March, 2016

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36 Questions Which Lead Leaders

General Leadership

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. “Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.” Voltaire. Leadership is not about having the right answers, it is the ability to ask the correct questions. It is a compilation of lived and learned experiences, the experiential education which bounds your way of thinking and does not define a rulebook.

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The Most Powerful Note on Authenticity I’ve Ever Received

Let's Grow Leaders

I was blown away by an email I received from a woman who recently read Winning Well. I was touched on so many levels… by her brave journey toward authenticity in the workplace, by her clear sense of confident humility, by her gratitude for accepting leaders and an inclusive workplace, and quite frankly by the fact that there are Winning Well CEOs out there looking for other Winning Well leaders who have the ability to value competence and confidence over all the other crap that gets i

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Iterate or die

Erik Bernhardsson

Here’s a conclusion I’ve made building consumer products for many years: the speed at which a company innovates is limited by its iteration speed. I don’t even mean throughput here. I just mean the cycle time. Invoking Little’s law this is also related to the total inventory of features not being deployed yet. In a hypothetical scenario, clone two teams of identical engineers and split them up in two groups A and B.

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The 7 Things A Leader Must Do To Build The Perfect Team

Terry Starbucker

On paper, and in your head, you have the best team in the world – and yet, things are not clicking. You feel like you have the “ right people on the bus “, but right now, it’s just a bus going to nowhere. What to do? First off, you are not alone – this is a classic dilemma that has spawned a ton of books, studies, white papers, seminars, webinars and head scratching that have attempted to discern the core issues and solutions.

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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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Can Retail Analytics Help Win The Shopping Basket Battle?

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Sanjeev Sularia. Supermarkets are vying to win over shoppers as the supermarket war escalates with the arrival of cut price alternatives in the US, that have already gobbled up market share from the big brand players in Europe. Intelligence Node’s Sanjeev Sularia warns that supermarkets will need to use big data to gain a deeper understanding of shopping patterns to stave off the competition.

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3 Ways to Build Responsibility Skills In Your Subordinates

General Leadership

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. “Success on any major scale requires you to accept responsibility. In the final analysis, the one quality that all successful people have is the ability to take on responsibility.” — Michael Korda.

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10 Things to Do When Your Team’s Not Listening

Let's Grow Leaders

Her call touched me deeply. She was trying so hard… to establish the right vision, to key in on the important behaviors, to scaffold and develop…and her team just wasn’t listening. Perhaps you’ve been there too. You’ve got vision. You care deeply. You teach. You repeat yourself. But no one seems to “get it”? Here are ten questions worth asking when you hit that wall– when your team is just not listening.

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Exploding offers are b t

Erik Bernhardsson

I do a lot of recruiting and have given maybe 50 offers in my career. Although many companies do, I never put a deadline on any of them. Unfortunately, I’ve often ended up competing with other companies who do, and I feel really bad that this usually tricks younger developers into signing offers. On numerous occasions, I’ve gotten an email halfway through the interview process.

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7 Ways To Keep Your Balance On The Leadership Tightrope

Terry Starbucker

Leadership is a balancing act. Imagine the tightrope walker at the circus, precariously navigating from one side of the big top to the other. If the walker puts too much weight on one side or the other, they’ll take a big fall. And so it is for those who lead, and what’s more, it requires a deft sense of self-awareness and guile- and just a bit of schizophrenia.

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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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Join Women in Cybersecurity This Week in Dallas

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Katie Kennedy. Women in Cybersecurity (WiCyS) is hosting its third annual Women in Cybersecurity event on March 31 through April 2 at the Hyatt Regency DFW International Airport. WiCyS continues to innovatively expand its mission to bring together women in cybersecurity from academia, research and industry. This event is designed as a forum for speakers and guests to exchange knowledge, experience, networking, and mentoring, with the ultimate goal of raising interest in the important, fascinatin

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Top Ten Front-End Design Rules For Developers

Toptal

Truly understanding design is easier said than done. Coding and aesthetic design require very different skill sets, which is why some front-end developers aren’t as proficient in design as they could be, and the quality of their work suffers for it. In this post, Toptal Freelance Software Engineer Bryan Grezeszak explains why good front-end developers have to follow essential design principles down to the pixel, and should regularly seek out advice and feedback from their designers.

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A Leader’s Legacy Builds from the Start

General Leadership

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. “Leaders who see their role as serving others leave the most lasting legacy.” James Kouzes and Barry Posner. This blog post came to me after recently seeing numerous online headlines about our 44 th President seeking to establish his legacy.

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6 Ways to Stay Productive When You’re Completely Overwhelmed

Let's Grow Leaders

Have you ever looked at your to do list and just laughed? You think, “oh right, that’s not happening,” and then moments later, you realize that none of the tasks on your list are really an option. Perhaps that’s the point that your nervous laughter turns to tears. That’s the wall I hit this week. I’ve had a number of serious personal challenges that require an intense investment of emotion and time, some stuff I wouldn’t have chosen, and certainly not at

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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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Exploding offers are b t

Erik Bernhardsson

I do a lot of recruiting and have given maybe 50 offers in my career. Although many companies do, I never put a deadline on any of them. Unfortunately, I’ve often ended up competing with other companies who do, and I feel really bad that this usually tricks younger developers into signing offers. On numerous occasions, I’ve gotten an email halfway through the interview process.

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7 Leadership Pitfalls That Sabotage Company Growth

The Empowered Buisness

What’s sabotaging your growth? Driving profitable growth is at the top of every leader’s priority list. Yet, according to Bain and Company, only 10% succeed in achieving sustainable profitable growth. While growth is the life-blood of every business, at some point, your company will experience the double edge sword of growth. Either your company will grow faster than your internal capacity to handle it.

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#AppleVsFBI – #FBIVsApple – The Basics, Explained, With Links To Original Documents

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Bob Gourley. This post provides an update on the ongoing battle between Apple and the U.S. government regarding Syed Rizwan Farook's iPhone, recovered by police after the horrific massacre in San Bernadino on December 2, 2015. It is just days before the March 22, 2016 hearing in this long-running, highly publicized dispute between the FBI and Apple, with the FBI’s demands of Apple being variously termed “jailbreak”, put a backdoor into, brute force access, compromise security of, or any number

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Introduction To PHP 7: What's New And What's Gone

Toptal

If you haven't been working with PHP lately, you might wonder what happened to PHP 6. Why the skip from PHP 5 to PHP 7? Well, long story short, PHP 6 was a failure. To avoid confusion, the new version was renamed PHP 7. PHP 7 introduces a number of new features, while at the same time dropping depreciated SAPIs and extensions. As a result, it tends to outperform PHP 5.x by a wide margin.

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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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Is It Time For A Leadership Break?

General Leadership

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. “When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.” Friedrich Nitzsche. Being a leader can be tiring. After all, you have your team relying on you to be there for them to answer questions, provide direction, and make things happen.

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Frontline Festival March 2016: Fresh Insights for Leaders

Let's Grow Leaders

Welcome back to the Let’s Grow Leaders Frontline Festival. This month’s festival, in keeping with the seasonal turn toward spring, is all about fresh insights for leaders. Thanks to Joy and Tom Guthrie of Vizwerx Group for the great pic and to all our contributors! Our thanks as well to the Brainy Quote site for being a great source of quotations.

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Meta-blogging

Erik Bernhardsson

(This is not a very relevant/useful post for regular readers – feel free to skip. I thought I would share it so people can find it on Google.). My blog blew up twice in a week earlier this year when I landed on Hacker News. The first time I was asleep so I didn’t notice that the site went down. The second time I did notice, and scrambled to reconfigure Apache & MySQL to handle the load.

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The current state of dependency inversion in JavaScript

Wolk Software Engineering

Learn about the past, present and future of dependency inversion in JavaScript. Over the last year and a half, I’ve been reading a lot about dependency inversion and taking a look to the source code of many open-source IoC containers for JavaScript. At the same time I’ve been working on the development of InversifyJS (a powerful IoC container for JavaScript apps powered by TypeScript).

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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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James Madison University Seeks Professor – Intelligence Analysis Program

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Bob Gourley. James Madison University is looking for an experienced professional to help serve and mentor the next generation of advanced intelligence analysts and has provided us with the job description below. Please look it over and share it with others that may have an interest: Assistant / Associate Professor - Intelligence Analysis Program. Institution: James Madison University.

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To Python 3 and Back Again: Is It Worth the Switch?

Toptal

Since its debut in 2008, Python 3 has come a long way. Gone are the days when it lacked support for almost all useful libraries and tools. Python 3 offers many improvements and amazing new features that make writing robust code in Python easier than ever. In this article, Toptal engineer Dario Bertini discusses some of the improvements and features that Python 3 has to offer, and explains whether switching to Python 3 is a smart choice right now.

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Dynamic Dozen: Setting The Example

General Leadership

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. (US Air Force photo by Melanie Rodgers Cox). Always do everything you ask of those you command. – General George S. Patton. When I was an instructor at the Air Force’s Officer Training School, I noticed the uncanny way the groups of officer trainees we led became mirrors of their Flight Commander.

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5 Ways to Overcome Impostor Syndrome

Let's Grow Leaders

Throughout our new book, Winning Well (available now!), David and I talk consistently about the importance of confidence AND humility, results AND relationships. So many of the managers we work with tell us that the hardest part to master is confidence. Even those highly successful managers who appear to be Winning Well and making a difference will often take us aside and admit that they sometimes feel like a fake.

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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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Meta-blogging

Erik Bernhardsson

(This is not a very relevant/useful post for regular readers – feel free to skip. I thought I would share it so people can find it on Google.). My blog blew up twice in a week earlier this year when I landed on Hacker News. The first time I was asleep so I didn’t notice that the site went down. The second time I did notice, and scrambled to reconfigure Apache & MySQL to handle the load.

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Interview: Building an Optimistic Workplace

Change Starts Here

This episode’s guest is Shawn Murphy, CEO and Co-Founder of Switch & Shift. In his book, The Optimistic Workplace , Shawn defines the Origins of Optimism as purpose, meaningful work, and extraordinary people. Listen in as Shawn shares how to develop an optimistic workplace and why you’d want to. Plus I’ll ask him how an optimistic workplace enables change.

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Top 100 Influencers In Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

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Katie Kennedy. Artificial Intelligence is the discipline of thinking machines. It has been a field of growing interest since 1955 when John McCarthy first coined the term, defining it as "the science and engineering of making intelligent machines.". The largest players in technology today, including Google, Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft and Apple, are all investing heavily in Artificial Intelligence.