Let's Grow Leaders
JULY 18, 2013
'You know they can do it. They’re scared. Their lack of courage is a downward spiral. Fear stops trying. Lack of trying creates doubt. Doubt affirms negative self-perceptions. It breaks my heart to watch highly qualified, talented people let scared stop them. And yet, it’s hard for those born with a few extra confidence genes [.] The post 7 Ways to Inspire Courage appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.
Terry Starbucker
JULY 28, 2013
'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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N2Growth Blog
JULY 19, 2013
'By Brian Layer , Chair, Organizational Development, N2growth. Hello is one of those words where a change in pitch changes definition. It can be a warm invitation to a new relationship or a cold indication that you’re too busy to talk. When you begin a leadership position, you only get one opportunity to say hello and most leaders, overwhelmed with their new responsibilities, say hello in the wrong pitch: “Nice to meet you but I’m too busy to talk.”.
Change Starts Here
JULY 24, 2013
'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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Erik Bernhardsson
JULY 27, 2013
I thought this article about the company culture at HubSpot is kind of funny. “HubSpot’s Awesome Presentation Shows how to Create a 21st Century Culture”. Just FYI: You’re not different. You’re a bunch of white hipsters aged 25-30 dressed up in the same theme. That’s not being different. On a more serious note, this represents one of the most challenging aspects of scaling a company culture.
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Let's Grow Leaders
JULY 4, 2013
'Kids can, and do, make a leadership difference in their community every day. My nephew, Jared Herr and his friend Caton Raffesperger, have raised over $28,000 for Alex’s Lemonade Stand through their independence day lemonade stand in Gettysburg, PA. They share Alex’s story and their own journey in this short video. As Gettysburg celebrates the [.
Terry Starbucker
JULY 14, 2013
'I worked for a company that had 1,200 employees. Every one of us had a job to do, all related to providing broadband cable services to residential and commercial customers. Since it was a business, it had owners that had certain expectations – a healthy return on their investment. On that high level, the objective was clear - build the company up by steadily increasing its profits, until it is attractive enough to be sold with that healthy return.
N2Growth Blog
JULY 1, 2013
'By Brian Layer , Chair, Organizational Development, N2growth. Fifty-six Continental Congressmen signed the Declaration of Independence in July 1776. With each quill stroke, the men committed treason and placed at risk their lives, fortune, and sacred honor. The act was more than symbolic; it added weight to the cause and tied their personal fate to the Revolution.
Women on Business
JULY 25, 2013
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Speaker: Jay Allardyce, Deepak Vittal, and Terrence Sheflin
As we look ahead to 2025, business intelligence and data analytics are set to play pivotal roles in shaping success. Organizations are already starting to face a host of transformative trends as the year comes to a close, including the integration of AI in data analytics, an increased emphasis on real-time data insights, and the growing importance of user experience in BI solutions.
Erik Bernhardsson
JULY 26, 2013
I was in Portland, OR for a few days hanging out at OSCON. Was fun. I also talked a bit about Luigi : Next week I’m presenting at the NYC Predictive Analytics meetup together with Blake Shaw from Foursquare. The topic is ML + Hadoop. Will be fun!
CTOvision
JULY 26, 2013
'By Ryan Kamauff In this podcast I interviewed Curt Beckmann, Principal Architect, Office of the Chief Technology Officer at Brocade. Curt is extremely influential in the Open Networking Foundation and spends a lot of time working with groups creating new, more agile network standards. A software defined networking (SDN) and cloud evangelist, Curt and I got into some of the nitty-gritty of how SDN and cloud can make agencies more agile and efficient, save money, and better meet future challenges
Let's Grow Leaders
JULY 31, 2013
'“Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.” -Franklin D. Roosevelt When all that matters are numbers, eventually, people don’t matter. Great leaders consistently focus on people and performance. Be tough on results, gentle on people. Set high [.
Terry Starbucker
JULY 7, 2013
'“Nowadays, leaders need to wear many hats. They need to be able to develop both the human side and product side of a business – if you have just one or the other, you greatly limit yourself and the success of your business.” - Ilona Jerabek, PsychTests.com. There’s no doubt great leadership is a delicate balancing act, between the two most important elements of the equation – the business, and the humans who function within it.
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N2Growth Blog
JULY 22, 2013
'By John Baldoni , Chair, Leadership Development, N2growth. Change is part of organizational life — inevitable, unsettling and necessary. Too often when managers are pushed to improve, they make changes without taking stock of the situation and their talent. So, before you embark upon a change process, learn to ask yourself and your team five critical questions.
Nathan Magnuson
JULY 29, 2013
'I remember the first time I asked my supervisors if I could sit in on an interview they had scheduled with an outside candidate. I figured it would be a good learning opportunity as well as a break from crunching financial numbers. (This was during my first job out of college, before I got into [.].
Erik Bernhardsson
JULY 27, 2013
I thought this article about the company culture at HubSpot is kind of funny. “HubSpot’s Awesome Presentation Shows how to Create a 21st Century Culture”. Just FYI: You’re not different. You’re a bunch of white hipsters aged 25-30 dressed up in the same theme. That’s not being different. On a more serious note, this represents one of the most challenging aspects of scaling a company culture.
CTOvision
JULY 1, 2013
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Let's Grow Leaders
JULY 26, 2013
'“If you never change your mind, why have one?” -Edward de Bono You’ve taken a strong stand, rallied people around your vision, and worked hard to engage their hearts and minds. You’ve got momentum. But life’s messy. Circumstances change. New information. Changing dynamics. Competing pressures. You can change your mind without looking foolish. [.
Change Starts Here
JULY 29, 2013
'My guest this episode is Tonya Cornelius, Vice President of Learning and Organizational Development at ESPN. In this episode, she tells the story of how they implemented a custom change management approach at the sports TV network. Listen to hear how she decided to develop a custom change management approach, what the approach entails, and how they implemented it.
N2Growth Blog
JULY 11, 2013
'By Mike Myatt , Chief Executive Officer, N2growth . I’ve found safe decisions rarely are. Great leaders possess the courage to not only seek out the right decision, but they also understand the importance of giving others permission to do the same. We need leaders who want others to do better and be better. What we don’t need is more leaders who hide in safe harbors.
Nathan Magnuson
JULY 1, 2013
'You never should have heard about him. His story defies the odds. He was born into slavery, kidnapped by raiders as an infant, was not expected to live beyond 21 years of age because of his poor health and was a black scientist in the age of racial segregation. But after his death, the United [.].
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Erik Bernhardsson
JULY 26, 2013
I was in Portland, OR for a few days hanging out at OSCON. Was fun. I also talked a bit about Luigi : Next week I’m presenting at the NYC Predictive Analytics meetup together with Blake Shaw from Foursquare. The topic is ML + Hadoop. Will be fun!
CTOvision
JULY 11, 2013
'googlelogoa_a_l I have a love-hate relationship with the Android Google Maps application. Google Maps doesn't always work for me, but when it does I am very happy with the results. I feel like many people share the same.
Let's Grow Leaders
JULY 29, 2013
'“Real isn’t how you are made,’ said the Skin Horse. ‘It’s a thing that happens to you…It doesn’t happen all at once,’ You become. It takes a long time. That’s why it doesn’t happen often to people who break easily, or have sharp edges, or who have to be carefully kept. ” - Margery Wiliams, The [.
Terry Starbucker
JULY 21, 2013
'“A mighty flame followeth a tiny spark” – Dante Alighieri. It’s amazing what a spark can do. That concept was reinforced with me on 3 different occasions in the past week – in 3 different business situations. When something is banged up against your head that many times in a week, it stands to reason that the universe is trying to tell me something.
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N2Growth Blog
JULY 28, 2013
'By Mike Myatt , Chief Executive Officer, N2growth . According to the American Society of Training and Development, U.S. businesses spend more than $170 Billion dollars annually on leadership-based curriculum. My question is this; to what end? Are we producing better leaders or just more people who hold positions of leadership? What makes a leader successful?
Women on Business
JULY 31, 2013
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Erik Bernhardsson
JULY 23, 2013
Sometimes you have to maximize some function where and. Usually, is concave and differentiable, so there’s one unique global maximum and you can solve it by applying gradient ascent. The presence of the constraint makes it a little tricky, but we can solve it using the method of Lagrange multipliers. In particular, since the surface has the normal , the following optimization procedure works: Go one step in the direction of the gradient.
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