Chart Your Course

AUGUST 14, 2012

George is an industrial engineer. Others leave for better and more interesting career opportunities. Build a high-energy workplace that accelerates performance, generates more profits, increases sales and provides outstanding customer service. Employee Turnover on the Increase. Employee turnover is starting to increase.

Newsletter 162

Newsletter Library Video Class 162

Michael Lee Stallard

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

Guy Harris presents Three Power Phrases to Disarm a Verbal Aggressor posted at Guy Harris: The Recovering Engineer , saying, “How do you respond to coworkers or colleagues when they are verbally aggressive? It’s much more effective to direct our creative energy by Brainsteering. Here are three phrases that might help.”

Blog 218

Blog Leadership Deming Storytelling 218

Great Leadership By Dan

NOVEMBER 6, 2011

Guy Harris presents Three Power Phrases to Disarm a Verbal Aggressor posted at Guy Harris: The Recovering Engineer , saying, "How do you respond to coworkers or colleagues when they are verbally aggressive? It’s much more effective to direct our creative energy by Brainsteering. Here are three phrases that might help.".

Leadership Development 248

Leadership Development Development Leadership Deming 248

The Center For Leadership Studies

JANUARY 12, 2021

More transparency—I can vividly remember being so much younger and daydreaming every now and then about what I would be like when I was somewhere in my 60s and in the twilight of a long and eventful career: First — I would absolutely be the sort of person that people would not hesitate for a second to approach and ask for advice.

Management 81

Management Situational Leadership Objective Short-term 81

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2015

Perhaps you just wrapped up a big project and are having trouble mustering motivation for the next one. It could be that your home life is taking up more of your energy than usual. ” To perform at your best over the long term, you need regular “opportunities for restocking your mental energy,” says Friedman.

Motivation 8

Motivation How To Long-term Stress 8

Leading Blog

APRIL 16, 2021

Others might find that the successful resolution of these conflicts opens them up to new ways of relating to their families and careers. Is your spouse willing to make significant career or personal sacrifices that might be required to support you and the business? What are your motivations for wanting to own your business?

Learning-by-Doing 256

Learning-by-Doing Long-term Automotive Open-book 256

Persuasive Powerhouse

OCTOBER 24, 2010

Entrepreneurs who are highly motivated to be successful often put themselves last when it comes to down time, relaxation, exercise and living a healthy lifestyle. When this happens they aren’t motivated to update their headshots, create video marketing or present themselves as speakers. Energy levels are also affected.

Learning-by-Doing 185

Learning-by-Doing Blog Class Open-book 185

Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

We need to decide how to best divide energies—whom to feed first. Do what has to be done and don’t waste energy on fear that undermines performance— unless the doubt is a nagging hunch of a wrong direction! Similarly, make sure your OWN site has the best key words for the search engines.

Press Release 100

Press Release Discount Sharpe Advertising 100

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 26, 2011

The y-axis focuses on how a professional is measured on meeting the organizational performance criteria that fuel the business engine. The x-axis centers on how the professional fares on meeting the expectations of the human engine. Achievement is a complicated blend of intelligence, motivation, and personality.

Engineering 16

Engineering Career Motivation Follow-up 16

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2017

One of the great satisfactions of being a leader is that you get to be a teacher, sharing the wisdom you’ve acquired over the course of a career with young colleagues hungry for time-tested advice. He empowered a group of executives and engineers, called Team Tomorrow, to turbocharge learning throughout the company.

Banking 14

Banking Learning-by-Doing Business Model Energy 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

Plug-and-play e-commerce technology, search engine optimization, and other distribution solutions are making it ever easier for products to directly reach consumers. ” In a competitive energy market, the Connected Home unit has now become a major differentiator and profit driver for the parent company, Centrica.

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P&L Agility Fashion Media 13

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 1, 2014

The program pairs start-ups with government workers to improve government services in areas including transportation, energy, data services, and the environment. As one put it: “I was curious about finding a professional path that would tap into my energy, excitement, and motivation to make a difference and get things done.”.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Politics Policies Budgeting 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

But according to a recent Gallup poll, 70% of the workforce is either “actively disengaged” or “not engaged,” meaning there are millions of professionals who have discretionary effort — effort they could give if they felt motivated and inspired. Gallup estimates that this disengagement costs the U.S.

Leadership 8

Leadership Loyalty Greenleaf Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 30, 2011

Steve Jobs surrounded himself with remarkably talented designers, retailers, and engineers because he understood that the most talented performers aren't motivated primarily by money or status. You don't have to aspire to be the next Steve Jobs to learn some lessons from his one-of-a-kind career.

Industry 15

Industry Retail Learning-by-Doing Project 15

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. Apart from their success as entrepreneurs, they all share one distinct characteristic: extensive cross-cultural experience.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Venture Capitalist Retail Incubator 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2011

An engineer, designer, serial entrepreneur, investor, and researcher, he has developed 1,000+ products/services and has collaborated with Clay Christensen at HBS for more than 15 years. Drive = How motivated is the mentee? While it's written from my perspective, he was central to the development of the idea.

Mentor 15

Mentor Christensen Incubator Learning-by-Doing 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2013

This is called Functional Fixedness and while you probably won''t need to build a fort during your professional career, chances are you do suffer from it and it is impacting your work. Technologists, engineers, and designers not only have their own expertise, they have their own way of applying their expertise. How can I be so sure?

Innovation 8

Innovation Open-book Objective Industry 8

You're Not the Boss of Me

JUNE 15, 2009

Our brains are difference engines, trained to find and deal with patterns and their disruption. Never thought about it this way but I think I spend a lot of my time and energy with clients supporting the peacocks in taking a stand for themselves. It can be difficult to accept differences, but highly valuable in the long run.

Gordon 46

Gordon Open-book Library Diversity 46

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2012

It is often costly to career momentum and earnings as much as it is a boon," says Amy Wrzesniewski, an associate professor of organizational behavior at the Yale School of Management and coauthor of " Turn the Job You Have into the Job You Want." Focus on forging relationships that give you energy, rather than sapping it.

Contract Manufacturing 16

Contract Manufacturing Case Study Delegation Learning-by-Doing 16

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2013

The premise is that all energy should be focused solely on turning fabulous ideas into hyper growth. And in the earliest stages of a company, the need to organize, motivate and inspire large groups of people to accomplish shared goals may not be obvious. The team’s results are now on the upswing. Rule 7: Build for scale.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Team Constraint 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2016

You’re thinking about making a career change (or perhaps getting your first real job out of grad school), and you’re looking at different types of organizations. ” Reflect on your motivations. “You might move from product to engineering to ops.” “It comes down to your personal preferences.”

Due Diligence 10

Due Diligence How To Learning-by-Doing Case Study 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2012

So when staying that extra hour at work at the end of an exhausting day is thought of as "helping my career" rather than "answering emails for 60 more minutes," you'll be much more likely to want to stay put and work hard. You need to focus your decision-making energy. And then that replenished energy flows into whatever you do next.

Stress 8

Stress Succession Self-aware Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

Although these tenets are similarly used within military units to enforce chain of command, sales leaders prefer to use motivation and the force of their personal character before employing the power associated to their title. The sales organization tends to blame the other areas of the organization (engineering, marketing, support, etc.)

Organization 8

Organization Belief Systems Micromanagement Guidelines 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2018

Having cofounded and sold PayPal, he quickly moved on to launching a range of ventures with world-changing aspirations for how we generate energy , transport ourselves and our goods, interface with machines, and explore our solar system. Hyde” side is a relatively straightforward problem. Instead, we should remember the C.S. ”

Succession 14

Succession Armstrong Self-aware Wilde 14

Coaching Tip

JANUARY 3, 2014

Buying a car, choosing a mate, selecting a new home, following a career path, perceiving how the world works is all decided emotionally. Values often influence people''s choices about where to invest their energies. When people make decisions, their decisions are not just about rational data weighing of the pros and cons.

Leadership 132

Leadership Mission Statement Learning-by-Doing Energy 132