All for One & One for All: Understanding servant leadership

What’s a Leader to Do? Here are some guidelines to help you balance the tension between the individual and the group. 1. Pray for God to give you wisdom from thoughts others have to share as well as your own thoughts. 2. Take each situation as a process that is unfolding, and remain open to consider the needs of the organization and the needs of the individual as these come to be understood. 3. See in every complicated leadership situation the opportunity to explore your own humility by sharing leadership with followers. 4. Recognize that in every complicated leadership situation, God is calling you to participate with Him as co-creator of innovative solutions that will help both the individual and the organization

Creative city challeging concept "all for one - one for all"

Culture and creativity are today integrated in cities everyday life, as part of official strategies or as action of group of artists and people working in cultural and creative industry. Culture and creativity are part of many concepts of urban development promoted as an acceptable response to the challenges of globalisation. If we speak of Cultural, Creative, Inclusive, Smart, Cognitive city, or any other similar concept, it is always about creating better conditions for living and creativity. Creative cities are based on communication, social networks, technology, with principles of adaptability, synergy and inclusion. As any paradigm, creative cities are challenged on many levels, in theory and in practice. It should be considered as wary important that use of culture and creativity as resource can have significant impact on society. Some arguments for and against creative cities will be presented in this paper, especially according its influence on the public space, individual rights and inclusion. This paper will present case study of Savamala, cultural and creative neighbourhood in Belgrade, as an example of public involvement and creating public space in creative city

All For One, One For All; Pro-Choice; More Filling Than Soup

News release announces that William Lewis has devised a Teamwork Model, Don Frericks says parents should be allowed to choose the public school their children attend, and a group of University of Dayton students belong to Bread for the World

‘All for One, One for All’: communicative processes of co-creation of place brands through inclusive and horizontal stakeholder collaborative networks

This paper examines stakeholder communication and interaction dynamics in place branding processes in order to inform alternative participatory place branding models. The paper draws from critical communications and branding theory to argue that place brand identities are the result of mediated messages in the public sphere. Consequently, place branding processes need to be observed as communicative exchanges. Through a case study of Australia’s southern and only island state of Tasmania, the research employs participatory action research combined with the method of sociological intervention to explore stakeholders’ communicative interaction patterns and engagement in place branding processes. Participants representing formal and informal stakeholders engaged in communicating meaning about places were invited to participate in a series of interviews and focus group discussions that allowed a unique self-reflective process and analysis of practices and power-geometries. The proposed quasi-real scenario led to an understanding of the impediments for communication and to scoping alternative modes of engagement towards effective stakeholder communication to support the development of resilient place brand identities. The findings of the exploration contribute to theoretical development of the field by providing an analysis of the nature of stakeholder interactions and communication patterns, impediments and opportunities for greater communication and collaboration towards a common purpose. On a practical level, the study can also inform the development of participatory models of place brand development. Finally, the method proposed here can serve as a practical tool to foster stakeholder engagement in processes of cocreation of place brand identities

User-centric distributed solutions for privacy-preserving analytics

How can cryptography empower users with sensitive data to access large-scale computing platforms in a privacy-preserving manner?</jats:p

What are the Top Cultural Characteristics That Appear in High-Performing Organizations Across Multiple Industries?

Recently, researchers have investigated the existence of High Performing Organization (HPO) and its characteristics. Because researchers approach the topic of high performance from different backgrounds and angles and with different goals, it makes sense there is not yet a consistent definition of a HPO. We found a meaningful research paper that identifies common characteristics or common themes that seemed to be part of a HPO. This report will cover definitions and cultural characteristics of HPO based on that research paper contrasting and combining results from 91 different quality studies done over the last fifteen years

DEMO: integrating MPC in big data workflows

Secure multi-party computation (MPC) allows multiple parties to perform a joint computation without disclosing their private inputs. Many real-world joint computation use cases, however, involve data analyses on very large data sets, and are implemented by software engineers who lack MPC knowledge. Moreover, the collaborating parties -- e.g., several companies -- often deploy different data analytics stacks internally. These restrictions hamper the real-world usability of MPC. To address these challenges, we combine existing MPC frameworks with data-parallel analytics frameworks by extending the Musketeer big data workflow manager [4]. Musketeer automatically generates code for both the sensitive parts of a workflow, which are executed in MPC, and the remainder of the computation, which runs on scalable, widely-deployed analytics systems. In a prototype use case, we compute the Herfindahl-Hirschman Index (HHI), an index of market concentration used in antitrust regulation, on an aggregate 156GB of taxi trip data over five transportation companies. Our implementation computes the HHI in about 20 minutes using a combination of Hadoop and VIFF [1], while even "mixed mode" MPC with VIFF alone would have taken many hours. Finally, we discuss future research questions that we seek to address using our approach