March, 2014

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When Passive Aggressive Meets the Truth #meanit

Let's Grow Leaders

'He was the poster-child for passive aggressive (at least that’s my side of the story). In an effort to keep the peace, I’d tried to shake it off. I’d kept my mouth shut, and encouraged my team to take the “high road.” But the high road was getting bumpier with time. With all this #meanit […] The post When Passive Aggressive Meets the Truth #meanit appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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10 Critical Leadership Battles (And How You Can Win Them All)

Terry Starbucker

'There are some moments in your career that leave an indelible imprint – moments that end up defining WHO you are. They are moments where you literally plant a flag and say “This is it! This is where I’m going!!” And sometimes, you get to ask a brave follow up question, to those who have witnessed the moment. “Will you follow me??

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How Are You Choosing to Show Up?

General Leadership

'“The history of free men is never really written by chance, but by choice; their choice!”. Dwight D. Eisenhower. Greece’s history is replete with tales of heroes and the great battles they fought. Platea, Tangra, Coronea, and Chaeronea are but a handful of the battlefields that litter the small island nation. However, on a single spot marked by only a stark, white marble column in the middle of a grain field, you’ll find arguably the most significant battlefield of all.

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What Great Leaders Do

N2Growth Blog

'By Joel Garfinkle. Chair, Executive Coaching, N2Growth. What does a leader look like? Think of two leaders, famous or not, whom you admire and respect. What do they do that is so different? What traits do they have that help them excel at a high level? Leadership is not a great mystery. Great leaders have specific traits in common. These traits can be learned and developed—by you!

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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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Leon Panetta Warns of Cyber Pearl Harbor: and a CTO gives him a polite earful

CTOvision

'By Bob Gourley Leon Panetta spoke today at the Symantec government conference in DC. No matter what your politics are, I hope you see this man as a great American who always puts country above himself. I believe that. He has spent his entire adult life proving that. He is a fantastic speaker. He held the attention of an audience of 2000 with a great overview of the state of national security, including threats, and as far as I can tell did that perfectly.

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Hillary Clinton and I Share This Concern

Let's Grow Leaders

'“Too many women in too many countries speak the same language — of silence.” Hillary Clinton Hillary Clinton’s noticed a pattern in her decades of work developing men and women staffers. As she shared it from the stage at the conference I attended last week, I felt […]. The post Hillary Clinton and I Share This Concern appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Avoiding The Big Leadership Mistake (or, You Can Lead a Team To Water But You Can’t Make Them Drink)

Terry Starbucker

'Some days it’s really hard to be an optimist. Especially on that day when the Big Leadership Mistake hits you. Take a look at the illustration on the right ( or below, if you are looking at this on a handheld ). The “Big Mistake” is working really, really hard to sprint up that hill, heading towards the top and a big success, only to hit a brick wall just a short distance from the finish line.

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Choose Your Heroes Wisely

General Leadership

'First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do. Epictetus. Picture the scene: In a remote part of Afghanistan, near the mountainous border with Pakistan, helicopters carrying dozens of elite Army Rangers race over the rugged landscape. Their target on this high-risk mission is an insurgent compound. It is broad daylight and the Rangers know the insurgents are heavily armed.

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The Five Obsessions of Winning Teams

N2Growth Blog

'By Brian Layer. Chief Executive Officer, N2Growth. March Madness resumes tonight and in a pressure packed weekend of excitement, the Sweet Sixteen will shrink to the Final Four. Only the strongest teams will survive and while their defensive pressure, explosive running game or deep shooting might define their style, their success rests on five obsessions.

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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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Funny But Sad: Survey shows most people know nothing about technology

CTOvision

'By Bob Gourley Dear CTOvision readers. You know we love you and I hope it doesn’t seem like I’m pandering to you when I say you are the smart ones who will lead us all to a better/brighter future. I have always believed that and now I have some statistics that back this up. The stats below are from a somewhat unscientific survey. The coupons website Vouchercloud.net showed 2,392 men and women a series of technical and non-technical terms and then were asked to pick from three possib

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Interview: Modernizing Change Management with Agile and Lean Practices

Change Starts Here

'Jason Little, author of Lean Change Management, joins the show this month to discuss his collection of innovative practices for managing organizational change. He combines ideas from many communities, including the Lean Startup, Agile and Lean worlds, to create an adaptable and scalable model for managing the complexity of change in today’s world.

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Mean It Madness Month on LGL #meanit

Let's Grow Leaders

'Welcome to Mean It Madness Month on Let’s Grow Leaders. My sister, Jill Herr, works is a healthcare executive and speech pathologist, my nephew, Jared Herr (middle school) and son, Ben Evans (college), are active student leaders. We’re all disturbed by a pattern we see across many contexts. The severe consequences of people not saying […] The post Mean It Madness Month on LGL #meanit appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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My 5 Craziest Leadership Moments (and How a Little Crazy Can Work For You)

Terry Starbucker

'I’ve done some crazy leadership things, and nearly all of them dovetailed with another love of mine – music. I’ve put on an Elvis costume and belted out “ Suspicious Minds ” at a management dinner (complete with the sideburns and cape). I did a call and response sing-along to “ Bennie and the Jets ” at a field staff meeting (at 8AM – a great way to wake up).

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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 Leader’s Harvest

General Leadership

'“Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.”. Robert Louis Stevenson. Seeds are very curious entities—small, innocuous. mostly overlooked. Incredibly, they are filled with an amazing power for growth — A growth for greatness. The same can be said for your capability to seeding leadership potential! A farming friend once told me that a single shaft of wheat — left undamaged and allowed to grow unchecked — could spontaneously multiply into a c

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10 Ways to Provide Quality Feedback

N2Growth Blog

'By Joel Garfinkle. Chair, Executive Coaching, N2Growth. Employees want feedback. They want an honest assessment of their behavior to help them improve their work. They know that if they listen to, and take action on, clear and constructive feedback, their overall performance will improve. And so will their job satisfaction. However, most managers feel uncomfortable delivering feedback, especially when it involves a problem or concern.

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Luigi success

Erik Bernhardsson

So Luigi , our open sourced workflow engine in Python, just recently passed 1,000 stars on Github, then shortly after passed mrjob as (I think) the most popular Python package to do Hadoop stuff. This is exciting! A fun anecdote from last week: we accidentally deleted roughly 10TB of data on HDFS, and the output of 1,000s of jobs. This could have been a disaster, but luckily most of the data was intermediate, and luckily everything we do is powered by Luigi meaning it’s encoded as a big huge dep

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Internet Two Seeks Chief Cyberinfrastructure Security Officer

CTOvision

'By Bob Gourley. A reader just brought a job description to my attention and I wanted to share it with you in the hopes that you will pass it along till the right person is found for this very important position. From: [link]. Chief Cyberinfrastructure Security Officer. Internet2® is a member-owned, advanced technology community founded by the nation’s leading higher education institutions in 1996.

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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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7 Sales Skills for Leaders

Let's Grow Leaders

'Sales gets a bad rap. No one wants to be that smooth-talking guy pushing a vacation club or spamming us on LinkedIn (p.s. if you’re that guy, please stop, I will never buy a program from a LinkedIn spammer). But the truth is, leadership and sales have a lot in common: Inspiring a vision; building […]. The post 7 Sales Skills for Leaders appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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The 8 Guiding Principles of More Human Leadership

Terry Starbucker

'Hi all – on March 11, I gave a presentation at the Leadership Summit, a great online event organized by Macro Recruitment in Australia . My presentation included my thoughts on what I believe to be the 8 Guiding Principles of More Human Leadership. I am pleased to share with you this summary post, which served as a preview for the event participants, as well as a PDF of the 8 Principles, which you can download here , or by clicking the picture on the right. .

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Innovation through Inspiration: Presidential Leadership

General Leadership

'“I am not concerned that you have fallen; I am concerned that you arise.”. Abraham Lincoln. “99% of excuses come from people who make excuses”. George Washington. Does anybody send cards to the President on President’s Day? It’s probably not a lucrative business model for Hallmark or American Greetings, as there would only be a handful of recipients available…but it’s worth a thought!

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On Being a Leader of Integrity: 4 ways to build personal and organizational integrity

N2Growth Blog

'By Grant Wattie. President, N2growth Australia. Are you a person of integrity? Chances are you and everyone reading this article will answer in the affirmative. This introduces a massive blind-spot we have in our lives and organizations: self-deception – as none of us can say we have full integrity. So, first, how do we define integrity? Webster’s New World Dictionary gives two definitions of “integrity”: the first is the quality or state of being complete or whole; the second is being of sou

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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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Music recommendations using cover images (part 1)

Erik Bernhardsson

Scrolling through the Discover page on Spotify the other day it occurred to me that the album is in fact a fairly strong visual proxy for what kind of content you can expect from it. I started wondering if the album cover can in fact be used for recommendations. For many obvious reasons this is a kind of ridiculous idea, but still interesting enough that I just had to explore it a bit.

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The Hard Thing About Hard Things: building a business when there are no easy answers

CTOvision

'By Bob Gourley. I was recently speaking with a friend who formed a business. His background is perfect for what he is doing, his ideas are solid, his product addresses a pain point in most modern enterprises. And he has the stamina and work ethic of a champion. But still there is no certainty in his future. Even hard working, rightly focused CEOs like this one need every advantage they can get.

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My Saturday Afternoon With Seth Godin

Let's Grow Leaders

'About 2 years ago, I had the audacity (some should argue stupidity), to email Seth Godin my very first blog post. Let me be blunt, the post was terrible. But that’s not what he said when he wrote me back within a few hours of hitting send. Don’t get me wrong, he didn’t say […] The post My Saturday Afternoon With Seth Godin appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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The Life-Changing Leadership Secrets of The Trappist Monks

Terry Starbucker

'On the latest edition of The More Human Podcast, my guest is August Turak , a successful entrepreneur, corporate executive, and award winning author of the recent book: “ Business Secrets of the Trappist Monks – One CEO’s Quest for Meaning and Authenticity ”. August has a fascinating story to tell – he discovered these secrets while living and working alongside the Trappist monks of Mepkin Abbey in South Carolina for 17 years.

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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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Leadership: A Delicate Balance

General Leadership

'There’s no such thing as work-life balance. There are work-life choices, and you make them, and they have consequences. Jack Welch. Balanced leadership requires continuous, delicate adjustments to maintain homeostasis in your organization. Balance is stressed in every aspect of our lives — from learning to ride a bike to eating a balanced diet.

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Leaders Who Think More – Accomplish More

N2Growth Blog

'By Mike Myatt. Chairman, N2Growth. * This post was originally published on LinkedIn. I’ve always been amazed at the number of tremendously gifted leaders who underutilize the one asset most responsible for their success – their brain. It’s not that leaders don’t think; it’s that they don’t think enough. And when they do find time to think, many leaders often think about the wrong things, in the wrong ways, at the wrong times.

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Music recommendations using cover images (part 1)

Erik Bernhardsson

Scrolling through the Discover page on Spotify the other day it occurred to me that the album is in fact a fairly strong visual proxy for what kind of content you can expect from it. I started wondering if the album cover can in fact be used for recommendations. For many obvious reasons this is a kind of ridiculous idea, but still interesting enough that I just had to explore it a bit.

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