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My Free E-Book: Leadership From a Glass Half-Full

Terry Starbucker

Home About Me About This Blog Starbucker’s Amazon Store TerryStarbucker.com Ramblings From a Glass Half Full My Free E-Book: Leadership From a Glass Half-Full by Starbucker on April 29, 2010 I’m pleased to announce the release of my free e-book “ Leadership From a Glass Half-Full: 5 Things You Need To Learn Before You Jump Into The Pool&#.

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Startup Development

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I’ve come to realize that I have lots of posts around startup software development scattered around in different posts. Thought it would be good to capture them in one spot and also include links to related posts from other sources. Startup Software Development – Do Your Homework Before You Develop Anything Startup Software Developers Symptoms of a Weak Development Team Technology Roles in Startups Startup CTO or Developer Part-Time CTO Technology Advisor CTO Founder Acting CTO Software Developm

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Down Blog-Memory Lane #2: Love and the Defense Contractor

Steve Farber

One of my all-time favorite examples of the role of Love in getting extraordinary results at work, this was originally posted on 4/15/06 : For those of you who think that love in business is a soft, California, group hug, hoo-ha kind of thing, I offer this story from a sourcing agent at a defense contractor. His job is to procure the materials his company needs to make guns, missiles, and other things that go boom.

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15 Modern Use Cases for Enterprise Business Intelligence

Large enterprises face unique challenges in optimizing their Business Intelligence (BI) output due to the sheer scale and complexity of their operations. Unlike smaller organizations, where basic BI features and simple dashboards might suffice, enterprises must manage vast amounts of data from diverse sources. What are the top modern BI use cases for enterprise businesses to help you get a leg up on the competition?

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Creating value

Lead on Purpose

Home About the Blog Michael’s Bio Resources Lead on Purpose Entries RSS | Comments RSS Top Posts Lead on Purpose featured Five leadership practices for improving customer service Five factors of leadership Real-world examples of customer service Leadership and Product Management Five stages of problem solving Guest Post: The Yin-Yang of Product Management -- Market Sensing Book Review: The Leader Who had no Title Market sensing Product manager responsibilities Recent Comments Doug Tay

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Social Media Demystified

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The 3 Elements of Solid Decision Making That Cannot Be Ignored

Terry Starbucker

Home About Me About This Blog Starbucker’s Amazon Store TerryStarbucker.com Ramblings From a Glass Half Full The 3 Elements of Solid Decision Making That Cannot Be Ignored by Starbucker on April 11, 2010 Leaders make decisions every day, and the process in which those decisions are made has always intrigued and fascinated me. Typically, and rightfully, in the business world the direct financial ramifications are front and center in any deliberation. “ What’s the ROI ?

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Match Algorithm and Inputs

SoCal CTO

One of the common questions that I commonly get is: Tony, what inputs should we use as the basis for our matching algorithm? Every time I hear that question, it worries me a bit. eHarmony came with lots of research behind the dimensions of compatibility and how those related to marriage longevity and happiness. The people asking the above question don’t have that research and they also don’t really know how the matches should occur.

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How to be a StoryLearner

Steve Farber

I was taking a trip down blog-memory lane and found a post from a few years ago on how to be a StoryLearner. It’s a good reminder/&# how-to&# for paying considerable attention to the people around us: To consciously and intentionally develop a deep “fascination&# with others at work, try this life-long practice (adapted from The Radical Edge ). 1.

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Prepare Now: 2025s Must-Know Trends For Product And Data Leaders

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.

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Leadership and persistence

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Home About the Blog Michael’s Bio Resources Lead on Purpose Entries RSS | Comments RSS Top Posts Lead on Purpose featured Five leadership practices for improving customer service Five factors of leadership Real-world examples of customer service Leadership and Product Management Five stages of problem solving Guest Post: The Yin-Yang of Product Management -- Market Sensing Book Review: The Leader Who had no Title Market sensing Product manager responsibilities Recent Comments Doug Tay

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DSL Interoperability and Language Cacophony

Ruminations of a Programmer

Many times I hear people say that DSL based development often leads to a situation where you have to manage a mix of code written in various languages, which are barely interoperable and often need to be integrated using glues like ScriptEngine that makes your life more difficult than easier. Well, if you are in this situation, you are in the world of language cacophony.

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Who's In Charge?

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How Leaders Can Avoid The Tarmac Syndrome – And A Whole Lotta Angst

Terry Starbucker

Home About Me About This Blog Starbucker’s Amazon Store TerryStarbucker.com Ramblings From a Glass Half Full How Leaders Can Avoid The Tarmac Syndrome – And A Whole Lotta Angst by Starbucker on April 4, 2010 It happens the moment I step on a plane. That loss of control. Someone else is behind the wheel and taking me somewhere. When control is lost, I get nervous.

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2024 Salary Guide

Procom’s 2024 Salary Guide provides critical insights into the latest hiring trends, in-demand IT roles, and competitive pay rates across Canada and the U.S. It highlights key market dynamics such as the growing demand for remote work, skills-based hiring, and flexible staffing solutions. With detailed pay rate data for top IT positions like Cybersecurity Consultants, Cloud Engineers, and Salesforce Developers, this guide is an essential resource for companies looking to stay competitive in toda

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Matching

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I guess it was bound to happen, I now seem to be writing a series of posts around Matching. This is where I’ll keep my list of these posts, related articles and posts from other sources: Social Media Matching – Looks at how in many ways, everything is matching. The BIG value lies not in “deep relationships” brought online, but in leveraging the breadth and time-and-place independent access to other people.

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6 Steps to Greater Than Yourself

Steve Farber

It’s time for us to set a new gold standard for what it means to be a leader of substance and influence. We need to pick up where many “programs&# leave off by realizing that it’s simply not enough for us to be helpful coaches and advisors to the people around us at work. The greatest, most successful and well-respected leaders that I’ve encountered in my two decades of consulting, advising, writing, and speaking are not just helpful: they’ve come to understand̵

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Customer expectations

Lead on Purpose

Home About the Blog Michael’s Bio Resources Lead on Purpose Entries RSS | Comments RSS Top Posts Lead on Purpose featured Five leadership practices for improving customer service Five factors of leadership Real-world examples of customer service Leadership and Product Management Five stages of problem solving Guest Post: The Yin-Yang of Product Management -- Market Sensing Book Review: The Leader Who had no Title Market sensing Product manager responsibilities Recent Comments Doug Tay

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PubSub with Redis and Akka Actors

Ruminations of a Programmer

Redis (the version on the trunk) offers publish/subscribe based messaging. This is quite a big feature compared to the typical data structure oriented services that it had been offering so far. This also opens up lots of possibilities to use Redis as a messaging engine of a different kind. The sender and the receiver of the messages are absolutely decoupled from each other in the sense that senders do not send messages to specific receivers.

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Launching LLM-Based Products: From Concept to Cash in 90 Days

Speaker: Christophe Louvion, Chief Product & Technology Officer of NRC Health and Tony Karrer, CTO at Aggregage

Christophe Louvion, Chief Product & Technology Officer of NRC Health, is here to take us through how he guided his company's recent experience of getting from concept to launch and sales of products within 90 days. In this exclusive webinar, Christophe will cover key aspects of his journey, including: LLM Development & Quick Wins 🤖 Understand how LLMs differ from traditional software, identifying opportunities for rapid development and deployment.

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Contingency Planning | N2Growth Blog

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Why Making a Difference is Still THE Difference

Terry Starbucker

Home About Me About This Blog Starbucker’s Amazon Store TerryStarbucker.com Ramblings From a Glass Half Full Why Making a Difference is Still THE Difference by Starbucker on April 25, 2010 “I never have written this kind of letter before, but…… &# This is a familiar introduction to the letters from extraordinarily happy customers – notes written by people who were so impressed, or so happy, or so moved by a transaction that they were compelled to take the time to te

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Match Performance Support

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I’ve had several recent conversations with startups who are building companies based on matching. One of the things that I think gets commonly missed by these companies when I first talk to them is that they need more than providing matching, they need performance support. What do I mean by this? Let me go back and do my classic search for "eHarmony of" startup and find a few examples to use: People to Projects (Managers) People to Jobs (Hiring Managers) Students to Tutors Each of thes

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I Have Never…

Steve Farber

I’ve written extensively on this blog about Up with People , (see the GTY experiment , for example), and I’m proud to be on the organization’s Board of Directors. If you or anyone you know are between the ages of 18 and 29 and have any desire to gain deep experiences of, and build significant bridges with, other cultures and–dare I say it again–change the world for the better, you must must must take a very close look at this remarkable, non-profit program.

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An Architect’s Guide for Selecting Scalable, Data-Layer Technologies

There’s no getting around it: selecting the right foundational data-layer components is crucial for long-term application success. That’s why we developed this white paper to give you insights into four key open-source technologies – Apache Cassandra®, Apache Kafka®, Apache Spark™, and OpenSearch® – and how to leverage them for lasting success. Discover everything you’ll want to know about scalable, data-layer technologies: Learn when to choose these technologies and when to avoid them Explore h

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Best of Application Security (Friday, Apr. 16)

Jeremiah Grossman

Ten of Application Security industry's coolest, most interesting, important, and entertaining links from the past week -- in no particular order. Apache Foundation Hit by Targeted XSS Attack + Internal investigation + Associated Atlassian breach CSRF Isn’t A Big Deal - Duh! Network Solutions Hack: Secure File Permissions Matter + Sucuri Analysis OWASP RFP Criteria Project IE 8 Security Features Could Be Turned Against Users + Slides & PoC Next-Generation Clickjacking Attacks Revealed + Tool

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Thrush in Clojure

Ruminations of a Programmer

Quite some time back I wrote a blog post on the Thrush Combinator implementation in Scala. Just for those who missed reading it, Thrush is one of the permuting combinators from Raymond Smullyan's To Mock a Mockingbird. The book is a fascinating read where the author teaches combinatorial logic using examples of birds from an enchanted forest. In case you've not yet read it, please do yourself a favor and get it from your favorite book store.

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Square Pegs, Round Holes, and the Peter Principle

Terry Starbucker

Home About Me About This Blog Starbucker’s Amazon Store TerryStarbucker.com Ramblings From a Glass Half Full Square Pegs, Round Holes, and the Peter Principle by Starbucker on April 18, 2010 In 1987, during my first few months as a fledgling executive, my new boss asked (no, ordered) me to read the book “ The Peter Principle ”, by Laurence J. Peter , and report back to him the next day about what I learned.

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IT Leadership Agrees AI is Here, but Now What?

IT leaders are experiencing rapid evolution in AI amid sustained investment uncertainty. As AI evolves, enhanced cybersecurity and hiring challenges grow. This whitepaper offers real strategies to manage risks and position your organization for success.

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16 Great Startup Posts from March

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Some great posts in March The following are the top items from featured sources based on social signals. If I Launched a Startup - The Startup Lawyer , March 17, 2010 Great advice on initial steps of setting up a Startup. 9 Reasons Why Many Smart People Go Nowhere - Life Beyond Code , March 29, 2010 You would have met many smart people who live a mediocre life.

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A Sandwiched Lesson About Sandwiches

Steve Farber

First Slice: At a sandwich shop in the Albany, NY airport, I ordered a hot turkey sandwich on whole wheat bread. The young woman behind the counter shook her head and said, “Turkey sandwiches are made on white bread.&#. “‘Scuse me?&# I asked. “Turkey sandwiches are made on white bread,&# she repeated. “That’s the rule.&#. “The rule ?

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Best of Application Security (Friday, Apr. 9)

Jeremiah Grossman

Ten of Application Security industry's coolest, most interesting, important, and entertaining links from the past week -- in no particular order.= Microsoft SDL version 5 Force.com Secure Cloud Development Stroke triggered XSS and StrokeJacking German Government Pays Hacker For Stolen Bank Account Data CAPEC-333: WASC Threat Classification 2.0 WAF Confusion Continues Serious New Java Flaw Affects All Current Versions of Windows + Advisory Safari Integer Overflow Aids Inter Protocol Exploitation