The Recovering Engineer

JANUARY 25, 2016

Early in my career, I worked in the plastics industry as a process and product development engineer. At the time, I had a degree in chemical engineering, and I had just completed service as a nuclear engineering officer in the U.S. I frequently got arguments and push-back from people and little or no real cooperation.

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Great Leadership By Dan

APRIL 30, 2015

In a recent post and podcast , I proposed this draft purpose of leadership : “Effective leaders set high standards for performance and values, validate efforts and contributions, and ensure cooperative interaction and performance in a trusting, respectful work environment.” when we clarify purpose and goals. when we praise progress.

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The Practical Leader

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

For many years I’ve been facilitating a 360 assessment and leadership development process for a deeply technical science/engineering association. ” Since participation in this career/leadership program for “high potentials” is voluntary, defensiveness is usually low, and interest in learning and developing is high.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 9, 2015

And then I put those lessons to work in my own business and climbing careers. Our Inside ROPE teams were comprised of colleagues in our company’s marketing, accounting, finance, engineering, support, purchasing, and other functional units. As a sales leader, I was responsible for assembling both “Inside” and “Outside” ROPE teams.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 9, 2016

So much for wellbeing and cooperation. After a 15-year career leading successful teams, Chris founded his consulting company, The Purposeful Culture Group, in 1990. He is the author or co-author of seven books, including Amazon best sellers The Culture Engine and Leading At A Higher Level with Ken Blanchard. I can prove it.

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Great Leadership By Dan

OCTOBER 29, 2015

My book, The Culture Engine , presents five levels or degrees of workplace culture health. Cooperative problem solving and team work is the norm. After a 15-year career leading successful teams, Chris founded his consulting company, The Purposeful Culture Group, in 1990. Productivity is consistently high.

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Great Leadership By Dan

FEBRUARY 18, 2016

They know that cooperative interaction among team members maintains trust and respect more than competitive interaction does. After a 15-year career leading successful teams, Chris founded his consulting company, The Purposeful Culture Group, in 1990. GREAT bosses spur TEAMWORK.

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leaderCommunicator

JANUARY 28, 2013

Throughout my career as a Principal engineer at Intel, I’ve repeatedly made a point to do that, and believe me, it wasn’t easy. Better yet, in some cases this allowed me to strike alliances and mount joint projects with like-minded engineers and managers – to the benefit of all our organizations. Have fun! *.

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HR Digest

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

Like Emily Cooper, you’ll find yourself against of landscapes of see-sawing chaos and idyll. These tips are largely inspired by Emily Cooper’s faux pas in Paris. Emily Cooper is an ideal example of a growth-mindset millennial. You’ll never be always right or wrong. Something that Emily seems to really lack is boundaries.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 16, 2015

Only when a leadership team acts with one mind, one heart, and one voice will they effectively inspire their organization to top performance, cooperative interaction, and inspired service. After a 15-year career leading and managing teams, Chris began his consulting company in 1990. Add your thoughts in the comments section below.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 1, 2016

Gordon Berridge: Our readers, with mining knowledge, will be will be familiar with the name Sam Walsh and Rio Tinto, but to provide a complete sketch of your background, would you please share a brief summary of your career history? I have been extremely fortunate to have had a very varied career.

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Skip Prichard

JANUARY 6, 2021

Resetting and rebalancing life and career is on many people’s minds during a pandemic. We are witnessing the most progressive organizations operate as engines for learning. Leadership for Tomorrow. Jonas Altman’s book, Shapers: Reinvent the Way You Work and Change Your Future crossed my desk and grabbed my attention.

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Marshall Goldsmith

JUNE 22, 2015

It mirrored his training and mindset as an engineer. Yet even with their jobs on the line if they didn’t cooperate, two executives refused to change their behavior in the BPR. Why would executives be willing to pull the rip cord on their careers rather than adapt to such a simple routine? My only interpretation is ego.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2014

That’s the argument of British money manager George Cooper ’s very interesting if less-than-felicitously titled new book, Money, Blood and Revolution: How Darwin and the Doctor of King Charles I Could Turn Economics Into a Science. Economics is due for a paradigm shift. It’s an interesting thought. The basis of a new paradigm for economics?

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 11, 2018

” I expected gratitude and cooperation, but apparently my lack of communication about the negotiation process was not appreciated, and the investor put a higher dollar value on his share. As the deal was about to close, I called him to say, “Great news! All you have to do is sign this paper.”

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2018

Evidence shows that women in academic medicine experience greater challenges finding mentors and sponsors than men, and that this gap likely contributes to career disparities. This can hamper cooperative parenting and make it harder for women to stay in the field. Career flexibility. Institute family-friendly policies.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2017

The punishing, pressure-cooker work environment meant that Volkswagen engineers were apparently loath to say no or admit failure to superiors. Many of these engineers may have been honest, upstanding citizens in their communities, but the pressure to succeed at work led them to game the system.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2017

For example, one earthquake engineer, Stuart, had a career breakthrough when he joined a large structural investigation project led by a team of senior partners in his firm. Upbeat Music Can Make Employees More Cooperative. How to Handle a Colleague Who’s a Jerk When the Boss Isn’t Around. Amy Jen Su. Kevin Kniffin.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 14, 2013

He’s a slacker; he works 50 hours a week,” commented a Silicon Valley engineer. It’s simply not possible to work 90 hours a week and see to your own basic needs – much less support someone else’s career. Extreme schedules remain a key metric of manliness. He’s a real man; he works 90-hour weeks.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

To help those travelers who feel lonely when they’re on the road, I’ve drawn on my own experience (both in my current gig and in my previous life as a management consultant) as well as the advice of friends and colleagues, including consultants, engineers, media managers, and entrepreneurs, who are regularly away from home.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2011

But each of us can likely remember a time in our career where we said it, or heard it. Out of curiosity, I ran it through a search engine and what did I get? Almost always, you're asking people to think a new thought, do a new thing, learn, stretch, and cooperate with others on creating something together. And that's alignment.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2017

Just how common are the views on gender espoused in the memo that former Google engineer James Damore was recently fired for distributing on an internal company message board? Research we’ve conducted shows that while most people don’t share Damore’s views, male engineers are more likely to.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

” Kate and her husband, Matthew, were a classic dual career couple. How could they design two careers that could give them both what they wanted: meaningful work, financial security, and a great family? One of their innovations was to plan a lifetime family career – together.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2017

“I am the only woman on a team of software engineers. The lead engineers, who have a lot of influence over who gets picked for the ‘cool’, new, and ground-breaking projects, typically overlook me. I feel it’s because I’d be a buzz kill in the male-locker-room atmosphere.”

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2015

From his fertile mind came the light bulb and the phonograph, along with more than 1,000 other patented inventions over a 60-year career. Whether it is the artists who develop the story, the engineers who render the images, or those who mind the business, all are aware that they cannot succeed alone. But he didn’t work alone.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2013

Nine percent of working moms clock more than 50 hours a week during the key years of career advancement: ages 25 to 44. Marianne Cooper''s study of engineers in Silicon Valley closely observes how working long hours turns pencil pushing or computer keyboarding into a manly test of physical endurance. The truth is 9 percent.

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The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

Nugent, and Hoda Selim, explores the topic through the particular lens of the six Arab nations that make up the Gulf Cooperation Council. Train Workers In STEM Fields , with a number of policy options to improve the number of people studying a science, technology, engineering or maths discipline.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2012

Already emerging, a healthy fourth sector ecosystem will require a radical rethink of everything from education and management theory to public policy to legal structures to reporting standards, and the cooperation of leaders, entrepreneurs, and individual citizen-consumers alike. The Mondragon Cooperative Experience: Humanity at Work.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2017

At the elementary level, that means that we need to emphasize exercises that encourage problem solving and teach children how to work cooperatively in teams. Engineering intelligence into systems, and finding insights in a ubiquitous sea of data, is a task that cries out for a diverse workforce.

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