N2Growth Blog

MARCH 31, 2010

and any number of other appearance specific issues can add to, or detract from, the strength of your personal brand. I want to be clear that I’m not advocating for form over substance, extreme self-indulgence, narcissism, or masking insecurity by the trappings you surround yourself with.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 9, 2010

Also worth noting is that there is certainly a difference between value engineering and arbitrary cost containment. If you try hard enough you can find an aberration in just about any rule, but in the case of design it will simply be just that…an aberration.

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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. Your comment about "sacred cows" is also spot-on. via n2growth.com [.]

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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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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

Hopefully their example will raise the standards of leadership in our national life. Here's link to a post of mine a couple of years ago: Dan Nigro, Rick Rescorla and the Leadership Lessons of 9/11 [link]. At the same time, fighter planes were coming in low overhead, their engines echoing in the cavernous atmosphere of Manhattan.

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Marshall Goldsmith

JANUARY 30, 2017

I highly recommend you read it if you want to learn about great leadership – and enjoy a thrilling page turner while you are at it! Alan’s story at Ford is a success story, but it wasn’t always that way for Alan on his leadership journey. Alan started out as an engineer at Boeing. It’s about working together.

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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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LDRLB

APRIL 15, 2013

For those in senior leadership, it can be irresistible. These same functions, emotional control, behavioral inhibition and self-regulation are skills needed for effective, emotionally intelligent leadership. This relationship is found across all levels, from employees to those in senior leadership.

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Marshall Goldsmith

OCTOBER 19, 2015

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. He simply reported on the condition of the company with an attention to detail befitting his background as an engineer. It sounds simple, and it is.

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The Center For Leadership Studies

JANUARY 12, 2021

An exceedingly bright and consistently energetic member of our team at The Center for Leadership Studies (CLS), who for all intents and purposes is just starting her career, approached me recently seeking wisdom : Her : “You know how we are always saying that Situational Leadership ® is a language of performance management and change management?”.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2011

By parallel, managers themselves might similarly benefit from "reverse-engineering" the criticism of not only outsiders but of their own colleagues: considering both parties as their benefactors on the road to greater performance. However, more recent actions in the long-standing gender discrimination case against the company (i.e.,

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Rajesh Setty

AUGUST 10, 2008

Here you’ll find more than 1500 articles and mini-sagas on entrepreneurship, leadership, creativity and simply how to distinguish yourself. It is the next gen search engine with Google/Yahoo/MSN results and user comments all on one page. HELLO THERE AND WELCOME. You are a new visitor to this blog. Its even 100% free!

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The Empowered Buisness

MARCH 4, 2014

ability to see the interrelationships between elements … such as, how decisions made in engineering impact other functions). Example of Options Thinking: In 2006, Mike Jackson, CEO, AutoNation, challenged industry assumptions by asking “what if buyers replaced cars every 5 years, not 3 years?” Leadership Performance'

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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? Leadership DNA aside, I recently crafted my definition of leadership.

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Rajesh Setty

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

Here you’ll find more than 1500 articles and mini-sagas on entrepreneurship, leadership, creativity and simply how to distinguish yourself. He aggressively re-engineered the startup’s product to match the competitor’s offering. HELLO THERE AND WELCOME. You are a new visitor to this blog. Its even 100% free!

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Rajesh Setty

DECEMBER 4, 2008

Here you’ll find more than 1500 articles and mini-sagas on entrepreneurship, leadership, creativity and simply how to distinguish yourself. Coupled with that our Usability engineers made some changes based on the feedback they received from “ eye-gaze tracking &# and hotspot analysis. HELLO THERE AND WELCOME. Its even 100% free!

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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. Champion : Senior leadership must champion any new idea being adopted. " Regards, Leadership Freak Dan Rockwell [link] Bob MacNeal Mike, Thanks for this helpful post.

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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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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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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 30, 2010

Over the years I’ve come to believe that there is only one sure fire litmus test for measuring leadership success, and to the chagrin of many reading this post, it has little to do with what happens on the job. Trying to re-engineer an entire life in a few short years down the home stretch is a tough row to hoe.

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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. In a perfect world you would build relationships with the largest possible universe of targeted constituents where you can productively engage and contribute.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2018

The company last entered China in 2006 with a censored search engine, but pulled the plug on the operation four years later after it discovered that human-rights activists’ Gmail accounts had been hacked. China has long enforced a strict media and information regime.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2012

Carlos Ghosn, Chairman and CEO of the Renault-Nissan Alliance, famously coined the term "frugal engineering" in 2006. He was impressed by Indian engineers' ability to innovate cost-effectively and quickly under severe resource constraints. Yet engineers and scientists love challenges. And they did it. lakhs ($6,600).

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

In early 2006, Diego Rodriguez and I started teaching a class we called “Creating Infectious Action” at the Stanford d. They were desperately looking for great engineers, designers, and business people – but were very picky about who they hired. That engineer called back the next day: “I fixed it, Dad. Did you see that?”.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2015

While large consulting firms push expensive “war games” at the leadership level, Jessica ran cheap and quick local games based on local market dynamics. She then fed the results as market intelligence input into a senior leadership competitive game. Consider the example of Pratt and Whitney, a United Technology company.

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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. Thanks for sharing your insights Peter.

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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.” Change management Customer service Informal leadership' In the afternoons, we moved the group to the (then) new Hasso Plattner Institute of Design, or “ Stanford d.school ,” for the “hands on” part.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2011

A few young engineers and executives from the mobile division soon found themselves running the whole show, and they inculcated a team-oriented, no-BS approach to getting things done that came to permeate the company. Now the only one left is Ollila, the CEO from 1992 to 2006 and nonexecutive chairman since (he's planning to retire in 2012 ).

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QAspire

FEBRUARY 7, 2010

My post “ On Leadership, Opening Up and Being Prepared &# is featured in February Leadership Development Carnival , along with a number of fantastic posts from Leadership community and friends. The brain, as Bill Calvin said to me is “nature’s connection making engine.&# Check it out.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2011

In IBM's 2006 jam, the company assembled 150,000 people from 104 countries and 67 client companies. Ford reengineered its global product development process so that an engineering plan designed in Detroit can drive the shop floor in a European factory. Power ranks Ford the highest in initial quality among non-luxury automotive brands.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2014

Its engineers worked long hours, probably longer than their NASA counterparts would have. over the past 20 years: until 2006, its finances were shaky, and it was losing about a point of market share every year. The difference was leadership. A NASA analysis determined that the space agency would have had to spend nearly $1.4

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2013

So in 2006, I started talking with people to understand more. The third was around thought leadership. Renault has a 230 million Euro remanufacturing business with engines and gear boxes. The remanufactured cars leave the factory with the same warranty as a new engine. I talked with farmers, teachers, scientists.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2016

On Google’s earnings call for the first quarter of 2006 – more than a year before the iPhone was released and more than two years before the release of the first Android-operated smartphone – CEO Eric Schmidt went out of his way to talk about mobile. Did Yahoo’s leadership really miss the importance of smartphones?

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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. Sign-up for More You can subscribe to this blog and Ill come straight to you! Cosell note his passing.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2016

I myself wrote admiringly about the firm’s practices with respect to venturing in an article that was published in 2006. In what was clearly a “Hail Mary” pass, Elop engineered a tie-up with Microsoft that never really worked out, eventually setting the stage for the sale of the company’s entire handset business.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2018

Joel Hendley, the Director of Engineering, North America, for Liferay, the California-based software company, speaks from personal experience when he says that “making a significant change” is not always the answer to “weathering mid-career anxiety” and discontent. ” The results were successful.

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The Recovering Engineer

MARCH 15, 2010

Here in Indiana, we just started observing Daylight Saving Time in 2006. He has degrees in Chemical Engineering and he served as a Nuclear Engineering officer in the U.S. He is an engineer by nature, by training, and experience. So, it is still fairly well talked about when the time change happens.

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