The Recovering Engineer

JANUARY 26, 2010

Related posts: Just Do Your Part: Take the Personal Responsibility Pledge Commit to Continual Learning – Life Lessons From Cal Ripken, Jr Tags: accepting change , bubble wrap , change , changing yourself , confronting change , Personal Change , self awareness Guy Harris describes himself as a recovering engineer.

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The Recovering Engineer

MARCH 23, 2010

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. Featured Video The Recovering Engineer YouTube Channel From Bud to Boss Connect With Me Subscription Options Email updates. That seems like a fail to me.

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Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 31, 2016

There have been some really great reads on the topic ranging from the 2011 ebook, Race Against the Machine by Andrew McAfee and Erik Brynjolfsson out of MIT, to the recent LinkedIn post, What Happens When Millions of Jobs Are Lost Because of Automation? Automation and the future of work. Are enough citizens taking this topic seriously?

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 7, 2011

Everspark Interactive (ESI) is a full-service, Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Agency specialized in getting their clients’ websites to rank in the top position on Google, Bing, and Yahoo. Configure Your YouTube Channel for Optimal SEO – The 2nd biggest search engine on the internet deserves special attention when it comes to SEO.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 17, 2010

Everspark Interactive (ESI) is a full-service, Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Agency specialized in getting their clients’ websites to rank in the top position on Google, Bing, and Yahoo. About the Authors Jason Hennessey is an internationally-known Search Engine Optimization (SEO) expert. million agency in only three months.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 9, 2010

You can review virtually any industry, sector, vertical, or micro-vertical and when you examine the dominant brands you’ll find quality design at their core. Also worth noting is that there is certainly a difference between value engineering and arbitrary cost containment.

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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.

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CO2

DECEMBER 10, 2010

What drives your economic engine? That is what we were driven for at first but somewhere along the lines it did not mean as much to those of us who had been working in our industry for 18 years. 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

What drives your economic engine? That is what we were driven for at first but somewhere along the lines it did not mean as much to those of us who had been working in our industry for 18 years. It asks the leader and their team to determine what is the measurement of their success (Collin’s economic engine).

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 2, 2011

As a Corporate Strategist TM , Hank speaks and advises companies about growth strategies, visioning, planning, executive-leadership development, futurism and the Big Picture issues which profoundly affect the business climate. He has worked with all major industries over a 40-year career. Presidents.

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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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Women on Business

JANUARY 22, 2011

We are considering offering something like the following on a monthly basis: Review trends of your specific keywords Identify potential hotspots for blog links Update Facebook Fans page = 25-50 postings Identify and connect with potential Facebook friends Update Twitter account = 30-50 Search Engine Optimized postings Leave comments on blogs and websites (..)

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 3, 2011

These goals are generic to all industries and all types of projects. 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. The trick is to be focused.

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Chris Brady

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

While listening to 1 of ur awesome LLR leadership cds yesterday, we were eagerly awaiting our Emv/autoship delivery~ 1 of our 4 yr old twins asked, "Is Chris Brady going 2 bring our emv here yet? It's what we know that just isn't so that holds us back the most. Be willing to do well what most people won't do at all.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 17, 2013

You (or someone else in your company) should commit to writing about key topics and insights in your business and / or industry. Writing about your company, products, services, or industry will help you to formalize and organize your thinking, which could spur innovative ideas or content for other aspects of your business.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2018

These numbers point to a clear need for better representation of female physicians in leadership. Yet bright spots have emerged, both in healthcare and in other industries asking themselves a similar question. Men and women alike should work to enhance gender diversity in leadership. Quantification. Insight Center.

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Chris Brady

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

But there was one that, to me at least, was world class: GMI Engineering & Management Institute (today's Kettering University ). The program was attractive to a kid like me without any finances because it offered a co-op experience in which every other twelve weeks were spent in the workplace somewhere out in actual industry.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

What promotional vehicles are most successful in your industry? Similarly, make sure your OWN site has the best key words for the search engines. An old client became well known and rather notorious through this technique: he liked to predict the future in his industry, always outrageous. Adapt ideas from other industries.

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Great Leadership By Dan

FEBRUARY 21, 2013

reprinted with permission from DDI's Directions newsletter): Leadership is a craft. in your organization were as passionate about leadership. engineers, pilots, sales managers, marketers, teachers, and bankers. believe it’s because no one really sees leadership as a profession. at leadership as a chosen specialty.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 17, 2011

Fifty years ago, we did not have television news anchors, software engineers, web designers, or cosmetic surgeons. It is not enough to be a good surgeon, a civil engineer or a litigation lawyer. Today, half of Symantec’s patents are filed by engineers from outside the United States. Copyright 2007-2011 by StrategyDriven, Inc.

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CO2

DECEMBER 10, 2010

Each industry, organization, divisions, units or people will have differing criteria of how they make decisions. His book Just Ask Leadership - Why Great Managers Always Ask The Right Questions (McGraw Hill 2009). When you are making a decision you likely have a mental model that works in your head.

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CO2

DECEMBER 10, 2010

Each industry, organization, divisions, units or people will have differing criteria of how they make decisions. His book Just Ask Leadership - Why Great Managers Always Ask The Right Questions (McGraw Hill 2009). When you are making a decision you likely have a mental model that works in your head.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

Every industry will soon be driven by digitization and every winning company will be using algorithms, or mathematical rules for processing information, to shape the end-to-end customer experience. The result is the reconstitution or destruction of industries, creation of new market spaces, and reshaping of old industry ecosystems.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2016

Pure Internet-plays Betterment and FutureAdvisor launched in 2010 and Wealthfront in 2011. The company’s 136-year journey has taken it from power through transportation, appliances, health care, finance, media, and industry leaps. billion in discretionary assets under management — more than the above competitors combined.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

Another way to increase your influence at work is to “be seen as a recognized expert” within your industry or organization, Clark says. Take steps to develop expertise by attending conferences or taking on a leadership role in a professional organization. Make it clear to your colleagues that you value their opinions.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

How can these companies overcome the inevitable leadership, organizational, and cultural challenges involved? It made a massive investment (more than $1 billion) to build a software “ Center of Excellence ” in San Ramon, California to manage the data explosion created by the increasing intelligence of its industrial machines.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

We recruited a panel of expert judges (see the list below), who evaluated the companies through the lens of their own expertise and gauged which transformations were most durable and had the highest impact in their industries. For more on our methods, see the sidebars below.) It’s a strategy that has also worked for others on the list.

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CO2

JUNE 29, 2010

We believe the strength of any team is in the followers and there can be no leaders without followers, but the vast majority of research to date has focused on the leadership side of this equation. It is worth keeping in mind that some jobs have clear leadership requirements; virtually all jobs have followership requirements.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 31, 2011

As Steve Jobs steps down as Apple's CEO — and Tim Cook takes over — many folks are wondering whether Apple can keep its innovation engine humming. With Jobs unexpected exit in 2011, Cook's key task is to not only keep Apple humming but to deliver something surprising. Can he do it?

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2011

Jobs assembled a team of brilliant engineers, gave them the needed resources, and infused the Macintosh team with a vision of what was possible. And so they just grabbed defeat from the greatest victory in the computer industry. Xerox could have owned the entire computer industry today." That's what an innovative leader does.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2011

Three key aspects of Ford's sustainability strategy strike me as critical, and show the company's real leadership: It's based on hard science. The 2011 Ford Explorer, for example, is using EcoBoost engine technology to improve fuel efficiency by 25%.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2016

By the mid-1980’s, the American semiconductor industry seemed like it was doomed. So in 1986, the American government created SEMATECH , a consortium of government agencies, research institutions and private industry. The initial breakthrough came in 1987, but the first drug wasn’t approved until 2011.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2013

Data breaches are on the rise, with a 44% increase in the number of records exposed from 2011 to 2012. These and other IT-related problems aren''t rooted in technology but in leadership failings. The senior leadership needs to become literate in technology. There have been breaches at companies such as Global Payments (1.5

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2015

Brian Fitzpatrick joined Google as a senior software engineer in 2005, shortly after the company’s IPO. Their crowning achievement was a service launched in 2011 called Google Takeout, a unified site for exporting user data from multiple services like Gmail and Google Photos.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 3, 2019

These revolutionary developments required equally revolutionary changes, including more truly global firms, whole new industries, new ways of organizing enterprises (think first GM and then GE), new ways of working (email, virtual global teams), and more. That requires a new way of thinking about people and leadership.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 1, 2014

Today, he is using his telecom industry expertise to help San Francisco’s Mayor Ed Lee launch the nation’s first entrepreneurship-in-residence (EIR) program for cities. When we asked our fellows, here are the reasons they shared with us: The opportunity to explore something new and find new paths to leadership.

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Sales Wolf Blog

JUNE 25, 2010

The Resource:    LinkUp Monthly Jobs Report What It Is:   LinkUp is a job search engine that finds and displays employment openings directly from the career section of employer websites for companies of all sizes.  Enjoy!  Currently LinkUp is keeping tabs on job postings from over 21,000 organizations.

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