still working as an executive at Verizon) outside of Verizon and Shep was the incoming President of the National Speakers Association. I’ll never forget the moment he said, “So when are you going to do this for a living?

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3D Graphics: A WebGL Tutorial

Toptal

Whether you just want to create an interactive 3D logo, on the screen or design a fully fledged game, knowing the principles of 3D graphics rendering will help you achieve your goal. In this article, Toptal Freelance Software Engineer Adnan Ademovic gives us a step-by-step tutorial to rendering objects with textures and lighting, by breaking down abstract concepts like objects, lights, and cameras into simple WebGL procedures.

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Interview: Organization Design for Change

Change Starts Here

In this episode, Karen Tate, an organization development consultant with years of experience in global organization design, joins the show to share her approach to designing organizations for change. Listen to the interview to hear about the factors to consider in organization design, the common challenges to implementing org design changes, and Karen’s approach to […].

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Marketing After the Purchase: 4 Emails to Educate Your Customer (Jill Schiefelbein)

Let's Grow Leaders

Winning Well Connection. We first met Jill in person at the National Speaker’s Association conference in Washington, DC a few years ago, and she’s become a wonderful friend as well as a deeply respected colleague. She’s been an avid Winning Well supporter from the beginning. Jill’s new book is a must-read if you’re an entrepreneur or aspiring to be one. .

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LeadershipFlow – Perfectly Square: A Story About Learning to Lead

General Leadership

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. In LeadershipFlow | Perfectly Square, Master Certified Coach and Leadership Expert Croft Edwards finds a fresh way to look at personal and organizational change through his story of a family-owned business and its struggle to survive.

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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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The 4 Most Powerful Leadership Words You Can Use

Career Advancement

“Be strong, be fearless, be beautiful. And believe that anything is possible when you have the right people there to support you.”. ~Misty Copeland. Client Taylor Asks: I asked my employees for honest feedback on my performance, and a few of them said I’m too authoritative in the way I speak to them. How can I show them I value their intelligence and ideas?

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The Growing Impact of Millennials in Real Estate

Women on Business

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Three Ways to Show You Believe in Others

Steve Farber

The last person who had a stellar career without help from anyone whatsoever was … well … no one. So it makes no sense to lead as if the people around you never need help getting where they, and you, want them to go. In fact, just the opposite is true. If you want to create leaders who are Greater Than Yourself – and that should be your goal, by the way – then you need to express a deep belief in people, because none of us get very far without someone who believes in us more than we believe in o

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10 Tips to Keep Hackers Out of Your Smart Home

CTOvision

Jeremy Sutter. As technology continues to make life more convenient for users, it is making the lives of thieves easier as well. Owners of smart homes are under constant threat of electronic theft and violation. The even scarier part is that sometimes you can't even tell when you have been hacked. A smart door can be remotely unlocked and show no sign of forced entry into your home.

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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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Eight Rules for Effective Software Production

Toptal

While working at different stages of the software development lifecycle you often realize that software production isn’t easy. It takes consistent effort to make something great. However, it doesn’t have to come at the cost of working through nights or weekends. In this article, Toptal Freelance Software Engineer Timofey Nevolin shares eight simple, yet powerful rules for effective software production.

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Don’t Underestimate the Value of Accurate Financial Reporting

Women on Business

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WannaCry Ransomware Review and Global Impact.

ProtectWise

Over the weekend thousands of machines around the world became infected with a ransomware variant called WannaCry (or WannaCrypt, Wcry, etc.). News outlets and social media have been busy reporting on this outbreak, sometimes with inaccurate information. The purpose of this blog post is to regroup on many conflicting statements on the ransomware and to summarize coverage from our perspective at ProtectWise.

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Cybersecurity Executive Order Provides Agency Leadership with Opportunities and Challenges

CTOvision

Marty Meehan. President Trump’s “Presidential Executive on Strengthening US Cybersecurity and Critical Infrastructure" is significant as it discusses improvements to the Nation’s digital infrastructure, protection of the power grid, replacement of antiquated IT systems, protection against cyber threats. It also makes government leadership accountable for cyber deterrence.

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Addressing Top Enterprise Challenges in Generative AI with DataRobot

The buzz around generative AI shows no sign of abating in the foreseeable future. Enterprise interest in the technology is high, and the market is expected to gain momentum as organizations move from prototypes to actual project deployments. Ultimately, the market will demand an extensive ecosystem, and tools will need to streamline data and model utilization and management across multiple environments.

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Sketchnote: What Rebels Want From Their Boss

QAspire

At the heart of a meaningful change is someone who thought beyond the boundaries. Someone who challenged the status quo. Someone who exerted emotional labor to pursue, fight for their ideas and convince others. And then they bring about change. You can call them rebels or change makers and they are inevitable for growth and positive change. Rebels may not be a very popular lot and many bosses I’ve seen work overtime to subdue the rebels.

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Top Mistakes to Avoid When Selling Your Artwork Online

Women on Business

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Industry Perspective: Salesforce On Team Alignment And Agile Talent

Toptal

L. David Kingsley describes how teams align on goals at Salesforce, and how the blended workforce provides the agility that organizations need to compete in a fast-changing world.

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How you become the ideal team player

Lead on Purpose

Teamwork is critical for the true success of everything we do. Think about it, every venture we undertake requires help from someone; that’s the way it’s supposed to go.

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Software Composition Analysis: The New Armor for Your Cybersecurity

Speaker: Blackberry, OSS Consultants, & Revenera

Software is complex, which makes threats to the software supply chain more real every day. 64% of organizations have been impacted by a software supply chain attack and 60% of data breaches are due to unpatched software vulnerabilities. In the U.S. alone, cyber losses totaled $10.3 billion in 2022. All of these stats beg the question, “Do you know what’s in your software?

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The 4 Most Powerful Leadership Words You Can Use

Career Advancement

“Be strong, be fearless, be beautiful. And believe that anything is possible when you have the right people there to support you.” ~Misty Copeland~. Client Taylor Asks: I asked my employees for honest feedback on my performance, and a few of them said I’m too authoritative in the way I speak to them. How can I show them I value their intelligence and ideas?

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Carrie Chitsey Wells Joins the Women on Business Team

Women on Business

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Why Startups Need a Styleguide

Toptal

The top five reasons why creating a styleguide early is especially important for startups in spite of the inherent challenges.

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Plan Your Journey (and How to Avoid a Mid-Life Crisis)

Talent Anarchy

Would you set out on a 1,000-mile journey without first deciding where you were going? If you’re like most people, you would do a lot of planning before you traveled the first mile. You’d know where you were going, where you’d stay when you got there, how you’d travel, and what you’d need for the journey. A long journey requires planning if you expect it to take you in the direction you desire.

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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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Just Exactly How Legal Is It To Track Your Employees?

The Accidental Successful CIO

Just because you can, does not mean that you should track employees Image Credit: Gabriel Garcia Marengo. As the person with the CIO job, you have a great deal of power that comes with your assignment dealing with importance of information technology. The big question that you always need to be dealing with is just exactly how should you go about using this power?

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Simple Ways to Improve Your Office Work Environment

Women on Business

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How Bridgestone Keeps Trucks On the Road, Digitally

Toptal

Learn how Bridgestone, the world's largest tire manufacturer, is using digitization to streamline the tire retreading process globally.

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