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. The leading career-focused social network, LinkedIn, predicts your job skills. My mailbox wonders why companies still don't know me well enough to send less junk mail.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Women engineers have a visibility problem. In 2014 we interviewed 50 women engineers in three leading FTSE 100 organizations in the UK. All three organizations said they were committed to diversity and were attempting to hire, retain, and promote more women engineers. Peter Cade/Getty Images.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 3, 2008

Most of us have heard of the concept of "leader's teaching leaders" - Noel Tichy commercialized the concept in his 2002 book, The Leadership Engine. Being asked to be a "guest trainer" should be seen as a positive career signal , and being left off the "guest list" should be a reason for concern.

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Coaching Tip

JANUARY 14, 2011

That was a question I recently heard from an executive running a major engineering organization. . He has a familiar combination of challenges including 40% of his employees and 70% of his leaders ready to retire , competitors trying to poach his strongest mid-career talent plus problems attracting (and retaining!)

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 14, 2021

Cyril Bouquet: Very early on in my academic career, I was part of a research team that was looking into the possible genetic drivers of innovation. As a junior researcher, I had the unenviable task of collecting saliva samples from dozens of participants. This can trip us up throughout the innovation process.

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HR Digest

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Examples : Since our conversation on [Topic], I have given much thought to the intricacies of [Topic] and how it relates to my plans for my career. Add Attachments If your follow-up email mentioned any additional documents such as a sample of your writing or a recommendation letter from a previous employer, remember to attach it to the email.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2016

What are the implications for their earnings, job satisfaction, and long-term career prospects? My coauthor and I set out to find some answers, particularly for science and engineering. scientists and engineers with undergraduate, master’s, or doctoral degrees in science and engineering.

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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. more likely to enter finance.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2014

Evaluative information like work samples, personal representations, peer and manager reviews, shared content, and scores and badges are creating new signals of aptitude and different types of credentials. User profiles contain work samples and provide community generated indicators of status and skill.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

There was quite a range, though: the youngest in our sample was 32 years old when he became COO, while the oldest three took office at the age of 58. The COOs in our sample had worked in the same company for 12 years, on average, before their appointment.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2018

In a recent Glassdoor study , I analyzed a large sample of more than 668,000 online job applications during a typical week to identify why certain job seekers are more willing to relocate and what motivates them to move. The right recruiting strategies are crucial. Who are the job seekers more willing to move?

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2015

” PE firms typically take three types of value increasing actions — financial engineering, governance engineering, and operational engineering. In financial engineering, PE investors provide strong equity incentives to the management teams of their portfolio companies. What PE firms do after they invest.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

Similarly, make sure your OWN site has the best key words for the search engines. Many career-enhancing activities can develop from carefully chosen volunteer-based projects. Good useful original gifts are best if they can contain a mini-version of your product or service for sampling. Google your name periodically.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

However Frank Parsons — an engineer, lawyer, and early champion of what was then called "vocational guidance" — argued in 1908 that there are three steps to selecting a career path: A clear understanding of our "aptitudes, abilities, interests, resources, limitations, and other qualities.". We need to build better maps.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2014

And if you fail to get buy-in , the organization might suffer — along with your career.) In our study, an engineering manager at an energy company did this especially well. That was an effective tactic for others in our research sample, too. But his boss had selected the existing system just a year before.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2015

Science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) education is now at the center of entrepreneurship policy, and cultivating technical talent has become an important goal of the White House’s Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP). HBO’s Silicon Valley is emblematic of this stereotype: its protagonists are nerds.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2015

Talk to people in such professional service industries as private banking, auditing, consulting, even engineering, and you begin to hear concerns about the commoditization of professional knowledge. It affects career potential, skills development and the entire value-chain of organizations that serve the expertise business.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

The prospect of an international assignment can be equal parts thrilling and alarming: Will it make or break your career? It’s your engine, your juice. It could be an adventure and an opportunity for the entire family — not a sacrifice everyone else is making for your career. Take our survey and let us know.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2017

Researchers have devoted entire careers to systematically cataloging the many ways in which those who have power differ from those who lack power with respect to their motivations, behaviors, biases, etc. (a a sampling of these findings can be found here , here , here , and here ).

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2013

For many, a corporate directorship is a career capstone. boards made up 37% of the sample while 62% of boards represented were from outside of the U.S.) aerospace & defense, construction & engineering, industrial conglomerates, professional services, textiles); IT & Telecommunications (e.g., But attaining one is far from easy.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Meanwhile, data scientists and engineers have a keen eye for identifying feasible data-powered solutions and a strong intuition on what can be scaled and how. This can range from providing the organization with easy access to raw data and model output samples in the early ideation stages, to building full prototypes in the later stages.

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

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

A lot of research has already been done on the significant contribution of immigrant scientists and engineers to the U.S. universities before they launched their careers. jennifer maravillas for hbr. innovation system. Less research, however, has been done on the presence of migrant and immigrant leadership in corporate America.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2016

When we analyzed a sample of performance evaluations of men and women across three high-tech companies and a professional services firm, we found that women consistently received less feedback tied to business outcomes. The good news is that investing in better feedback can have dramatic results.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2015

For example, the skills and knowledge required to be a good neurosurgeon are quite different from those needed to be a good lawyer, banker, or software engineer.) These three dimensions of employability and career success have strong links with broad psychological traits. The what question is in part context-dependent.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

After 12 years, 50% of technical women, predominately in engineering and computer science, had switched to other fields; 20% of other women professionals had done the same. The highest-profile losses in tech are those at the senior level. ” What can companies do to stop the departure of senior women?

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Sales Wolf Blog

JUNE 25, 2010

The Resource:    LinkUp Monthly Jobs Report What It Is:   LinkUp is a job search engine that finds and displays employment openings directly from the career section of employer websites for companies of all sizes.  Enjoy!  Enjoy!

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

Besides, hiding is bad for your business and your career, says Joe Knight, a partner and senior consultant at the Business Literacy Institute, and the coauthor of Financial Intelligence. And, h ow well do the sample data represent the population? Davenport, a professor at Babson College and the author of Big Data at Work.

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Terry Starbucker

APRIL 18, 2010

As I recited that back to my boss he looked at me sternly and said, “ now young man, you’ll remember that, won’t you ?&# I had just received one of the best lessons I’d ever get as a leader, and better still, I got it early in my career. So that meant I would never make a hiring mistake, right? Make sense?

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Great Leadership By Dan

MARCH 7, 2016

The research shows that men are 16 percent more inquisitive than women, possibly due to their tendency to gravitate towards STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) careers that reinforce inquiry. Fact 3: Considerable personality gaps exist between the sexes in inquisitiveness, sensitivity and impulsiveness.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2018

This kind of assignment has to get done by someone , but it isn’t going to make that person’s career. Our own research focused on engineering and law. In a national study , our Center for WorkLife Law and the Society of Women Engineers gave an early version of the survey to over 3,000 engineers.

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Management Committee Diversity Survey 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

However, CEOs often don’t have the career background and education that would equip them to personally lead the process of new product development. A specialist background to lead innovation is worth a 4% better shareholder return every year for 20 years, compared to other pharma CEOs in our sample.

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CEO Innovation Pharmaceuticals Merchandising 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2017

Former Google engineer James Damore was hardly the first person to argue that biological differences between men and women determine career outcomes. Many people — even smart, science-minded ones — have asserted that biological differences can explain the gender gap in math, engineering, and science.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2016

Engineering is the most male-dominated field in STEM. with women making up only 13% of the engineering workforce. For decades, to attract more women to the field, engineering educators have focused on curriculum reform (e.g., So why do women who study engineering leave to pursue careers in other fields?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2016

In 2014, women constituted only 14% of GoDaddy’s engineering interns and new graduate hires. The top three factors associated with a good reputation as an employer are stability, opportunities for career growth, and the ability to work with a top-notch team. Figure out your employee value proposition. Consider SAP.

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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. If we limit the sample to mothers with at least a college degree, the number rises only slightly, to 13.9 I''ve been asking lots of people that question lately. Most guess around 50 percent. The truth is 9 percent.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 13, 2011

NOTE: Samples for quality content include: top ten lists, how-to manuals, research findings, survey results, original articles, resource links, interviews, and events. Your page ranking in search engines is determined by the relevancy of the content on your website. 2) Always add a contact form. 4) Establish excellent incoming links.

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