October, 2010

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8 Traits of Ineffective Leaders | N2Growth Blog

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7 Ways To Lead Without Uttering A Single Word

Terry Starbucker

Home About Me About This Blog Starbucker’s Amazon Store TerryStarbucker.com Ramblings From a Glass Half Full 7 Ways To Lead Without Uttering A Single Word by Starbucker on October 3, 2010 There is much written about the words leaders need to use, both in speech and on paper, to be effective. Words are certainly important, but there are other, more subtle messages that leaders send every day through their actions (or inactions) in the workplace.

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The Extreme Leader’s Mantra

Steve Farber

It’s always true, but particularly in these challenging times, you have to find a way to fall in love with your life’s work; otherwise, your energy will wane, your voice will falter, and there will be nothing to prove but the fact that you’re taking up valuable space. And you certainly won’t be helping to develop and perpetuate the Extreme Leadership approach that our world so desperately needs right now.

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Top 30 Startup Technology and Product Posts for September 2010

SoCal CTO

Great content again in September that meets at the intersection of startups, technology, product and being a Startup CTO. This continues my series of posts: Top 40 Startup Posts for August 2010 Top 30 Startup Posts for July 2010 Top 30 Startup Posts in June 2010 Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010 Startup CTO Top 30 Posts for April 16 Great Startup Posts from March Some great free resources listed this month that I thought were interesting.

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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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Why and How Leaders Need to Say Thank You

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The Benefit of Dissenting Opinion | N2Growth Blog

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Play It Again, Sam: The Science of Repeating Things Repeatedly

Terry Starbucker

Home About Me About This Blog Starbucker’s Amazon Store TerryStarbucker.com Ramblings From a Glass Half Full Play It Again, Sam: The Science of Repeating Things Repeatedly by Starbucker on October 17, 2010 "Boss, isn't that the 15th time you told me to play it again?" “ You sound like a broken record ” Music to my ears. Why am I so happy to hear this?

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The Romance of Business

Steve Farber

If you want your customers to love you (and you should, because if they’re just “satisfied&# you’ve lost the game), then take a lesson from your own romantic adventures. For example, think back to the first date or two with that person you were really crazy about. I’ll wait. If you’re a guy, it went something like this: You really paid attention, didn’t you?

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Caution 2.0

SoCal CTO

Just saw this tweet fly by: Unfortunately, this CTO happens to be the CTO of a restaurant chain which was probably the reason that this was tweeted. But the point is pretty simple. As a CTO, you need to always remember that you are a bit on stage and people notice what you do even when you don’t realize it. It’s important to bring a bit of caution to things as simple as going to the bathroom.

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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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Viva Chile: Leadership and the Rescue of the Miners

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Experience and Expertise – A Few Thoughts

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Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer Experience and Expertise – A Few Thoughts When a kid learns how to play music, he develops “ability” to play music. He knows the basics. He is able to play the music according to notes. He can play the songs exactly as the notes tell him to play. Then a few more years of practice and he develops ability to play new songs without notes.

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Leadership and Opportunity | N2Growth Blog

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Why Hiring Is Like Playing Blackjack, And 3 Rules To Increase Your.

Terry Starbucker

Home About Me About This Blog Starbucker’s Amazon Store TerryStarbucker.com Ramblings From a Glass Half Full Why Hiring Is Like Playing Blackjack, And 3 Rules To Increase Your Odds of Success by Starbucker on October 31, 2010 (Part II of a two-part series on Leadership and Team Building – click here for Part I ) Once I made the decision to give up the control I worked so hard to get , and become a leader instead of a micromanager, the next step was building a team that I could trust to get

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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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Your Job/My Job

Steve Farber

Your job as an Extreme Leader is to help create a culture so vibrant and healthy that when people wake up in the morning and think about the imminent workday, they won’t be overcome with a sense of dread and won’t doubt whether or not they can survive the day. Instead, they should be filled with hope and the knowledge that they can bring themselves fully into their work and do something cool, something significant, something meaningful.

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Goals Accountability and Social Support for Big Impact

SoCal CTO

This month’s big question is Examples of Big Impact from Technology and I’ve taken it as an opportunity to go back and look at the elements of different projects that I’ve worked on over the years that have had a big impact. In this post, I’m going to focus on a common model that has been part of several of the highest impact projects. At it’s core, the model is pretty simple: Guide through setting meaningful personal goals Teach how you can hold yourself accountable to those goals Help the user

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Five Tips for Leaders Who Are Betwixt and Between

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Embrace, then apply

Lead on Purpose

Home About the Blog Michael’s Bio Resources Lead on Purpose Entries RSS | Comments RSS Top Posts Lead on Purpose featured Five leadership practices for improving customer service Five factors of leadership Real-world examples of customer service Leadership and Product Management Five stages of problem solving Guest Post: The Yin-Yang of Product Management -- Market Sensing Book Review: The Leader Who had no Title Market sensing Product manager responsibilities Recent Comments Doug Tay

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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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Why Businesses Fail | N2Growth Blog

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Can Charisma Be Taught? The 90% Theory And Why That Can Be Enough

Terry Starbucker

Home About Me About This Blog Starbucker’s Amazon Store TerryStarbucker.com Ramblings From a Glass Half Full Can Charisma Be Taught? The 90% Theory And Why That Can Be Enough by Starbucker on October 10, 2010 Jack Welch at the World Business Forum, October 5 2010 (Photo by dov.com) Charisma – “ a personal magic of leadership arousing special popular loyalty ” (Webster Dictionary) You notice them the minute they enter a room.

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Beyond The Con

Steve Farber

Risk is a natural part of the human experience, and we accept it in many areas of our lives without realizing it. But a lot of people who call themselves leaders want things to be easy and painless. They’re either kidding themselves or lying. Or both. For many, leadership has become just another buzzword. We used to go to “management training,&# and now we go to “leadership training.&# We are team leaders, program leaders, project leaders, thought leaders, market leaders, and c

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The Quest of Better Outcomes: Hierarchy Versus Process

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Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer The Quest of Better Outcomes: Hierarchy And Process In quest of better outcomes (efficiency, results, productivity, improvements etc.), a lot of companies focus on restructuring their organization structure (hierarchy). Periodically, they overhaul their structure, add new positions and assign new/diverse responsibilities to people.

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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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Lead Like a Mom

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Restructuring IT: First Steps

The Agile Manager

In this last post in the series on restructuring IT, we'll take a look at some things we can do to get going on a restructure. The place to start is to establish a reason for restructure that everybody inside and outside the organization can understand. Tech is inherently optimistic, and we have short memories. As a result, we don't have very good self awareness.

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Leadership – No Talent Required | N2Growth Blog

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The One Thing Every Leader Has To Give Up (After They Worked So.

Terry Starbucker

Home About Me About This Blog Starbucker’s Amazon Store TerryStarbucker.com Ramblings From a Glass Half Full The One Thing Every Leader Has To Give Up (After They Worked So Hard To Get It) by Starbucker on October 28, 2010 I remember the first time I got it, only 4 months after I graduated from college. It was given to me reluctantly, out of sheer necessity.

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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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Of Leadership, Scars and Human Connection

Steve Farber

A leader lives under the microscope. I’m not saying it’s fair or just, but people watch everything the leader does. Everything. They watch the body language and facial expressions (Terry Starbucker wrote a great post about this) ; they listen to the tone of voice; they observe the decisions the leader makes; they listen to the leader’s questions and how they’re asked.

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Author Interview: 'Awesomely Simple' by John Spence

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Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer Author Interview: ‘Awesomely Simple’ by John Spence John Spence has done a brilliant job of writing a very useful handbook titled “ Awesomely Simple – Essential Business Strategies For Turning Ideas Into Action ”. It is a privilege to interview John on his book. Business is complex and this book is a great attempt to simplify it through ideas and how they can be turned into action. - - - - - [Tanmay Vora] John, it is a pleasure interviewing you.

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How to Lead Like a Pig

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