The 50th Law by 50 Cent and Robert Greene provides business and life advice drawn from the authors' experiences. It discusses developing mental and emotional resilience, managing social dynamics on teams, and adapting to cultural changes. The book recommends striking before fully prepared to force oneself to higher levels of motivation and innovation. Leaders are advised to develop long-term visions and unify their teams towards shared goals in order to overcome distractions and resistance to change.
These slides contain the review of book "YOU CAN WIN", written by Shive Khera. He is an Indian Motivational Writer and Speaker. So go through them. They are very helpful to get the major concepts of the book.
Building a Business Case for a Talent Management SuiteSaba Software
This is a pre-recorded webinar session. Join us live! Visit www.saba.com/us/about/events.
Integrated talent management solutions, referred to as talent management suites are the most rapidly growing area within human capital management (HCM) software today, replacing the disparate siloed applications that proliferated in many organizations.[1] These separate standalone products, often considered the leaders at the time of purchase are increasingly becoming displaced by single vendor solutions that are integrated or at least modular and easy to integrate.
Key takeaways include:
1. Software management issues facing HR today
2. The value of the single suite
3. Getting started: Business case planning and preparation
In this webinar, conducted by Dr. Katherine Jones, VP of HCM Technology Research at Bersin by Deloitte, Deloitte Consulting LLP, you will have the opportunity to learn the issues and drivers for this accelerating movement today and how to create the business case to drive investment decisions for unified talent software architecture.
Register here to join us on August 7th at 1:00pm ET to learn key steps in creating a compelling business case for talent suite acquisition.
[1]Talent Optimization for the Global Workforce: The Market for Talent Management Systems 2014. Katherine Jones. Bersin by Deloitte. 2014.
These slides contain the review of book "YOU CAN WIN", written by Shive Khera. He is an Indian Motivational Writer and Speaker. So go through them. They are very helpful to get the major concepts of the book.
Building a Business Case for a Talent Management SuiteSaba Software
This is a pre-recorded webinar session. Join us live! Visit www.saba.com/us/about/events.
Integrated talent management solutions, referred to as talent management suites are the most rapidly growing area within human capital management (HCM) software today, replacing the disparate siloed applications that proliferated in many organizations.[1] These separate standalone products, often considered the leaders at the time of purchase are increasingly becoming displaced by single vendor solutions that are integrated or at least modular and easy to integrate.
Key takeaways include:
1. Software management issues facing HR today
2. The value of the single suite
3. Getting started: Business case planning and preparation
In this webinar, conducted by Dr. Katherine Jones, VP of HCM Technology Research at Bersin by Deloitte, Deloitte Consulting LLP, you will have the opportunity to learn the issues and drivers for this accelerating movement today and how to create the business case to drive investment decisions for unified talent software architecture.
Register here to join us on August 7th at 1:00pm ET to learn key steps in creating a compelling business case for talent suite acquisition.
[1]Talent Optimization for the Global Workforce: The Market for Talent Management Systems 2014. Katherine Jones. Bersin by Deloitte. 2014.
Environ 100 pages pour mieux comprendre vos émotions, gérer vos habitudes, définir ses envies, fixer ses objectifs, atteindre ses objectifs, prendre des décisions,…
Des conseils de nombreux experts : Jim Rohn, Brian Tracy, Earl Nightingale, John Assaraf, T. Harv Heker, Jeff Olson, Charles Duhigg, …
We all have difficult conversations in our lives that we have a natural tendency to avoid. However, effective organizations and effective individuals know how and when to hold these conversations.
CTR Workshop:
• Relationship Between Talents and Strengths
* Clifton StrengthsFinder® Assessment
• 34 Talent Themes
• Four Leadership Domains
• Understanding and Leveraging Team Member Strengths
• Benefits and Challenges of High Performing Teams
Contact www.CTR-Consulting.com for complete PowerPoint presentation and more information about company and services.
www.infinitegrowth.com.au | Want to become a more effective leader in your workplace? Follow these 5 tips!
Visit us at www.infinitegrowth.com.au for more business leadership tips.
Coaching: A Core Skill for Lean Transformational LeadershipChet Marchwinski
LEI CEO John Shook, author and lean practitioner since working at Toyota, describes the skills needed to be a master lean coach in this presentation from the 2015 Lean Coaching Summit.
Durant cette formation vous comprendrez rapidement la puissance de la méthode Design Thinking et vous apprendrez étape par étape comment mener une réflexion d'un vrai Designer.
This is based on several success concepts discusses in the Greatness Guide by Robin Sharma, one of the world's top success coaches as well as one of my favorite. The concepts discussed in the Greatness Guide are believed to empower your personal and business lives. Those concepts brings you prosperity, happiness and also success. I found a greater transformation in my life after reading the Greatness Guide deeply and I believe you also will. That is why I want you to share something with. So, I hope you will find something invaluable in this. Thank you Robin-all the credits go to the genuine author of the Greatness Guide. Hope, you will enjoy!
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For the last five years, I’ve tried to do just that on my popular monthly reading list email. I’ve recommended hundreds of amazing, life-changing books to tens of thousands of people:
http://www.ryanholiday.net/reading-newsletter/
Environ 100 pages pour mieux comprendre vos émotions, gérer vos habitudes, définir ses envies, fixer ses objectifs, atteindre ses objectifs, prendre des décisions,…
Des conseils de nombreux experts : Jim Rohn, Brian Tracy, Earl Nightingale, John Assaraf, T. Harv Heker, Jeff Olson, Charles Duhigg, …
We all have difficult conversations in our lives that we have a natural tendency to avoid. However, effective organizations and effective individuals know how and when to hold these conversations.
CTR Workshop:
• Relationship Between Talents and Strengths
* Clifton StrengthsFinder® Assessment
• 34 Talent Themes
• Four Leadership Domains
• Understanding and Leveraging Team Member Strengths
• Benefits and Challenges of High Performing Teams
Contact www.CTR-Consulting.com for complete PowerPoint presentation and more information about company and services.
www.infinitegrowth.com.au | Want to become a more effective leader in your workplace? Follow these 5 tips!
Visit us at www.infinitegrowth.com.au for more business leadership tips.
Coaching: A Core Skill for Lean Transformational LeadershipChet Marchwinski
LEI CEO John Shook, author and lean practitioner since working at Toyota, describes the skills needed to be a master lean coach in this presentation from the 2015 Lean Coaching Summit.
Durant cette formation vous comprendrez rapidement la puissance de la méthode Design Thinking et vous apprendrez étape par étape comment mener une réflexion d'un vrai Designer.
This is based on several success concepts discusses in the Greatness Guide by Robin Sharma, one of the world's top success coaches as well as one of my favorite. The concepts discussed in the Greatness Guide are believed to empower your personal and business lives. Those concepts brings you prosperity, happiness and also success. I found a greater transformation in my life after reading the Greatness Guide deeply and I believe you also will. That is why I want you to share something with. So, I hope you will find something invaluable in this. Thank you Robin-all the credits go to the genuine author of the Greatness Guide. Hope, you will enjoy!
24 Books You've Never Heard Of - But Will Change Your LifeRyan Holiday
For the last five years, I’ve tried to do just that on my popular monthly reading list email. I’ve recommended hundreds of amazing, life-changing books to tens of thousands of people:
http://www.ryanholiday.net/reading-newsletter/
How to have successful dialogue when stakes are high, opinions vary, and emotions run strong. Whether it's with a friend, a co-worker, or a loved one, how can you be 100% honest and yet 100% respectful?
My first ever Power Point presentation. A report to give my coworkers a taste of what the book contains.
This sideshow should only be considered a quick preview. There is much more to this presentation than just the base slides. I highly recommend downloading the file.
For the company that you know is a bit more casual, consider taking the safe approach with business casual attire. The following are some tips that may help you decide on what to wear during job interview:
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The technology industry has a bad rap. Sexism and misogyny run rampant. Marginalized groups get railroaded. Out-of-touch companies look to make as much money as ruthlessly as possible, all while exploiting others and passing it off as "disruption". Our industry is losing sight of what it could be. Technology, at its heart, has always been aspirational - about dreaming up the impossible and willing it into existence. This talk will discuss what can bring us back from the brink: empathy. Empathy for the people that use the things we make, for our non-technical teammates, and for our fellow engineers.
Remove creative block with 20 artist hacks. Find inspiration and unleash your creative spirit when you need it most. Find more at ww.malcolmdeweyfineart.com
If landing interviews, but not the offer is where you’re getting tripped up, it’s time to hit the pause button, take a step back and embrace your failure as a huge learning opportunity before moving on to one more interview.
Influence When You Have No Power or Authority (full text version)Peter Bromberg
Webinar for Utah State Library, 2-24-15. Regardless of whether you have a great deal of positional power or authority or none at all, you can exert meaningful influence and help bring about the future you prefer. Using proven techniques grounded in a simple model of coaching, and practicing emotionally and socially intelligent behaviors, you can learn to bring yourself into a state of greater resourcefulness, focus your attention and energy, get into action, and exert purposeful influence in any situation.
Sudheer Mechineni, Head of Application Frameworks, Standard Chartered Bank
Discover how Standard Chartered Bank harnessed the power of Neo4j to transform complex data access challenges into a dynamic, scalable graph database solution. This keynote will cover their journey from initial adoption to deploying a fully automated, enterprise-grade causal cluster, highlighting key strategies for modelling organisational changes and ensuring robust disaster recovery. Learn how these innovations have not only enhanced Standard Chartered Bank’s data infrastructure but also positioned them as pioneers in the banking sector’s adoption of graph technology.
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Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 5. In this session, we will cover CI/CD with devops.
Topics covered:
CI/CD with in UiPath
End-to-end overview of CI/CD pipeline with Azure devops
Speaker:
Lyndsey Byblow, Test Suite Sales Engineer @ UiPath, Inc.
Generative AI Deep Dive: Advancing from Proof of Concept to ProductionAggregage
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Goodbye Windows 11: Make Way for Nitrux Linux 3.5.0!SOFTTECHHUB
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Communications Mining Series - Zero to Hero - Session 1DianaGray10
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• Communication Mining Overview
• Why is it important?
• How can it help today’s business and the benefits
• Phases in Communication Mining
• Demo on Platform overview
• Q/A
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 6DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 6. In this session, we will cover Test Automation with generative AI and Open AI.
UiPath Test Automation with generative AI and Open AI webinar offers an in-depth exploration of leveraging cutting-edge technologies for test automation within the UiPath platform. Attendees will delve into the integration of generative AI, a test automation solution, with Open AI advanced natural language processing capabilities.
Throughout the session, participants will discover how this synergy empowers testers to automate repetitive tasks, enhance testing accuracy, and expedite the software testing life cycle. Topics covered include the seamless integration process, practical use cases, and the benefits of harnessing AI-driven automation for UiPath testing initiatives. By attending this webinar, testers, and automation professionals can gain valuable insights into harnessing the power of AI to optimize their test automation workflows within the UiPath ecosystem, ultimately driving efficiency and quality in software development processes.
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into integrating generative AI.
2. Understanding how this integration enhances test automation within the UiPath platform
3. Practical demonstrations
4. Exploration of real-world use cases illustrating the benefits of AI-driven test automation for UiPath
Topics covered:
What is generative AI
Test Automation with generative AI and Open AI.
UiPath integration with generative AI
Speaker:
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One such alternative that has garnered significant attention and acclaim is Nitrux Linux 3.5.0, a sleek, powerful, and user-friendly Linux distribution that promises to redefine the way we interact with our devices. With its focus on performance, security, and customization, Nitrux Linux presents a compelling case for those seeking to break free from the constraints of proprietary software and embrace the freedom and flexibility of open-source computing.
Threats to mobile devices are more prevalent and increasing in scope and complexity. Users of mobile devices desire to take full advantage of the features
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Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
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The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
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Bob Boule
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Gopinath Rebala
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However, this ease of use means that the subject of security in Kubernetes is often left for later, or even neglected. This exposes companies to significant risks.
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Paper: https://eprint.iacr.org/2023/1886
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
1. BOOK SUMMARY
THE 50th LAW
50 CENT & ROBERT GREENE
2009
I have done a lot of book summaries in my time. This is the first time that I
have felt the need to explain to my readers that “no, I have not gone to the
dark side of life.”
I picked this book up at the Toronto International book store as an impulse
purchase. It is very attractively packaged and I was only attracted by the title
not by the author’s name. It was only later on when I started reading the
book and asking people about the author, 50 Cent that I was made aware of
the dark culture of this “gangster/wrapper. I am so happy that I did not know
about the author because I would not have bought the book. I would have
been blinded by his dark side and not had the opportunity to see the deep
clear wisdom that comes from his mind.
This is a book about business, management, personal development, PR, team
building and life in general. Enjoy.
Turning points – page 86
1. The younger generation will react to the sacred cows of the older
generation. What marketing opportunities can come out of this?
2. Watch for any kinds of shifts in tastes our values. Resist following
fads.
3. The establishment will often rail against these changes. For evidence,
follow media stories when the establishment is challenged to live by
higher codes of behaviour during a local, regional, national or
international crisis.
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2. 4. People fear the new
5. Look for deep rooted changes in peoples’ tastes
6. Attack the values of the older generation and you can gain powerful
attention. What marketing opportunities can come from this?
7. Look for sudden successes or failures in the business world that
people find hard to explain. These are often indicators of shifts going
on under the surface
8. Deep changes going on usually register as fear to those who do not
know how to deal with them. Be the first to explain them for positive
purposes.
When to strike/act, move before you are ready - Page 87
1. Most people wait too long to go into action – generally out of fear.
They want better money or circumstances.
2. Don’t put obstacles in your path
3. It is the law of power that your energy will always rise to the
appropriate level.
4. When you feel that you must work harder to get to your goal because
you are not quite prepared, you are more alert and inventive. “This
venture has to succeed, so it will.”
5. Napoleon’s strategy using a ratio of 3 to 1:
Motivation or a high moral of you and your team
High energy to take on the task at hand
You have ample skills to carry out the task
Have 3 times the weight as your physical resources. This will ensure a
much higher chance of success
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3. 6. With energy and high moral, you can overcome almost any obstacle
and create opportunity out of adversity.
7. When you meet an obstacle, go with the flow and move around it.
Don’t waste your energy, keep moving forward.
Mastering the four types of flow:
1. Mental flow –
If you specialize too much, you can end up with interests that
are too narrow unless you compensate for it.
A generalists is forced to follow many paths from the start
Develop an insatiable hunger for knowledge
Let yourself be carried along with your discoveries
This will open up to new ideas, opportunities
2. Emotional flow –
If someone says something that bothers you, find a way to
quickly move past the feeling:
1. Excuse what they said
2. Make it less important
3. Accept it
4. or forget it
5. If you cannot forget it, accept it but do not hang on to
it. It will disrupt your flow
2. Live a life of balanced emotions. Learn the art of counterbalance.
If you are:
Fearful, be bold
Hateful, find love or admiration
One strong emotion tends to cancel out each other
3. Social flow:
People bring their own differences, energy and agendas to a
project.
Allow this to happen early in the project planning
Resist the need to control
The leader needs to develop the framework using the 3/1 ratio to
resources. (point #5)
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4. Allow room for the team to shape and develop the project
Help them to give the project flow and force
The leader simply directs the process
4. Cultural flow:
You exist in a particular cultural moment with its own flow and
style.
The danger is staying there
Find ways to periodically reinvent yourself
Like the palm tree or the flow of water, go with the wind/flow
Look for different possibilities
Resist chasing a fad
Whenever you feel rooted and established in place – that is when
you should be truly afraid. Stability inevitably leads to instability
and instability inevitably leads to stability
8. There are two levels of conflict and confrontation –
We have our desires and needs, our own interest that we wish to
advance
There are always others who are more aggressive than we are
- At some point these two paths will cross and try to block or harm us.
We need to manage people’s resistance and hostility. This has been
the human drama since time began.
- The only thing that has changed is how we handle these inevitable
moments in our lives
- We want to believe that people are basically peaceful and desire the
same things as ourselves.
- We often find out too late this is not the case
- The first step in dealing with this challenge is to realize that the
ability to deal with conflict is a function of inner strength and fear
- Instead of dealing with conflict some people go into denial – trying
to be liked which is really a reflection of deep fears
- Developing this inner strength does not come naturally. It takes
experience and practice in a controlled environment
- Look for opportunities to take on an aggressor to practice this skill
and develop your inner strength
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5. 9. Styles:
Lion……………………………..Lion
Fox……………………………...Fox
Lamb……………………………Lamb
The Hawk……………………….The Hawk (the hawk can see
farther, pick up the smallest detail, has sensitive eyes, has
supreme hunting skills
10.Defensive strategies – page 135
Aggressors:
1. They are direct and relentless
2. Simple ideas and fierce energy
3. Best to fight them in an indirect manner
4. Give them space to continue the attach
5. If you are too forceful, you will look defensive
6. Allow them to expose themselves
7. Play your fox to their lion
Passive aggressors
1. Masters of disguise
2. Present themselves as weak and helpless, highly moral or
righteous
3. Friendly and ingratiating
4. Send mixed messages – friendly, cool and hostile creating
confusion and conflicting emotions
5. If you try to call them on their behaviour, they use this
confusion to make you feel guilty as if you are the source of the
problem.
Strategy:
1. Do not get emotional and be drawn into the endless intrigues
2. If you play like a lion, you play into their hands.
3. They are better at this game than you are
4. Being underhanded and tricky only spurs on their insecurities and
intensifies their vindictive nature
5. Take bold uncompromising action that either discourages further
nonsense or sends them away
6. They only respond to power and leverage
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6. 7. Make them see the consequences if they continue
8. Be pro-active when they attack
9. How to recognize them. They will be too:
Kind
Ingratiating
Moral
Look for extremes in their behaviour that are not natural
Unjust situations:
1. If your goal is to end an injustice, you have to aim for results
2. In facing an unjust situation, you have two options:
Overt-
i. proclaim your intentions
ii. You may polarize the public/team
iii. Your intentions will obvious
iv. If the enemy is crafty, they can manoeuvre around you
Covert –
1. Play the fox to get better results
2. Don’t get emotional
3. Craft strategic manoeuvres to win support
4. Be flexible
5. Bait your opponent to further your cause
Courage or lack thereof – page 152
1. Some people lack the courage to do the dirty work themselves.
2. They will often recruit others to do it
3. In such a situation, confront the “patsy”
4. The patsy will see that you can do the dirty work and the original
attacker will be discredited in the process
5. Others will also see you as an effective leader worth following
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7. Leadership roles – page 166
1. The visionary:
A team must have goals and long term objectives to function
properly
Human nature will resist this
We focus on the immediate challenges and problems.
Develop a long term vision
Map out how you will get there
Get emotionally attached to the goal so that when dozens of
distractions appear, you will have the strength and purpose to
keep at it.
2. The unifier:
Give the team a reason to unify and be cohesive
It can be a cause that only the team can achieve vs. the
individual
If the dissenter fights or doubts the cause from within, they will
appear selfish to do so.
The leader must lead by example
When people feel involved, they bring their own ideas and
energy to the cause
Customer feedback – page 184
1. Know people well:
Their differences
Their nuances
Emotions
How to effect communication
How to influence them
This will enhance your sense of connection
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8. 2. What stops people from embracing this process?
Fear – for thousands of years, we have been conditioned to live as
tribes. Them against us, clean vs. unclean
Solution:
Embrace difference in people, be exited not fearful of different
cultures and ways of thinking.
The power is your sensitivity and closeness to this social
environment. The ability to move outside ourselves and connect to
other social networks.
Develop an open spirit, a continuous desire to learn.
What stops people from thinking outside the box?
1. They may have their assumptions challenged
2. They may have to change their own behaviour to
reflect the new reality.
3. Fear not the criticism that will do you good but do
fear the praise that deceives you.
Customer/public feedback – page 196
1. Trust but verify the source of your information. Is it highly filtered
and by whom?
2. Match this information with direct inner action with the
customer/public
3. Request candid feedback
Developing a project/concept – page 229
1. Immense yourself in the details of the subject or field
2. Learn about the tools you have to work with
3. Understand the needs/wants of your target audience
4. Study the latest technical advances in the field
5. Continue to dig deeper, research
6. From this knowledge, shape the project itself, grounded in reality
instead of some macro lofty view
7. Using this approach slows your mind down, developing patience for
the details requires work, an essential skill for mastering any craft
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9. Achieving long range goals – page 230
To accomplish anything worthwhile in life generally takes time, often years
or decades. It is not natural to manage this process easily. Day to day life
experiences can cause us to be sidetracked.
To force yourself through this process, try the following:
1. Be persistent
2. Guard your energy and motivation to succeed
3. Stay focused- limit the number of goals
4. Be alert to negative people that may try to hold you back or deter you
from succeeding.
5. If you have a long term goal, say 10 years, break it up into yearly or
benchmarks of every 2-3 years.
6. When you achieve the short term targets you will keep motivated
7. Share your goals with others. Set up a time to report back to those you
shared the goal with. Studies have shown that if you do this, you will
have a 95% chance of reaching your target.
8. Review your progress on a regular basis to ensure you are on target,
on time and on budget
Self worth –
1. Your opinion of yourself becomes your reality.
2. If you have all those doubts, then no one will believe in you and
everything will go wrong
3. If you think the opposite, the opposite will happen, it’s that simple
4. People want to see certain qualities in you
5. They project onto you their own fears and fantasies. They want you to
fit a particular pattern
6. Envy plays a role here – they may try to hold you back if you pass
them
I trust you have enjoyed this summary. I recommend that you read the book
and experience 50 cents street wise advice.
Wayne E. Taylor, P.R.P.
Your autodidactic retirement planner
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