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Leadership Can Be Destructive

General Leadership

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. A bad leader lacks talent and skill, a destructive leader lacks character. Frank Sonnenberg. Leadership can be destructive. I mean this in the sense that poor, weak, or harmful leaders exist and can do great and lasting damage, not only to the organization but most importantly, to the people.

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How to Build More a Customer-Centered, Empathetic Workforce

Let's Grow Leaders

When you call customer service you want to know 2 things: (1) Does the person who picked up your call care about you and your issue? and (2) Are they capable of fixing it? You don’t have to be a customer service expert to know within 20 seconds whether the guy on the other end of the phone cares and is eager to help. When we work with customer service departments, empathy is always identified as a top MIT (Most Important Thing).

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3 Fundamental Secrets for Mastering Time Management

Women on Business

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IIoT? IoT? What is the difference?

CTOvision

The Internet of Things As the number of products on the market described as “smart” has grown, “the internet of things” has become something of a buzzword (or buzz phrase). The phrase “internet of things” suggests a network of connected or computerized devices that work together to make life more convenient and simple for the […].

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12 Reasons Snowflake Costs Get Out of Control — And How to Solve It

With no barriers to entry you can get started with Snowflake for next to nothing, but as you may already know, costs can quickly spiral out of control. While usage costs can be better managed for your internal BI use case, Snowflake costs skyrocket for SaaS providers because the need to deliver real-time, interactive analytics in a multi-tenant environment is always on.

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Four Solutions If You’re Feeling Overworked and Underappreciated at Work

Career Advancement

“Phrases like ‘overworked and underpaid’ perpetuate that feeling.” ~ Lena Bottos ~. Steven put in extra-long hours on the project at work. It was highly technical and exceptionally difficult. When he was done, his boss offered no praise and Steven found himself feeling totally underappreciated. He felt upset and bitter. How could they not appreciate all the work he was doing?

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Women, Business and Tech: What We Need To Do Now

Women on Business

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How to LEAP Into Extreme Leadership

Steve Farber

The world is full of people who call themselves leaders, but woefully short of Extreme Leaders. Perhaps you think that’s OK. Extreme Leaders, you might reason, are only needed for extreme circumstances – a soldier taking fellow troops into battle, a Sherpa guiding climbers up Mount Everest, or a quarterback directing a potential game-winning drive in the Super Bowl.

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How Technology Increases Efficiency of Executive Management

CTOvision

As a busy executive, you understandably may feel as though you do not have enough time in your day to tackle everything that requires your attention. This can create a great deal of stress and tension in your life. The reality is that some technological enhancements in your office can dramatically improve how efficiently and […].

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Ramping up Software Deployment - A Docker Swarm Tutorial

Toptal

Docker itself has been around for years and is composed of many inter-operating pieces. One of them is Docker Swarm, which allows you to declare your applications as stacks of services, and let Docker handle the rest. In this article, Toptal Freelance Software Engineer Luke Sapan explains how to use Docker Swarm to deploy your own self-managing stack, followed by a quick example.

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Navigating the Future: Generative AI, Application Analytics, and Data

Generative AI is upending the way product developers & end-users alike are interacting with data. Despite the potential of AI, many are left with questions about the future of product development: How will AI impact my business and contribute to its success? What can product managers and developers expect in the future with the widespread adoption of AI?

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Get into the Psyche of Your Web User to Improve Website Sales

Women on Business

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7 Steps to Change Your Company’s Culture

Steve Farber

What Is Your Company Culture Having for Breakfast? You’ve heard it said that “culture eats strategy for breakfast.” The snappy little maxim usually is attributed to the late, great management icon Peter Drucker, although you’d be hard pressed to prove it. Nevertheless, most leaders buy into this pearl of wisdom as a unique way of stressing the importance of culture over strategy.

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Five emerging technologies for rapid digital transformation

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

The enterprise world of technology is finally catching up with the consumer world. Here are some representative examples of new enabling products for faster digital change.

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Amazon vs. Walmart: Bezos Goes for the Jugular with Whole Foods Acquisition

Toptal

Through its acquisition of Whole Foods, Amazon is not only likely to disrupt the grocery shopping experience but is perhaps embarking on a grander push that could change the entire retail landscape, leaving Walmart on the back foot.

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12 Reasons Snowflake Costs Get Out of Control — And How to Solve It

With no barriers to entry you can get started with Snowflake for next to nothing, but as you may already know, costs can quickly spiral out of control. While usage costs can be better managed for your internal BI use case, Snowflake costs skyrocket for SaaS providers because the need to deliver real-time, interactive analytics in a multi-tenant environment is always on.

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Sales Territory Mapping and the Importance of Gender Equity

Women on Business

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CTOvision Assessment On The Megatrend of Robotics

CTOvision

There are seven key megatrends driving the future of enterprise IT. You can remember them all with the mnemonic acronym CAMBRIC, which stands for Cloud Computing, Artificial Intelligence, Mobility, Big Data, Robotics, Internet of Things, CyberSecurity. In this post we dive deeper into the trend of Robotics. Operating along a spectrum of human controlled to semi-autonomous to totally independent, robots are already […].

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Future of Work: Four Shifts Leaders Must Focus on

QAspire

Talking about the impending shifts like automation, robotics, disruptions and uncertainties in our world of work is almost clichéd. What seems like a problem is also an opportunity to do the thing that makes us human – to change our attitudes and fixed beliefs about how we have traditionally experienced work. It is this shift in how we see the world around us that truly enables us to deal with it constructively.

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How Top Companies Use Machine Learning

Toptal

How do top organizations use machine learning? Sib Mahapatra, Editor of Toptal Insights, shares case studies demonstrating how machine learning is deployed today to help companies of all sizes create value, cut costs and drive ROI.

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Embrace AI: Make Your VoIP Service Stand Out

Dialogview is revolutionizing VoIP services with its AI-powered platform, which is now available for white labeling. Our solution autonomously resolves over 68% of customer queries in more than 40 languages, dramatically reducing your team’s workload. With advanced conversational AI, Dialogview understands customer sentiments and queries in real time, without any button presses needed by users.

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How to Build True Friendships in the Business World

Steve Farber

Heshie Segal is my friend. I don’t mean that as a disclaimer, but as a prime example of what you’re about to learn from her. British anthropologist Robin Dunbar famously estimated that humans can maintain a social circle of no more than 150 people, with no more than five people in our “closest layer” of friends. For entrepreneurs who depend on networks of relationships , that might seem a bit discouraging, if not downright depressing.

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Love Your Story (and What I Learned from Michelle Obama)

Talent Anarchy

A few weeks ago, I had the opportunity to hear our former First Lady, Michelle Obama, speak at a conference. She is a remarkable human being and someone with much to teach us. She really got my attention when she started talking about authenticity. She explained that authenticity is really about owning and loving your story (this is my interpretation of what she said, not her exact words).

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Carrie Wheeler Joins the Women on Business Contributors Team

Women on Business

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How to Build an Email Sentiment Analysis Bot: An NLP Tutorial

Toptal

Build a bot that analyzes the sentiment of incoming email messages using Recursive Neural Tensor Networks from the Stanford NLP library.

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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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How the workplace is changing

Lead on Purpose

Today’s workforce is working from home more and more. This trend is growing and isn’t showing any signs of slowing down.

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Big Data’s Rocket Fuel: GPUs Help Revolutionize Customer Behavior Analysis

SQream

As today’s customers come to expect a personalized experience when interacting with a business, customer analytics is expected to become the backbone of the customer journey, creating touch points at every level of the funnel and at every moment of interaction. Today, technology experts are predicting that analytics will do more than ever to drive customer satisfaction.

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A CIO’s Code Of Ethics For Managing Company Data

The Accidental Successful CIO

A code of ethics has to be worth more than the paper that it is written on Image Credit: Tom Lianza. As the person with the CIO job, it turns out that you have a daily job in which you are the person who is responsible for keeping control over your company’s data. Not only do you have to make good decisions about who can get access to the company’s data, but you also have to take the time to educate the rest of the company on how to behave ethically when it comes to dealing with comp

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Get Started With Microservices: A Dropwizard Tutorial

Toptal

Dropwizard allows developers to quickly bootstrap their projects and package applications as easily deployable standalone services. It also happens to be relatively simple to use and implement. In this tutorial, Toptal Freelance Software Engineer Dusan Simonovic will introduce you to Dropwizard and demonstrate how you can use this powerful framework to create RESTful web services with ease.

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How Embedded Analytics Gets You to Market Faster with a SAAS Offering

Start-ups & SMBs launching products quickly must bundle dashboards, reports, & self-service analytics into apps. Customers expect rapid value from your product (time-to-value), data security, and access to advanced capabilities. Traditional Business Intelligence (BI) tools can provide valuable data analysis capabilities, but they have a barrier to entry that can stop small and midsize businesses from capitalizing on them.

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The Worst Kind of Bugs

Professor Beekums

I’ve talked briefly before about developers suffering from “it works on my machine” mentality. The result is bugs that don’t appear on a developer’s machine, but do appear for users. There is a worse class of bugs though that affects everyone at a company: “it works in my office when I’m trying it” How is this different? Things can get pretty complex in a live web application.

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Domain models, Algebraic laws and Unit tests

Ruminations of a Programmer

In a domain model, when you have a domain element that forms an algebraic abstraction honoring certain laws, you can get rid of many of your explicitly written unit tests just by checking the laws. Of course you have to squint hard and discover the lawful abstraction that hides behind your concrete domain element. Consider this simple abstraction for Money that keeps track of amounts in various currencies. scala> import Money._ import Money._ // 1000 USD scala> val m = Money(1000, USD) m:

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Analytics & Forensics Team Up for Better Threat Hunting.

ProtectWise

Sophisticated cyberattacks develop over time, but no matter how good cybercriminals are at covering their tracks, even the best ones leave important clues behind. It’s up to threat hunters to piece these together in a way that details the lifecycle of an attack. That kind of work is challenging, especially at organizations that rely on traditional security products, often forcing threat hunters to think out of the box, Adding to that challenge, although 86% of organizations are doing at le