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Create Eagles – Not Ducks When it Comes to Policies

Great Leadership By Dan

Chris Edmonds : Most stupid policies don’t start out that way. In organizations, ducks are those employees who are bogged down in the stupid policies, i.e. rules that no longer serve. Ducks quack, “That’s not my job,” and “I’m sorry, that’s our policy,” and “My computer won’t let me remove that charge from your account,” etc.

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Research Explores The Career Pathways Women Take In Software Development

The Horizons Tracker

In the academic year 2021/2022 in Spain, a report from the Ministry of Education revealed that there were very few women studying Computer Engineering. They found that women who start a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Engineering tend to have more previous education than men. Only 14.1% of the students in this program were women.

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Being Too Nice Can Hurt You | Guy Harris: The Recovering Engineer

The Recovering Engineer

Both scenarios can have major negative impacts on your career. He has degrees in Chemical Engineering and he served as a Nuclear Engineering officer in the U.S. He is an engineer by nature, by training, and experience. He has spent many years learning to connect and communicate with other people more effectively.

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How To Embrace And Learn From Failing

Eric Jacobson

Errors (synonymous with mistakes) are unintended deviations from prespecified standards, such as procedures, rules, or policies. Before her academic career, she was Director of Research at Pecos River Learning Centers, where she worked with founder and CEO Larry Wilson to design change programs in large companies.

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The Role Overconfidence Plays In Landing Top Jobs

The Horizons Tracker

By comparing this measure to self-assessments of ability in various domains, they found that individuals who overrate their talents are more likely to hold top positions in their careers by the age of 42, on average, than their peers who do not exhibit such overconfidence, as per our overconfidence scale.

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Managing Insecurity Report – The role of good management

Chartered Management Institute

million people - are in severely insecure jobs, often characterised by low pay, unpredictable hours, poor protections, and limited career progression. Jennifer, 45-year-old educator, from the North West My manager helped me to decide a path for my career and that's why I'm doing engineering college.

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Are These Systems Serving or Subverting Organization Results?

The Practical Leader

Harvard Business School Professor Ted Levitt, a leading research and author in management, marketing, and former editor of Harvard Business Review, said “Early decline and certain death are the fate of companies whose policies are geared totally and obsessively to their own convenience at the total expense of the customer.”

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