June, 2015

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A Powerful Way to Gain the Trust of Your Team

Let's Grow Leaders

The Senior Vice President stood in front of my all hands meeting of 300 and said, “I was wrong.” I’ve never heard a group that size sit in such silence. I’m not even sure we were breathing. You see, she had been a naysayer. She knew the mission our team had been given was necessary, but she didn’t believe it could be done.

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Top Gun Leadership: What’s Your Callsign?

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’m Maverick.” Says Maverick on his initial gambit with the gorgeous Charlie. “Did your mother not like you?” Says Charlie back to Maverick. “No, it’s my call sign.” Replies Maverick. The movie Top Gun forever put the names of Maverick, Goose and Iceman into our lexicon and gave the common person a feel for what a call sign is.

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List of Cyber Threat “Wake-Up Calls” Growing: Policy makers have been hitting the snooze button since 1970

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The list below is an update to our reference of "Cyber Security Wake-Up Calls." What does it take to be on the list? Generally each of the events below was so significant policy makers were loudly proclaiming to all who would listen that they were a wake-up call. This means there are reflections in public policy documents, speeches and the press that cite leaders using the phrase.

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Why You Should Bring a Startup Founder Mindset To Your Leadership

Terry Starbucker

Look at business like a labyrinth, not a maze (thanks Ken Tomita of Grovemade). OK, I’m going to come clean here. I’m pretty set in my ways. As befitting my nearly 56 years on this planet, I’ve gotten to the point where my likelihood to alter behaviors, look at things differently, or, more pertinent to this website, change the way I define and practice great leadership, is pretty low.

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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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How to Deal With Resistance to Change

Change Starts Here

Do you ever feel like you have to drag people through the mud by their hair to get them to change? That’s the opening line of my recent TEDx GeorgiaStateU talk on the topic of “How to Deal With Resistance to Change.” Watch to hear a little bit of my story, learn how to spot resistance to change, find out how you can better respond to it, and look underneath the surface to understand the true nature of resistance – all in less than 11 minutes!

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How to Achieve the Impossible

Let's Grow Leaders

IT managers, Lori and Ann, were both shocked when they were given their latest projects. What this new client wanted was really complicated, and their teams were already about to tip over, not to mention the ridiculous time frame the sales team had committed to. “Why don’t they ask us before making these impossible commitments?” “What are they smoking?

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T is for Taking Care of Your People

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 solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care.

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Google, like Samsung, is eavesdropping on your private conversations

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If you use Google Chrome , you could be subject to eavesdropping by Google. Similar to what Samsung's TVs are doing, the Chromium browser listens to conversations in the vicinity of your laptop, PC, or tablet, and transmits it back to Google. Ostensibly, this is part of the " Google Now " voice activation feature of Chrome. Privacy campaigners and some developers think it's more nefarious.

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So You Want To Be A Leader? How To Unlock Your Leadership Destiny

Terry Starbucker

I remember the day I knew I really wanted to be a leader. Funny thing was, it was 5 years after I “accidentally” became one. I started my career as an accountant, right out of college. I obtained my CPA certificate, rose quickly through the ranks and within 5 years I was a Manager on the fast track to partner. Then, I got a phone call that would change my life.

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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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Communicating the Value of Change Management

Change Starts Here

Over the last several years, there’s been a surge of new internal change management positions and departments within organizations. Someone in each organization must have seen the value in dedicating resources to doing change well, but what about everyone else who needs to apply it? Stuck trying to convince everyone else of their purpose, change practitioners often ask, “How do I communicate the value of change management?

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The hardest challenge about becoming a manager

Erik Bernhardsson

Note: this post is full of pseudo-psychology and highly speculative content. Like most fun stuff! I became a manager back in 2009. Being a developer is fun. You have this very tangible way to measure yourself. Did I deploy something today? How much code did I write today? Did I solve some really cool machine learning problem on paper? But as 1:1’s and emails and architecture discussions started filling up my day I often walked home with this gnawing feeling of having accomplished nothing.

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5 Ways to Ignite Your Summer Leadership Fitness

Let's Grow Leaders

If you’re like me, you think more about getting fit when the days start to require less clothes. What if you also used summertime as a time to pay a bit more attention to your leadership fitness? Similar strategies apply. In fact, they work all year round (I put that in for my many Aussie subscribers in the midst of Winter). 5 Ways To Ignite Your Leadership Fitness.

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Expanding Professional Development

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 growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership.” Harvey S. Firestone. Professional development is one of the most critical areas for an organizational leader to remain focused on.

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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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Airbus confirms software errors/configuration brought down A400M transport plane

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The Register is reporting that badly configured software, installed incorrectly, is responsible for the crash of an Airbus A400M transport plane. Engine control software, installed wrong, was to blame. The A400M crashed just after takeoff on its first real production test flight, 9 May near Seville's San Pablo Airport, killing four. For the initial report on the software see: The Register.

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The Road Trip: Making The Personal Connections That Build Trust and Respect

Terry Starbucker

Note: Here’s another preview excerpt from my book manuscript of “More Human: A Journey To The Heart Of Great Leadership” It’s a true story of a road trip that proved to me that making personal connections to build trust and respect is a necessary part of being a More Human leader. . “One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.” – Henry Miller.

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To Influence Change: Simultaneously Cause and Alleviate Discomfort

Change Starts Here

The status quo is the existing routine, the comfort zone. Change necessarily causes people to step out of their comfort zones, to learn something that was previously outside of their awareness, or to do something different that may seem unnatural or risky, or to go somewhere that is not well defined. Discomfort is necessary for change. People first need to be uncomfortable with the current situation to have the energy to do something different.

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How Digital Collaboration is Fragmenting, and Why It’s a Major Opportunity

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

A significant issue has been developing in digital collaboration for the last several years, and it’s now starting to become somewhat acute. I’m referring here to the pronounced trend towards app, environment, and channel fragmentation. Over the last few of years, I have been speaking with beleaguered IT managers who are struggling to cope with the sheer proliferation of software, systems, and applications that purport to help workers with collaboration.

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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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What I Learned From Marshall Goldsmith: A Simple and Effective Technique

Let's Grow Leaders

When Marshall Goldsmith sent me his new book, Triggers, I read it cover to cover on my flight to Vegas. Great read. But what makes a good book a great book is when it leads you to action. This one did. The Power of Daily Questions. It’s so simple. Goldsmith recommends asking yourself a few “easy” questions each day. Of course, I say easy because they should be straightforward.

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The Practice 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]. “We are shaped by practices and shape ourselves through practices. ”. Bob Dunham. What are you practicing as a leader? Leadership, like any endeavor is a skill that can be learned and honed through practice.

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The Digital Risk Reduction Act of 2015

CTOvision

Are you looking for ideas on how to improve the security of federal systems? Cognitio’s founders have been responsible for guarding some of the world’s hardest-to-penetrate networks, including the classified systems that lets case officers in hostile countries communicate with headquarters in the United States, and the networks that provide real-time information to battlefield commanders so they can help save lives in conflict zones.

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The Heroic Journey: How Personal Growth Leads To Leadership Growth

Terry Starbucker

About a year ago, I had the opportunity to interview Dr. Kathy Kramer for my More Human Podcast. I was fascinated by the articulate and graceful way she had connected a person’s heart and soul to great leadership, and better still, she had the science to prove it. If you haven’t listened to this conversation yet, I’d encourage you to do it soon – it’s a great companion piece to this post.

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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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Reserve Your Seat in Enclaria’s Fundamentals of Change Management Course – September 28-30 in Atlanta

Change Starts Here

Download brochure. Fundamentals of Change Management. How to Design and Influence Change at Work. Three-Day Workshop. Atlanta, Georgia. September 28-30, 2015. Fundamentals of Change Management is a foundational course for anyone who influences change at work. This three-day workshop will help you design your change initiative to go as smoothly as possible and overcome the inevitable challenges when they occur.

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How Should Organizations Actually Go About Digital Transformation?

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

This is now the question that is top of mind in a large number of enterprises today, as speeding up adaptation to rapidly evolving digital markets is now not just a requirement to grow today, but increasingly to survive. This is not incautious language and I’ve been pointing to the relatively urgent data for several years: One major slip as organizations fully digitize their workforces, supply chains, and externally facing products and services is easily enough to put an organization into

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Leaders Share about New Beginnings, Fresh Starts, and Project Launches: A Frontline Festival

Let's Grow Leaders

Welcome back to the Let’s Grow Leaders Frontline Festival. Our June Festival is all about new beginnings, fresh starts, and project launches. Thanks to Joy and Tom Guthrie of Vizwerx Group for the great pic and to all our contributors! Next month’s Festival is all about leading through influence. How do you lead when you don’t have direct authority?

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Character in Leadership: Part 3 of 3

General Leadership

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. This article is Part 3 of a 3-part series by Colonel Albers on traits that can make or break a leader. Decisiveness. In the first part of this series we looked at humility – and how true humility is a critical trait that involves right thinking about oneself.

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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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Why Big Data And The Internet of Things Are A Match Made In Heaven

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There’s a closer relationship between big data and the IoT than most people realize – almost as if they were made for one another. See for yourself. . Today, we’re going to talk about the Internet of Things and Big Data. Bear with me here. This isn’t going to be some vague, half-cocked article bogged down by buzzwords and vagaries. Instead, what we’re going to do is take a close look at both technologies - what they actually are and what they actually do - in regards to how they’re changing en

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The 10 Most Common Bootstrap Mistakes That Developers Make

Toptal

Bootstrap is a powerful toolkit. It comes bundled with basic HTML and CSS design templates that include many common UI components. Most of the important pitfalls are mentioned in the Bootstrap documentation, but still some mistakes are pretty subtle, or have ambiguous causes. This article outlines some of the most common mistakes, problems, and misconceptions when using Bootstrap.

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Are You Ready to Turn Your “Side Hustle” into a Business?

Women on Business

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