June, 2016

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Why Change Requires More Than Training and Communication

Change Starts Here

It’s a common belief that to get people to adopt change, all you really need is training and communication. If we tell people what to do and why, and show them how to do it, that should be enough to get them to change, right? It’s a logical conclusion, but then people aren’t logical, especially when it comes to change. While training and communication are essential tools for influencing any change at work, they are not the complete solution for managing the “people side” of projects.

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Approximate nearest news

Erik Bernhardsson

As you may know, one of my (very geeky) interests is Approximate nearest neigbor methods, and I’m the author of a Python package called Annoy. I’ve also built a benchmark suite called ann-benchmarks to compare different packages. Annoy was the world’s fastest package for a few months, but two things happened. FALCONN (FAst Lookups of Cosine and Other Nearest Neighbors) is a new library based on Locality Sensitive Hashing.

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How To Create a More Optimistic Workplace

Let's Grow Leaders

You can’t win well if you’re not optimistic. And one of the most important parts of being a Winning Well leader is inspiring confidence that the scene and results can and will improve– and identifying the vital behaviors to make it so. Today, I share a video interview with my friend and kindred spirit on the Winning Well journey, Shawn Murphy.

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Quick Decisions Take 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]. “In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing” Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President of the United States.

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Prevent Data Breaches With Zero-Trust Enterprise Password Management

Keeper Security is transforming cybersecurity for people and organizations around the world. Keeper’s affordable and easy-to-use solutions are built on a foundation of zero-trust and zero-knowledge security to protect every user on every device. Our next-generation privileged access management solution deploys in minutes and seamlessly integrates with any tech stack to prevent breaches, reduce help desk costs and ensure compliance.

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Leadership – It’s Not About You

N2Growth Blog

If you think leadership is about you, your ego has led you astray. Leadership has little to do with you and everything to do with those you lead. If you think leadership is about the bottom line, think again; it’s about the people. Without the people there is no bottom line. Closely examine the core characteristics of great leadership, and you’ll find it’s not power, title, authority or even technical competency that distinguishes truly great leaders.

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Two Questions to Ask on a Regular Basis During Change

Change Starts Here

Several years ago, in preparation for a transformation workshop with a client’s top management team, I was designing the feedback to collect at the end of the session. At the time, the workshop was thought to be a one-time event for this client, so collecting feedback about what they thought about the workshop seemed self-serving. Instead, I wanted to select questions that would help them move forward as a team, but which would have the added benefit of telling me if they got what they nee

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Approximate nearest news

Erik Bernhardsson

As you may know, one of my (very geeky) interests is Approximate nearest neigbor methods, and I’m the author of a Python package called Annoy. I’ve also built a benchmark suite called ann-benchmarks to compare different packages. Annoy was the world’s fastest package for a few months, but two things happened. FALCONN (FAst Lookups of Cosine and Other Nearest Neighbors) is a new library based on Locality Sensitive Hashing.

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What To Do When The Customer is Wrong

Let's Grow Leaders

The only problem with the concept, “The customer is always right,” is that sometimes they’re wrong. If you’ve been in any kind of customer-facing position, I know you’re with me. Sure, there are many, many circumstances where the only choice is to bite your tongue and concede, for the good of the customer experience. But some wrong is just, well…wrong.

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What is your Commencement Address?

General Leadership

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. Leadership is not about the next election, it’s about the next generation. Simon Sinek. The class of 2016 at my high school nominated me to give the commencement address. This was a great honor. As I thought about what to say, it was not as easy as I thought.

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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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Pathway To The New Era of Quantum Computing

CTOvision

Charles Brooks. The world of computing has witnessed seismic advancements since the invention of the electronic calculator in the 1960s. The past few years in information processing have been especially transformational. What were once thought of as science fiction fantasies are now technological realties. Classical computing has become more exponentially faster and more capable and our enabling devices smaller and more adaptable.

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The One Word A Leader Should Never Ever Ever Utter (or Hear)

Terry Starbucker

“It can’t be done”. “You can’t do that”. How many times have you heard these words? Plenty of times, I bet. And, how many times have you said those words? Stop and think about that for a second, and then consider this: “Can’t” is a big, fat, stop sign designed to sabotage a dream. Perhaps a better question we should ask ourselves is this – why are we hearing and saying that word in the first place?

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Preparing Your Organization for the “Big Change”

N2Growth Blog

Organizational change is inevitable. Like all living things, it’s vital that organizations regularly adjust in order to accommodate the ebb and flow that goes on within the ecosystems in which they thrive. Every so often, though, a “Big Change” is needed to better position an organization for long-term success. In those times, proper preparation is required.

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Write Code to Rewrite Your Code: jscodeshift

Toptal

How many times have you used the find-and-replace functionality (or RegEx) across a directory to make changes to JavaScript source files? Up your refactoring game by using codemods, scripts used to rewrite other scripts. In this article, Toptal Freelance Developer Jeremy Greer walks us through three common uses of codemods, using the toolkit “jscodeshift”.

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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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One Common Interviewing Mistake That Will Cost You the Job

Let's Grow Leaders

My phone rang. Colin was exasperated. “Karin, I thought I NAILED the interview. The owner seemed pleased with all my answers, and I had great stories for all his behavior-based interview questions. But I just got an email from him saying that although I was qualified, he was worried about my passion for training!!! You KNOW how passionate I am about training– it’s my life!

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Leadership: This AND That, Not This OR That

General Leadership

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. “Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.” Dwight D. Eisenhower. The word “AND” is one of the most frequently used in the English language.

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How Google Fiber Could Upset The Entire Broadband Industry

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Amy Medeiros. Google Fiber seemingly started as an experiment - but it’s become clear it’s not going anywhere. Move over, Comcast and Time Warner. Google’s here to stay. It’s really no secret that the two biggest ISPs in the United States aren’t exactly well-liked by their customers. Comcast has repeatedly been labeled the most hated organization in the country , and Time Warner Cable gets just about as much flak.

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5 Steps for Women Entrepreneurs to Get Cash

Women on Business

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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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Welcome to Business 2.0 as Powered by New IT

N2Growth Blog

Business 2.0 represents a new way of thinking and doing for early 21 st Century companies. Unlike e-commerce where consumer transactions are done via the Web, Business 2.0 is about using the Internet-based services to drive entire business processes. Indeed, the work of transforming an enterprise to Business 2.0 is quite an undertaking. But, this transformation has an ally in “ New IT “–a confluence of cloud-based computing, digitalization, automated operational frameworks and

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Get Your Hands Dirty With Scala JVM Bytecode

Toptal

The Scala language has continued to gain popularity over the last several years, thanks to its excellent combination of functional and object-oriented software development principles, and its implementation on top of the proven Java Virtual Machine (JVM). Creating a language that compiles to Java bytecode requires a deep understanding of the inner workings of the Java Virtual Machine.

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Ask Don’t Tell: 3 Questions That Will Make You a Better Leader

Let's Grow Leaders

You know that asking the right questions will make you a stronger leader. But it’s hard. Not all questions have the same impact. And it’s risky, you never know what the response will be– which means you need to stay fully present to be helpful. “When you ask a question you’re giving up some of your power. It means you’re willing to sit in that discomfort for the good of another person’s growth.” -Michael Bungay Stanier.

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The Dual Pillars of Character: Strength & Honor

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 has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.” Marcus Aurelius. If you are anything like me, there are certain movies that resonate deeply with you.

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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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IT must ditch ‘Ministry of No’ image to tackle shadow IT

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Len Padilla. With enterprises increasingly dependent on shadow IT, enterprise IT departments must stop being seen as the ‘Ministry of No’ and start engaging with users to help them get the business-critical applications they need to do their jobs. The increase in employees going rogue and purchasing shadow IT without the permission, control or knowledge of the IT department is a growing trend, and one that business departments are increasingly relying on.

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Small Business Facebook Posting Tips

Women on Business

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The Building Blocks of Digital Transformation: Community, Tech, Business Models, and a Change Platform

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

I’ve been making the argument lately that the single largest obstacle in successful digital transformation is change itself. Surprisingly, the arrival of new technology is generally not the large hurdle to becoming more digital in a meaningful way , though it certainly represents a large and growing learning curve. Yet learning the new technology is manageable by most organizations in my experience, if they have the will to do so.

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Testing Your Go App: Get Started The Right Way

Toptal

When Golang first came out, there were next to no resources available about how to efficiently test your Go-written application. Even now, with plenty of guides and recommendations available, many bright-eyed developers still try to apply their Ruby or JavaScript mindset and use external frameworks to test apps written in Go. In this article, Toptal Freelance Developer Gabriel Aszalos first explains Golang philosophy and then covers the basics of testing in Go, from table testing to JSON respons

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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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What Your Is Team Saying Behind Your Back

Let's Grow Leaders

Have you ever talked about your boss behind your back? If you haven’t complained to at least someone…you’re a saint. Call me. I’m sure you’ve got some wisdom we can share here at LGL. For the rest of us… you know… right? Just like you’re complaining about that boss who (you might even like a lot of the time) has behaviors you wish they would improve–SOON.

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Dynamic Dozen: Build Networks of 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]. Dear General McClellan, if you’re not going to use the army, may I borrow it for a while? ~ Abraham Lincoln. The squadron was broken and the commander was the reason. He empowered no one, made all the decisions himself, and insisted on controlling even the most minute details in everything we did.

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Using Big Data to Combat Gang Violence

CTOvision

Rick Delgado. Big data has been used to tackle a wide variety of problems. Most of those problems usually fall within the realm of the business world, but data science has steadily expanded to include even more use cases in various fields. One issue that has been talked about in recent years is the use of big data analytics in fighting crime. Many police departments and law enforcement agencies around the world are always on the lookout for new ways to utilize technology to protect the people an