Let's Grow Leaders
AUGUST 29, 2014
'Joe’s a bright guy and his idea was solid. His data seemed right intuitively, but we had a few questions. My peer started with a softball. Joe responded with a stutter, swing, and a miss. He made the cardinal sin of answering tough questions– he made stuff up. He wasn’t exactly sure of the answer, and he took a chance that we were dumber than he was on the topic.
General Leadership
AUGUST 29, 2014
'“It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult undertaking which, more than anything else, determines its outcome.”. William James. On 16 October 2005, an incredible feat was achieved sixteen miles West of Denver, Colorado. What was once considered one of the most contaminated and environmentally dangerous locations on earth, was reopened to the public as a pristine wildlife refuge in one-sixth the time and less than one-sixth the cost of original clean-up estimates.
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Terry Starbucker
AUGUST 17, 2014
'Once it was built, great progress became inevitable as tomorrow. Once all the pieces were in their right place, it became a leadership juggernaut destined for success. And it was a wonderful ride. I was lucky to have been part of something pretty special – a team that blossomed into one of the highest performing groups in our industry. But it wasn’t all luck.
CTOvision
AUGUST 21, 2014
'By Bob Gourley. The Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias manifesting in unskilled individuals suffering from illusory superiority , mistakenly rating their ability much higher than is accurate. This bias is attributed to a metacognitive inability of the unskilled to recognize their ineptitude (from Wikipedia ). . The phenomenon was first tested in a series of experiments published in 1999 by David Dunning and Justin Kruger of the Department of Psychology, Cornell University.
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Change Starts Here
AUGUST 6, 2014
'When you embark on implementing change at work, a change management methodology provides a way to organize your activities, focus your attention, and engage others in a common approach. There are many frameworks to choose from – five levers, eight steps, five phases, three stages – so how do you know which methodology to use? The easy answer is that you should use the one that makes sense in your situation, a methodology you feel comfortable using and one that will work in your organization.
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Let's Grow Leaders
AUGUST 25, 2014
'When I heard his story, I wanted to scream with him and for him. But screaming at water under the bridge just brings more rapids. I paused for what was an uncomfortably long time. Then, I whispered, “I know this hurts. But you have to stop. Kick and scream and get it all out, and then take a deep breath and take off on the high road.” It’s true that John didn’t deserve this.
General Leadership
AUGUST 6, 2014
'Join us tonight – LIVE — at 9pm Eastern (6pm Pacific) on SiriusXM Patriot Channel 125 & the David Webb Show ! Tonight we will be debuting “The 12 Talents” with the first in a new series which will take us through this year. Join us on the air by calling into the show at 866-957-2874. You can also follow along on Twitter @GenLeadBlog and @davidwebbshow with hashtags: # GeneralLeadership #12Talents.
Terry Starbucker
AUGUST 3, 2014
'“People follow people, not ideas” – Dr. Kathy Cramer. My guest on the latest edition of the More Human Podcast is Dr. Kathy Cramer , who has created and has dedicated her life to what she calls asset-based thinking (ABT), a way of looking at the world that helps leaders, influencers, and their teams make small shifts in thinking to produce extraordinary impact.
CTOvision
AUGUST 4, 2014
'By Bob Gourley. This post deals with exciting science that is fun to watch. But it is also a topic which will have significant implications for security professionals and perhaps also for law enforcement and other mission domains. The video at this link and embedded below shows research and results of ways to extract audible sound from a distance from a variety of passive methods.
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.
Change Starts Here
AUGUST 12, 2014
'Today’s the last day to get FREE registration. for the Define Your Change webinar. when you order your Irresistible Change Guide toolkit. Two years ago, I introduced the Irresistible Change Guide as an easy-to-use change management toolkit to help people with the essential yet often elusive components of implementing change. Since then, it’s helped scores of change agents design and influence change at work.
Erik Bernhardsson
AUGUST 18, 2014
Inspired by Sander Dieleman’s internship at Spotify, I’ve been playing around with deep learning using Theano. Theano is this Python package that lets you define symbolic expressions (cool), does automatic differentiation (really cool), and compiles it down into bytecode to run on a CPU/GPU (super cool). It’s built by Yoshua Bengio’s deep learning team up in Montreal.
Let's Grow Leaders
AUGUST 22, 2014
'Welcome back to the Let’s Grow Leaders Frontline Festival. Our August Festival is all about Humor in the Workplace. Thanks to Joy and Tom Guthrie of Vixwerx for the great pic. “Everything is funny, as long as it’s happening to somebody else.” - Will Rogers. Humor and Leadership. “A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.” – Dwight D.
General Leadership
AUGUST 11, 2014
'Today Brigadier General John E. Michel relinquished command of his team in Afghanistan after over a year of amazing successes and honorable command-service. The following is the final “Soundbite” he shared with his team, the last in a series of 52 he crafted each week for the members of his command. As all of you have likely heard me say since my arrival, human beings are moved by stories.
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Terry Starbucker
AUGUST 31, 2014
'It’s been almost 4 years now since my cable TV company was sold, and my wife and I packed up and moved from Stamford, Connecticut to Portland, Oregon. We came to Portland not because of business opportunity or proximity to family & friends – we came because of what we felt during several vacations we had taken there. It was a vibe, a sense, an instinct.
CTOvision
AUGUST 21, 2014
'By Bob Gourley. We have previously written about Wayin (I am proud to be one of their advisors). Their capabilities continue to evolve to enable organizations to continually improve how social media is used to both understand and engage. Wayin’s success in the marketplace has centered around sensemaking over social data in ways that can improve the value delivered to consumers and clients.
Change Starts Here
AUGUST 19, 2014
'I was at the post office recently to mail a package. The postal worker at the counter was friendly and made funny voices at my 6 year old daughter to make her laugh. He was the picture of good customer service. Then, as he nearly completed the transaction to add postage to the package, he accidentally touched a button on the screen that apparently canceled the whole transaction.
Toptal
AUGUST 22, 2014
Let's face it, robots are cool. In this post, Toptal Engineer Nick McCrea provides a step-by-step, easy-to-follow tutorial (with code samples) that walks you through the process of building a basic autonomous mobile robot.
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.
Let's Grow Leaders
AUGUST 11, 2014
'Unsticking your team is one of the biggest challenges of a leader. When inertia sets in, there’s almost always a breakdown in belief at some level. When teams stop believing they stop doing. If your team has lost that magic feeling, look for signs of lostbelieving. 6 Reasons TeamsStop Believing. 1. They Stop Believing in You. This can take a variety of forms, but it almost always comes down to a matter of trust.
General Leadership
AUGUST 1, 2014
'“I’ve learned that whenever I decide something with an open heart, I usually make the right decision.”. Maya Angelou. The great philosopher Aristotle once said, “You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.” But courage is something more than a quality of the mind. It is, as I learned from my wife, primarily a condition of the heart.
Terry Starbucker
AUGUST 10, 2014
'Bill Bresnan. And this month, we hit our goal of 98%. After saying this, I sat back in my chair at a quarterly review meeting feeling pretty good about myself, and awaited a positive reaction from my colleagues. I was especially hopeful for an acknowledgement from the CEO, Bill Bresnan, who had been my mentor for many years. He was also an industry titan, a leader and pioneer in the cable TV business for nearly 50 years.
CTOvision
AUGUST 27, 2014
'By Bob Gourley. FedCyber is an annual cybersecurity event hosted by Matt Devost and Bob Gourley that brings together several hundred attendees to advance the dialogue on critical enterprise and federal government challenges. This event us unique in the DC ecosystem. We are focused on enabling people who make a difference in things cyber. We serve the community of practitioners who really get things done.
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Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog
AUGUST 4, 2014
'One of the most striking things I see when watching organizations make the transition from legacy industrial models of working to new network-based models , is that we keep trying to employ the new tools and ideas in the same old ways. Certainly, it’s quite hard to unlearn the old methods, so deeply instilled are they by prior experience, history, and momentum.
Toptal
AUGUST 8, 2014
This Machine Learning tutorial introduces the basics of ML theory, laying down the common themes and concepts, making it easy to follow the logic and get comfortable with the topic.
Let's Grow Leaders
AUGUST 15, 2014
'Today I bring you a guest post from LGL Tribe member, David Tumbarello. I often find his comments could be a post in themselves. His views on confident humility are so rich, I invited him to share more deeply. Thanks to LGL Tribe member, Joy Guthrie for the art. Confident Humility: The Conversation Continues. My hope in writing this guest blog today is to respond to Karin Hurt’s post about Humility and Leadership.
General Leadership
AUGUST 20, 2014
'“The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step”. Lao Tzu. To be a great leader doesn’t mean one has to take the flag and charge into cannon fire or make a drastic change in the organization. Those leaders do tend to get all the fame, but the ones that can make a real difference in peoples’ lives are the ones who constantly set a good example, reward positive performance and steer their team to success.
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Terry Starbucker
AUGUST 24, 2014
'In this space I usually write about the “ leading ” part of my philosophy of More Human Leadership. Today, I’d like to chat about the “ More Human ” part. Bur first, a little history: I started this blog on December 25, 2005. It was a lark, really - a friend of mine had showed me his Blogger account a few days before and I thought “ cool, a place to put your thoughts “.
CTOvision
AUGUST 28, 2014
'By AdamElkus. Over at Wired , a headline blares “Artificial Intelligence Is Now Telling Doctors How To Treat You.” Sounds unique, novel, and even scary. Those AIs are replacing humans, to the point where even the detailed knowledge of the physician is superseded by a Dr. HAL! The article talks about Modernizing Medicine database and IBM’s Watson supercomputer.
Next Level Blog
AUGUST 28, 2014
'One of the biggest shifts that most rising leaders have to make is the shift from being the go-to person to someone who builds teams of go-to people. As you take on more and more scope in your leadership role, you can’t continue to operate as the go-to person who acts as if you’re personally responsible for everything that happens. You need to be accountable and own the results but you can’t expect yourself to do everything that leads to the results.
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