Deming Institute

JUNE 4, 2019

A chemical engineer by training, Dr. Latzko spent most of his career in quality control as a manager, consultant, and educator. A Fellow of the American Society for Quality Control and certified quality engineer, he published multiple books and more than 20 papers on management quality. Latzko, Ph.D. 1928 – 2018).

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Marshall Goldsmith

MARCH 3, 2014

” Abandoning one job or career for another is much easier to say than do. My friend Maria is a gifted engineer who has invested years in making a significant contribution to her firm. ” “Why don’t you try for a career in management?” Nobody is going to want to hire me as an engineer anymore.

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Deming Institute

JUNE 4, 2019

A chemical engineer by training, Dr. Latzko spent most of his career in quality control as a manager, consultant, and educator. A Fellow of the American Society for Quality Control and certified quality engineer, he published multiple books and more than 20 papers on management quality. Latzko, Ph.D. 1928 – 2018).

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Nathan Magnuson

JANUARY 7, 2013

I had the privilege of meeting the late Zig Ziglar (1926-2012) a couple years ago at a seminar in Richmond, VA. He grew up during the Great Depression and following a stint in the military, began his career in sales. Home / Leadership Profiles / Leadership Profile: Zig Ziglar. Leadership Profile: Zig Ziglar. January 7, 2013.

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Mills Scofield

MAY 13, 2012

Khalil is preparing for a 2012 Fall launch. What was a ‘job shop’ is now a high-tech and biomedical design and engineering company with rapid prototyping/additive manufacturing up to full-scale injection molding capabilities. Lesson : Get out, meet some Gen-Zs and Millennials. What drove this level of risk?

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Coaching Tip

APRIL 9, 2012

Way back in October 1971, an engineer (who I went to high school with in Upstate New York during the late 1950s) named Ray Tomlinson chose the '@' symbol for email addresses and wrote software to send the first network email. Source: The New York Times, April 8, 2012. . John Agno: Books for Boomers: Reviews & Coaching Tips.

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Chart Your Course

AUGUST 14, 2012

George is an industrial engineer. Others leave for better and more interesting career opportunities. Copyright 2012 by Chart Your Course International–reproduction for publication is encouraged, with the following attribution: From “Chart Your Course International,” by Gregory P. Smith, copyright 2012.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 7, 2013

With so much stuff coming at me from all angles, daily prosperity relies on spam filters, Internet search engines, and personalized music and movie recommendations. Obama was re-elected in 2012 with the help of voter prediction. The leading career-focused social network, LinkedIn, predicts your job skills.

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Marshall Goldsmith

JUNE 16, 2013

And not many people remember that Jack Welch has a PhD in chemical engineering. But further along in your career curve, when it’s time to step up into a leadership position, you’re going to need these qualities in spades. At some point, you get the benefit of the doubt on skill issues. You see where I’m going?

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Skip Prichard

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Product designers and engineers worked on creating a filtration system that was affordable and easily transportable. I observed this power of mission-driven servant leadership multiple times during my career. Many have worked there for their entire careers. It contributed so that everybody could have access to clean water.”

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Coaching Tip

JUNE 21, 2012

Considering the expansion of the Internet, powerful search engines, and social media, it should be much easier to match potential employees with employers. Sources: Bloomberg BusinessWeek, June 14, 2012 and. Yet since the 1970s, access to information has exploded. Apparently not. “We We find that in the U.S.,

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Deming Institute

JANUARY 5, 2017

I don’t think I learned anything about Deming or his work as an undergraduate Industrial Engineering student from 1991 to 1995. I was fortunate that my father had an opportunity to be a student in the famed four-day seminar, while working as an engineer at the Cadillac division of General Motors, in the late 1980s. Edwards Deming.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2015

A lot of people are worried about the career choices of today’s most talented science and engineering students. That’s 25% more grads than went into computer and information technology, the most popular industry in the science and engineering category. And not just their parents.

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Deming Institute

OCTOBER 24, 2016

Deming Lecture at the 2012 ASA Joint – Quality Improvement: From Autos and Chips to Nano and Bio” by Jeff Wu, Georgia Institute of Technology. Related: A Historical Look at Deming’s Career: Lecture by J. I must say I have always thought assignable causes seems like a better name to me.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2013

New businesses are cropping up to reinvent the recruiting process, blending data from social media sites to create profiles of coders, programmers and software engineers so that companies hoping to hire can search for candidates that have the skills they desire. People Analytics . Mobile Recruiting Apps.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 19, 2012

It was the turning point in my career. There’s no reason for your voice to be muted, and (through search engines and social media) every opportunity to be found. Here are the imperatives of success for 2012 – and the next 20 years: 1. Newspapers called wanting to publish the column. In 1992 you had to rely on print media.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

In 2012, HBR dubbed data scientist “the sexiest job of the 21st century ” It is also, arguably, the vaguest. Decision scientist: Decision makers (executives, business leaders, product managers), data engineers, software engineers responsible for the applications generating data. Monty Rakusen/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2014

Date: January 20, 2012 20:41. Date: January 23, 2012 14:18. I can do the job of just about anyone in the factory and can work most of the software the engineering guys use. Date: January 23, 2012 14:42. Date: January 23, 2012 17:52. Date: January 23, 2012 18:37. Date: January 24, 2012 10:17.

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Deming Institute

JANUARY 16, 2017

As I wrote about in my first post , my first job out of college was at the GM Livonia Engine Plant, outside of Detroit. Mark also co-authored Healthcare Kaizen: Engaging Front-Line Staff in Sustainable Continuous Improvements, which was released in June 2012 and also a Shingo Research Award recipient in 2013. Guest post by Mark Graban.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2012

But recent research from CareerRelocate.com and CareerBuilder shows that Americans may be more willing to move than we think: 44 percent of workers surveyed said they would be willing to relocate for a career opportunity. And 32 percent of employers reported they would be willing to pay to relocate new employees in 2012.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

nearly 6 million entry-level jobs will be created from 2012 to 2022, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Many come from families with incomes below the poverty line and suffer from lack of educational and career supports. Across the U.S., With low unemployment, the competition for talent remains fierce. ”

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2012

Here's what we believe, surveying the landscape: It would take something like 1,000 hours — and maybe a lot longer — to recover from a forced career change. In 1966, students arriving at an engineering college were told that they would be obsolete in seven years. Especially in this job market. And you may be right.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2018

Or so he thought, until one interaction changed the trajectory of his career. In 2012, Dinesh Seemakurty, a bio-medical engineering student at University of Southern California was visiting India. His life was set. “I’m a living and smiling example of life after cancer,” she says.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2013

with its expanding array of opportunities, and "Old India," whose traditions persist in shaping — and sometimes limiting — women's career ambitions. in 2012 , the outlook is far healthier than in many mature markets of Europe and North America, fueling an ongoing war for talent. 49% in Germany, and 36% in Japan.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2016

Huffington grew up in Athens and studied in London before starting her career as a politician and media entrepreneur. Similarly, about one-fourth of all technology and engineering companies started in the U.S. between 2006 and 2012 had at least one immigrant cofounder. Musk migrated from South Africa to the U.S. as young adult.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2013

adults involved in start-ups hit a record 13% in 2012 , the White House proclaimed that " entrepreneurs are the engine of our economy " [PDF]. Career planning Entrepreneurship' "I could have joined Company Y in the early days. But I decided to work for a real organization.". As the percentage of U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 3, 2012

Enter my co-author, MIT-trained strategist and engineer Juan Carlos Méndez-García, who consults with both start-ups and Fortune 500 companies. Juan Carlos holds an MBA from MIT Sloan, a Masters in Systems Engineering and Bachelors on Electrical Engineering. Images copyright 2012 Juan C. Mendez and Whitney Johnson.

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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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Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2014

Many hold deeply satisfying careers themselves. According to the National Center for Women and Information Technology, women pursuing undergraduate computer science degrees have dropped from 37% to 18%, from 1987 to 2012 , respectively. drop, from 2004 to 2009, in female engineers. of Fortune 500 CEOs are women.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2018

On the morning of May 18, 2012, at precisely 11:05, Nasdaq planned to execute the first trade in in Facebook’s hotly anticipated initial public offering. In the film industry, this knowledge comes from how people progress through their careers. Phil Ashley/Getty Images. Here are three of those lessons.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2016

of corporate officer positions in the Fortune 500, according to 2012 data. In three studies, published in 2010 in the Journal of Applied Psychology , Tom Sy and his colleagues designed vignettes describing an Asian or white leader (Tung-Sheng Wong vs. John Davis) who worked in engineering or sales. And Asians represent only 1.5%

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2013

Reporter Paul Lukas best expressed the resourcefulness of 3Mers: "A 3M customer identifies a problem, and a 3M engineer expresses confidence in being able to solve it. Undeterred, the engineer stumbles onto a solution and turns a dead end into a ringing success.". Richard Drew is just such an engineer.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

Career paths are not one-size-fits-all, yet in emerging markets, it's often assumed that microfinance — the use of small loans to foster self-reliant small businesses in a community setting — is the only path for women seeking economic opportunity. Such policies are often illegal but nonetheless remain in practice.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2014

Before retiring in 2012, it was a balancing act he knew well. For the last three years of his career, he was responsible for the $6 billion portion of the Air Force budget dedicated to IT, where his main responsibilities ranged from Air Force cyber activity to IT upgrades to career field management.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2015

The company committed to goals of being water neutral by 2012, carbon neutral by 2017, and ultimately zero waste. In retail, Whole Foods has eliminated plastic bags, worked to develop local suppliers, and opened stores with affordable products in low-income communities with limited access to fresh produce.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

The Problem of Social Cost," Coase once told me, was the reason he spent his career not in an economics department or a business school but at the University of Chicago School of Law. In these last few months, Coase, his ideas, and the very large intellectual debt I owed to them were all very much in my thoughts.

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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. In 2012, the National Bureau of Economic Research studied the impact that great bosses have on team productivity. Manage team member egos.

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