N2Growth Blog

JUNE 14, 2010

While much has been written about corporate vision, mission, process, leadership, strategy, branding and a variety of other business practices, it is the engineering of these practices to be disruptive that maximizes opportunities. How did the brick and mortar book stores let Amazon get the jump on them?

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2010

I’m also not a fan of going to a blog to read third party news, press or the re-blogging of someone else’s information published for no other reason then to boost their search engine rankings. You Know How To Say It : Mark Twain I’m not, but for the most part I can put across a cogent thought.

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QAspire

JANUARY 21, 2010

I was thinking about why engineering disciplines focus so heavily on checklists? Atul Gawande, author of the book “The Checklist Manifesto” The Problem with Checklists Checklists mean standardization – and often standardization is blamed for killing creativity. Hat Tip to Michael Wade for pointing me to this book review post at WSJ ).

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Marshall Goldsmith

JANUARY 30, 2017

Alan started out as an engineer at Boeing. Alan took this feedback to heart and realized he was acting out Habit #2 (Adding too much value) and Habit #6 (Telling the world how smart we are) from my book What Got You Here Won’t Get You There. Quickly promoted to a management position, his first employee quit!

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

I tend to agree with most of Michael’s positions (except when he left my book off his list) and find his business logic to be solidly grounded. Engineering Manager with Adobe Systems). You can follow Michael on Twitter @LeadershipNow. Your blog certainly deserves to be at the top, in my opinion. I’m not an MBA. Nor am I a writer.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Shook has created the engine known for attracting, developing and retaining great talent who enjoy Accenture’s collaborative, innovative, and highly diverse culture. That said, it’s one thing to be responsible for supporting the global HR needs of a sizable enterprise, it’s quite another to do it well.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

At the same time, fighter planes were coming in low overhead, their engines echoing in the cavernous atmosphere of Manhattan. Fifth Avenue was shut down and everyone was walking in the middle of it headed from hospital to hospital or up to the Red Cross to give blood. What was most striking was the attitude of everyone.

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Deming Institute

JULY 27, 2017

Deming’s teachings and philosophy presented in Ed Baker’s book, The Symphony of Profound Knowledge. Learn more about the book and purchase on Amazon. He removed parts of the engine, fiddled around with them, and reassembled them. When he finished, I saw some of the engine parts on the ground next to the car.

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Rajesh Setty

AUGUST 10, 2008

About Portfolio Resources eBuzz Blog Home Blog Uncategorized I just remembered you… RSS Feed I just remembered you… By Rajesh Setty on Sat 09 Aug 2008, 11:17 PM - View Comments Since last week, I have been receiving requests about the new search engine Scour. The invitations are something like this Did you hear about Scour?

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The Empowered Buisness

MARCH 4, 2014

Although there are many books about strategic thinking, my focus for this article is on the structure of strategic thinking … the Core 6 characteristics. ability to see the interrelationships between elements … such as, how decisions made in engineering impact other functions). Essentially, strategic thinking is a mindset.

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Rajesh Setty

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

He aggressively re-engineered the startup’s product to match the competitor’s offering. The competitor fought back too. After a few years of dog fight, both companies closed down citing lack of customer traction.

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Rajesh Setty

DECEMBER 4, 2008

Coupled with that our Usability engineers made some changes based on the feedback they received from “ eye-gaze tracking &# and hotspot analysis. The architecture is such that we could easily white-label our solution. Co-branding , of course is an out-of-the-box feature. We just finished an SEO exercise on our website.

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Curious Cat

JANUARY 22, 2015

I have written about my management influences in the past: Active Management Improvement Leaders (2006) and Who Influences Your Thinking? They both shared the scientist and engineering mindset that ideas should be tested and probed and new methods and ideas discovered. Bill Hunter and John Hunter.

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Deming Institute

AUGUST 30, 2018

Edwards Deming, The New Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Center for Advanced Engineering Study, 1994, p. William Kalush and Larry Sloman, The Secret Life of Houdini: The Making of America’s First Superhero, Atria Books, 2006. Walter Isaacson, Einstein: His Life and Universe, Simon & Schuster, 2007, p.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

Realistic : Adopting a new idea should be based upon solid business logic that drives corresponding financial engineering and modeling. All initiatives surrounding new ideas should include detailed risk management provisions. Be careful of high level, pie-in-the-sky projections.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 30, 2010

When you're doing a start-up or a book or a symphony or a painting or a legal brief or whatever, or are in a crisis at work, you may have to decide to do less in other areas. Getting outside input, including from books or history, can be invaluable; others have faced or are facing similar issues of this nature.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 11, 2010

Like most things, building and maintaining your social media footprint should be engineered by design, but the truth is that most people allow it to be constructed by default. whether this would lead us to become like face book groups,linkedin group,twitter group ?Whether I have a question where this all lead to in future?

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 17, 2010

In further pondering this dichotomy an interesting thought came to mind – If I could genetically engineer the perfect leadership gene what qualities and characteristics would constitute the architecture of leadership DNA? No single leader can possess every needed attribute. ” [link] lightridr Great post, Mike.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

The book is all about the challenge of finding something that works really well in some corner of your world, and getting it to spread much further (or, for shorthand, “the Problem of More” ). In early 2006, Diego Rodriguez and I started teaching a class we called “Creating Infectious Action” at the Stanford d. Did you see that?”.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Call me crazy, but I don’t want to talk to someone who wants to manage my account, develop my business, or engineer my sale. If you don’t engineer everything around the client, your client relationships will vanish before your very eyes. A sales person is trying to sell them something.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

Disney, which bought Pixar in 2006, knows what infinity looks like: copyright protection. Recently, after a decade-long legal battle, Google succeeded in its defense against a class action suit by publishers and the Authors Guild over the Google Books project of scanning more than 20 million books. To infinity… and beyond!,

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

Back in 2006, my colleague Huggy Rao and I launched an executive education program at Stanford called “Customer-focused Innovation.” Many of these lessons, Huggy and I would be the first to admit, could be books in themselves – and all deserve their own blog posts. Scaling starts and ends with individuals.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2013

that has now grown into a book. The design engineers kept taking incremental risks that they thought were acceptable and normalized them — until the disaster. According to SEC filings, in 1998, the year before it went public, Goldman Sachs was leveraged at nearly 32-to-1, while in 2006 it was leveraged at 22-to-1.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

That’s a challenge I discuss in my new book Entrepreneurial You , and here are four strategies to consider. When I started my marketing strategy consulting business in 2006, I didn’t know the right people – at all. First, embrace specificity. Finally, you can create content to attract the right people to you.

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QAspire

FEBRUARY 7, 2010

The brain, as Bill Calvin said to me is “nature’s connection making engine.&# Doing lots of things provides that engine more fuel. They come from your hobbies, from your non-professional reading, from people you chat with. Wally Bock´s last blog.

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Terry Starbucker

AUGUST 19, 2010

Sanitation Engineer, more affectionately known as a “Garbage Man”. I wrote a number of posts between 2006 and 2009 for a blog that is no longer active called Joyful Jubilant Learning , led by Rosa Say. Nuff said on that one. It could be your best decision in a while!

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2018

Even people who have achieved a great deal of career success aren’t immune to these feelings, says Whitney Johnson, an executive coach and the author several books including Build an A-Team. “It really helped to inject purpose and happiness into my career and those of my colleagues in engineering.”

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2013

Top down: target a demographic or economic segment, and engineer the product to meet that price. Back in the summer of 2006, New York Times Magazine columnist Rob Walker was mulling the question of what makes one object more valuable than another. It is also a book. Not convinced? Consider this story.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

Even within a discipline there are differences in core operational strengths: often highly technical businesses will have more than one highly technical co-founder, but one of them will, for example, be a terrific architect while the other will be excellent at R&D or engineering. Michael recently co-authored Wild West 2.0

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

In this excerpt from their new book, Strategy That Works , Paul Leinwand and Cesare Mainardi explain why distinctive capabilities are vital to success, and address a fundamental question that many companies overlook: How to bring these capabilities to scale, so that every part of the enterprise can call on them. Strategy & Execution Book.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 7, 2013

For those with a desire to dig deeper, this book chapter is particularly illuminating. It wasn''t until 2006 that Bill Ford (Henry''s great grandson) and the board of directors found a leader that understood the Ford narrative and knew how to act Ford-like again. They were students of spreadsheets, and short-term profitability.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2017

A new book written with three coauthors attempts to answer the question of why some companies, such as Pixar, are able to invent continuously, while others aren’t. What most distinguishes innovation leadership, the book argues, is recognition that innovation is a “team sport,” not the act of a sole inventor.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2016

A new book written with three coauthors attempts to answer the question of why some companies, such as Pixar, are able to invent continuously, while others aren’t. What most distinguishes innovation leadership, the book argues, is recognition that innovation is a “team sport,” not the act of a sole inventor.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 20, 2010

How's the book coming? Always appreciate your insights Peter… [link] mikemyatt Hi Elliot: The four items mentioned in your list regrettably happen to exist in many domains far beyond the engineering field. " Thanks for sharing the keen observations. Thanks Brian.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2011

For example, TopCoder develops software for its corporate clients, a task traditionally assigned to a team of engineers, by dividing the work into small modules and farming those out to its global community, which has more than 300,000 members. We predict that hyperspecialization, a niche phenomenon today, will over time become mainstream.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

I'm working on a book, CQ — Creative Intelligence , that will, in part, explore that topic. A little-recognized NSF report released in September 2010, the 2008 Business R&D and Innovation Survey (BRDIS) , said that only 9% of public and private companies engaged in either product or service innovation between 2006 and 2008.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

In fact, advanced payments may be just the kind of proof that banks or equity investors need to open their pocket books. In 2004, when ZeroChaos , a provider of contingent workforce solutions, began courting IBM as a customer, IBM was concerned with losing the war for engineering talent to new startups such as Yahoo and Google.

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