Let's Grow Leaders
NOVEMBER 17, 2014
'Confident, humble leaders take a moment to privately “applaud themselves.” There’s absolutely nothing wrong with a mini-time out to tell yourself “Wow! Great job.” Particularly for the incremental baby steps that change the game. Privately applauding yourself is vital if others aren’t looking or caring about your greater mission.
General Leadership
NOVEMBER 11, 2014
'Armistice Day parade – 1929 – Boston (Source: Boston Public Library). “…solemnly remember the sacrifices of all those who fought so valiantly on the seas, in the air, and on foreign shores, to preserve our heritage of freedom.”. President Dwight D. Eisenhower. On November 11, 1918–after more than four years of bloody fighting by over 70 million soldiers from as many as 100 countries, an armistice was signed in France between the Allies and Germany bringing World War I to
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Terry Starbucker
NOVEMBER 9, 2014
'Remember yellow legal note pads? I used to have them with me constantly, before modern technology banished them to the desk drawer in favor of laptops, iPads and smartphones ( And yes, that officially qualifies me as a dinosaur). Every morning before I started my day, I’d make a “to do” list on those pads. Some just had a few things on it, and some had dozens.
N2Growth Blog
NOVEMBER 20, 2014
'By Damian D. “Skipper” Pitts. Chair, Organizational Development, N2Growth. In today’s leadership and strategy methodologies, leaders and organizations need to have five strategic rules of leadership clarity present in order to achieve greater outcomes of effort within their organizational designs. And, when they are successful, everyone will be able to manage complexity – the new complexities of business – without becoming complicated.
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CTOvision
NOVEMBER 17, 2014
'Editor’s note: This article first appeared on our “ Threat Brief ” site, home of the daily Threat Brief. -bg. The U.S. Department of State is considered by many to be one of the front runners in terms of automating IT. Their approach at implementing the community-coordinated consensus audit guidelines have been laudatory and positive.
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Let's Grow Leaders
NOVEMBER 21, 2014
'Welcome back to the Let’s Grow Leaders Frontline Festival. Our November Festival is all about Worklife Balance Integration. Thanks to Joy and Tom Guthrie of Vizwerx Group for the great pic and to all our contributors! What is Worklife Balance? “Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony.” – Thomas Merton.
General Leadership
NOVEMBER 26, 2014
'“Desire is the key to motivation, but it’s determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal – a commitment to excellence – that will enable you to attain the success you seek.”. Mario Andretti. In Part I of this series we discussed Integrity and the concept of being “whole” as a leader. In Part II we discussed Commitment and the importance of leaders being committed to others as too often we see leaders more committed to themselves than their teams or their
Terry Starbucker
NOVEMBER 30, 2014
'It’s so tempting, once leaders get their marching orders to deliver profit targets, to dive right into the details of execution. After all, it’s the nature of a business - going from Point A to Point B as quickly and efficiently as possible, to gain a competitive advantage and secure the market share necessary for success. But before we go charging up that hill, we need to take a very necessary first step – to make sure the rest of the team is behind us, aligned, motivated, an
N2Growth Blog
NOVEMBER 26, 2014
'By Damian D. “Skipper” Pitts. Chair, Organizational Development, N2Growth. M aking any progress, process transformation or change across American communities and throughout the global business communities as usual is always hard and usually requires a significant investment of resources – people, finance and effort. So, whenever a leader or an organization adopts any new strategy, technology platform, methodology or approach, that adoption has to be driven by both a need and with
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.
CTOvision
NOVEMBER 25, 2014
'By Vijay Prabhu. From Wired: Eccentric billionaires are tough to impress, so their minions must always think big when handed vague assignments. Ross Perot’s staffers did just that in 2006, when their boss declared that he wanted to decorate his Plano, Texas, headquarters with relics from computing history. Aware that a few measly Apple I’s and Altair 880’s wouldn’t be enough to satisfy a former presidential candidate, Perot’s people decided to acquire a more singular prize: a big chunk of ENIAC
Erik Bernhardsson
NOVEMBER 21, 2014
Say you build a machine learning model, like a movie recommender system. You need to optimize for something. You have 1-5 stars as ratings so let’s optimize for mean squared error. Great. Then let’s say you build a new model. It has even lower mean squared error. You deploy it. This model turns out to give a lower mean squared error. You roll it out to users and the metrics are tanking.
Let's Grow Leaders
NOVEMBER 14, 2014
'It didn’t go well for Jennifer the last the time, and now her confidence was shaken. She was doing everything she could to avoid the situation, which only increased her anxiety and frustrated the rest of us. We had to rebuild her confidence and encourage her to try again. When the last time goes south, it can be hard to pick up the pieces. Perhaps you’ve heard similar concerns. “The last time I gave someone feedback they cried.” “The last time I was honest with my
General Leadership
NOVEMBER 14, 2014
'“Don’t succumb to excuses. Go back to the job of making the corrections and forming the habits that will make your goal possible.”. Vince Lombardi. Those of us who cut our teeth in a profession during the last century often lament the loss of focus. A typical reaction when we feel our organization has strayed too far from its original purpose is to talk about getting back to the basics.
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Terry Starbucker
NOVEMBER 23, 2014
'It’s one of my 8 Principles of More Human Leadership – Finding and Teaching More Human Leaders. Finding the “right” people to build the best team has always been one of the most challenging things a leader can do, and it often can be the most frustrating, because when you get right down to it, there is a lot of risk involved– by following the right rules and being disciplined about it you can reduce your odds of failure, but in the end, you can never reduce that risk completely.
Change Starts Here
NOVEMBER 18, 2014
'Bestselling author Rodger Dean Duncan of Duncan Worldwide shares nuggets of wisdom from his book, Change-Friendly Leadership: How to Transform Good Intentions into Great Performance. Listen to hear what Dr. Duncan calls the Four T’s: key leadership behaviors that drive change. Listen to the show here (30 minutes): Be sure to visit the radio show page to listen to past episodes and subscribe to the show.
CTOvision
NOVEMBER 25, 2014
'Forge.mil provides some very important functionality that developers in the DoD ecosystem need and more importantly allow the technology leadership of DoD to ensure more appropriate influence over enterprise software projects. But it has been criticized by many in the community for not being as fully functional as GitHub. GitHub has achieved tremendous success in the commercial world and in key niches in governments as well.
Erik Bernhardsson
NOVEMBER 14, 2014
I keep forgetting to buy a costume for Halloween every year, so this year I prepared and got myself a Luigi costume a month in advance. Only to realize I was going to be out of town the whole weekend. If anyone wants a Luigi costume, let me know! (I’m not as big as the guy in the picture). Anyway, that’s not the Luigi this blog post is about. This is about the Python workflow manager that I’ve open sourced.
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Let's Grow Leaders
NOVEMBER 7, 2014
'Conventional managerial wisdom says, “It doesn’t matter if they like you, as long as they respect you.” I can also hear the echo of countless bosses and mentors over the years, “You’re not here to be liked.” “If you worry about whether they like you, they won’t respect you.” I get the sentiment and, as with anything else, it’s a matter of degree.
General Leadership
NOVEMBER 21, 2014
'“This creed of the desert seemed inexpressible in words, and indeed in thought.” T.E. Lawrence. Yes, Afghanistan Rules! What follows are six rules or truisms that a group of combat advisors codified during the course of their year-long deployment in Afghanistan. Some of the rules may be unique to their experience; some may be consistent with the experience of others that have deployed to Afghanistan.
Terry Starbucker
NOVEMBER 2, 2014
'The Scene: Sally is about to start her first day as the manager of a division of a service company. She’s called a team meeting that will have her entire staff of 75 in attendance. Before heading to work, she meets her mentor and friend Terry for coffee, and a some last-minute advice. After finishing his almond milk latte, Terry gives Sally a leadership pep talk… “Sally, there comes a time after you’ve gone to school, read the books, found a mentor, attended the seminars, an
Change Starts Here
NOVEMBER 6, 2014
'As you embark on implementing a change in your organization, it’s important to identify who will be impacted – not just those who are the primary targets of the change, but others in your organization who are impacted by or who have an impact on the change. There may be many individuals or groups who may not be obvious stakeholders in your project whom you need to address and influence.
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CTOvision
NOVEMBER 4, 2014
'With the movement of our personal and business critical data to the ‘cloud’, and directed attacks on that data, many of us make use of stronger security through use two-factor authentication. I know everyone reading this has two-factor turned on for iCloud, Google Services, and DropBox! But using this two-factors can be a pain. Depending on which service, you use Google Authenticator, have a code sent via SMS, get a plain old phone call, the RSA key fob, or rely on email and then type your six
Erik Bernhardsson
NOVEMBER 28, 2014
I’ve been meaning to learn Theano for a while and I’ve also wanted to build a chess AI at some point. So why not combine the two? That’s what I thought, and I ended up spending way too much time on it. I actually built most of this back in September but not until Thanksgiving did I have the time to write a blog post about it. What’s the theory? Chess is a game with a finite number of states, meaning if you had infinite computing capacity, you could actually solve chess.
Let's Grow Leaders
NOVEMBER 12, 2014
'You care deeply about breakthrough results. This guy’s a jerk. No no, not just annoying, a poster-child good blocker. You’ve got stories. Be careful. Two disrespects don’t build respect. In full disclosure, I don’t have this mastered. The worst moments of my career have come from the times I let the one or two really nasty, disrespectful (I’m tempted to say “evil”) human beings get underneath my skin and bring out the worst in me.
General Leadership
NOVEMBER 12, 2014
'“Eureka – I have found it!” Archimedes. A renaissance person or polymath is a one who is skilled in multiple fields or multiple disciplines, and who has a broad base of knowledge. In short a multi-dimensional person. I have always admired those renaissance people who were accomplished at many tasks, those with an hidden skill such as music, painting, poetry, or cabinet making.
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Terry Starbucker
NOVEMBER 16, 2014
'He’s an all-time favorite leadership guru. His lessons have deeply resonated with me since the first time I read them. They were simple, straightforward, unapologetically direct, and timeless. And there isn’t a week that goes by in my leadership practice that I don’t think of them. Who is this man, and what were those lessons? His name is Emil Liebling.
Next Level Blog
NOVEMBER 13, 2014
'Delivering his monologue after the midterm elections last week, David Letterman was talking about President Obama’s low approval ratings and landed a great line: “Take a look at this: gas under $3 a gallon – under $3 a gallon. Unemployment under 6%, whoever thought? Stock market breaking records every day. No wonder the guy is so unpopular.”. As Letterman said, before delivering his punch line, being President of the United States is a “lonely, lonely gig.”.
CTOvision
NOVEMBER 24, 2014
'By Bob Gourley. This post is sponsored by the Enterprise CIO Forum and HP’s Make It Matter. The Institute of Internal Auditors ( IIA ) is an international professional association of more than 180,000 members recognized as the preeminent professional organization for internal auditors. They provide a venue for internal auditors from around the world to share lessons learned and best practices.
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