April, 2015

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Experts Share Their Thoughts on “Spring Cleaning:” A Frontline Festival

Let's Grow Leaders

'Welcome back to the Let’s Grow Leaders Frontline Festival. Our April Festival is all about spring cleaning. Thanks to Joy and Tom Guthrie of Vizwerx Group for the great pics and to all our contributors! Next month’s Festival is all about energizing leadership. New contributors welcome. Spring Cleaning Our Priorities, Attitudes and Skills. “We are used to cleaning the outside house, but the most important house to clean is yourself–your own house–which we never do.”

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Time Machine Tuesday: 10 Traits of General Officers that Every Leader Needs

General Leadership

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. From Our Early Files: Originally Published. 3 May 2013. “ Luck is of little moment to the great general, for it is under the control of his intellect and his judgment.” Titus Livins. The Allies just lost over 10,000 service members at the Chosin Reservoir in late 1950 and retreated back to the original positions they held before the batt

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The Easiest Way For Leaders To Do The Hardest (and Right) Things

Terry Starbucker

'There’s a big return on investment for leaders who are willing to do the right thing, even when it’s very hard to do. A great example is letting someone go who you just know isn’t going to go gracefully or easily. Or, to change a policy or program midstream, knowing that it’s going to inconvenience a lot of people, people who have families and personal lives that will also be affected.

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Eight Telltale Signs of Resistance

Change Starts Here

'The dictionary definition of resistance is: Any force that slows down or prevents motion. So, naturally we define resistance to change as any force that slows down or prevents change. The funny thing is that we don’t really detect resistance unless people aren’t changing as quickly or as enthusiastically or as smoothly as we expect. Otherwise we would think that everything is fine.

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The 2025 Recruitment Playbook

The 2025 Recruitment Playbook by Procom is a strategic guide tailored for hiring managers to navigate the evolving talent landscape. Highlighting innovations like AI-driven tools and data analytics, the playbook empowers leaders to streamline processes, enhance candidate experiences , and foster diversity and inclusion. It provides actionable insights for every recruitment stage—from sourcing and screening to onboarding and retention.

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The Cyber Threat: Special Kindle Promotion

CTOvision

'Thanks to Amazon.com we are able to provide our readers with a free copy of the Kindle version of our book on The Cyber Threat during a special two day promotion running 23 and 24 April. The book was written to provide actionable insights into the cyber threat specially aimed towards the leader who should know more about threats to protect business objectives.

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Riots in Baltimore: Why I Need You to Help Me Write My Next Post

Let's Grow Leaders

I don’t usually write on Tuesdays, but it would be irresponsible to not write in the midst of the chaos brewing in my hometown, Baltimore. For my international viewers, Baltimore has joined the cities featured on CNN and the morning shows due to their looting and protest-related violence as a response to the Freddie Gray tragedy. As I write this, the sun hasn’t even set.

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Authenticity Is The Secret Sauce

General Leadership

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. Nothing develops trust more than vulnerability…great leaders, authentic vulnerable leaders, require the ability to develop deep human connection. Dov Baron, Author of ‘ Fiercely Loyal ‘ Just be yourself.

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Why Respect HAS To Be A Two-Way Street

Terry Starbucker

'This morning I was reading the business section of the Oregonian and I saw these survey statistics – 86 percent of employees trust their leadership less today than they did 5 years ago, and 70 percent of people say they are “disengaged at work” What’s going on? As usual for me, a song played in my head as I digested that information.

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Interview: Communicating Change With the Results Map

Change Starts Here

Caroline Kealey, Owner and Principal at Ingenium Communications, joins the show this month to share the Results Map, her tool for developing communications. Listen in to hear the key elements of the Results Map and how to use it to communicate change, including how to evaluate whether your communication is working. Listen to the show here (30 minutes): And get your Results Map Handbook here: www.resultsmap.com.

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Signal-Based Selling: How to Leverage 4 Key Buying Signals

As prospects define their problem, search for solutions, and even change jobs, they are generating high-value signals that the best go-to-market teams can leverage to close more deals. This is where signal-based selling comes into play. ZoomInfo CEO Henry Schuck recently broke down specific ways to put four key buying signals into action with the experts from 30 Minutes to President’s Club.

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CTOvision Interviews CIA CIO Doug Wolfe on Commercial Cloud Services (C2S) Lessons Learned and Road Ahead

CTOvision

We recently had the opportunity to interview the CIA CIO, Doug Wolfe. Doug has been the CIA’s CIO since 2013. In this role he oversees the agency information technology vision and strategic direction. He is also an advisor to the intelligence community CIO and a collaborative leader in the federal technology world. His past tours including serving as deputy director for acquisition, technology and facilities at the office of the director of national intelligence, inventing new sources and method

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5 Things I Wish I Knew in the First 5 Years of My Career

Women on Business

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How to Inspire Behavior Change

Let's Grow Leaders

'You’ve tried everything, and the bad behavior continues. You don’t want to say “You need to change this behavior or else,” but the truth is–there will be consequences. Keep that “feedback-is-a-gift-and-I-care-about-you” loving feeling in mind, while having a direct conversation about specifically what must change.

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Creating a Problem-Solving Team

General Leadership

'GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America''s Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. “If I had an hour to solve a problem, I’d spend 55 minutes thinking about the problem and 5 minutes thinking about solutions.”. Albert Einstein. I often find myself binning leaders into one of two categories: those who are process-centric, and those who are problem-centric.

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Revolutionize QA: GAPs AI-Driven Accelerators for Smarter, Faster Testing

GAP's AI-Driven QA Accelerators revolutionize software testing by automating repetitive tasks and enhancing test coverage. From generating test cases and Cypress code to AI-powered code reviews and detailed defect reports, our platform streamlines QA processes, saving time and resources. Accelerate API testing with Pytest-based cases and boost accuracy while reducing human error.

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The One Thing Leaders Cannot Alter or Change (No Matter How Hard They Try)

Terry Starbucker

Five years ago this week I released my free e-book, “Leadership From A Glass Half-Full: The 5 Lessons You Need To Learn Before You Jump Into the Pool” It sprung from a wish to pay forward what I had learned the hard way: “I wish I had some kind of guidebook that at the very least warned me about the things I just absolutely had to know before I got started (as a leader)” It’s been downloaded nearly 14,000 times, and I am truly grateful that it has been read, and hop

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Three Ways We Make Resistance More Frustrating Than It Really Is

Change Starts Here

Recently, I posted Eight Telltale Signs of Resistance , in which I described some of the resistant behaviors people use to slow down or prevent change from happening. When we’re trying to implement change and we encounter these resistant behaviors, we often have three unhelpful responses that make it seem even more frustrating than it really is.

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Robot Chef Brings Internet of Things Into the Kitchen

CTOvision

'Who needs to go out for dinner, when you have a tireless master chef waiting at home to prepare a gourmet meal for you, any time, day or night? That''s the premise behind a new invention from Moley Robotics , a tech company based in London. Moley unveiled their new " robochef " prototype on April 14, 2015 at the Hannover Messe technology fair in Germany.

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How IT Can Change For the Digital Era and What Leaders Can Do About It

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

'I’ve recently come to believe that we’re at a watershed moment in technology as it’s applied to business. The aging, creaky model of centralized IT departments has been increasingly challenged by waves of internal and external competition that it’s never had to face. It started with the outsourcing wave but picked up irresistible momentum with the arrival of SaaS, the cloud , app stores , shadow IT , and BYOD/BYOA/BYOT.

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From Start to Scale: Driving Growth Through Seamless Payments Implementation

Speaker: Michael Veatch, Senior Director, Implementations & Ella Aguirre, Director of Solution Consulting

Embedding payments can be a transformative step for software companies looking to enhance their platform capabilities, boost customer satisfaction, and drive long-term growth. However, the success of payments hinges on a single thing: implementation. Drawing on real-world insights and experiences, payments implementation experts Michael Veatch and Ella Aguirre will explore actionable strategies that can lead to a transparent, friction-free launch and mitigate potential challenges like technical

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37 Questions to Ask Yourself When Your Team Lacks Energy

Let's Grow Leaders

'I was giving a keynote on Saturday to large group of administrative professionals. My speech followed the recognition lunch. In addition to their formal awards, they did one of my favorites, “stand up if __” “Stand up if you’ve received your certification (nearly everyone in the room stood).” “Stand up, if you’ve achieved another important professional milestone (again, the room looked like a standing ovation).” “Stand up if you made a signi

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Isn’t It Time To Rethink Time?

General Leadership

'GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America''s Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. “The trouble is… you think you have time!” Unknown. When time becomes the transactional measure of merit you’d think the more we have of it the more valuable we become – to others and ourselves.

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3 Key Steps When Transitioning to Full Time Entrepreneur

Women on Business

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What’s the Difference Between Executive Presence and Leadership Presence?

Next Level Blog

'The title of this post is a question I was asked yesterday during an interview for the book summary service Get Abstract. (Audio excerpts from the interview will be available in a few months.) While I guess I’ve thought about the difference between executive and leadership presence over the years (I wrote a book on the latter after all), I have never had the question put to me that directly.

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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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SAS and Apache Hadoop for Government

CTOvision

'By Bob Gourley. New in the CTOvision Research Library: We have just posted an overview of an architectural assessment we produced laying out best practices and design patterns for the use of SAS and Apache Hadoop, with a focus on the government sector. Download this overview at: SAS and Apache Hadoop for Government. Here is more: Enterprises in government are awash in more data than they can make sense of.

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Norvig’s claim that programming competitions correlate negatively with being good on the job

Erik Bernhardsson

I saw a bunch of tweets over the weekend about Peter Norvig claiming there’s a negative correlation between being good at programming competitions and being good at the job. There were some decent Hacker News comments on it. Norvig’s statement is obviously not true if we’re drawing samples from the general population – most people can’t code. It doesn’t necessarily even have to do with time allocation as this commenter alluded to: Being a champion at something requires excruciating narrow focus

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3 Ways to Avoid the Slippery Slope of Inconsistency

Let's Grow Leaders

'Kendra is late because she was at the hospital with her sick child and barely got home to take a shower… got it. Every now and then managers must make exceptions, no doubt. But now, John is late too, and you feel bad saying something to him, since you just let Kendra off the hook. Before you know it, late is the new black… to work, to meetings, and the envelope is being pushed in other arenas as well.

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Champions Don’t Take Shortcuts

General Leadership

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand. Vince Lombardi. I’ve been an athlete my entire life.

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Business Intelligence 101: How To Make The Best Solution Decision For Your Organization

Speaker: Evelyn Chou

Choosing the right business intelligence (BI) platform can feel like navigating a maze of features, promises, and technical jargon. With so many options available, how can you ensure you’re making the right decision for your organization’s unique needs? 🤔 This webinar brings together expert insights to break down the complexities of BI solution vetting.

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A Social Call to Arms for Entrepreneurs and Investors

Women on Business

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The Nightmare In The Executive Suite: 10 Scary Things A Leader Never Wants To Hear

Terry Starbucker

'How do leaders know if they’re building a sturdy and flourishing house, or a haunted and doomed one? All it takes is a good set of ears (ones that have been properly calibrated, of course), because there are 10 sentences that should cause nightmares for any leader, and push them towards the cold hard reality that their team is in trouble. Let’s step inside this haunted house, if you dare…. 1.

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Learn About Cyber Threats From Both Historical and Operational Perspectives in 15 Apr Webinar

CTOvision

'By Bob Gourley. Learn about the cyber threat from seasoned professionals who have spent years in direct contact with adversaries defending government and corporate systems. This presentation provides facts and observations on the cyber threat in ways that can inform you decision-making and improve your ability to defend. Best practices in the domain of cyber intelligence will be discussed, and recommendations will be made on ways to directly enhance our collective defense.