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Georgia bill could stifle the state’s booming cybersecurity community

The Parallax

A new bill winding its way through the Georgia state senate has cybersecurity experts on alert. As Senate Bill 315 is currently written, academics and independent security researchers alike could be subject to prosecution in Georgia alongside malicious hackers. The two-page bill aims to amend legislation governing computer crimes in the Peach State to criminalize “unauthorized computer access.

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One Obvious Secret to Retaining High Performers

Let's Grow Leaders

Recently, I received an incredibly strong message about retaining high performers. The message came from Jennifer, a former store manager at a national women’s clothing chain. Jennifer is outgoing, incredibly gifted at making customers feel comfortable, and was considered a “high-potential” by […]. The post One Obvious Secret to Retaining High Performers appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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How Being a Mom Makes You Better in Business

Women on Business

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The Comprehensive Guide to Information Architecture

Toptal

Learn about information architecture—how designers and product managers build an IA using design principles as well as IA tools and best practices.

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Enterprise ABM Marketing Tools: A Marketers Guide

Savvy B2B marketers know that a great account-based marketing (ABM) strategy leads to higher ROI and sustainable growth. In this guide, we’ll cover: What makes for a successful ABM strategy? What are the key elements and capabilities of ABM that can make a real difference? How is AI changing workflows and driving functionality? This Martech Intelligence Report on Enterprise Account-Based Marketing examines the state of ABM in 2024 and what to consider when implementing ABM software.

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Which is more dangerous: writing badly or reading poorly?

Scott Berkun

On Tuesdays I generally write about the top voted question on Ask Berkun (see the lovely archive ). This week I turned the tables, and asked my followers on Twitter a simple question : Which is more dangerous: people who write badly, or people who read poorly? Polls like this are mostly just fun for me. Even so, I try to word them carefully and think through how to make the question less leading towards one answer.

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One Surprising Reason Your Nonprofit Struggles to Grow

Let's Grow Leaders

I regularly speak with nonprofit leaders who wonder why their nonprofit struggles to grow. They have a great theory of change, clear intended impact, enthusiastic donors, but…something is wrong. Here are a few quotes from some of these leaders. I’ve disguised their […]. The post One Surprising Reason Your Nonprofit Struggles to Grow appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Leaders Focus on the Trends, Not the Data Points

Next Level Blog

In some organizations, this is the time of year where individual performance from the previous year is summarized and communicated in annual reviews. (Which, by the way, is an abysmal practice that does nothing to develop people and has at least an 80% chance of causing them to feel disengaged.). One of the reasons annual performance reviews suck so much is that they too often deal in data points, not trends.

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Blockchain, IoT, and the Future of Transportation: Understanding the Motoro Coin

Toptal

Open-source, IoT, and Ethereum smart contracts work together with a new utility coin to make transportation more accessible and reduce vehicle waste. In this article, Toptal Freelance Ethereum Developer Micha? Mikolajczyk explains the motivations and methodology behind his startup's latest initiative.

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Forget Everything You Learned in College – Here’s How to Start a New Business

Women on Business

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Revolutionize QA: GAP's 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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Overlooked For Promotion Again: Now What Should I Do?

Let's Grow Leaders

Dear Karin and David, I’ve been sitting in the “ready now” box on the performance potential grid for over a year. But this is the third promotion in a row that’s gone to someone clearly less qualified for political reasons. I’ve been […]. The post Overlooked For Promotion Again: Now What Should I Do? appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Are You Rewarding Your Employees the Right Way?

Steve Farber

Pause for a few seconds and make a mental note of the five-to-10 most recent examples of people who were rewarded within your organization. In other words, who got a raise, a bonus, a promotion, an award or some other form of recognition for a job well done? In many organizations, perhaps even most, those honors go to people who achieved some tangible, measurable result.

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Principles of Organizational Design and Optimization: Lessons From The Great Recession

Toptal

In 2006, Ford Motor Company’s losses came in at a staggering $12.7 billion; but four years later, profits had rebounded to $6.6 billion. At around the same time, Carlos Brito’s “one firm, one culture” optimization policy delivered $2.3 billion in synergies, exceeding pre-merger projections for Anheuser-Busch’s combination with InBev by 50%. Both Ford and AB InBev’s CEOs achieved these results by adeptly applying the principles of organizational optimization—concepts explored by Toptal Finance Re

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Tips for Building Your Confidence as a Female Boss

Women on Business

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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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DataTribe Launches Inaugural Cyber Funding Competition: The DataTribe Cyber Crucible (putting up $Millions in funding)

CTOvision

One of the most virtuous activities in the American economy is the smart deployment of investment money on disruptive technologies. When done right, this can be a win for so many stakeholders, including businesses, governments and the general public. The team at DataTribe has already been taking virtuous, company building action that is creating value […].

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Three Levels of Trust in Relationships

QAspire

A lot of people I meet use the expression, “Trust me…” or “Believe me…” in an attempt to build confidence. Do we trust them, just because they are asking us to? Trust is not something you demand, it is something that you have to earn through clarity of intent (why), actions that support that intent (what) and most importantly take those actions with utmost integrity and human connection (how).

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Net Promoter Score Isn’t Enough: You Need User Research

Toptal

Net Promoter Score is a consumer insight method to track customer loyalty, but it falls short in many ways. Applying various user research methods gives a more complete picture of the user experience.

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The Surprising Secret to Increasing Wealth

Women on Business

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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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Top 20 AI Influencers to follow in 2018

Loom Systems

AI. Artificial intelligence. So many people talking about it, buzzing about it, always trending with this hashtag or another. But how do we sift through the noise and listen to what really matters? Who are the true evangelists worth following, who own this domain and have always something interesting to say about it? Who is that myriad of people who has both academic and commercial point of views, own a concrete vision and yet are well grounded within a growing ecosystem, and always have somethi

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4 Surprising Industries Capitalizing on the Smart Tech Boom

CTOvision

Smart technologies exist in almost every sector imaginable, and in many cases, they assist industries that haven’t historically embraced innovations. As a result, employees and company leaders are getting acquainted with new ways to work and achieve goals. 1. Accounting Although the professionals within it are undeniably useful — especially near tax time — the […].

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How A CIO Can Become Very Persuasive

The Accidental Successful CIO

Successful CIOs are also very persuasive Image Credit: Eric Malette. What does it take to be a successful CIO? The answer, of course, is that it takes a lot of different things. Most importantly you need to become good at selling both yourself and the importance of information technology to others. Another way of saying this is that you need to be good at persuading people.

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The Importance of Understanding Cultural Differences in Digital Marketing

Women on Business

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4 AI Hacks to Make Sales Teams More Efficient

Over the last two years, there’s been a 76 percent increase in AI adoption across sales organizations. The reason for its rise? AI increases teams’ productivity by predicting and automating actions that require manual effort. In other words, the research that takes reps hours, AI can do in seconds. For sales teams, AI opens up a world of new possibilities, including automating outreach, identifying best-fit buyers, and keeping CRMs flush with fresh data.

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My #1 Productivity Tip (and 5 Others)

Nathan Magnuson

As you continue to grow as a leader, the invariable happens. You get put in charge of more. Whether you’re promoted to a higher position or have your level of responsibilities expanded in your current role, there’s simply more to oversee. In fact, as unemployment rates fall and Baby Boomers continue to retire, there is a good chance your new leadership opportunities will come before you feel ready.

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CTOvision Tech News 6 Feb 2018

CTOvision

News this week reaffirmed the disruptive power of cloud computing, in many ways. One way was in the announcement by Google that their Google Cloud, which includes G Suite and Google Cloud Platform, is now a $1B per quarter business. Huge of course, but that is not nearly as large as the powerhouse at Amazon […].

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Cybersecurity on Call: Nation-State Cyber Operations with Patrick Tucker

Cloudera

As cyber attacks continue to increase across the world, it has become more critical for countries to implement cyber operations from a defensive and offensive perspective to protect national secrets and their citizens. An Arizona State University research paper showed just how global this problem is when they discovered that if hackers discussed a zero-day exploit on the dark web in Chinese the likelihood of a hacker exploiting the vulnerability was 9%.

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Where Female Entrepreneurs Should Look For Funding Assistance

Women on Business

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Prepare Now: 2025s Must-Know Trends For Product And Data Leaders

Speaker: Jay Allardyce, Deepak Vittal, Terrence Sheflin, and Mahyar Ghasemali

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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Seeing CDN Traffic with Kentik Detect

Kentik

CDN Attribution Reveals Traffic Source for Enterprises and SPs. As you can tell from our Product Updates page , new features keep rolling out from the Kentik Detect® development team, giving our customers new ways to visualize, monitor, and respond to their network traffic. In recent months it’s been a challenge to give every new component the attention it deserves, so in the next couple of posts we’ll circle back to some recently added capabilities that are worthy of further exploration.

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Introducing Red Baron - Automate the Creation of Resilient, Disposable, Secure, and Agile Infrastructure for Red Teams

Coalfire

The need to automate the creation of disposable red-team infrastructure is key to providing effective adversary simulations. As Coalfire Labs continued to grow, our team needed a system to quickly configure and spin up C2 and/or phishing infrastructure, run multiple campaigns at the same time, and recreate infrastructure if some parts got detected and/or blacklisted.

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Leading and Lagging Indicators

Derek Huether

leading and lagging indicators. When attempting to attain an objective or key result, people often refer to key performance , leading and lagging indicators. Unfortunately, a lot of people don't know the difference and how to use them to their benefit. This post should provide some clarity to the differences. What is a Key Performance Indicator (KPI) Indicators are statistical values to measure current conditions as well as forecast trends and outcomes.

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