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8 Ways to Nurture Leadership in Young Children

Let's Grow Leaders

'“Mommy, I’m not a leader.” Why do you say that? “Because John is the one that tells us what to do on the playground and we follow him. So that makes me a follower.” Ugh. Tricky. I’m not impressed by John’s “leadership.” I want my son (and all young children) to see kindness, […] The post 8 Ways to Nurture Leadership in Young Children appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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10 Immutable Laws Of Leadership

Terry Starbucker

'There are some things about leadership that we cannot change, no matter how hard we try. They are the immutable laws of leadership, forming the backbone of any successful foray into this honorable vocation. Live by them, build on them, and lead by them, and you give yourself a fighting chance. Defy them, manipulate them, or ignore them, and the deck will be stacked against you.

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A Leadership Trait that Saved America

N2Growth Blog

'By Brian Layer , Chair, Organizational Development, N2growth. Today the U.S. Army celebrates its 238 th birthday. Looking back, its growth into comfortable old age seems inevitable but in its youth that outcome was far from certain. In 1783 on the Ides of March, the inseparable fates of our Army and Republic were very much in doubt; disgruntled officers of the fledgling Army were gathered in a secret meeting in Newburgh, New York to discuss insurrection.

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A Christmas Battlefield Miracle

General Leadership

'Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does. William James. In the early months of the First World War millions of servicemen, believing this would be a quick war, rushed from all over the continent to join in the fight. By December of 1914, most realized they had been wrong. This war was far from over. So each side dug miles and miles of trenches across the French countryside with often, only 60 yards separating the combatants.

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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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Design & Influence Irresistible Change Atlanta Workshop – Early Bird Registration Ends July 31

Change Starts Here

'Change gets stuck when your organization finds a way to resist it. The key to successful implementation, then, is to make your initiative irresistible. As a change agent, your job is a combination of designing change in advance to reduce obstacles and then personally influencing others as you go. After this 1-1/2 day workshop you will: Understand a model of how change works.

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Why The Hell Would I Use Node.js? A Case-by-Case Tutorial

Toptal

Node.js shines in real-time web applications employing push technology over websockets. What is so revolutionary about that? Well, after over 20 years of stateless-web based on the stateless request-response paradigm, we finally have web applications with real-time, two-way connections, where both the client and server can initiate communication, allowing them to exchange data freely.

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The Backlash Against Female Negotiators

Women on Business

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How to Encourage Team Members to Lead

Lead on Purpose

'Guest post by Lindsay Traiman. Leadership plays a vital role in every company. To have a successful business, it is important that every team member is prepared to step up and lead when necessary. Forbes.com defines leadership as “a process of social influence, which maximizes the efforts of others, towards the achievement of a goal.” By encouraging others to lead, you can more easily achieve company goals and create a nurturing, supportive work environment.

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Disappointment Sucks. So, Now What?

Next Level Blog

'Yesterday I found what is already one of my all time favorite New Yorker cartoons. I pulled the current issue out of the mailbox, started flipping through it and saw the classic guy on a therapist’s couch. The caption was “I did seize the day. But then it seized me back and used some kind of jujitsu move to flip me on my ass.”. Click headline to continue.

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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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The Radical Edge is Free

Steve Farber

'I’d like to give you a free, signed copy of my book, The Radical Edge: Stoke Your Business, Amp Your Life, and Change the World. Why? I wrote Edge , which was originally published in 2006, to help deepen your mastery of Extreme Leadership by showing you how to renew your passion and excitement, and become even more committed to improving your piece of the world.

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How to Be a Great Follower

Let's Grow Leaders

'If your house is on fire, you want to know there’s someone calling the shots. More importantly, you pray for a team of strong, skilled, and courageous followers. My husband’s a firefighter, he knows the life and death importance of following well. My friend, a Battalion chief leading the City’s firefighters, shares great stories of […] The post How to Be a Great Follower appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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15 Big Differences Between Acting Like a Boss and BEING a Leader

Terry Starbucker

In fast paced, high stress business environments it can be all too easy sometimes for leaders to slip into what I call “ Boss Man ” mode. What I mean by that is that they stop being a leader, and start acting like a boss. A boss who supervises a staff. The staff reports to the boss, just like it says on the organizational chart. And they do exactly what the boss says, because, of course, “ He’s the boss!

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It’s Not Impossible – It Just Hasn’t Been Done Yet

N2Growth Blog

By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth. How many times in your career have you witnessed someone say, “that’s impossible – it simply can’t be done.” Perhaps you’ve even been guilty of uttering such a phrase yourself. Here’s the thing – leaders don’t accept impossibility as a valid thesis. If you think I’ve lost my mind, or that my optimistic nature has crossed over into a state of irrational exuberance or delusion, I’d encourage you to read on as I challenge the logic of impossibility.

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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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An Army of One

General Leadership

'Many of you may remember seeing the following TV commercial several years ago: A soldier is running alone across the desert, carrying a backpack but no rifle. Helicopters swoop overhead. A squad of soldiers runs past, moving in the direction opposite of the lone runner. Voiceover: “Even though there are 1,045,690 soldiers like me, I am my own force.

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The Two Sides of Trust

The Recovering Engineer

'Like so many words we use commonly, trust has many layers of meaning. While most of us have similar general perspectives about what it means to trust another person, there are some subtle differences in how we view this simple word. The words I often use to describe the two sides of trust are transactional trust and relational trust, and here is how I define the terms: Transactional trust refers to the trust we have that another person will do what they said they would do or complete and assign

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Will You Leave a Mrk?

Mills Scofield

'I love my iPhone case! Do you? How many cases have you gone through? Me, a few.but this one is it. My nice blue Mrked case is the brainchild of 3 kids - yup, kids. Just your average college kids yet again deciding it''s their right to change the world. 15% of the revenues from Mrked goes to teach young girls in emerging markets how to read. Beauty & Benificence in one.

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What are the Benefits of Ruby on Rails? After Two Decades of Programming, I Use Rails

Toptal

Sometimes I hear people complaining about their clients, saying that they insist on using Rails, that they've had too much Kool Aid. If they are recruiters, they almost feel sick in the stomach from perspective of having to find yet another ROR primadona. From the programmers point of view it sometimes looks like clients don't have a clue. However, I believe most clients know their options just fine and they still decide to go with Rails.

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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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The Art of the Elevator

Women on Business

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Why Sports Builds Leadership

Lead on Purpose

'Guest post by Jordan Spindler. Leadership is a personal trait that often proves elusive to many people, however is intimately related to personal success. Leaders are at the forefront of their fields; they are respected and quite often wealthy. Leaders also foster social change, and most of our cultural, social and economic progress is the result of leadership.

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Three Things Leaders Can Still Learn from JFK

Next Level Blog

'The coverage this week of the 50th anniversary of the assassination of John F. Kennedy is a stark reminder of the impact his life and death had on the United States and the world. With the perspective of fifty years, it’s easy to argue for or against Kennedy’s strengths and weaknesses. It’s easy to debate what he did or didn’t accomplish. You may think he was a great president or you may not.

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Extreme Leadership Summit, 2014!

Steve Farber

'I’m thrilled to announce our speakers for The Extreme Leadership Summit 2014, coming April 11-13 in Chicago (Please note the new dates.). I’ve personally assembled a team of incredible leaders, most of whom will be in attendance for the entire Summit. As you’ll see, these people bring a vast spectrum of remarkable life and business experience, deep expertise, and a hands-on knowledge of how to apply Extreme Leadership to everything you do.

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Entity Resolution Checklist: What to Consider When Evaluating Options

Are you trying to decide which entity resolution capabilities you need? It can be confusing to determine which features are most important for your project. And sometimes key features are overlooked. Get the Entity Resolution Evaluation Checklist to make sure you’ve thought of everything to make your project a success! The list was created by Senzing’s team of leading entity resolution experts, based on their real-world experience.

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Impatience as a Leadership Virtue

Let's Grow Leaders

'Patience is the support of weakness; impatience the ruin of strength -Charles Caleb Colton “Karin, we should be able to have this project done by the end of the year.” I listened impatiently as the team broke down the timeline, contingencies, and tasks. They were the experts, and the project involved heavy IT lift–never fun. I [.

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The No-Boss Workplace: Can Great Leadership Be Crowdsourced?

Terry Starbucker

'There’s an interesting leadership experiment going on right now here in Portland. Last summer, the local startup Treehouse , a producer of online education courses, decided to create a no-boss workplace by eliminating all the manager positions from its 61-person workforce, thus creating the ultimate “flat” organizational structure.

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To Hear the Truth, You Have to Listen

N2Growth Blog

'By Brian Layer , Chair, Organizational Development, N2growth. Thoreau wrote: “It takes two to speak the truth – one to speak and another to hear.” Most of us are great at the former but at the latter, not so much. Truth be told, most of us are poor listeners. When considering great leadership skills, we focus on transmission skills–speaking and writing.

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12 Lessons on Life and Leadership From Photography

QAspire

When you take up a new passion, it is so amazing to see how things unfold. Since last few years, I have turned into a photography enthusiast, an avid learner of the art. No, I am not taking any formal photography classes but am learning it by doing in my spare time. You can view my photographic adventures at Flickr. In Hindi, the word “Drishti” means vision.

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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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Be Willing to Shake the Tree

General Leadership

'“For to be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances freedom for others.”. Nelson Mandela. Recently, the world experienced the passing of a leadership icon. Nelson Mandela was a man who lived his life putting others first…his family, his country, the world. Committed to using every ounce of energy to promote change, his inspiring example confirming how a single, persistent person can make a profoundly positive difference.

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The Time is Now to Become an Entrepreneur

Mills Scofield

'I met Ilan Saks through my education entrepreneur guru Aron Solomon who has never steered me wrong. Ilan , Founder of The Founder Project , is no exception and I can''t wait for The Founder Project to come stateside! This is the type of engagement we need to get economies growing, build trust and a sense of ownership for our Millennials as they grow into leadership positions. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~.

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Forex Algorithmic Trading: A Practical Tale for Engineers

Toptal

A few years ago, driven by my curiosity, I took my first steps into the world of Forex by creating a demo account and playing out simulations (with fake money) using the Meta Trader 4 trading platform. After a week of 'trading', I'd almost doubled my 'money'. Spurred on by my own success, I dug deeper and eventually signed up for a number of forums.