November, 2015

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4 Reasons Your Feedback is Being Ignored

Let's Grow Leaders

The number one frustration I hear from team leaders is that their feedback falls on deaf ears. The employee seems to get it– for a minute, and then they go right back to their old habits. So they give the same feedback again, this time “louder” either literally, or through progressive discipline, or sadly sometimes threats or biting sarcasm.

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Veterans Day – Solemnly Remember

General Leadership

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. 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.”.

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The One Thing A Great Leader Has To Give Up (After Working Hard To Get It)

Terry Starbucker

I remember the first time I got it at age 22, a mere 4 months after I graduated from college, as a staff accountant at a public accounting firm. It was given to me reluctantly, out of sheer necessity, and it terrified me. But on the other hand, it was what I wanted. After all, I was young, and overflowing with exuberant ambition. So I took the ball, and ran with it, all the way up the field.

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Boston Globe: Tamr is Number One Small Company In Boston

CTOvision

There is something special about Tamr. As technologists we focus on things like their ability to help organizations make better decisions through smart, differentiated technologies. Results are what matters in enterprise IT. The savvy enterprise leader knows this. Really great firms deliver results long term. How can you know if you are dealing with a firm like that?

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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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There is no magic trick

Erik Bernhardsson

(Warning: super speculative, feel free to ignore). As Yogi Berra said, “It’s tough to make predictions, especially about the future”. Unfortunately predicting is hard, and unsurprisingly people look for the Magic Trick™ that can resolve all the uncertainty. Whether it’s recruiting, investing, system design, finding your soulmate, or anything else, there’s always an alleged shortcut.

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5 Reasons Your Team Doesn’t Buy Your Game Plan

Let's Grow Leaders

Trust me, I’ve seen that look. The #areyouinsane ? look. The #whatplanetareyoufrom ? grimace. The #thischickisclearlyfromH R lament. The #anddoesnthaveaclue freak out. A few months later, they were all in. Not because of some clever incentive program. Not because of beautiful spin. Almost entirely because they could taste the win. If you’re struggling to gain traction on a new idea or program, you may be dealing with one of these five sources of resistance. 1.

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Professional Growth often requires Jumping

General Leadership

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. “Don’t let the fear of striking out hold you back.” Babe Ruth. Comedian Steve Harvey has a video on YouTube where he describes how to take a “jump” and put change into motion in your life.

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Do You Have What It Takes To Be A Leader? 15 Things To Think About Before You Step Up

Terry Starbucker

An open letter to all who are thinking about being a leader, are about to be a leader, or are already been given the responsibility of a leader and are trying to figure out how the heck it all works: . Dear Prospective, Pending, or Current Leader: I understand you are trying to be a leader. First off, that’s fantastic – leadership is a great calling that can bring you great success and satisfaction on so many levels, both personally and professionally.

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The Megatrend of Cloud Computing: An update for technology decision-makers

CTOvision

There are seven key megatrends driving the future of enterprise IT. You can remember them all with the helpful mnemonic acronym CAMBRIC, which stands for C loud Computing, A rtificial Intelligence, M obility, B ig Data, R obotics, I nternet of Things, C yberSecurity. In this post we dive deeper into the first of these trends, Cloud Computing.

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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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There is no magic trick

Erik Bernhardsson

(Warning: super speculative, feel free to ignore). As Yogi Berra said, “It’s tough to make predictions, especially about the future”. Unfortunately predicting is hard, and unsurprisingly people look for the Magic Trick™ that can resolve all the uncertainty. Whether it’s recruiting, investing, system design, finding your soulmate, or anything else, there’s always an alleged shortcut.

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Interview: Lean Into Authentic Leadership

Change Starts Here

This month’s guest, leadership consultant and executive coach Aaronde Creighton of Pique, shares why and how to be your true self at work when you’re leading change. Leave the mask at home and let your real leadership show up!

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8 Secrets to Creating a Collaborative Culture

Let's Grow Leaders

I’ve never met someone who would admit to preferring drama over collaboration. And yet, most cultures have too much drama, too little collaboration. What’s up with that? This weekend we stayed in a beach house in Nags Head with my sister, and 28 of her closest friends (most of whom we had ever met) to run the Outer Banks Southern Fried racing weekend.

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Dynamic Dozen #4: Keep Your Team Informed

General Leadership

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. “Communicate unto the other person that which you would want him to communicate unto you if your positions were reversed.” — Aaron Goldman. Across the years, especially when I was a young employee or supervisor, I was always interested in how little information flowed in the organizations I belonged to.

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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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The Most Dangerous Question a Leader Can Ever Ask

Terry Starbucker

“Terry my boy, what do you think?”. There it was, finally, the question I was waiting for from my brilliant but mercurial multi-multi-millionaire boss. I had been pondering the answer for several weeks. We were working on an important project in the fall of 1990, and there was a problem, one demanding some out-of-the-box thinking. As the Project Manager, I had many hours of meetings with all the key players involved, and diligently forged a consensus on a proposed course of action – so we could

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The Megatrend of Artificial Intelligence: An update for technology decision-makers

CTOvision

There are seven key megatrends driving the future of enterprise IT. You can remember them all with the helpful mnemonic acronym CAMBRIC, which stands for C loud Computing, A rtificial Intelligence, M obility, B ig Data, R obotics, I nternet of Things, C yberSecurity. In this post we dive deeper into Artificial Intelligence. Artificial Intelligence is the discipline of thinking machines.

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Installing TensorFlow on AWS

Erik Bernhardsson

Curious about Google’s newly released TensorFlow ? I don’t have a beefy GPU machine, so I spent some time getting it to run on EC2. The steps on how to reproduce it are pretty brutal and I wouldn’t recommend going through it unless you want to waste five hours of your live. Instead, I recommend instead just getting the AMI that I built (ami-cf5028a5).

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Hey Wantrepreneur: Here’s How to Become an Entrepreneur

Women on Business

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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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3 Ways To Challenge Your Team Toward Higher Performance

Let's Grow Leaders

“But we’re already doing so much better than last year, when is enough, enough?” “Don’t you see how overwhelmed we are already?” “That’s not a stretch goal, that’s a delusion.” If you’re like most managers, at some point you’ve heard this kind of pushback from your team. Challenging your team to do more (often with less) is one of the biggest challenges of a manager.

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What Is Care?

General Leadership

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. “S wonderful! ‘S marvelous! That you should care for me!” Ira Gershwin. What do you care about as a leader? Is it the same thing that your team members care about? What about the organization?

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How Strong Leadership Leads to Business Longevity

Lead on Purpose

According to Business Week, the life expectancy of a multinational corporation (typically on the Fortune 500 list) is only between 40 and 50 years on average. Many companies do not even last that long.

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How Tamr is Helping Toyota Motor Europe (TME) “Plumb Differently”

CTOvision

Toyota Motor Europe’s Wouter Dullaert explains Tamr’s features and benefits in the video below. We like this video because it is another great example of how a technologist in an enterprise can make a huge impact on the business of an organization. It is also good because it underscores why Tamr is unique. Dullaert underscores that tapping into the full value of customer information is key, “with ‘roughly 270 different databases that have customer data in them — and that’s before we actually get

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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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Installing TensorFlow on AWS

Erik Bernhardsson

Curious about Google’s newly released TensorFlow ? I don’t have a beefy GPU machine, so I spent some time getting it to run on EC2. The steps on how to reproduce it are pretty brutal and I wouldn’t recommend going through it unless you want to waste five hours of your live. Instead, I recommend instead just getting the AMI that I built (ami-cf5028a5).

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10 Signs You Have What It Takes to be an Entrepreneur

Women on Business

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Frontline Festival: Leaders Share about the Power of Gratitude

Let's Grow Leaders

Welcome back to the Let’s Grow Leaders Frontline Festival. Our November Festival is all about gratitude. Thanks to Joy and Tom Guthrie of Vizwerx Group for the great pic and to all our contributors! Next month, in celebration of the launch of the new Star Wars: the Force Awakens movie we’re going to give you two options. You’re welcome to submit your “best of” post of 2015.

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Resolving Conflict While Maintaining Your Composure – Part 2

General Leadership

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. “Whenever you’re in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.”. William James. Over the course of your professional career you’re going to experience conflict in the workplace.

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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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Going Real-Time with Redis Pub/Sub

Toptal

Real-time applications have already started to dominate the landscape of the Internet. With modern frameworks and standardization of the necessary client-side features, building a real-time web application has become a breeze. However, such web applications still pose unique scalability challenges. In this article, Toptal engineer Mahmud Ridwan explores the architecture of a simple real-time web application that works using Redis Pub/Sub and doesn't compromise its horizontal scalability.

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Addressing the Ethical Issues of Big Data

CTOvision

Big Data is a growing trend, making it possible for businesses of every kind to gather, store, and use the unlimited personal and private data found on the internet. This massive collection allows them to predict trends, determine consumer tastes, and hone marketing plans for the greatest success. However, the concept of collecting vast amounts of information on people sounds dangerous all on its own; what keeps businesses from stepping over the line?

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Looking for smart people

Erik Bernhardsson

I haven’t mentioned what I’m currently up to. Earlier this year I left Spotify to join a small startup called Better. We’re going after one of the biggest industries in the world that also turns out to be completely broken. The mortgage industry might not be the #1 industry you pictured yourself in, but it’s an enormous opportunity to fix a series of real consumer problems and join a company that I predict will be huge.