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The Recovering Engineer
APRIL 1, 2014
In some cases, company procedures, processes and work practices are mandated from a level far removed from the front-line supervisor, and they are relatively fixed. They say things like, “supervisors don’t have any flexibility in my company” or “you don’t understand my boss, she won’t let me do anything that isn’t strictly by the book.”.
The Recovering Engineer
JULY 22, 2013
One day John, a newly promoted supervisor with Fictional Products, met with his boss, Bill, to discuss a new procedure recently mandated by a change to company policy. John was not happy with the change because he knew that his team would not like it.
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The Recovering Engineer
FEBRUARY 12, 2013
For the venture capitalists, the other person was running the company where they invested money. For the prisoners, the other person was their attorney.
The Recovering Engineer
JULY 27, 2012
For example, your company has low revenues one quarter. However, these tools and techniques are secondary to a fundamental premise of group problem solving behavior: When people don’t agree on the problem definition, they will never agree on the problem solution.
The Recovering Engineer
OCTOBER 5, 2011
For example… I am in the Chicago area because of a relationship that began about seven or eight years ago when the contact I have with today’s client worked with a different company.
The Recovering Engineer
JUNE 3, 2010
Well, there’s a good reason for this behavior, and Dan Heath gives more details about it in this article over at Fast Company. Whatever it was, you told yourself that you wouldn’t do something that you either normally do, wanted to do, or habitually do, and you eventually “gave-in&# to the temptation.
The Recovering Engineer
FEBRUARY 20, 2010
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