Coaching Tip

MARCH 13, 2011

So, as only a data-mining giant like Google can do, it began analyzing performance reviews, feedback surveys and nominations for top-manager awards. Later that year, the “people analytics” teams at the company produced what might be called the Eight Habits of Highly Effective Google Managers. Let the engineers do their stuff.

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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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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! Duncan Brodie Reply Sonja Froyen January 26, 2011 at 11:05 am Sometimes leaders forfeit their role in a consensus decision.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 3, 2011

Regardless of your level of experience in project management, set these 5 goals for every project you manage. Jason Westland introduces us to a Method123 Project Management Methodology (MPMM TM ), which defines the best practice phases, activities and tasks required to complete a project on time and within budget.

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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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Chris Brady

JANUARY 20, 2011

Example: When I was but a wee engineer just cutting my teeth in the profession, I had the good fortune to be thrown in with several elderly gentlemen who were extremely accomplished in the field. Posted by: Nam Do | January 21, 2011 at 01:07 AM Awesome, you have put into words the very technique I was trying to explain yesterday.

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Travel Learning-by-Doing Blog Letter 112

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.

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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.   For the better part of 50 years, he was on the public address system at the House That Ruth Built as the voice of the Yankees. Once again, classless.

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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 is a mentor to senior management.

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Drucker Senge Strategic Planning Newsletter 62

Strategy Driven

APRIL 17, 2014

A surprising fact is that the number one carriers of Sales Call Reluctance are sales managers, sales trainers, and motivational speakers. For example, in a training a sales manager says, “We all know people hate talking to sales people” or “Get out and sell, but don’t be a salesperson!” We see this consistently within companies.

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CO2

DECEMBER 10, 2010

What drives your economic engine? These are really helpful questions if you take them to the extreme and I so often do not find CEOs, Executive Directors, or Managing Partners being pushed far enough on becoming clear in their answer to these questions. What are you passionate about? Your people do not care about that number.

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CO2

DECEMBER 10, 2010

What drives your economic engine? These are really helpful questions if you take them to the extreme and I so often do not find CEOs, Executive Directors, or Managing Partners being pushed far enough on becoming clear in their answer to these questions. What are you passionate about? Your people do not care about that number.

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Executive Coaching Execution Strategic Planning Marketing 104

Your Voice of Encouragement

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

I kept my foot off the accelerator and just glided along to avoid splashing water on the engine. Alice Errett Sunflower Business Consulting January 24, 2011 7:48 AM @wordwhackysaid. January 24, 2011 8:04 AM Meredith Bell said. As I approached the water, I looked out the window and could see that it was only a few inches deep.

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Influence Gordon Entrepreneur Blog 102

Deming Institute

AUGUST 30, 2018

” 1 He proposed that the root cause of the lack of quality lies, in part, with our educational system. Much has been learned in the professional world about quality, which could be useful to our educational system. Franz, The Toyota Way to Continuous Improvement, McGraw-Hill, 2011, pp. Liker and James K.

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Quality P&L Deming Education 51

Building Personal Strength

DECEMBER 22, 2010

Embedded in the signal are engineering plans for a huge, complex device to transport a human from Earth to Vega via a wormhole system. I’ve been in the learning and development business for over 35 years, and CEO of Performance Support Systems, Inc., since 1987. Click HERE to read more. About "Personal Strength".

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Transportation Travel Video Blog 84

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2017

The best software developer at Apple, for example, writes nine times more useable code each day than the average software engineer in Silicon Valley. Unfortunately, most HR systems fail to provide leaders with this vital information. They get more time from senior management. Manage team member egos.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

You can follow Seth on Twitter @ThisIsSethsBlog Alexa Rank : 4,876 Google Page Rank : 7 PostRank Leadership Score : N/A Number of Posts in last 30 days : 35 TwitterGrader Score : 100 The Management Experts : If you’re looking for a positive spin on leadership then look no further than Phil Gerbyshak.

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Blog Leadership Follow-up Media 411

Strategy Driven

MARCH 21, 2011

Suddenly it hit Bob: he hadn’t checked to make sure engineering had included the new wiring diagram in the customer’s shipment that was due to go out first thing in the morning. Worse still, Bob’s behavior and the accolades he receives simply reinforce the notion that everyone should work around the system. All rights reserved.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

Health care systems are transforming themselves to deliver the “Triple Aim” of providing better care and a better patient experience, improving the health of populations, and lowering the cost of care. The Mayo Quality Academy offers 30 courses, ranging from Lean and Six-Sigma to Human Factors and Change Management.

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Quality Mayo System Six Sigma 8

Strategy Driven

APRIL 17, 2013

Refreshingly direct and right to the point, this system is based on 12 years of research and thousands of sales prospect interviews. An increasingly important element of marketing is search engine optimization (SEO) and search engine marketing (SEM). Identify and Analyze Your Win/Loss Trends Step 7.

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CO2

DECEMBER 10, 2010

Setting up a Criteria Ranking System There are different ways to set up a system. When choosing your system put them all on the same scale 1 to 3, 1 to 5, 1 to 10 so that you can better align each factor with each other. XY-Axis by ideaWallets – Use a Cartesian coordinate system to sort your ideas and find patterns.

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CO2

DECEMBER 10, 2010

Setting up a Criteria Ranking System There are different ways to set up a system. When choosing your system put them all on the same scale 1 to 3, 1 to 5, 1 to 10 so that you can better align each factor with each other. XY-Axis by ideaWallets – Use a Cartesian coordinate system to sort your ideas and find patterns.

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Executive Coaching Strategic Planning Brainstorming Execution 68

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

working with one of our business partners was installing an electronic security system in the Pentagon window that was struck. At the same time, fighter planes were coming in low overhead, their engines echoing in the cavernous atmosphere of Manhattan. He left behind a lovely wife and 3 small children.

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Blog Hotels Follow-up Brand 404

Building Personal Strength

DECEMBER 14, 2010

If I could travel in time and advise my younger self, I would tell the poor schmuck to pursue statistics, and financial engineering. I’ve been in the learning and development business for over 35 years, and CEO of Performance Support Systems, Inc., Let's all have a good laugh on that one. But I can't do that. since 1987.

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Video Learning-by-Doing Blog Committee 92

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

We train and retrain on the aircraft systems, the regulations, the standards, the normal procedures and the emergency procedures. It’s our job to get the plane down safely, whether riddled by bullets or with two dead engines snuffed out by birds over the Hudson River. So we aviators seek cultures of learning. But then we sobered up.

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Six Sigma Learning-by-Doing Training Tools 57

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2018

“Once, you needed mechanical engineers. Today, there’s a greater need for software engineers because cars are computers more than anything else.” He hired Nokia engineers, who were accustomed to thinking about what digital forms appeal to consumers, to redesign radio and navigation systems.

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Engineering Mass Marketing Automotive Human Capital 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2012

The company's stacked-ranking system, for example, required managers to rate employees according to a bell-curve pattern. As a result, engineers and developers had a greater incentive to compete with each other than they did to collaborate with each other. Microsoft, Eichenwald suggests, has fallen short on both of those counts.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2014

There is another seemingly mundane but profoundly important application of this technology: to better managers ourselves and our time. CALO would be able to assist its user with organizing and prioritizing information, mediating human communication, resource allocation, task management decisions, and scheduling and prioritizing.

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Productivity Products Technology Learning-by-Doing 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

The health care system in the United States, with its technological prowess and massive infrastructure, often serves as a reference point for rapidly developing economies around the world while they build their own medical systems. Comparing the five years between 2012 and 2016 to the period between 2007 and 2011, U.S.

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Health Care Tourism Pharmaceuticals Cost 8

Ask Atma

MAY 6, 2011

[A 5 minute talk given at LA Hackers on April 23, 2011 at Coloft]. That’s kind of like a project manager on academic steroids. My goal is to teach whoever is ready to re-engineer their business, startup, or organization. Hacking your management system. My name is Atma. I am an industrial psychologist.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2016

Vanguard carved out a niche by managing low-cost index mutual funds in 1975. The company now has more than 20 million investors in 170 companies and, as of the end of last year, manages more than $3 trillion in global assets. Pure Internet-plays Betterment and FutureAdvisor launched in 2010 and Wealthfront in 2011.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2018

This is despite women comprising 80% of the healthcare workforce and evidence that having women in upper management and on corporate boards is associated with improved financial performance and enhanced accountability. These numbers point to a clear need for better representation of female physicians in leadership.

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Health Care Leadership Diversity Career 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 14, 2013

But the very existence of these cross-subsidies is symptomatic of deep flaws in the health care reimbursement system. As we move forward we need to be mindful of two principles that must be at the heart of any fundamental health care reform: “no margin, no mission” and “if you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it.”

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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. The CIO''s group is at the core of the business; it runs the company''s nervous system (ERP) and immune system (security) and connects all internal and external entities. IT management' million passwords), LinkedIn (6.5

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 14, 2011

This blog post is part of the HBR Online Forum The CEO's Role in Fixing the System. It started with just a few dozen people, but as we grew, (2977 employees have attended our yearly summit as of January 2011) I would inevitably get questions about how long we could keep holding such a meeting. Not just managers?"

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CFO Software Engineering CEO 13

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2013

You may recall that NUMMI was a joint venture of Toyota and GM, where Toyota took over one of GM''s worst plants and turned it around with a new management system — using many of the same people and the same unions. We can have engineering work more closely with production. I see it differently: as a "NUMMI deja vu" story.

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Insourcing Operations Offshoring Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

With scarcely any help from management, knowledge workers can increase their productivity by 20%. Yet here is the challenge you face as a senior executive: You cannot manage your knowledge workers in the traditional and intrusive way you might have done with manual workers. Build smart support systems.

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