September, 2016

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What’s Really Killing Morale and Employee Engagement

Let's Grow Leaders

Janice shared: I’d had enough: the gossip; the veterans scaring the new hires; more and more people doing just enough to get by… And I was frustrated because we’d done so much to foster employee engagement. I changed out some toxic leaders. We revamped our coaching program to focus on the positive. I’m here every Saturday right along with them.

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Happy 69th Birthday to the United States Air Force!

General Leadership

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. “I AM AN AMERICAN AIRMAN. I AM A WARRIOR. I HAVE ANSWERED MY NATION’S CALL.” The Airman’s Creed. Happy 69th Birthday to the U.S. Air Force! In 1947 President Truman signed the National Security Act which established this new defense organization, and along with it the creation of the US Air Force as an independent service, equal t

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A Timeline of Big Data Analytics

CTOvision

Rick Delgado. The world seems to run on big data nowadays. In fact, it’s sometimes difficult to remember a time when businesses weren’t intensely focused on big data analytics. It’s equally difficult to forget that big data is still relatively new to the mainstream. The amount of data being generated in the world today is immense, and it’s only getting bigger.

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Culture By Design: A Call to Action

N2Growth Blog

This is the first installment of an important 3-part series on Company Culture that I will be bringing to my Inc. readers. The series focuses on how to become more deliberate in creating a work environment that enables and empowers your organization to achieve and exceed all your expectations. I call the concept that I’m going to share with you: Culture By Design.

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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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Four Facets of Measuring Change

Change Starts Here

When I was an industrial engineer early in my career, one of my core responsibilities was measuring things. It’s no coincidence that my transition to change practitioner included balanced scorecards to measure strategy execution. Even now, my work helping people influence change still includes identifying measures to track progress and increase accountability.

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How to Win Well, When Winning Feels Impossible

Let's Grow Leaders

Last week I was doing a Winning Well workshop with the United Nations, when one of the participants, “Pete,” looked at me sincerely and said, “I hear you, and all these tools sound good, and I’m going to use them. But what do you when Winning is impossible?” I waited for more. . “Our mission is world peace.” Okay, Pete has a point. .

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End Meeting Nightmares: Manage Results, Not Activity

General Leadership

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. “A meeting is an event at which the minutes are kept and the hours are lost.” Unknown. Want to review housekeeping details weekly? Open a maid services franchise. Admit what you already know: Your meetings are ineffective.

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Cognitio and ThreatBrief in People Magazine: Security tips for the general public

CTOvision

Bob Gourley. One of the key lines of business at Cognitio is our cybersecurity practice. We help enterprises build action plans to mitigate risks and improve their security posture. Increasingly we are also asked to provide tips and techniques for employees to consider in their personal lives. Every person with a computer or phone has information at risk and should take personal responsibility for improving their security posture.

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State drift

Erik Bernhardsson

I generally haven’t written much about software architecture. People make heuristics into religion. But here is something I thought about: how to build in self-correction into systems. This has been something just vaguely sitting in my head lacking a clear conceptual definition until a whole slew of things popped up today that all had the exact same issue at its core.

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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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Culture by Design: The Essentials

N2Growth Blog

Last week, we published the first installment of our 3-part series on company culture. In that first piece, we began to demystify a concept that I’m calling culture by design. This week we’ll explore the essential that my firm provides to clients when building cultures by design with them. Keep in mind, this is just one approach to do the work at hand and it’s one that we refined over decades of doing corporate culture work with our clients.

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The Curious Case of Too Much Support for Change

Change Starts Here

It goes without saying that in our quest to influence change at work, we want to gain support for that change. After all, when people support change, they want to get involved, or at the very least, they won’t stand in the way. However, in the course of facilitating the Fundamentals of Change Management workshop, I’ve discovered there are instances where you might actually want less support.

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Internal Internships- A Winning Well Best Practice

Let's Grow Leaders

Have you ever been an intern? Have you ever hired an intern? . There are many reasons to hire an intern. Sure some see it as a short-cut to cheap labor or to appease HR. . But if you’ve ever been part of a great internship program–on either side of the desk– you know that it can be an amazing job preview– an extensive 2-way interview process… to try before you buy.

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Stand Out Among Your Peers

General Leadership

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. “Why fit in, when you were born to stand out?” Dr. Seuss. It can be difficult to be recognized for your strengths, contributions, and abilities when working as a leader. Often times, we are one of many leaders, and our peer group can be very competitive and of very high quality.

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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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Deep Learning and Its Role in the Advancement of Video Analytics

CTOvision

Rick Delgado. Video cameras are everywhere these days. Research from IHS Technology estimates that up to 245 million cameras were operational, and that was only at the end of 2014. That number has only increased since then. People and organizations have used video surveillance for many use cases, most of which we are all familiar with. Video cameras are used to help deter crime and help find criminals after a crime, for example.

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State drift

Erik Bernhardsson

I generally haven’t written much about software architecture. People make heuristics into religion. But here is something I thought about: how to build in self-correction into systems. This has been something just vaguely sitting in my head lacking a clear conceptual definition until a whole slew of things popped up today that all had the exact same issue at its core.

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‘Sell’ Is A Four Letter Word All Of Us Can Use

N2Growth Blog

He’s just trying to sell you something. She’s just a salesperson. Comments such as these – and many more – reflect the public’s attitude toward sales and the sales process. Is there any business process more despised than sales? Yet we all know the maxim – without the customer there is no business. If sales is held in such low esteem then how are customers supposed to come to us?

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The Must-Dos: My 10 Most Enduring Leadership Lessons

Terry Starbucker

Great leadership lessons are the ones that stand the test of time because they become a part of who you are, and how you lead, every hour of every day. In my 34 years in the business world, I’ve been fortunate to have had a chance to observe and work with great (and not so great) leaders, to read many excellent (and not so excellent) books about leadership, and gain many years of experience as a leader (and now entrepreneur, startup investor, and business consultant) myself, through both success

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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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How Much Coding Should Designers Know?

Toptal

Much of the design community is locked in debate over whether designers should code. Some favor seeking out the unicorns who can do both, while others claim they don’t exist or only get in the way.

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Self-Discipline, a Must for Team Success

General Leadership

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. “Duty then is the sublimest word in the English language. You can never do more, you should never wish to do less” Robert E. Lee. As a leader, you can’t be omniscient, omnipresent and omnipotent…that’s someone else’s job description.

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Microsegmentation – Secure Your Internal Network

CTOvision

Nathaniel Crocker. Microsegmentation - Bigger,Better than Segmentation? Microsegmentation like that provided by vendors CISCO and VMware state that traditional perimeter defenses akin to medieval castles walls no longer work. The problem is that threat actors are able to get through the castle gates (firewalls) and once in, are able to evade the castle guards (IPS).

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The History of Pets vs Cattle and How to Use the Analogy Properly

CloudScaling

I have been meaning to write this post for a long time, but one thing or another has gotten in the way. It’s important to me to provide an accurate history, definition, and proper usage of the Pets vs Cattle meme so that everyone can understand why it was successful and how it’s still vital as a tool for driving understanding of cloud. The meme has taken off because it helped created an understanding of the “old way” vs. the “new way” of doing things.

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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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Put passion into your pocket when you argue

N2Growth Blog

Passion may hurt you more than help you in your next argument. That’s a conclusion of new research into persuasion by a pair of university academics and reported by Shankar Vedantam of NPR. Passion, often highly prized by leaders, may actually work against that leader if he or she is trying to reach out to someone who may not agree with them. This new research into persuasion really is confirmation of what all good leaders do when seeking consensus; they first seek to understand what the other i

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3 Significant Implications of Deciding to Pay Your Employees Daily

Women on Business

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How Sequel and Sinatra Solve Ruby’s API Problem

Toptal

The rise of the web and mobile applications has led to an increased need for back-end API services. Ruby on Rails' philosophy seemingly makes it the ideal framework for creating back-end APIs. However, using Rails only for the API is overkill. In this article, Freelance Software Engineer Boško Ivaniševi? explores alternatives to Rails and introduces us to two very mature and powerful gems, Sinatra and Sequel, which in combination provide powerful tools for creating server-side APIs.

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The Passion of Leadership

General Leadership

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. A leader without passion. is merely a manager. –@ChrisRStricklin. Leadership is Passion. Leadership is the passion to make an organization better. Leadership is the passion toward each team member, pushing them toward a higher level of accomplishment.

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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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Attunity: Big data management software

CTOvision

Research Team. Attunity is a leading provider of big data management software solutions that enable access, management, sharing and distribution of data, including Big Data, across heterogeneous enterprise platforms, organizations, and the cloud. They are all about moving and preparing data. For a brief intro see: And for more see [link].

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The 3 C’s for success

Lead on Purpose

Success is a clear, yet complex word that means different things for different people. The measurements vary, the approaches to achieving change and the commitment to achieving fluctuate over time.

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How Arnold Palmer Mastered Golf And Fame By Being Himself

N2Growth Blog

They called him the King but he never acted the part. He was Arnold Palmer who behaved in accordance with the words his father, a golf pro in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, taught him. “Those people in the gallery are all the same as you.”. The deluge of stories about Palmer, the man and the golfer, upon his death at age 87 have a central theme. Total accessibility.

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