Let's Grow Leaders

APRIL 1, 2013

You’re on the fast track. You don’t need sustained results, you need quick wins. Results matter. You’ve got a review coming up. With a few simple tactics, you can get your organization performing in no time. You’ll be promoted and someone else can deal with the fall out. 5 Ways to Drive Results Through Fear [.] The post 5 Ways to Drive Results Through Fear and Intimidation appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 9, 2013

'By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth. It’s not hard to lead talented people with an aligned vision who fall under the umbrella of an iconic brand that has a cult-like consumer following. This describes Ron Johnson’s role as head of Apple’s retail operation prior to assuming the CEO role at J.C. Penney. Johnson was fired today by JCP as his efforts to rebrand and turnaround the struggling retailer failed to get traction.

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Change Starts Here

APRIL 23, 2013

'This month on The Change Agent’s Dilemma, guest Tim Kuppler and I discuss building a remarkable culture. Tim is former President of Denison Consulting and founder of The Culture Advantage. In this episode, you’ll hear the hallmarks of a remarkable culture and learn the steps you can take to build a remarkable culture in your organization.

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Erik Bernhardsson

APRIL 12, 2013

I picked up an issue of Foreign Affairs while flying back to NYC from SFO. It features this long interview with U.S. General Stanley McChrystal and I thought it was pretty interesting how striking some of the similarities are between fighting in a war and developing software. On cycle time and how it’s important to learn and integrate quickly: In 2003, in many cases we’d go after someone, we might locate them and capture or kill them, and it would be weeks until we took the intelligence we learn

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Speaker: Maher Hanafi, VP of Engineering at Betterworks & Tony Karrer, CTO at Aggregage

Executive leaders and board members are pushing their teams to adopt Generative AI to gain a competitive edge, save money, and otherwise take advantage of the promise of this new era of artificial intelligence. There's no question that it is challenging to figure out where to focus and how to advance when it’s a new field that is evolving everyday. 💡 This new webinar featuring Maher Hanafi, CTO of Betterworks, will explore a practical framework to transform Generative AI prototypes into

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Terry Starbucker

APRIL 7, 2013

'“They just don’t have it. ” “ It’s not there.” “I can’t find it. ” “I’ve got it!” “He’s got it!” “She’s got it!” We’re all looking for this thing, this “ it “ The difference maker. The “je ne sais quoi” that gets a team, a company, and ourselves past the ordinary and into the rarified air of extraordinary.

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Let's Grow Leaders

APRIL 12, 2013

'Darn-it. You screwed up. Or, perhaps you trusted your team and now you have empowerment run amok. You don’t want to blame… but you’re mad too. Your boss will be ticked. And worse, she might have to tell her boss. It’s time to come clean. How do you tell your boss the bad news? Bad News the [.] The post How to Give Your Boss Bad News (the D.A.R.N. way) appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 3, 2013

By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth. How a leader deals with pressure will tell you much about who they are as a person. Their reaction to pressure will reveal the strength of their character and conviction, what and whom they value, and whether or not they can be trusted. The reality is most people buckle under pressure. Only a few handle pressure well, and even fewer possess the qualities to be able to thrive on pressure.

Leadership 150

Leadership Strategy 150

CTOvision

APRIL 1, 2013

'Here are the top cyber news and stories of the day. DHS CIO Spires put 'on leave' ? ?FedScoop has learned that Department of Homeland Security's Chief Information Officer Richard Spires has been put on immediate 'on.

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Enterprise 113

Erik Bernhardsson

APRIL 11, 2013

Annoy is a simple package to find approximate nearest neighbors (ANN) that I just put on Github. I’m not trying to compete with existing packages, but Annoy has a couple of features that makes it pretty useful. Most importantly, it uses very little memory and can put everything in a contiguous blob that you can mmap from disk. This way multiple processes can share the same index.

Data 100

Data 100

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Change Starts Here

APRIL 9, 2013

'Much energy is generated at the beginning of a change initiative to draw attention to the need for change, generate excitement about the vision, and coordinate activities. After the change initiative has been launched and some progress has been made, it is easy for the organization to fall into complacency. Thinking the initiative can coast without additional effort, managers and others drop the energy level.

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Energy Organization 104

General Leadership

APRIL 20, 2013

'“Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived from unity.” Vince Lombardi. Several years ago the U.S. Army unveiled its newest advertising campaign. You may remember it. The TV commercial showed a soldier running alone across the desert, carrying a backpack but no rifle. Helicopters swoop overhead.

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Journal Leadership Recruiting Advertising 113

Let's Grow Leaders

APRIL 19, 2013

'This month’s Frontline Festival is all about Feedback and Coaching. I am delighted by the outpouring of submissions. It’s an amazing line-up. Courageous Feedback Lolly Daskal, encourages us to take some risks in giving feedback in her post, We Need a Courageous Conversation “In most organizations, and in our relationships, we’re all so busy being polite with [.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 29, 2013

'By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth. Life is just plain easier when you can see what’s ahead of you. Some leaders clearly have poor vision – their most polished skill seems to be running into brick walls. Other leaders simply possess adequate vision – they avoid the obvious speed bumps, but fail to stand out from the crowd. Then there are those leaders who possess legendary vision – the rare few who can see around corners.

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CTOvision

APRIL 30, 2013

'DoD's mission will continue to evolve and shift to counter the tactics and intents of our enemies. One day it's the terrorism inflicted by al Qaeda, the next it's possible nuclear Armageddon from North Korea, and then the next.

Software 110

Software 110

Erik Bernhardsson

APRIL 26, 2013

The simple way to get featured on big data blog these days seem to be. Build something that does 1 thing super well but nothing else. Benchmark it against Hadoop. Publish stats showing that it’s 100x faster than Hadoop. $$$. Spark claims their 100x faster than Hadoop and there’s a lot of stats showing Redshift is 10x faster than Hadoop. There’s a bunch of papers with similar claims.

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Women on Business

APRIL 2, 2013

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Development 111

Change Starts Here

APRIL 17, 2013

'Does your project seem like pushing a boulder uphill? Would you like to implement change with more influence, confidence and impact? If your job is to implement change in your organization, I’m guessing at least one and probably more of the following statements is true: Despite your efforts to get everyone on board and doing what they need to do, it’s not happening as quickly or as smoothly as you’d like (or as others expect).

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Let's Grow Leaders

APRIL 17, 2013

'You’ve got a new job, a new team, or a new project. Credibility is vital, but people are skeptical. Questioning eyes wonder, “who is this guy?” “why him?” “seriously?” Their looks intimidate. And you wonder, “why me?” “What are they thinking?” ”yikes, they look pretty smart.” And the downward spiral begins.

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Lead on Purpose

APRIL 20, 2013

'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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CTOvision

APRIL 24, 2013

'Podcast: Play in new window | Download. In this podcast I interviewed Ron Yaggi, SVP of IO Federal. IO is the leading provider of next-generation modular data center technology and services designs, engineers and delivers.

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Erik Bernhardsson

APRIL 26, 2013

The simple way to get featured on big data blog these days seem to be. Build something that does 1 thing super well but nothing else. Benchmark it against Hadoop. Publish stats showing that it’s 100x faster than Hadoop. $$$. Spark claims their 100x faster than Hadoop and there’s a lot of stats showing Redshift is 10x faster than Hadoop. There’s a bunch of papers with similar claims.

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Hardware Big Data Scalability Tools 100

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Women on Business

APRIL 21, 2013

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Nathan Magnuson

APRIL 8, 2013

'“Well it’s good to talk with you today, Nathan. Why don’t you tell me a little bit about your strengths.” Now replace my name with yours. How would you respond? When was the last time someone asked you to identify your strengths? Was it in an interview or an application? Were you joining a new organization, team, [.].

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Let's Grow Leaders

APRIL 9, 2013

'Most performance management systems reward individual performance. Bell curves, stack ranks, 9 box succession planning grids… encourage selfish choices. In most cases, you can’t change the system. But you can build great teams within it. Bell curves frustrate. “My ‘innocent’ belief of bell curve is like listening to Mozart and trying to adjust my graphic [.

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Terry Starbucker

APRIL 21, 2013

'It was the spring of 1981 – my junior year in college. I had just successfully completed my “core” courses in my selected major of accounting with “A”s across the board, and was sailing towards my senior year with a bright future of debits and credits ahead of me. Accounting seemed right for me. I was good with numbers, and had a knack for the fundamentals of business.

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CTOvision

APRIL 10, 2013

'down All technology trackers have known the PC era is over. Of course old fashioned PCs will not disappear, but they are not the driving force they used to be. All projections have been for poor PC sales. But there was hope.

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Erik Bernhardsson

APRIL 12, 2013

I picked up an issue of Foreign Affairs while flying back to NYC from SFO. It features this long interview with U.S. General Stanley McChrystal and I thought it was pretty interesting how striking some of the similarities are between fighting in a war and developing software. On cycle time and how it’s important to learn and integrate quickly: In 2003, in many cases we’d go after someone, we might locate them and capture or kill them, and it would be weeks until we took the intelligence we learn

Data 100

Data Software Development 100

Women on Business

APRIL 18, 2013

'We''ve Moved! Update your Reader Now. This feed has moved to: [link] If you haven''t already done so, update your reader now with this changed subscription address to get your latest updates from us. [link].

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