Five Blogs – 3 March 2023

The (best) five blogs we can read today. Check them out.

Are You Focusing Too Much on Others’ Needs?
Written by: Gregg Vanourek

Leadership Intangibles
Written by: Steve Keating

3 Reasons Why Change Fails
Written by: Greg Satell

Recognize The Problems That Prevent Effective Meetings (Collocated, Remote, Hybrid)
Written by: Johanna Rothman

My note-taking system for work
Written by: Joep Schuurkes

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The Top 10 Habits of Successful CEOs
Written by: Lolly Daskal

Quote of the day:
“We choose to heal and we choose to move forward by being brave and vulnerable enough to heal” -Desmond Tutu

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Five Blogs – 28 February 2023

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What is Open-Source Intelligence?
Written by: Ritu Gill

Could Your Leadership Be Off Course Because You Are Over Solving Problems?
Written by: Scott Cochrane

How To Describe All The Value When You Want To Influence
Written by: Johanna Rothman

Three ideas to make an impact as QA leader
Written by: Prashant Hegde

Good Times Build Confidence…Bad Times Build Character
Written by: Frank Sonnenberg

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10 Warning Signs Your Company is Lacking Alignment and How to Fix It
Written by: Lolly Daskal

Quote of the day:
“Time is a drug. Too much of it kills you.” -Terry Pratchett

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Five Blogs – 25 January 2023

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Like it or not, email is still our greatest tool – and the source of some of our biggest threats
Written by: Danny Palmer

The 7 types of rest that every person needs
Written by: Saundra Dalton-Smith MD

How to get started using ChatGPT
Written by: Maria Diaz

Probably, Just, Maybe, and Perhaps
Written by: John Cutler

5 Key Moves from Quality Assurance to Quality Assistance
Written by: Antoine Craske

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How To Increase Your Active Listening By Decreasing Your Interruptions
Written by: Vernon Richards

Quote of the day:
“If you try to get rid of fear and anger without knowing their meaning, they will grow stronger and return.” -Deepak Chopra

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Five Blogs – 25 July 2022

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Dealing with the Fallacies of a Fallacy
Written by: Ravisuriya Eshwara

People Believe What They Want to Believe
Written by: Steve Keating

8 common mistakes in Cypress (and how to avoid them)
Written by: Filip Hric

The Benefits of Automating Cross-Browser Testing
Written by: Test Automation Insights

Blockchain for Test Engineers: What is blockchain
Written by: Oleksandr Romanov

Quote of the day:
“There is no pressure when you are making a dream come true” -Neymar Santos

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Five Blogs – 31 May 2022

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When is a Tester not a Tester?
Written by: Ben Dowen

Remote work or back to the office?
Written by: Steve Ranger

Failing Forward — How We Grow from Incidents
Written by: Clint Byrum

Corporate OSINT for Social Engineering
Written by: Christina Lekati

Problematic Problem Solving
Written by: Steve Keating

Quote of the day:
“When nothing goes right, go left.” -Unknown

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Five Blogs – 20 August 2021

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High-performance culture: make it safe
Written by: Marcella Bremer

The Most Valuable Characteristics Of A Good Leader
Written by: Matt Casadona

Leaders, Don’t Be Afraid to Talk About Your Fears and Anxieties
Written by: Lauren C. Howe, Jochen I. Menges and John Monks

What does the Colonial Pipeline attack tell us about security today?
Written by: Rob Hartley

Root Cause Analysis is Over-Rated – What to Do Instead
Written by: Dan Rockwell

Quote of the day:
“The scar meant that I was stronger than what had tried to hurt me” -Jeannette Walls

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Five Blogs – 12 May 2021

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Leadership Tip #6: Give Credit as Often as Possible
Written by: Johanna Rothman

Five Common Team Level Work Entry Patterns
Written by: Thomas Cagley

Using data tables in Cucumber-JVM for better readable specifications
Written by: Bas Dijkstra

Nijute: how to solve impossible problems
Written by: Gojko Adzic

Savvy Self-Promotion
Written by: Leslie K. John.

Quote of the day:
“Time did what it always does: softened the hard edges.” -Sara Bareilles

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Five Blogs – 22 April 2021

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Revealing, Building And Emerging: We Need To Take A More Biological View Of Technology
Written by: Greg Satell

Ambitious
Written by: Bob Marshall

Reading and testing JSON object in Cypress
Written by: Filip Hric

Identifying Root Causes Beats Quick Fixes Every Time
Written by: Sarah Hiner

Contemporary Exploratory Testing
Written by: Maaret Pyhäjärvi

Quote of the day:
“The unprepared mind cannot see the outstretched hand of opportunity” -Alexander Fleming

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Five Blogs – 15 February 2021

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The power of three
Written by: Lena Wiberg

The Six Love Languages That Will Make your Team Great
Written by: Lolly Daskal

What Does A Half-Full Leadership Strategy Look Like?
Written by: Terri Klass

Session Based Testing Is About Limits
Written by: Karlo Smid

Dependency Confusion: How I Hacked Into Apple, Microsoft and Dozens of Other Companies
Written by: Alex Birsan

Quote of the day:
“Wake up, decide to be confident, and then do it.” -Kendra Syrdal

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Five Blogs – 1 February 2021

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How Cypress can help non-technical team members automate tests
Written by: Paul de Witt

Optimising serverless for BBC Online
Written by: Johnathan Ishmael

How we used parallel CI/CD jobs to increase our productivity
Written by: Miguel Rincon

How To Create A Plan For Solving A Problem Using Phoenix Checklist Thinking Tool
Written by: Karlo Smid

Questionable Advice: “How do I feel worthwhile as a manager when my people are doing all the implementing?”
Written by: Charity Majors

Quote of the day:
“Work hard. Success won’t just knock on your door, you need to lure it and give it reasons why it should knock in the first place.” -E.J. Cenita

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