Leading Blog
FEBRUARY 26, 2024
Entrepreneurs are actually not risk takers,” says X.com CFO Roelof Botha. A maniacal sense of urgency is our operating principle,” he repeatedly declared. It made his engineers engage in first-principles thinking. They’re risk mitigators. But not Musk. “He The sense of urgency was good for its own sake.
N2Growth Blog
JULY 17, 2014
Another common complaint about Business Review Meetings is that nearly always the time gets hijacked with discussions on day-to-day operating or tactical issues, especially when we have a room full of engineers turned managers; they quickly dive down into trying to fix the problem right then. It might be time for a rethink!
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Great Leadership By Dan
NOVEMBER 26, 2014
Multiple BP documents, e-mail messages, engineering studies and other company records shed light on the extent of problems long before the explosion, including an internal report from a senior drilling engineer that warned of a loss of "well control" and collapse of the well casing and blowout preventer.
Strategy Driven
SEPTEMBER 1, 2020
Leaders of small and medium size businesses (SMBs) often think their size lets them operate under the radar, as less attractive targets to bad guys. How would your CFO or CIO handle this? But, actually, their lack of robust security strategy and resources make them easier to penetrate. An excerpt is below. His new book is Tech Debt 2.0™:
Coaching Tip
SEPTEMBER 30, 2011
Think about the Boeing Engineer evaluating a GE jet engine for a new airplane…a CIO evaluating a new Enterprise Resource Planning System software provider…or a CFO reviewing audit firms. . Domain knowledge — The B2B buyer has the expertise and experience in the offering being considered.
Mills Scofield
NOVEMBER 18, 2011
In meat plants, tens of thousands of operators are “whizzing” meat products everyday in over sixty countries around the world. By the end of 2010, we have a prototype adaptation of our Whizard trimmer for tissue processing operating with the original customer, but we know that the tool is unsatisfactory in many ways.
Terry Starbucker
DECEMBER 2, 2010
For years, I operated with the belief that all I had to do was come up with the most brilliantly creative and strategically sound solution. My peers are engineers and surveyors, and we seem to believe that “right is right&# and if the idea is “right&# that other people should go with it…after all, we know best!
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