The Horizons Tracker

AUGUST 18, 2021

The traditional narrative of technological disruption to the labor market is driven by the Luddite rebellion of the 19th century, with workers violently reacting to new technologies that threaten to destroy their livelihoods. This was a more reliable source of energy that allowed the pace of production to rise.

Technology 133

Technology Transportation Industry Energy 133

Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 24, 2018

To be ranked in that rarefied air means one has invested and IS investing time, energy, and passion into that avenue. Speaker, author, and business expert Tamara McCleary is ranked as the number one woman in Marketing Technology. She invests the time, energy, and passion because she legitimately cares about others.

Blanchard 211

Blanchard Metrics Cooper Consultative 211

The Practical Leader

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Off Balance: High IQ Leaders Often Have Lower EQ Many of our audience and workshop participants are STEMM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics, and Medicine) specialists who have been promoted to management positions because of their technical expertise. But, too often, STEMM leadership is an oxymoron.

Emotional Intelligence 97

Emotional Intelligence Self-aware Cooper Workshop 97

Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 13, 2023

As I said, I know because I’ve heard this feedback before in my career and relationships. People want to explore and build on ideas and not have their creativity and energy crushed before their idea can breathe. One time we worked with a very literal-minded engineer who had a reputation as a caustic teammate.

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How To Analysis Proposal Influence 428

Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2014

Offices should be designed to maximize energy and interactions , not for isolation and status. One of our early engineers, Matt Cutts, recall how he would often see Urs Hölzle, the engineering executive who led the creation of Google’s data center infrastructure, pick up small bits of trash in the hallway as he walked through the office.

Leadership 285

Leadership Engineering Learning-by-Doing Creativity 285

Miles Anthony Smith

JUNE 5, 2018

45 Career Advice Experts Share Their Blueprint for Career Success (Plus Leaderboard)​ Does your career seem to be a struggle at times? It’s why I wrote my book Why Career Advice Sucks™ … to share the stories of my own career success and failures and help you grow your career more quickly.

Career 74

Career Advice Succession Learning-by-Doing 74

Chartered Management Institute

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

The session was entitled “Technology and Business Collaboration: Leadership and Management” and was moderated by Dr Alan Miller CMgr FCMI (former CMI Hong Kong Regional Board Member). The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Hong Kong Section was also a co-sponsor of the event.

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Webinar Education Conference Industry 98

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.

Leadership 59

Leadership Emotional Intelligence Goleman Crisis 59

Lead Change Blog

MARCH 20, 2015

Fifteen years ago, I reinvented myself and started a new career in faith-based social services. They will develop engineering and math skills while learning a simple, clean energy technology to generate electricity. ” Kids use a volt meter to explore the bicycle’s ability to generate energy.

Project 150

Project Energy Participative Servant Leader 150

Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

JULY 1, 2013

The atmosphere crackles with an optimistic, can-do energy. He said that in the years following Kennedy’s articulation of that goal, NASA engineers would periodically hit a major roadblock and declare the goal impossible. So the engineers would go back to their benches with a renewed determination to do the impossible.

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Armstrong Engineering Transportation Technology 182

Skip Prichard

JULY 22, 2019

Whether you have invented an amazing new technology or product, you could still fail. But without the backing of the great entrepreneur and gifted engineer George Westinghouse, Tesla’s revolutionary inventions would probably have come to nothing.” [3]. Innovation Capital. A great idea may not be enough to build a great business.

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Innovation Social Capital Reputation How To 83

Chartered Management Institute

APRIL 19, 2023

CMI Malaysia at IET Gala On 18 February, representatives from CMI Malaysia attended the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) Malaysia prestige lecture and award dinner. “Enjoy, learn, unlearn and reframe and, as always, if you need even more details, reach out and enquire.” Listen to their discussion here !

Project 52

Project Webinar Learning-by-Doing Blog 52

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

Imagine the world in 2030, more resource-constrained than ever—but then suddenly benefitting from a breakthrough approach to harnessing wind energy. At the very least, the proportion of STEM professionals who are female—currently, in engineering, a paltry 11 percent—would grow. Will it happen? But we can't stop there.

Engineering 13

Engineering Learning-by-Doing Career Class 13

Strategy Driven

MAY 11, 2016

Women are historically underrepresented in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics. computer software engineer and computer programmer positions. Done effectively, they transform careers, and help employees and entrepreneurs contribute more to their organizations and the economy.

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Mentor GDP Education Engineering 50

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

Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2018

At the law firm Allen & Overy, the idea of replacing traditional, annual performance appraisals with a technology-enabled continuous feedback system did not come from human resources. Working with new technologies in new and nimbler ways creates the need for additional innovation in talent practices. Walker and Walker/Getty Images.

Technology 9

Technology Talent Management Process Management 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2018

The worker must also possess robotics and controls engineering skills, according to our analysis of Tesla’s recent recruiting efforts. Just as the internet revolution ushered in completely novel jobs — for example, web designer and search-engine optimization engineer — so will the new era of AI.

Power 9

Power Engineering Analysis Training 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2018

Chances are, you’ll find some secret passion, pursued outside of office hours, into which they pour their creative energies. They just aren’t applying those energies to their day jobs. Employees need to constantly write six-page memos, even for introducing small product features throughout their careers at the company.

Creativity 13

Creativity Team Film Technology 13

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2018

I’ve spent 16 years in technology sales, with most of that spent in sales leadership at Salesforce and other technology companies. I used to give a speech to new salespeople, earlier in my career, titled the “It’s your fault speech.” So how do they do it? What’s their secret? Are you one of them?

Norton 14

Norton Career Resources Productivity 14

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.

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Press Release Discount Sharpe Advertising 100

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 9, 2011

Gone were the days where careers were routed through banks and mining companies. There is no week in big cities when a technology event is not happening. There is no week in big cities when a technology event is not happening. Google runs its g-Africa program where it tours Silicon Valley engineers through all the big cities.

Banking 14

Banking Technology Transportation Incentives 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2014

And if you fail to get buy-in , the organization might suffer — along with your career.) She wanted to work late a couple of days a week to make time for exercise in the morning, which helped her manage her stress and energy levels. In our study, an engineering manager at an energy company did this especially well.

Engineering 9

Engineering Tactics Influence Middle Management 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2014

Germany does a better job on innovation in areas as diverse as sustainable energy systems, molecular biotech, lasers, and experimental software engineering. in the most radical technologies. by contrast, lets old industries die instead of renewing them with new technologies and innovation. But the fairy tale that the U.S.

Innovation 14

Innovation GDP Telecommunications Industry 14

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 12

Banking Learning-by-Doing Business Model Energy 12

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

It’s not surprising that everyone expends energy by repressing parts of their persona in the workplace in some way. Our research on women in the science, engineering, and technology industries shows that, regardless of gender, acting “like a man” can provide an advantage in becoming a leader in these fields.

Diversity 8

Diversity Career Focus Group Energy 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Despite the East Coast roots of technology entrepreneurship and venture capital (VC), by the 1990s Silicon Valley had gained a major advantage over the Cambridge-Boston area. The same underlying technologies (e.g., Silicon Valley dominates these platform technologies. The likely trend in global technology entrepreneurship?

Biotechnology 8

Biotechnology Drucker Software Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2016

One reason is that the context around us seems to be shifting more rapidly, due in part to major technological shifts. For instance, more of us work with more people, as technology has opened up collaboration to more people, departments, and business units. Technology tools are evolving, and the way we work and learn must also evolve.

Leadership Development 8

Leadership Development Development Leadership Mayo 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

COOs are relatively common in service industries such as financial services, energy, information technology and telecommunications, but in manufacturing sectors — such as automotive, chemical, and pharmaceutical companies — they are relatively rare.

COO 11

COO Sample Telecommunications Automotive 11

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.

P&L 10

P&L Agility Fashion Media 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2014

Early in my career, a lot of commentators were sure Japan was on its way to becoming number one. New technology has turned the U.S., however improbably, into the world’s largest energy producer. An Energy Bonanza . First, America’s energy bonanza has changed the equation. How’d that work out?) Two things ….

Chemicals 8

Chemicals Pharmaceuticals Energy Creativity 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2018

These are jobs in R&D, technology, and other areas vital to a firm’s strategic direction, product development, and process efficiency. This role is common in technology, engineering, and life sciences companies, where domain expertise in narrow and arcane areas can be crucial to market success. Essential Experts.

McKinsey 8

McKinsey Human Resources Reputation Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2014

What Was Once There Resigned: The Fast Fall of a Washington Career The Washington Post Their faces are plastered on TV sets and web pages in brief moments of public outrage; but what happens to the people forced out of their jobs by scandal, particularly if their resignations were more symbolic than indicative of any leadership failure?

Rogers 8

Rogers Conference Health Care Bond 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2011

One stop was at the gleaming modern California-style "tech city" that Egypt's information and communications ministry used to attract American technology companies - which now seems ironic, because tech networks accelerated the fall of the Mubarak regime. The university students asked what could they do to improve life in Egypt?

Engineering 13

Engineering Proposal Banking Construction 13

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2015

It could be that your home life is taking up more of your energy than usual. Burnout — the mental and physical exhaustion you experience when the demands of your work consistently exceed the amount of energy you have available — has been called the epidemic of the modern workplace. Or maybe you’re just bored.

Motivation 8

Motivation How To Long-term Stress 8

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. Mateschitz spent considerable time overseas as a marketing salesman prior to founding Red Bull. as young adult.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Venture Capitalist Retail Incubator 8

N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 30, 2010

Let me be blunt – you won’t earn anyone’s respect, at least not the respect of anyone who matters if your concern for career success overshadows your concern for the well-being of your family. Think About Your Legacy: Create a legacy that transcends your career. What I can tell you is that I’ve always made my family a priority.

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Blog Career Learning-by-Doing Advice 414