During stressful times, effective leaders who display vulnerability, empathy, and compassion can make a tremendous difference in the emotional wellbeing and performance of their colleagues. Often, the most meaningful messages we can share with one another go beyond words. The post More than words: Rethinking communication & connection appeared first on Clear Concept Inc..| Clear Concept Inc.
We’ve all heard the colloquial advice: Laughter is the best medicine. But did you know there is scientific evidence to back this up? The post Stress is no laughing matter (or is it?) appeared first on Clear Concept Inc..| Clear Concept Inc.
Mistakes happen. In fact, they’re inevitable. Despite our good intentions and diligence, mistakes creep into our work. We are human, after all. And if we know mistakes are going to happen, it's important to address them in the best way, so we can gain back trust and credibility. Here’s what you can do the next time (yes, there will be a next time...) you need to own up to a mistake and accept accountability. The post How to recover from mistakes appeared first on Clear Concept Inc..| Clear Concept Inc.
Mentoring is associated with powerful benefits for mentors, mentees, and their organizations. But good mentoring doesn’t magically happen when you pair people together. Whether you’re a mentor, a mentee, or are looking to establish a mentoring program within your organization, you can use our practical ACE Mentoring framework to ensure you have key success factors in place to make the most of this valuable development opportunity. The post Mentoring for Excellence: 3 ways to guide and emp...| Clear Concept Inc.
When your list is longer than your day, you need a fresh approach to the way you work. Yes, you can get by managing your work the way you always have but managing is not thriving. And we all deserve to thrive. It may be counterintuitive but if you want to do more, you need to subtract. Simplify to amplify, so you can focus on what matters most. The post Do more using the power of subtraction appeared first on Clear Concept Inc..| Clear Concept Inc.
Do you struggle with balancing your need to be responsive with your (equally important) need to protect focus time in your day? Remember: your great work requires focus and attention. It’s important to build this time into your day - and protect it as you would any other meeting or appointment in your calendar. Here are three strategies you can use to help you avoid slipping down the spiral of distraction. The post 3 ways to avoid distractions appeared first on Clear Concept Inc..| Clear Concept Inc.
Does “little stuff” like rounding up hockey gear, or booking doctor’s appointments end up taking your whole day? Here’s my strategy for how to manage supporting tasks so they’ll take up less of your precious time. The post How to manage supporting tasks without having them consume your day appeared first on Clear Concept Inc..| Clear Concept Inc.
I’m sure I don’t need to remind you of the restorative value of taking a break. But sometimes the stress we experience before and after a vacation can leave us wondering if the vacation was even worth it. To help you head into the holidays feeling calm and in control, I have a fresh approach to this challenge. The Simplify Filter is designed to help you scale back, streamline, or seek help. I tested this approach before our family vacation earlier this year and here’s how it worked. The...| Clear Concept Inc.
With many organizations calling for a bigger in-office presence, those trips into the office are ramping up. Why does this shift seem so difficult now? And how can we minimize the upheaval associated with yet another change in how we work? I’ve got three strategies to share. The post How to prepare to spend more time in the office appeared first on Clear Concept Inc..| Clear Concept Inc.
If you’re working hard but don’t feel you’re making progress, there’s a good chance you’re slipping into a common productivity challenge: taking on too much. It's tempting to want to do it all - now. But this dilutes our effort, wastes our time, and creates the frustration of carrying countless unfinished tasks. If you can relate but don’t know where to start, try this approach.| Clear Concept Inc.
Discover the psychology and science holding your team back from its full potential. Learn how the "Last 8%" is the key to building a courageous, high-performing culture.| The Last Eight Percent
14 ways to have your team’s back as a leader—building trust and inspiring loyalty along the way.| Triple Crown Leadership
Every leader wants to know how to build a high-performing team. But performance is more than hitting quarterly targets. True high-performance means creating a team that consistently delivers results, adapts to challenges, innovates under pressure, and grows stronger together over time. The Blueprint of Performance for Organizations The best high-performing teams share certain qualities. They […]| Last Eight Percent
At Datadog, we regularly hold hackathons, a dedicated time when we can explore new ideas and tinker with new technologies. During one of these hackathons, I found myself working side by side with a colleague who holds a Data Mining & Algorithms PhD. Driven by the desire to do something both cool and complex, we decided on building an online anomaly detection method for streaming logs. We both work in the Cloud SIEM team, a team that provides a security tool to analyse logs in a stateful manne...| Adri’s Blog
The other day, while wasting time reading reddit, I stumbled upon a blogpost mentioning S3 FIFO, a method claiming to outperform LRU (Least Recently Used) in terms of cache miss ratio. Notable companies like RedPandas, Rising Wave, and Cloudflare have already implemented it in various capacities, so this piqued my interest. Caches are a pretty darn interesting and at Datadog, we rely heavily on them in several services, so I knew I had to put S3 FIFO to the test, or at least, make sure I unde...| Adri’s Blog
Many leaders are too focused on providing answers and not enough on asking great questions. On the benefits of asking questions, plus great questions leaders should ask themselves and their direct reports—and about other stakeholders.| Triple Crown Leadership
Mistakes and lessons from a real-world feature performance optimizations: from API usage to advanced data structures, from bit hacks to CPU-friendlier code.| The mole is digging
The fastest implementation of Bloom filter for Scala and JVM| The mole is digging
TIL: JIT can treat static readonly fields as constants| The mole is digging
We will take a closer look at the hoisting optimization by JIT. The post contains examples with their assembly listings.| The mole is digging
Hoisting is a compiler optimization that moves loop-invariant code out of the loop. The post reveals hoisting in .NET and explains what code will be optimized and why.| The mole is digging
A short HOWTO check whether methods were inlined by JIT or not, and why not.| The mole is digging
