Deming Institute

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

2011 ASA Deming Lecture by Roger Hoerl, GE Global Research: The World Is Calling; Should We Answer? Deming referred several times to the need to have a senior statistical leader reporting to the CEO. Roger also discusses the idea of statistical engineering and the difference between engineering and science.

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The Recovering Engineer

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

All you have to do is claim it to get access to leadership development resources including: Videos Ebooks Special reports Audio recordings Excerpts from the new book, From Bud to Boss And more! He has degrees in Chemical Engineering and he served as a Nuclear Engineering officer in the U.S. Do it now before you forget.

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Blog Leadership FAQ Engineering 117

The Recovering Engineer

MARCH 18, 2010

She has done that over the last few weeks, and today she reported that the quality of her interactions with her colleague has improved remarkably. 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.

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Engineering Self-aware Video FAQ 210

Marshall Goldsmith

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

Many of the MBAs who report self-confidence issues are brilliant technicians. They are looking for the "right answers" - similar to the ones in engineering school. Why should you expect your direct reports to demonstrate positive enthusiasm, if they don't see it in you? To participate in the 2011 Thinkers 50, visit [link].

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In the CEO Afterlife

AUGUST 29, 2011

by John • August 29, 2011 • Human Resources , Leadership , Strategy • 2 Comments. According to licensing agreements and industry sources, Monsanto’s stranglehold on the genetically-engineered seed market in the United States and the world squeezes customers, limits competitors and provides staggering profits. April 2011.

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Strategy CEO Company Competitive Advantage 131

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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Consensus Blog Workshop Learning-by-Doing 210

The Recovering Engineer

MARCH 12, 2010

Effective Communication Skills: How to Quickly Guess a Person’s DISC Style Tags: Communication Skills , DISC Model , featured , Leadership Skills , parenting skills , people-oriented people , perception , task-oriented people , understanding , working with people Guy Harris describes himself as a recovering engineer. While the tips still [.]

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The Horizons Tracker

APRIL 28, 2022

Engines of creation. Indeed, data reveal that rates of entrepreneurship have been in perpetual decline across the United States between 1978 and 2011. This gummed-up process of innovation is not confined to big-company transformation. For all of its numerous flaws, the company was at one point valued at nearly $50 billion.

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Coaching Tip

MARCH 13, 2011

Let the engineers do their stuff. In Project Oxygen, the statisticians gathered more than 10,000 observations about managers — across more than 100 variables, from various performance reviews, feedback surveys and other reports. Source: The New York Times, March 13, 2011.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 17, 2013

You employ engineers, plant managers, economists, IT managers and marketing directors from all over the world. A 2011 white paper jointly published by the GlobalEnglish Corporation and Human Capital Institute reported that 70% of global employees are non-native speakers – and only 7% think they speak English well enough to do their jobs.

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The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 28, 2023

A new report from the U.S. The report shows increased diversity in STEM workforce with more women and underrepresented groups (Black, Hispanic, American Indian, Alaska Native, and people with disabilities) in STEM jobs and higher degree attainment in science and engineering fields over the past decade.

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Trends Report Diversity Engineering 59

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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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 7, 2011

Google reports an 80 percent click rate on videos that appear in the search results. 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. Use your keywords in your title, description and tags.

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Video Marketing Mix Press Release Engineering 50

Building Personal Strength

NOVEMBER 6, 2011

Thomas School of Engineering in Minnesota. On one of the reports featured a poll. Copyright 2011. "These results show that it will be harder to make the tough cuts to emissions if we are to head off a climate crisis," said John Abraham, professor at the University of St. So how much carbon is being pumped into the atmosphere?

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Globalization Crisis Engineering Follow-up 109

Next Level Blog

DECEMBER 10, 2010

  As reported in Wired magazine a few months ago, Musk bought the former NUMMI manufacturing plant valued at $1 billion from Toyota for $42 million.   Wonder what 2011 has in store for him? Subscribe to Blog Updates via Email or RSS Chart Your Course in 2011 with a Life GPS® Interactive Program Details Here Join me for the.

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Executive Coaching Blog Letter Execution 141

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. Unfortunately, much of that wealth was inaccessible to me because I could never seem to catch much of what these men so casually reported.

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Travel Learning-by-Doing Blog Letter 112

Ron Edmondson

JULY 3, 2013

These are my “favorite top posts” Some posts had more hits, but they simply do well in the search engines. I was asked to give my perspective as a senior pastor, since each of them report to one. 5 – 2011: 10 Secrets of Many Senior Pastors. I’m actually proud of these. None of these were posted this year.

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Next Level Blog

JULY 16, 2010

A number of execs were working on similar opportunities with their teams or their peers and reported similar results from doing little things like asking people, "What do you think?" You can find it by searching on Dan Pink in this blog's search engine. or finding new colleagues to ask to lunch.

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Herzberg Executive Coaching Newsletter Blog 146

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! .  Enjoy!

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 17, 2014

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. However, having the fear of making the call is nothing to be embarrassed about.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 20, 2014

Staying true to its roots as an engineering-centric company, Google has stood out both for its early skepticism of the value of managers as well as for its novel, often quantitative approaches to management decisions. If you only read one piece, make it this one by David Garvin in 2013 , on how Google sold its engineers on management.

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IPO Management Engineering Innovation 15

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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Self-aware Engineering Chief Technology Officer Learning-by-Doing 50

Persuasive Powerhouse

AUGUST 15, 2010

they don’t directly report to you; you cannot count on your staff to be completely open). A simple example – when I was in engineering college, in the final year, my dad bought me a car after much begging and pleading. Have trusted advisors surrounding you. These are the people who will give you their unbiased opinion.

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Ethics Morale Open-book Blog 184

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. Copyright 2007-2011 by StrategyDriven, Inc. Just last week Bob was watching television after dinner, but he wasn’t really watching. All rights reserved.

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Hammer Chief Executive Officer Metrics Process 50

Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

Similarly, make sure your OWN site has the best key words for the search engines. Discover the reporters in your area and profession. Other ideas: donate your expertise as an award, speak at the local library or school, and interview local officials to report for newsletters. Google your name periodically.

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Press Release Discount Sharpe Advertising 100

Persuasive Powerhouse

SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

On this Labor Day, I give homage to those who shaped my own early career: Mom: Who taught me the art of domestic engineering: how to wash dishes, vacuum floors, make beds, and do the laundry with a sense of pride in the finished product. I’d give him a report and he’d say “Good work. Thanks for sharing.

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Influence Blog Bottom-up Learning-by-Doing 174

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

They were desperately looking for great engineers, designers, and business people – but were very picky about who they hired. Facebook’s method for spreading a shared mindset in new engineers and technical employees has become more systematic and exacting as the company has expanded. Did you see that?”.

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Engineering Class Software Mentor 12

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2014

When Dan Akerson became CEO in 2010, he brought a bit of daylight into the hallowed halls, breaking down siloes to urge collaboration between departments that had long stopped talking to each other — engineering and parts buyers, product development and purchasing, to name some especially critical relationships. They play well as a team.

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Team McGregor Parcell Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2012

Census Bureau announced that the percentage of Americans who changed residences between 2010 and 2011 — 11.6 Of workers who were laid off in 2011 and found new jobs, 20 percent relocated to a new city or state. And 32 percent of employers reported they would be willing to pay to relocate new employees in 2012.

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Health Care Engineering Skills Finance 14

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

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. Turn-and-burn, yank-and-bank; show me how to start the engine and get out of my way. So we aviators seek cultures of learning. and “What do you think about that?” But then we sobered up.

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Six Sigma Learning-by-Doing Training Tools 57

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2012

And yet at the same time, women at every level were perceived by their bosses, their colleagues, and their direct reports as superior to their male counterparts on three quarters of the competencies our long years of conducting and analyzing 360-evalutions have shown are critical to superior leadership effectiveness.

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Engineering Survey Human Resources Follow-up 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 11, 2011

What did we learn on February 8, 2011 when the report came out? million in taxpayer money was spent , and some of the brightest minds in American engineering were occupied for 10 months — just so that NHTSA could prove they were right all along. Ogden, of Toyota Under Fire (2011). So who won in this debacle?

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Crisis Transportation Public Relations Document 16

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. I was driving to my office when I heard a sketchy report of a “small plane&# hitting the WTC. What was most striking was the attitude of everyone. We’ll never take their commitment lightly.

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Blog Hotels Follow-up Brand 362

CO2

JUNE 29, 2010

And perhaps more importantly, anyone occupying a position of authority plays a followership role at times, as first-line supervisors report to mid-level managers, mid-level managers report to vice-presidents, vice-presidents report to CEOs, CEOs report to Boards of Directors, etc.

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Executive Coaching Execution Blog Self-aware 129

Persuasive Powerhouse

OCTOBER 24, 2010

Now, back to your point, throw in a class after work and studying for an eight hour professional engineering exam it makes it pretty difficult to exercise and eat healthy. Which is another thing that I’m surprised I haven’t lost it yet because going to the gym is a huge stress reliever for me. How much duplicitive efforts are going on?

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Learning-by-Doing Blog Class Open-book 185

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2013

Universities like Stanford, Caltech, and UC Berkeley continue to churn out the next generation of founders and engineers. We believe that when this incredible professional diversity collides with software engineering talent, you have the recipe for breakthrough innovation. In a word: culture. Established executives, like former Yahoo!

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Diversity Software Engineering Industry 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2012

For Jeco Plastic Products, 2011 was a landmark year. The partnership — later named the National Digital Engineering and Manufacturing Consortium , or NDEMC — would revolutionize how America's manufacturing supply chain does business. In 2011, NDEMC selected CEO Lary Rosenboom of Rosenboom Machine Tool Inc.

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Supply Chain Competitive Advantage Tools Innovation 10