Deming Institute

JANUARY 16, 2017

As I wrote about in my first post , my first job out of college was at the GM Livonia Engine Plant, outside of Detroit. He is the founder and lead blogger and podcaster at LeanBlog.org , started in January 2005. Guest post by Mark Graban. If possible, I wanted to work in something closer to the Deming environment.

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Kaizen Deming Lean Manufacturing Handbook 28

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2011

Notwithstanding the considerable career and financial (I am the primary breadwinner) risks involved, it was time to leave my comfortable perch and become an entrepreneur. Six years into my mid-career move, here are some lessons learned from my personal disruptive trajectory: If it feels scary and lonely, you're probably on the right track.

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Disruptive Innovation Christensen Metrics Innovation 16

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2016

In two separate studies (by Ho and Jackson in 2001 and by Lin and colleagues in 2005), participants generated lists of all stereotypes they had heard about Asians. Asians were rated as lower on leadership overall, but more so in sales than engineering. Stereotypes About Asian Americans.

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Positioning Leadership Diversity Hammer 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

I’ve been using the sales funnel for 28 years, my whole career. The flywheel was used by James Watt over 200 years ago in his steam engine, the invention that powered the Industrial Revolution. When I started my career, the most profitable application of force was in sales. clu/Getty Images. It was the right thing to do.

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B2C Energy Marketing Efficiency 13

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2018

I decided to launch my own business in 2005, but stayed in my job for an additional year, while taking professional development classes — that my employer paid for — on topics I knew I’d need to learn, such as financial management, design, and business strategy. That was my strategy as well.

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Webinar How To Audience Hedge 13

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 3, 2011

Among the 3,000 Asian men and women surveyed by the CWLP, 25% feel they face bias in the workplace; a 2005 Gallup survey put the figure at an even higher 31%. CWLP research finds that 63% of Asian men and 44% of Asian women feel stalled in their careers. What's worse: They're aware of the anomaly — and they're not happy about it.

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Human Capital Survey Globalization Policies 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2018

This role is common in technology, engineering, and life sciences companies, where domain expertise in narrow and arcane areas can be crucial to market success. In 2014 the company shelled out $650 million to buy AI startup DeepMind Technologies and went to great lengths to keep that firm’s 50 AI scientists and engineers in place.

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McKinsey Human Resources Reputation Brand 8

Terry Starbucker

JULY 1, 2010

When you’re young and all you have is your career, some of your life can be in second place. All you need is the Internet, and Google (or your favorite search engine). Life interferes, you know. And then you want your life to take first place, and other people don’t see it that way.

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Learning-by-Doing Travel Blog Magazine 281

CO2

JUNE 29, 2010

In addition, because of the successive generations entering the workforce, rising education levels, globalization, the flattening of organizations, and an increased willingness to change careers and companies, employees have come to understand they can add more value doing meaningful work.

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Executive Coaching Execution Blog Self-aware 129

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2014

What follows is a short recap of some of the best bits from this year’s commencements, as related to business and career success. But, my friends, one of the best things I’ve done, in summer of 2005, was start painting the wall. The hardest thing I had to learn in my career is that I am not always right.

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Career Planning CEO Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2014

For the last three years of his career, he was responsible for the $6 billion portion of the Air Force budget dedicated to IT, where his main responsibilities ranged from Air Force cyber activity to IT upgrades to career field management. Before retiring in 2012, it was a balancing act he knew well.

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CIO Health Care Metrics Software 8

Terry Starbucker

DECEMBER 2, 2010

Here is Denise’s post from her perspective as one who has led change from within organizations like Sony during her corporate career and from the outside as a consulting partner, a role she has played for the past 6 years. We’ve each taken on the topic of influence in leadership and are exchanging blog posts.

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Influence Blog Politics Learning-by-Doing 275

Terry Starbucker

APRIL 18, 2010

As I recited that back to my boss he looked at me sternly and said, “ now young man, you’ll remember that, won’t you ?&# I had just received one of the best lessons I’d ever get as a leader, and better still, I got it early in my career. So that meant I would never make a hiring mistake, right?

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Open-book Blog Core Competence Books 222

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

By now everyone knows the story: Kodak went into a free fall that led to bankruptcy in 2012 because it failed to respond to the disruption of digital technology — even though one of its own engineers invented a technology for capturing a digital image in 1975. Other companies can do the same. Build a Re-Founding Team.

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Company How To Business Model Engineering 8

Management Craft

DECEMBER 28, 2014

Not performing because the engine is off. Originally published on Management Craft April 26, 2005. In his email to me he wrote, “These last four days have truly been the most productive and rewarding of my entire career as a musician.” Getting back on course can be this simple - elegant and simple - powerful and simple.

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How To Course Chaos Theory Hotels 69

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2017

Former Google engineer James Damore was hardly the first person to argue that biological differences between men and women determine career outcomes. Many people — even smart, science-minded ones — have asserted that biological differences can explain the gender gap in math, engineering, and science.

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Long-term Review Morale Engineering 13

Management Craft

DECEMBER 28, 2014

Not performing because the engine is off. Originally published on Management Craft April 26, 2005. In his email to me he wrote, “These last four days have truly been the most productive and rewarding of my entire career as a musician.” Getting back on course can be this simple - elegant and simple - powerful and simple.

How To 40

How To Course Chaos Theory Hotels 40

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

However, CEOs often don’t have the career background and education that would equip them to personally lead the process of new product development. And in pharma or tech, CEOs should have also had a relevant formal education such as in medicine or science for pharma, and in math, engineering, or computer science for tech.

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CEO Innovation Pharmaceuticals Merchandising 8

Terry Starbucker

MAY 20, 2010

It was 23 years ago, and I was just starting my leadership career. Thank you for sharing your story about your boss – I love his attitude and am sure that so much of what you later accomplished was because he helped you “fix&# that “can’t&# mentality early on in your career! It’s useless.

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Learning-by-Doing Blog Definition Open-book 388

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2014

Greenspan had a long career as a private economic analyst and forecaster behind him when he was appointed Federal Reserve chairman in 1987. One of the things that people don’t recognize is I made a speech in 2005, my last speech at the Jackson Hole conference , in which I was afraid to put a line in, so I put it in somewhat Fed-speak.

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