General Leadership

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

Alan Mulally , the former CEO of Boeing , started his career there as an aerospace engineer. In 2006, he transitioned to the CEO of Ford Motor Company. The difference is the time it takes to build a framework upon which to hang those leadership principles in an unfamiliar organization.

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Mentor Motivation Organization Kotter 415

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.

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Business Model Blog Disruptive Innovation Brand 338

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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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

Engineering Manager with Adobe Systems). Your blog certainly deserves to be at the top, in my opinion. I admire your keen insights and courage to speak your truth. link] Naveen Goel [link] Hi Mike, I am Naveen Goel (Sr. I’m not an MBA. Nor am I a writer. But I have been doing people and project management for years.

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Blog Leadership Follow-up Media 409

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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Blog Hotels Follow-up Brand 400

QAspire

JANUARY 21, 2010

I was thinking about why engineering disciplines focus so heavily on checklists? The review says - The utility of formal protocols, according to organizational experts, varies with the nature of the activity—some activities are highly systemized, like engineering, and others dependent on the judgment and personality of the individual.

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Process Management Quality Tools 84

Marshall Goldsmith

OCTOBER 19, 2015

It means you’re probably going places in your career. When he took over as Ford’s CEO in 2006, the company was in dire straits, with market share down 25 percent since 1990 and its very existence threatened by the great recession. Alan was not ashamed of what he didn’t know, or what he had or hadn’t done. It sounds simple, and it is.

Competitive Advantage 70

Competitive Advantage Video Report Executive Coaching 70

Marshall Goldsmith

JANUARY 30, 2017

It means you’re probably going places in your career. When he took over as Ford’s CEO in 2006, the company was in dire straits, with market share down 25 percent since 1990 and its very existence threatened by the great recession. Target transparency and applaud when you get it. It sounds simple, and it is.

Competitive Advantage 70

Competitive Advantage Video Report Executive Coaching 70

Curious Cat

OCTOBER 19, 2016

Of course, many managers don’t even try to learn from 5 leading management thinkers to do their jobs better over their career. they would be far ahead of the path they are now for their career. So for many people just learning from Ackoff, Deming, Scholtes etc.

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System Deming Conference Storytelling 40

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2018

” These questions are especially agonizing for mid-career professionals who may be searching for fulfillment while juggling demands at home and intense financial pressures to earn. How should you address a mid-career crisis? Mid-career malaise runs deep. One of the biggest culprits of middle-age career malaise is boredom.

Career 14

Career How To Learning-by-Doing Constraint 14

The Center For Leadership Studies

JANUARY 12, 2021

More transparency—I can vividly remember being so much younger and daydreaming every now and then about what I would be like when I was somewhere in my 60s and in the twilight of a long and eventful career: First — I would absolutely be the sort of person that people would not hesitate for a second to approach and ask for advice.

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Management Situational Leadership Objective Short-term 81

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2015

A lot of people are worried about the career choices of today’s most talented science and engineering students. That’s 25% more grads than went into computer and information technology, the most popular industry in the science and engineering category. And not just their parents.

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Engineering Finance Bottom-up Sample 8

N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 30, 2010

Let me be blunt – you won’t earn anyone’s respect, at least not the respect of anyone who matters if your concern for career success overshadows your concern for the well-being of your family. Think About Your Legacy: Create a legacy that transcends your career. What I can tell you is that I’ve always made my family a priority.

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Blog Career Learning-by-Doing Advice 413

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

Realistic : Adopting a new idea should be based upon solid business logic that drives corresponding financial engineering and modeling. This may be the first time in my career that I've been accused of taking a standard management approach.:) Be careful of high level, pie-in-the-sky projections. via n2growth.com [.]

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Blog Innovation Strategic Planning Brand 412

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2017

Our ways of thinking about careers, colleagues, and collaboration will need to become more flexible and adaptable. This type of orientation can be incredibly valuable to cultivate for anyone working for multinationals or in other global careers, and can also be used by managers to develop employees. Aspiring to a global career.

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Succession Globalization Tacit Knowledge GDP 15

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. Sargeant Recruiter’s Career Coach [link] mikemyatt Hi Rebecca: Thanks for the comment and I'm glad you found the information to be useful.

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Media Influence Blog Real Estate 404

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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Definition Blog Leadership Covey 348

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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Blog Ryan B2C Brand 407

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2011

LinkedIn is an example of how we connect, collaborate, and share with each other in a career aligned social network. Engagement systems are powered by business rules and complex event processing engines. Early examples include the work that Doc Searls began in 2006 on what he's dubbed vendor relationship management.

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Directory System Media Video 15

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. Check it out. The best ideas come from outside your “normal&# sphere. They come from your hobbies, from your non-professional reading, from people you chat with. Wally Bock´s last blog.

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Creativity Blog Directory Quality 84

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2016

Huffington grew up in Athens and studied in London before starting her career as a politician and media entrepreneur. Similarly, about one-fourth of all technology and engineering companies started in the U.S. between 2006 and 2012 had at least one immigrant cofounder. Musk migrated from South Africa to the U.S. as young adult.

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Entrepreneur Venture Capitalist Retail Incubator 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2017

Just how common are the views on gender espoused in the memo that former Google engineer James Damore was recently fired for distributing on an internal company message board? Research we’ve conducted shows that while most people don’t share Damore’s views, male engineers are more likely to.

Engineering 8

Engineering Diversity Survey Emotional Intelligence 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

Apple’s distinctively intuitive product and user interface design similarly involves customer insight, engineering, manufacturing, marketing, and distribution. The IKEA product design process involves design, sourcing, shipping, manufacturing, and customer insight.

Development 8

Development Supply Chain Incentives Outsourcing 8

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

HR Digest

APRIL 30, 2019

While most corporate cultures are focused on engineering the most common goal of every business, some employers are repositioning their cultures to address social inequality as well as drive diversity & inclusion. What do you say have been the most important transformations in your career?

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Globalization Human Resources Long-term Diversity 40

N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 20, 2010

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 Brian. elliotross Allow me to echo the 'spot on' comments above!

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Blog Engineering Brand Learning-by-Doing 420

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2013

Since Jeff Howe first coined the term in a 2006 Wired article , "crowdsourcing" has garnered extensive media buzz and investment dollars. But proactively delighting your community is as important as delighting your customers.

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Short-term Talent Management Long-term Project 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2011

That is because stress and change are the engines of human growth.Yet we often find ourselves unable to fall asleep at night thinking of all the stressful things that could happen to us: hurricanes, flooding, stock crashes, failure at work, problems in our relationships, sickness, having to move. Shawn Achor is the founder of Good Think, Inc.

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Stress Definition Short-term Positioning 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

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. workers in engineering, manufacturing, even aerospace. That's before the Great Recession.

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Innovation Supply Chain Offshoring Policies 13

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

There is a lot of advice out there about keeping your online activity from hurting your career. To make the most of social media to further your career, you need to make a conscious choice to use it for professional purposes, understand what your goals are, and then actively manage your digital footprint. But there's a flip side.

Media 17

Media Career Tips Content 17

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2014

Not long after Alan Greenspan stepped down as Federal Reserve chairman in 2006, global financial markets began to unravel. Greenspan had a long career as a private economic analyst and forecaster behind him when he was appointed Federal Reserve chairman in 1987. The man was in the mood for a monologue, which I have organized by topic.

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