The Recovering Engineer

OCTOBER 26, 2010

The book is scheduled for release in January of 2011. In developing the book, Kevin and I thought of many ways to get the tips, techniques, insights, and ideas we developed in the book into as many people’s hands as possible, and you have an opportunity to take advantage of two of those events in the next few weeks.

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Next Level Blog

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

Your agenda has to consider the desired set of results, make them explicit and reverse engineer back from that end state picture to figure out the best uses of time during the offsite. Ironically, among meeting sponsors who had not used facilitation, it was among the least likely investments they would make in a successful meeting.

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Eric Jacobson

OCTOBER 8, 2015

Rick Lindquist Millennial Rick Lindquist is making his mark in the business world and enjoying the success of his co-authored 2014 bestseller book, The End of Employer-Provided Health Insurance. He was promoted to Director of Sales in 2009 and took over as President in 2011. What inspired you to co-author your book?

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Deming Institute

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

2011 ASA Deming Lecture by Roger Hoerl, GE Global Research: The World Is Calling; Should We Answer? For those of you that have read Out of the Crisis, Deming asks in that book: Need any country be poor? Roger and Persia Neidermeyer wrote a book on the effort – Use What You Have: Resolving the HIV/AIDS Pandemic.

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Kevin Eikenberry

JANUARY 24, 2011

Five Keys to Better Decision Making in Meetings by Kevin Eikenberry on January 24, 2011 in Decision Making , Leadership , Learning Lots of things happen in meetings – some of them even helpful! How important is the buy-in or commitment of others to the success of the decision? How big of a decision is this?

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Rich Gee Group

JANUARY 8, 2011

home about rich our team news our fans services executive coach business coach speaking inspire media knowledge books affiliates contact Rich Gee Group 203.500.2421 Are We Experiencing A Technology Tsunami? Engineering, design, materials, and service just got better. Extreme Mojo (or Driving On The Corporate Autobahn).

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Next Level Blog

DECEMBER 10, 2010

  When his company was just about to run out of cash, his engineers rigged a Smart car with Tesla batteries and he convinced the executives of Daimler Benz to license his technology.   Wonder what 2011 has in store for him? That's where Tesla is going to build battery powered family sedans.  Click Here.

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Sales Wolf Blog

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

Little Big Things Series : #19 Equations - For many of us this is the time of year for planning, budgeting, and setting business strategies for 2011. Little Big Things Series : #19 Equations - For many of us this is the time of year for planning, budgeting, and setting business strategies for 2011.

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Purdue is known for its bright engineers, top flight technology students, it is the alma mater of the first and last men to walk on the moon. By Sylvia Lafair Do we have to go off to an island with limited access to the internet to get some quiet? A Woman’s Place is in the Classroom I was recently invited to speak at Purdue University and.

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Next Level Blog

DECEMBER 6, 2010

  As Tichy argues in his book, Leadership Engine , effective leaders have a teachable point of view that they share as a platform for action.   On the cover of his book,  Leading Change , James O’Toole has a picture of a James Ensor painting called Christ’s Entry into Brussels , 1889.  Click Here.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 3, 2011

Here’s a tip: learn about search engine optimization (SEO) techniques and use of keywords. If you have specialized knowledge in areas such as antiques or rare books, so much the better. Get started by contributing content to sites that utilize freelance writers.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 21, 2011

Posted on January 21st, 2011 by admin in Leadership , Miscellaneous , Operations & Strategy By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth Entrepreneur, CEO or Both? Which hat, or hats do you wear? I believe great leaders will mentor and coach subordinates for the purpose of identifying and developing other great leaders.

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Next Level Blog

JULY 12, 2010

In contrast to the seedy and classless drama engineered by James and Gilbert, this weekend marked the passing of Bob Sheppard. The Next Level Find out what insiders know about executive success in Scott Eblin’s new and expanded book, The Next Level: What Insiders Know About Executive Success. Once again, classless.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 18, 2010

Also, a common response is to confuse a sales engine, fulfillment process, operational process, technology platform, or any number of other areas as business models, where this is not the case. Furthermore, a business plan, strategic plan, marketing plan, capital formation plan, exit plan, etc., are also not business models.

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Next Level Blog

OCTOBER 14, 2010

The complete success of the rescue effort bears out how important it was for the miners to lead themselves and each other to survive so well underground for 70 days. The Next Level Find out what insiders know about executive success in Scott Eblin’s new and expanded book, The Next Level: What Insiders Know About Executive Success.

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Next Level Blog

JULY 16, 2010

The heart of that program is what we call an Executive Success Plan. I did a video book club post on the book back in February. You can find it by searching on Dan Pink in this blog's search engine. You can find it by searching on Dan Pink in this blog's search engine. A must read for any leader.

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Coaching Tip

OCTOBER 5, 2011

Making four successive versions of the Kindle e-reader also led Amazon down the path toward the Kindle Fire. For years the engineers at Lab126 tried to create a workable and reader-friendly color Kindle, according to three former employees. Source: Bloomberg BusinessWeek, October 3, 2011.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 16, 2010

Both scalable and non-scalable businesses can achieve growth and sustainable success. I've found that simplicity enables success, where complexity often times serves as a barrier. When Google started they had the greatest focus, the simplest vision, and the least cluttered search engine. Thanks for sharing Dan.

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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. How did the brick and mortar book stores let Amazon get the jump on them?

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 31, 2010

In today’s post I’ll examine how managing appearances can have a substantial impact on your personal brand and your success. While they shouldn’t, the reality is that they most certainly do. In a perfect world professionals would only be judged solely on their character, skill sets, competencies, and performance.

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Women's Leadership Exchange

OCTOBER 6, 2011

In fact, today APPLE is the number one most successful brand and corporation in the world. Second, he is a perfectionist when it comes to both engineering and design. He also has recruited a team of top notch engineers, designers and marketers who can bring his genius to life. He's not the perfect leader per the book.

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Mike Cardus

OCTOBER 27, 2010

Design by 12GrainStudio Hard Skill, Soft Skill–Team Building Activity Wednesday, October 27th, 2010 Posted by: mike Hard Skill, Soft Skill Purchase the E-Book: How to Lead Awesome Team-Building Programs Did you ever wonder “How does one lead AWESOME team-building programs? Programs that ensure that content and learning take place.

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Coaching Tip

JANUARY 14, 2011

That was a question I recently heard from an executive running a major engineering organization. . Executives running businesses in critical sectors like engineering, health care, government, manufacturing, research and development, aerospace and defense are all feeling the pressures of a changing workforce. Of course, he’s not alone.

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Next Level Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2010

I've given something north of 300 speeches and presentations on leading at the next level and the second edition of my book on that subject just came out last month. We developed a symbolic image to remind me to celebrate small successes along the way.   You can only connect them retrospectively.   Try this experiment.

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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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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 2, 2011

Hank has provided senior level advising services for more than 5,000 client organizations (including 100 of the Fortune 500), companies in transition (startup, re-engineering, mergers, going public), public sector entities, professional associations and non-profit organizations. He has worked with all major industries over a 40-year career.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 22, 2011

Your company’s ability to dominate your chosen keyword or key phrase will make the difference in terms of your business success. Mine are: minority-owned woman-owned web design ( search in Google ) a successful woman ( search in Google ) woman of color business blog ( search in Google ) How are we doing?

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Coaching Tip

FEBRUARY 14, 2011

The theory, called the Machiavellian-intelligence or social-brain theory, holds that we rise from a lineage in which both individual and group success hinge on balancing the need to work with others with the need to hold our own amid the nested groups and subgroups we are part of. Source: The Wall Street Journal, February 12, 2011.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 17, 2014

Feeling happy and fulfilled at work is essential to our overall success. In fact, Shannon Goodson and George Dudley reported in their book Psychology of Sales Call Reluctance that 80 percent of new salespeople fail because of call reluctance, while 40 percent of veteran sales people stop prospecting because of it. Windshield time.

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CO2

DECEMBER 10, 2010

RSS Feed Schedule a Call Free E-Book Assessment Test Coffee Schedule Coaching Lunch About Us CO2 Story Our Approach Our Successes Our Executive Coaches Gary B. What drives your economic engine? It asks the leader and their team to determine what is the measurement of their success (Collin’s economic engine).

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CO2

DECEMBER 10, 2010

RSS Feed Schedule a Call Free E-Book Assessment Test Coffee Schedule Coaching Lunch About Us CO2 Story Our Approach Our Successes Our Executive Coaches Gary B. What drives your economic engine? It asks the leader and their team to determine what is the measurement of their success (Collin’s economic engine).

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Executive Coaching Execution Strategic Planning Marketing 104

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. Success of checklist approach depends solely on nature of work.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 3, 2011

If you can meet these simple goals for each project, then you will achieve total success. Written in a clear, professional and straightforward manner, it is relevant to the management of all types of projects, including IT, construction, engineering, telecommunications and government, as well as many others.

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Chris Brady

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Learning what those are is a big key to your success. It's what we know that just isn't so that holds us back the most. Deliberate practice over time is what separates the great performers from the great pretenders. Don't forget that adversity is not your enemy. You don't need to do everything well - just certain things.

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Chris Brady

APRIL 18, 2010

Here's your chance to win a free autographed copy of Orrin Woodward and my book Launching a Leadership Revolution by submitting the funniest or wittiest caption. Good Uncle Sycamore Obstacles was known for going throughout the country side planting trees in the paths of those destined for success.  Good luck.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 19, 2012

The column was an instant success. There’s no reason for your voice to be muted, and (through search engines and social media) every opportunity to be found. To take consistent, deliberate actions to create your own success. Here are the imperatives of success for 2012 – and the next 20 years: 1. I’m out of space.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 3, 2011

Those favoring knowledge would argue that no two situations are exactly alike and that the underlying nuanced conditions providing success in the past likely went unrecognized and represent the very differences that will cause an experienced-based decision to go awry. Copyright 2007-2011 by StrategyDriven, Inc.

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