First Friday Book Synopsis

MARCH 30, 2012

Creative Thinkering: Putting Your Imagination to Work Michael Michalko New World Library (2011) How and why conceptual blending of dissimilar subjects, ideas, and concepts is the most important factor in creative thinking Those who have read any of Michael Michalko’s previously published books, notably Cracking Creativity and Thinkertoys, already (..)

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Creativity Library Books Review 75

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. Let the engineers do their stuff. Google, where performance reviews are done quarterly, rather than annually, saw huge swings in the ratings that employees gave to their bosses.

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Project Performance Review Survey Review 161

First Friday Book Synopsis

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

Breaking Away: How Great Leaders Create Innovation That Drives Sustainable Growth – and Why Others Fail Jane Stevenson and Bilal Kaafarani McGraw-Hill (2011) How and why to create a “magic mix” of innovation leadership with innovation processes Year after year, annual lists of the most highly creative organizations include “the usual suspects”: Amazon, (..)

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Review Books Innovation Creativity 70

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. 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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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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Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 17, 2013

You employ engineers, plant managers, economists, IT managers and marketing directors from all over the world. According to the Harvard Business Review , English is now the global language of business, and more and more multinational companies are mandating English as the common corporate language. But are they effective communicators?

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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. Can we ever admit we are fried, exhausted, done, and not be judged as lacking in mojo, courage, stamina?

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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. Get started by contributing content to sites that utilize freelance writers. Some will take unsolicited articles, many will give assignments to freelancers.

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Coaching Tip

OCTOBER 5, 2011

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. John Agno: Books for Boomers: Reviews & Coaching Tips (for Kindle eReaders) for only $0.99. ?.

Leadership 84

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Women on Business

JANUARY 22, 2011

If you are the type of person who simply does not “get&# social networking, then please review my introductory posts on this subject (link) and (link). What if you don’t understand these types of marketing avenues?

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Press Release Discount PR Blog 100

QAspire

JANUARY 21, 2010

I was thinking about why engineering disciplines focus so heavily on checklists? In this context, I read a review Dr. Gawande’s book written by Dr. Philip K. You can have detailed checklists for specific engineering activities (where outcomes solely depend on inputs and process). Why checklists? Howard at Wall Street Journal.

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Process Management Quality Tools 84

Persuasive Powerhouse

JUNE 20, 2010

Inspiration when given as a gift is like the fuel that feeds the engine of prosperity for your organization. Realize that it does belong in your everyday interactions at work, and that you must give it away in order to model the compassion you want expressed at work. What keeps you from gifting your kindness?

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Blog Greenleaf Maslow Open-book 206

Persuasive Powerhouse

AUGUST 15, 2010

A simple example – when I was in engineering college, in the final year, my dad bought me a car after much begging and pleading. This post was selected as one of the five best independent business blog posts of the week in my Three Star Leadership Midweek Review of the Business Blogs.

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Ethics Morale Open-book Blog 184

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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Brand Blog Reputation Parcell 267

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 2, 2011

He conducts independent performance reviews and Executive Think Tanks nationally… with the result being the companies’ destinies being charted. He has conducted 300+ performance reviews of organizations. Hank Moore is an internationally known business advisor, speaker and author. He is a mentor to senior management.

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Drucker Senge Strategic Planning Newsletter 62

CO2

DECEMBER 10, 2010

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). How to define your vision Jim Collin’s suggests asking three questions to determine your vision ( Jim Collin’s Vision Framework ): What can you be world best at?

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Executive Coaching Execution Strategic Planning Marketing 104

CO2

DECEMBER 10, 2010

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). How to define your vision Jim Collin’s suggests asking three questions to determine your vision ( Jim Collin’s Vision Framework ): What can you be world best at?

Executive Coaching 104

Executive Coaching Execution Strategic Planning Marketing 104

Women in the LEAD

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

Harvard Business Review celebrates his contributions in their November 2009 edition: The Drucker Centennial : What Would Peter Do? RE-ENGINEERING MISTAKES. Let's take it back and re-engineer it." Barker, futurist, filmmaker and author YouTube Book Review by futurist Joel A.   Peter F. Berrett -Koehler ?

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Advice Drucker Leadership Letter 45

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.

Influence 174

Influence Blog Bottom-up Learning-by-Doing 174

Strategy Driven

MAY 3, 2011

There are some popular books suggesting the superiority of experience based decision-making drawing on a review of selective cases of successful business people and absent the study of equally experienced persons who failed.) Over reliance on engineering justification – occurred in 6 percent of decisions with adverse outcomes.

Analysis 66

Analysis Newsletter Operations Process 66

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2013

I thought hiring good engineers would be easy when I launched my startup, Julu Mobile , in Shanghai in early 2011. After all, China produces 600,000 engineering graduates each year, and as a former Google product manager I thought knew how to attract them. In China, I have found that a different mindset dominates.

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Engineering IPO Real Estate Price 9

Persuasive Powerhouse

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

In the State of Nevada we, Professional Engineers, have to have 30 professional development hours of learning to renew our licenses every two years. I am a strong believer that everything or every process can be improved and we have to change our self to accommodate the improvement.

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Resistance Class Learning-by-Doing Self-aware 193

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

When you review the evidence from the past few decades of social science, it’s hard to argue with Maslow’s starting point. We also didn’t see any major differences by level, or by performance reviews: people valued these three motivators whether they were exceeding, meeting, or falling short of expectations.

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Maslow Company Motivation Career 15

Persuasive Powerhouse

OCTOBER 24, 2010

Review your to-do list against where you want to be. 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. Or better yet, block out regular time during the week when you can be uninterrupted.

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Learning-by-Doing Blog Class Open-book 185

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

N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2010

Not necessarily…If you’ve taken the time to review a random cross section of blogs on the Internet, I’m sure you’ll agree that the world would be better off without some of the content currently being published.

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Blog Content Media Brand 321

Building Personal Strength

DECEMBER 14, 2010

However, there is some value in reviewing these critical turning-point decisions. If I could travel in time and advise my younger self, I would tell the poor schmuck to pursue statistics, and financial engineering. Regret 6comments: Sean said. I agree that moping about poor decisions in the past is generally useless.

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Video Learning-by-Doing Blog Committee 92

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

You’ll note when reviewing the Top Leadership Blogs list below that I did not apply a numerical hierarchy to the rankings, but rather just disclosed my data points – I decided it would be a better list if I let you draw your own conclusions and render your own opinions. Engineering Manager with Adobe Systems).

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Blog Leadership Follow-up Media 409

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.

IPO 15

IPO Management Engineering Innovation 15

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.

Engineering 8

Engineering Mass Marketing Automotive Human Capital 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 10, 2015

When I search on Google what I often find is a mess of links to sellers of those products and also lots of review sites. I can use Amazon to search for books and read reviews even if I don’t purchase there, although the chances are surely high that I will make a purchase if I find what I want. .” What reviews are those?

Review 8

Review Engineering Advertising Open-book 8

CO2

DECEMBER 10, 2010

It is based on Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) and is implemented by fastworks as an add-in to Microsoft Excel, a ubiquitous engine that many already use for various business applications, which reduces the learning curve and the need for expensive proprietary software. The weighting of criteria is increased by one multiple per item.

Executive Coaching 79

Executive Coaching Brainstorming Tools Decisionmaking 79

Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

Similarly, make sure your OWN site has the best key words for the search engines. Ten minutes reading about someone you are going to talk to can be invaluable, whether for services you consider, possible employees, collaborations to pursue, or customers to solicit. Google your name periodically. Be willing to be scattered.

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Press Release Discount Sharpe Advertising 100

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2013

A brouhaha has sprung up around the car thanks to an unfavorable New York Times review by John Broder. And Musk brought a bunch of data with him to support his claim that Broder "faked" the review. And, for what it's worth, Fortune's reviewer encountered similar problems with range and battery life.

Automotive 9

Automotive Review Transportation Innovation 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2011

Listen to the words of a finance manager in a large consumer products company, whose efforts to improve his business team's profit margins were repeatedly undercut by people in the sales department: "I learned that pricing for one of our key accounts has already been confirmed to the customer, without any prior approval or review. [.]

Management 16

Management Engineering Price Brainstorming 16

CO2

DECEMBER 10, 2010

It is based on Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) and is implemented by fastworks as an add-in to Microsoft Excel, a ubiquitous engine that many already use for various business applications, which reduces the learning curve and the need for expensive proprietary software. The weighting of criteria is increased by one multiple per item.

Executive Coaching 68

Executive Coaching Strategic Planning Brainstorming Execution 68

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?”.

Engineering 11

Engineering Class Software Mentor 11