Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 22, 2012

In the spirit of Thanksgiving, there have been so many great posts on gratitude this month. Today, I offer you links to insights from fellow bloggers on the art of gratitude. Why Be Grateful? The Pursuit of Peace: Thanksgiving as a Lifestyle by Andy Tix Andy Tix shares the positive psychological benefits of gratitude and offers [.] The post Gratitude Parade: Great Posts on Gratitude and Thanksgiving appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 19, 2012

One of the recommendations I make all the time to startup founders, is to find other founders who have tackled similar problems as yours and talk to them about how they solved these problems. As an example, I'm working with two sets of founders who are both going to be dealing with Getting Started with a Two-Sided Market Business - they are variants of two sided markets, but have similar characteristics.

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Erik Bernhardsson

NOVEMBER 17, 2012

Not sure how I managed to miss this, but I’m watching this Tumblr presentation and they talk about their projects named after Arrested Development topics: Gob, Parmesan, Buster, Jetpants , Oscar, George and Motherboy. Still, the best software project name is probably still Apple’s BHA.

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Terry Starbucker

NOVEMBER 18, 2012

If today’s great leader is known for their humanity and heart, it figures that a big potential weakness for that kind of leader is showing a little TOO much heart. That is, keeping someone as part of the team when it’s clear that they don’t belong. Showing a little compassion is surely a good thing when someone is struggling, because it can be for a wide-variety of reasons, some of which can be corrected.

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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 19, 2012

This month many folks I know are participating in the Facebook Daily Gratitude Challenge. They are posting ”something for which they are truly grateful” each day. My friend Lisa wrote, “I am grateful for gratitude.” Ah, I thought… now that is something to consider. What is grateful? What does it mean to be truly grateful? How does [.] The post Grateful Gone MIssing?

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Erik Bernhardsson

NOVEMBER 17, 2012

Not sure how I managed to miss this, but I’m watching this Tumblr presentation and they talk about their projects named after Arrested Development topics: Gob, Parmesan, Buster, Jetpants , Oscar, George and Motherboy. Still, the best software project name is probably still Apple’s BHA.

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Women on Business

NOVEMBER 23, 2012

NEWS AND INSIGHTS UPDATE: Venture-backed startups with women at the helm are more successful than startups led by men. That’s according to a study conducted by Dow Jones which analyzed more than 15 years of venture-backed company data and executive information to compare successful versus unsuccessful companies. The Women at the Wheel study revealed: A company’s odds for success (versus unsuccess) increase with more female executives at the VP and director levels.

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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

Today I offer my grace of thanksgiving for all that I have been given. I also whisper a humble grace for the messy work that is helping me to become. May you too be blessed in your grappling this Thanksgiving. “Cultivate the habit of being grateful for every good thing that comes to you, and [.] The post Thanksgiving Grace and Grappling: Growing Beyond Easy appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Lead on Purpose

NOVEMBER 17, 2012

As product managers you have a significant responsibility for the success of your company. It’s easy to get bogged down in the countless tasks that are thrown your way every day. With all the meetings, floods of email, and requirements to manage, the thought of spending time on areas of strategic focus can seem overwhelming. However, with planning and a little effort you can make the difference.

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Next Level Blog

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

The big idea behind my book, The Next Level, is that to get different results, leaders take to different actions. That usually involves picking up some new skills and mindsets and letting go of others even if they used to work for you in the past. For instance, one of the nine pick up and let go distinctions in the book is pick up accountability for many results and let go of responsibility for a few results.

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Women on Business

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

NEWS AND INSIGHTS UPDATE: It’s been proven again and again that businesses perform better and stocks rise when women are on corporate boards , but did you know that the number of women on a corporate board directly correlates with a company’s sustainability performance? It’s true according to research from the University of California Berkeley’s Haas School of Business.

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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

Do you hope for increased productivity? The solution may be closer than you think. A guest post from Karin Rigas, Greve, Denmark Karin Moeller Rigas has worked as a Sales Manager, Executive Coach, and Management Consultant within Retail Banking for more than 25 years. Founder of www.emodigy.com, an e-learning site for managers, she is the author [.

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The Recovering Engineer

NOVEMBER 19, 2012

As I travel around the country to lead workshops, I often hear frustrations with or objections to some of the supervisory/leadership techniques and approaches that I advocate and teach. I seldom hear an outright disagreement with the general approach. Instead, people express their frustration or objection like this: “That sounds great, but…. “I work in the government.”.

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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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QAspire

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

W. Edwards Deming , the pioneer and guru in quality revolution wrote the following paragraph when commenting on Peter Senge’s book “ The Fifth Discipline ” and it instantly struck the chord. Our prevailing system of management has destroyed our people. People are born with intrinsic motivation, self-respect, dignity, curiosity to learn, joy in learning.

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Women on Business

NOVEMBER 19, 2012

Women make up 46.9% of the U.S. workforce, but 40% of of large public companies worldwide have no women on their board of directors. It’s not surprising that women are starting their own businesses at 1.5 times the national average. According to a new infographic from UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School (shown below), 187 million women are currently starting or running their own businesses.

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Rapid BI

NOVEMBER 18, 2012

Tips for Business Networking. Networking, is it a key requirement for career success? Do you love it or loath it? This was the topic in one recent discussion on an HR community group. Answers ranged from. I do it only when I have to for business. Hate the very thought of it. It is part of what you need to do. Love it, it enriches my world. What was interesting, was that whilst almost all respondents agreed that it was an essential activity, there was a feeling of resistance or hesitation.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

Every decision involves risk, with time underlying all mitigating factors. Some decisions occur too late, resulting in the forfeiture of a situational opportunity, competitive advantage, or adverse outcome avoidance. Other decisions are made too quickly, unnecessarily increasing risk because of diminished data gathering and contemplation that better informs the choice.

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QAspire

NOVEMBER 18, 2012

Nick Vujicic is a hero. He was born with no arms and no legs! After struggling initially as a depressed kid who contemplated suicide, he was transformed when his mother showed him an inspiring article about a man who was also dealing with a severe disability. This realization was so profound that he started looking at life differently, mastered it and eventually did everything a normal man can do.

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Women on Business

NOVEMBER 18, 2012

NEWS AND INSIGHTS UPDATE: Business women might be just as qualified or more qualified than their male colleagues, but they’re not as good at making sure everyone around them knows it. That’s because women are far less likely to discuss their achievements than men are. Instead of self-promoting, women typically downplay their achievements and hype teamwork.

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Rapid BI

NOVEMBER 19, 2012

A few weeks ago I was offered Susan Popoola’s book, Consequences for review at a networking event. Now to be honest this is not the sort of book I would usually buy, or for that matter read. On the tube (underground in London) on the way home, with nothing else to read I started to flick through. I was hooked. This is a hard hitting, no holds barred look at modern society in a diverse community that is London, post the civil disturbances a year or so ago.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 22, 2012

As we reflect on the past year, we have many things to be thankful for and in particular the trust and support you – our listeners and readers – have given us. Thank you for making our fifth year a very successful one. May you enjoy the happiest of Thanksgiving Holidays. Best Wishes Always, The StrategyDriven Team. You just finished reading Giving Thanks to You, Our Listeners and Readers !

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Nutanix

NOVEMBER 22, 2012

Coming from a large IT consulting firm I’ve gone through a great deal of datacenter build outs, green field IT deployments and cutovers. Now from all of those deployments, what was always the biggest issue and caused the most headaches?

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Women on Business

NOVEMBER 17, 2012

NEWS AND INSIGHTS UPDATE; Research from the Zenger/Folkman, a leadership development consultancy, reveals that women are rated as better overall leaders by their peers, bosses, direct reports, and other associates than their male counterparts. In fact, the research found that the higher the level in the organization, the higher the gap in ratings grows.

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Rapid BI

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

The Outstanding Organization by Karen Martin, published by McGrawHill. A 215 page book for anyone involved in the strategic direction and decision making of an organization. The Outstanding Organization is broken into six main sections: Cracks in the foundation. Clarity. Focus. Discipline. Engagement. Adopting habits that pay. As a book, The Outstanding Organization is well researched with a plethora of mini case studies and examples.

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Nathan Magnuson

NOVEMBER 19, 2012

Home About Coaching Contact Guest Posts Archives. Thoughts for the Everyday Leader. by Nathan Magnuson. Home / Communication / The Power of Believing the Best. The Power of Believing the Best. November 19, 2012. — 2 Comments. Back in 2007 I had the pleasure of participating a 16 week leadership coaching training course with an organization called the Center for Coaching Excellence (CCE).

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Nutanix

NOVEMBER 17, 2012

With an introduction from the VP of marketing Howard Ting, former Palo Alto Networks dynamo, CEO Dheeraj Pandey kicked the day off with high level overview of the company and its vision for the future of the datacenter.

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Women on Business

NOVEMBER 22, 2012

NEWS AND INSIGHTS UPDATES: According to a study by the Council of Canadian Academies, Strengthening Canada’s Research Capacity: The Gender Dimension , there is a significant gender gap in university research careers in Canada, which means women are excluded from both recognition and equal pay. James Bradshaw of The Globe and Mail explains: “Two decades after women began to outnumber men on university campuses, those gains in the student population haven’t translated into many v

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Rapid BI

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

Ready for Change – Edited by Cora Lynn Heimer Rathbone. This is a change management book aimed at Leaders, managers, Human Resources and organizational change professionals looking to be ready for change. Initial reaction – Ready for Change. One thing I do first when looking at a management book for the first time is look at the design. Are there illustrations, models or tables helping to communicate key messages – and this book is full of them!

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