Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

Back in my formidable days of being a twenty-something manager, Jack, one of the senior leaders of our theme park department, would spend time throughout his days discussing various leadership and operational strategies with us. Building a team, he said, is like putting together an engine or a puzzle.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2016

Engineering and creating sustainable advantage is the focus of the new paradigm for strategy management, detailing how the intersection of intelligence and innovation come together to deliver and sustain superior financial performance and value creation. The priorities are on people and capabilities not things.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 24, 2013

StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC and NTE Solutions partner to provide energy industry executives and managers with asset lifecycle management and regulatory compliance advisory services. Risk management and compliance. Project development and management. Asset management and operational programs improvement.

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QAspire

JANUARY 21, 2010

Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer Lessons in Using Checklists for Managing Processes Most quality management theories and modern management practices rely heavily on checklists as an important tool to get things right the first time. I was thinking about why engineering disciplines focus so heavily on checklists?

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Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 26, 2017

Most of these decisions are made in an HQ setting in alignment with regional general managers tasked with global business expansion. In a major corporation, it is common to see a general manager in charge of Asia Pacific, another for Europe, Africa, Middle East, and another for the Americas. A directive from the board of directors. ·

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HR Digest

JANUARY 10, 2024

When you have reams of unnecessary policies, approvals required for simple things, and an us-versus-them attitude between managers and employees, you need to step back and look at the level of fear vs. trust in your business. You can tell when the good energy that should be flowing in your organization is blocked by fear.

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The Recovering Engineer

SEPTEMBER 1, 2012

While I managed to avoid getting caught without a pen in those first few days in the Navy, I did watch many other officer candidates receive a verbal assault of ridicule and criticism when they were not so fortunate. As a young engineering officer, I frequently received more requests, tasks, and information than I could possibly remember.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

The ongoing federal investigation of three Equifax C-suite managers for insider trading arose due to alleged stock dumping prior to the revelation of the company’s catastrophic cyber-attack. Andrew Douthwaite has over 17 years of technology experience joining VirtualArmour in 2007 as a senior engineer. About the Author.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2018

” That’s the essential design philosophy articulated by then-Netflix engineering director Xavier Amatriain five years ago, where personalizing and customizing choice is the coin of the realm. Thoughtfully managed, recommendations can prove far more valuable to marketers than for the customers they ostensibly serve.

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Purdue is known for its bright engineers, top flight technology students, it is the alma mater of the first and last men to walk on the moon. Yet, the question as I talked with women in the Purdue leadership program is still the age old one of how to balance it all; career, family, community, and time for oneself.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 3, 2011

Here’s a tip: learn about search engine optimization (SEO) techniques and use of keywords. Get started by contributing content to sites that utilize freelance writers. Some will take unsolicited articles, many will give assignments to freelancers.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

Sometimes the difficulty of managing your time makes for a haphazard operation. Provide leadership. Design and re-engineering of products-services. Time management and “just in time” concepts are applied. Legal compliance and precautions plan is annually updated, with measurable goals.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 22, 2011

If you are not yet in a position to manage your website to do this type of preparatory work for you, consider using social networking tools to expand and complement your marketing efforts. Use your Twitter, Facebook, Friendfeed, or Ning community to share your information.

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Great Leadership By Dan

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

How many leaders and managers of large corporations watched Hayward implode on television and thought to themselves, "I never want that to be me"! How are risk assessment, and more specifically -- enterprise risk management ("ERM") implemented in your organization?

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CO2

JUNE 29, 2010

We believe the strength of any team is in the followers and there can be no leaders without followers, but the vast majority of research to date has focused on the leadership side of this equation. It is worth keeping in mind that some jobs have clear leadership requirements; virtually all jobs have followership requirements.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2016

And unlike other challenges they face (such as funding, logistics, or regulatory compliance), the talent gap is the only problem that gets tougher as social enterprises scale. She develops plans for filling senior leadership positions a full year in advance, speaking with candidates on a regular basis to build strong relationships.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

Say the word leader and most people immediately think of those with business cards that says “manager,” “director,” or other such lofty title. They may be petroleum engineers in an oil company, software engineers in a technology organization, industrial designers in a toy company, or pilots in an airline.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

For instance, the general counsel thinks about the issue in terms of compliance with information security regulations such as the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation. The more CEOs speak with system engineers and technical teams, the more comfortable they will be asking questions about the organization’s security.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2017

At some of the world’s most successful enterprises — Google, Netflix, Amazon, Alibaba, Facebook — autonomous algorithms, not talented managers, increasingly get the last word. Elite MBAs (Management by Algorithm) are the new normal. Top management would have to trust its computationally brilliant bidding software.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

I had just finished a talk at a leading technology company when an engineer approached me. “I With a blog — one of the best techniques for demonstrating thought leadership — you can take your time, formulate your thoughts, and engage in real dialogue with others. Branding Managing yourself Networking'

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2013

Managements may want to dramatically improve productivity but they're decidedly mixed about comparably increasing their accountability. Of course, engineering design and test should be held accountable, but more sophisticated data-driven analytics makes the cost-driven, compliance-oriented supply chain employee culpable, as well.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2018

The company last entered China in 2006 with a censored search engine, but pulled the plug on the operation four years later after it discovered that human-rights activists’ Gmail accounts had been hacked. Qualcomm, despite its compliance, has received heavy regulatory fines succeeded by significant merger blocks.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

For example, as a designer/writer, my skills are not well applied to bookkeeping or financial management. Similarly, make sure your OWN site has the best key words for the search engines. Exhaust resources that don’t cost first and at least come up to “Dummy&# level on each initiative that you manage.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2013

An increase in regulatory scrutiny in her industry required her to spend a great deal of time on compliance matters that bored her. She wondered if he would be interested in taking over her compliance work. That's often the case for people who are promoted because they are great engineers or physicians, for example.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 9, 2015

“Increasing demand for clean, affordable electricity combined with an aging infrastructure, retiring workers, growing regulations, rising capital costs, and intensifying budget pressures challenge utility executives and managers now more than ever. He is a licensed as a Professional Engineer by the State of Tennessee.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2013

That requires managers who understand local cultures and have enough clout to be heard so that headquarters adapt products and services. As most executive teams look at their talent pipelines and managers, they know they are not well prepared. They mutter about quality, compliance and competence. It's not impossible.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

In the July/August issue of HBR , Ram Charan argues that the Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO) role should be eliminated, with HR responsibilities funneled in two separate directions — administration , led by traditional HR-types, reporting to the CFO; and talent strategy , led by high-potential line managers, reporting to the corner office.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2013

That sounds easy, but the bigger you get, the harder that is to manage. I''d need a standing army of translators to manage now, and my plan involves adding many more countries. Would you communicate with your compliance department that way? What do you do? Hire interpreters? My company, Rakuten, Inc. Translation software?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2011

We have been deploying technology, re-engineering, training, and adopting modern IT-enabled management platforms to help our workers improve their productivity, hence their income. The board should step out of its traditional focus on governance and compliance and be more involved in setting the corporate value system.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2015

Despite spending billions of dollars every year on the latest security products and hiring the best security engineers and analysts, companies are more vulnerable than they’ve ever been. Their IT and security teams are peripheral concerns, costs to be managed rather than centers of excellence that support the core business.

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QAspire

FEBRUARY 7, 2010

My post “ On Leadership, Opening Up and Being Prepared &# is featured in February Leadership Development Carnival , along with a number of fantastic posts from Leadership community and friends. The brain, as Bill Calvin said to me is “nature’s connection making engine.&# Check it out. Don’t Kill It!

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

In hindsight, this thinking turned out to be far less important than what we learned about leadership, control, and trust, which ultimately were reflected in how each of the businesses was created, capitalized, and staffed. search engine company Inktomi in 2002. The company was owned by management, venture capitalists, and SoftBank.

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Deming Institute

OCTOBER 23, 2017

The bigger be the coverage, the bigger be the possible benefits, plus the more difficult to manage. Even if I had one, in all likelihood it would be a video of a simulated assembly operation of a rocket engine. What if those who ordered the raw materials protested with malicious compliance? Edwards Deming, The New Economics.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2017

Susan Fowler, a former site reliability engineer at Uber, recently wrote about her “very, very strange year at Uber,” characterized by a pervasive culture of alleged sexual harassment. That is like setting up a finance organization to do exotic risk hedging before putting in place basic reporting and compliance.

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Lead Change Blog

MAY 18, 2015

I called the store manager. Management is about the administration of stuff. Managers plan, organize, staff, and control. Managers ensure rules and policies are followed. They oversee compliance with form, focusing on budgets and/or bottom line. Leadership is about the influence of people.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2017

And yet organizational leadership all too often demonstrates outright technology torpitude. An unprepared, lethargic leadership only amplifies the consequences of a security breach. As cyber threats grow exponentially, comprehensive risk management is now a board-level priority.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 24, 2017

.’” Potential problems aren’t limited to “misunderstandings and hard feelings,” according to Christine Riordan, the president of Adelphi University and a leadership coach. If upper management isn’t on board, it’s going to fall apart. Today Ash provides leadership development for engineers.

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