April, 2014

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9 Ways to Be a Positive Force in a Negative Workplace

Let's Grow Leaders

'My German Father-in-law would call trying to fix this negative workplace, Furzen gegen den Donner, “farting against thunder.” I’ve got to admit, the description I got on the other end of the phone was pretty bad: little to no recognition, development, or teamwork…combined with long hours, limited resources, lots of finger-pointing, and the uncertainty of a new […].

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Leaders: Examine Your Priorites

N2Growth Blog

'By Grant Wattie. President, N2Growth Australia. Why do you do what you do? In this video, Grant Wattie, President of N2Growth Australia, discusses how you should really be honest with yourself when you come to a crossroads with your professional career. Ask yourself, what do you value? And will your choices allow you to live your values?

Coaching 167
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Tune-in 9pmEST SiriusXM Ch125! Topic: Grace & Selfless-Service

General Leadership

'Join us – LIVE Wednesday, 2 April – at 9pm Eastern (6pm Pacific) on SiriusXM Patriot Channel 125 & the David Webb Show ! This is our 10th installment of the “ 12 Virtues of Leadership ” series and tonight we feature the virtue of “ Grace.” 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 #Grace.

Nonprofit 166
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How a Good Life Builds a (Better Than) Great Company – The Zen of Jonathan Fields

Terry Starbucker

'“A good life isn’t a place at which you arrive, it is a lens through which you see and create your world” – from the Good Life Project “Living Creed” On the latest edition of the More Human Podcast , my special guest is Jonathan Fields , a New York City dad, husband and lawyer turned award-winning author, media-producer and entrepreneur.

Company 156
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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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Tech Titans To Visit At Geoint: Here is my take on the must-see firms on the expo floor

CTOvision

'By Bob Gourley. This is a follow on to our post on planning your time at the Geoint Symposium. With this post I want to make some technology recommendations that may be helpful to you as you plan out your time at the Geoint Symposium 14-17 Apr. There are so many great firms on the expo floor you cannot possibly spend time with all of them. You really need to approach the floor with a strategy.

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13 Stupid Sentences That Will Derail Your Career

Let's Grow Leaders

'I wish HR would teach a course on the really stupid sentences people say at work. Oh, I’m not talking about he obvious stupidity: ”you look hot in that dress” or “hey baby…” there’s training and rules for that. But there’s no code of conduct to protect against the stupid, disempowering words I often hear […].

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7 CEO Success Tips – How To Be A Better Leader

N2Growth Blog

'By Damian D. “Skipper” Pitts. Chair, Organizational Development, N2Growth. By now, we all know that leadership is tough, hard, exciting and demanding. But, at the same time, what most people learn the hard way is that it is not a short drive in the beautiful countryside. Instead, it is a long drive across the entire country that requires a look at the roadmap to avoid the roadblocks while understanding the routes and the detours along the way, long before the drive begins.

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Honoring Those Who Have Given Their All

General Leadership

'“ I have long believed that sacrifice is the pinnacle of patriotism. ”. Bob Riley. [The following is an unedited transcript of the speech I shared this morning commemorating the third anniversary of the loss of nine of our teammates fighting for freedom in Afghanistan…a reminder they are gone but certainly not forgotten ]. We have a difficult but important duty today, paying homage to nine American heroes who gave everything in defense of freedom.

Energy 165
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The Most Precious Resource of Leadership

Terry Starbucker

'It takes work to secure, it’s hard to keep, and if you lose it, you lose – BIG. And, it’s really hard to get it back. It’s that precious to the effective leader. It MUST be kept, at all costs, and with all the effort you can muster. What is it? Your word. I’ve never seen a ship sink so fast when a leader doesn’t keep their word.

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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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NGA joins GitHub, offers code to help disaster response

CTOvision

'By Michael Johnson. We read this press release with pleasure and have deep respect for the incredibly hard work required to achieve the kinds of success demonstrated here. It is not easy to get things like this done in government. From: the NGA pless release at [link]. NGA joins GitHub, offers code to help disaster response. April 11, 2014. SPRINGFIELD, Va. – The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency this week joined GitHub, a popular social network that allows programmers to collabora

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MLConf 2014

Erik Bernhardsson

Just spent a day at MLConf where I was talking about how we do music recommendations. There was a whole range of great speakers (actually almost 2/3 women which was pretty cool in itself). Here are my slides: Justin Basilico from Netflix talked about how they deliver a personalized start page using lots of ranking. Claudia Perlich also had a great presentation about ad targeting.

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5 Ways You’re Sabotaging Teamwork

Let's Grow Leaders

'If your team has as much teamwork as a box of crayons without a child to guide them, don’t blame them. Consider what you may be doing to inadvertently sabotage their teamwork. 5 Ways You’re Sabotaging Teamwork 1. Insisting on a Team that Doesn’t Make Sense I’ve seen so much energy and money wasted to […]. The post 5 Ways You’re Sabotaging Teamwork appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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The Brilliance Of Naiveté

N2Growth Blog

'By Mike Myatt. Chairman, N2Growth. * This post was originally published on Forbes. I was speaking with a colleague last week who at one point in our conversation referred a third party as being naïve, to which my response was, “ I’m not so sure that’s a bad thing – perhaps we should all be a bit more naïve. ” The seed I was trying to plant was that if people (particularly those in leadership) spent less time defending what they think they know, and more time exploring the vast universe of wh

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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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Magnify Success: Choose Your Words Wisely

General Leadership

'“No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.” Aesop. ‘Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me.’ Many of you will remember this popular rhyme from elementary school. In fact, you may have even recited it a number of times as kids as it’s a common childhood idiom we use to remind people they cannot hurt us with the bad things they say or write about us.

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5 Simple Secrets To Leadership Productivity

Terry Starbucker

'I’m often asked, “How can a leader be more productive?”, which is shorthand for: “Help! I’m sinking in quicksand here – what can I do to get all this stuff I need to get done, done?” Well, the answer isn’t in the “doing”. And, it’s not about how fast, or how well. Nope, it’s none of these. The best way to leadership productivity is simply this: Making the best selection of WHAT to do at any given moment.

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Technology Context From the Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR)

CTOvision

'By Bob Gourley. For a decade now the cyber security community has been treated to important strategic context coordinated by Verizon in their Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR). The information in the report can help drive strategic planning for enterprise technologists and members of the enterprise cyber security team and it is well worth a read by any CTO, CIO, CISO and most other members of enterprise technology teams.

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The power of ensembles

Erik Bernhardsson

From my presentation at MLConf, one of the points I think is worth stressing again is how extremely well combining different algorithms works. In this case, we’re training machine learning algorithms on different data sets (playlists, play counts, sessions) and different objectives (least squares, max likelihood). Then we combine all the models using gradient boosted decision trees training on a smaller but higher quality data set.

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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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4 Signs You Have an Inspiring Point of View

Let's Grow Leaders

'Weak “leaders” waffle and shape shift. They’re easily swayed by popular opinion or the path of least resistance. Their point of view is remarkably consistent with whatever their boss says, or send messages that will cause the least amount of work. They attract other easy people, who’ll just go with the flow. The flow turns to […].

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Three Simple, Hard and Personally Rewarding Rules to Change Everything!

N2Growth Blog

'By Damian “Skipper” Pitts. Chair, Organizational Development, N2Growth. Are you looking for that much?needed strategic advantage in life? Are you looking to gain an edge over the competition to get that job you believe and think is already yours? If so, all it takes is learning how to follow three simple rules to develop a shift in your mindset to hone your skills to become a stronger leader for yourself and others.

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Creating a Strategy for Limitless Success

General Leadership

'“ A goal without a plan is just a wish.”. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. Growing up, one of my favorite television series was Mission: Impossible. The immensely popular program chronicles the adventures of the Impossible Missions Force (IMF), a team of government spies and specialists who are regularly offered “impossible missions” (should they decide to accept them).

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6 Reliable Clues That Reveal Your Leadership Effectiveness

Terry Starbucker

'“How am I doing?” . You don’t have to wait until your annual or 360 reviews to find out, or even pose the question to somebody- all you have to do is know how to see the clues that are out there in the workplace, every day. I’ve found that there are 6 things that are reliable barometers of leadership effectiveness: Any “venting” happens in private – If you are leading well, you are acting like a plumber , acting as a safety valve for your teammates to vent

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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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Spies Want Your Money: Look at this pinhole camera used to steal credit card numbers

CTOvision

'By Bob Gourley. Threats to our information are not only from malware or brute force hacks or social engineering. Criminals are motivated to look for every advantage. Sometimes we read about very sophisticated attacks against hardware that require advanced engineering. But attacks don’t really have to be sophisticated to be successful. Two relatively easy to execute attacks were recently highlighted by the New York City Metropolitan Transportation Authority.

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MLConf 2014

Erik Bernhardsson

Just spent a day at MLConf where I was talking about how we do music recommendations. There was a whole range of great speakers (actually almost 2/3 women which was pretty cool in itself). Here are my slides: Justin Basilico from Netflix talked about how they deliver a personalized start page using lots of ranking. Claudia Perlich also had a great presentation about ad targeting.

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Transitions: My First Week as an Entrepreneur

Let's Grow Leaders

'As my regulars know, I’ve recently left my job as a Verizon Wireless executive to pursue my entrepreneurial dream. I promise that my blog will continue to be about ways to support you. With that said, I’ve received so many wonderful notes and lots of questions about what’s next as an entrepreneur, that I figured there were […].

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Leadership in a VUCA World

N2Growth Blog

'By Grant Wattie. President, N2Growth Australia. Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity, and Ambiguity. It’s become a popular acronym but it is very real. In this video, Grant Wattie, President of N2Growth Australia, discusses how you, as a leader, can’t hold on to traditional leadership techniques and make it in this world full of VUCA. At N2Growth, we would love the opportunity to speak with you and see how we can help you navigate the volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambigu

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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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Dynamic Leadership: Don’t be a Humvee Leader

General Leadership

'“Slow Down… You Will Get There Faster”. Fighter Pilot Saying. Too often, leaders choose to be “ Humvee leaders.” They are so worried about quickly making progress that no regard is given to intent, probability of success or the hazards encountered along the way. This style of leader typically has little regard for the destruction they leave in their path or the people they harm along the journey.

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My Leadership Secret: Forget Superman, Just Remember 7 Words

Terry Starbucker

'I would never forget that day back in 1987. It was probably my third or forth meeting with my new boss, Jack Kent Cooke. He asked me a question about something, and truthfully, I can’t even remember what it was. What I vividly remember was answering in a way that clearly indicated I wasn’t very sure I had the right answer. I’m sure you know what I mean – like a Jeopardy contestant answering in the form of a question.

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Have You Ever Had A Complaint/Suggestion About How The Federal Government Buys Technology

CTOvision

'By Bob Gourley. Everyone with any history in or around government has stories they can tell about federal government procurements. It really is a different beast. There are many reasons why. Perhaps the first 535 reasons are the 535 voting members of the US Congress that have the funding, oversight and legislative powers for how government works. Name another organization in the world that has a board of directors with 535 voting members?