Tony Mayo

OCTOBER 13, 2010

The engineers around the punchcard reader had not been engaged in idle banter. File Backup and Sharing by SugarSync Free Conference Calls Google Alerts LinkedIn Mail2Web Exchange Server Online Appointment Scheduling by Tungle.Me The new equipment was ordered and installed. Productivity plummeted.

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Mayo Executive Coaching Efficiency Handbook 146

Tanveer Naseer

MAY 5, 2015

Of course, what makes this NASA employee’s response so noteworthy is the fact that he wasn’t one of the engineers or scientists involved in designing the rockets or overseeing the lunar missions. Not to mention the faster pace by which we now have to operate amid a sea of rising distractions vying for our attention.

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Environment Long-term Short-term Succession 100

Deming Institute

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

As a quality engineer, I am always looking for quality focused businesses. Applying SMED, the theoretical sessions would act as the external activities that operators have to perform before a changeover, and actually implementing them in a running business would be the internal ones. Leadership. 14 Deming principles.

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Deming SWOT Root Cause Analysis TRIZ 28

Strategy Driven

MARCH 21, 2011

Suddenly it hit Bob: he hadn’t checked to make sure engineering had included the new wiring diagram in the customer’s shipment that was due to go out first thing in the morning. Getting a 50,000-foot picture of our operations illustrates outdated, cumbersome, inefficient processes. Without the diagram the equipment would be useless.

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Hammer Chief Executive Officer Metrics Process 50

Strategy Driven

APRIL 17, 2013

” Marketing can sometimes slip through the cracks given the constant and pressing demands of sales, client service, and internal operations. An increasingly important element of marketing is search engine optimization (SEO) and search engine marketing (SEM).

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Marketing Press Release Consultative Brand 50

N2Growth Blog

JUNE 17, 2010

In further pondering this dichotomy an interesting thought came to mind – If I could genetically engineer the perfect leadership gene what qualities and characteristics would constitute the architecture of leadership DNA? Leadership DNA aside, I recently crafted my definition of leadership.

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Definition Blog Leadership Covey 370

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Initially, we got the impression that gurus might have little in common other than a desire to get the HBR stamp of legitimacy conferred upon their latest notion. I list these below as a guide for anyone — from bloggers, to academics, to strategy consultants — looking to produce world-class thought leadership.

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Prahalad Hamel Core Competence Leadership 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2018

In prior research , we at the Center for Talent Innovation (CTI) found that women leave STEM fields in droves: 52% of highly qualified women working for science, technology, or engineering companies leave their jobs. For example, Dr. Velma Deleveaux, a director at Booz Allen Hamilton, leads a Science and Engineering business.

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Succession Reputation Focus Group Leadership Styles 11

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2015

Engineers at the company came down squarely on the side of analog. What those engineers couldn’t see was that, for most listeners, digital technology’s advantages far outweighed the often undetectable losses from digitization. The company lost its leadership of the very industry that it had invented back in 1973.

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Organization Engineering Technology Learning Curve 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 30, 2014

Had Microsoft owned Google’s search engine at the time, it would have been an tiny piece of the revenue pie. Based on an annual survey conducted by the Conference Board, the average CEO departs her role with fewer than 9 years under her belt. In the year before Google IPO’d, it did about $962 million in revenue.

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Long-term Innovation Company IPO 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2014

They are professional Predict, Plan & Execute (“PP&E”) machines, and as they have evolved over time, are carefully engineered to stamp out anything that induces uncertainty. There has been explosion in the past 10 years of conferences and popular and academic books, articles and blogs on the topic. That’s because you are!

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Entrepreneur Innovation Operations Consultative 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2018

After the murder of dissident Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi , many companies had to urgently decide whether to attend Saudi Arabia’s Future Investment Initiative, a global business conference scheduled to take place just days after news of Khashoggi’s killing broke. The compass that was guiding the bank was a financial one.

Politics 9

Politics Short-term Long-term Banking 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2014

What Was Once There Resigned: The Fast Fall of a Washington Career The Washington Post Their faces are plastered on TV sets and web pages in brief moments of public outrage; but what happens to the people forced out of their jobs by scandal, particularly if their resignations were more symbolic than indicative of any leadership failure?

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Rogers Conference Health Care Bond 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2012

3M's sustainability leadership has come mainly from its eco-efficiency success, but these practices are increasingly the norm in business. I saw this technology paired seamlessly with some regular fluorescent lighting and working well in an interior conference room. Note: I'd do both!). It's also a sizable business for 3M.

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Innovation Early Adopters Energy Efficiency 12

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2014

Too many tenured professors have never worked outside academia; they are familiar with neither the day-to-day operations of companies nor the intricate processes of how decisions are made. The economics of operating large campuses, and big faculties and admin staff are inflating the costs of business education beyond reason.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2015

Over the last 250 years, waves upon waves of scientific and engineering advances have brought about an accelerating rise in living standards that even the two deadliest wars in history could not reverse. As Drucker put it: “Managers are society’s major leadership group … They command the resources of society.”

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2013

The leadership teams of most companies are still dominated by male home country nationals, in a 20th century legacy model of sending expats around the globe to run local operations. But it does take leadership and strong communication — among all parties. How do you grow talent in China, India and Brazil?

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Diversity Globalization Short-term Conference 8

Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

But many businesswomen are so overwhelmed with running day-to-day operations, there is little or no time to do a good job at casting the net of promotional effort out—whether through community activities, donations, networking events, promotional campaigns, public relations initiatives, or advertising—it is NEVER enough!

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Press Release Discount Sharpe Advertising 100

Harvard Business Review

MAY 26, 2015

Twenty five years after the term “emotional intelligence” was first introduced by academics , thousands of independent scientific studies have highlighted the importance of managing your own and others’ emotions in relation to career success , job performance , entrepreneurship , and leadership.

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Emotional Intelligence Self-aware How To Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2016

And yet without Box 2, organizations don’t truly transform; they persist in limiting ways of operating. ” In his characteristic style, Welch blasted the Elfun Society at their leadership conference. So, how do you build Box 2 muscle? How do you build a company that’s able to routinely toss what no longer works?

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Company Welch Bureaucracy Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2013

operates in 13 countries, spanning a dozen languages. At Rakuten we faced this challenge and have embraced a solution that not only improved our communication as a company, but it propelled us into the ranks of global expansion leadership. Also, today, 30% of new hires are non-Japanese, and 50% of new engineers are non-Japanese.

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Globalization Company Software Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2013

Our research, conducted in partnership with Harvard Business Review, The Economist, CEB (formerly the Corporate Executive Board), Intel, and TNS Global, finds that corporate leadership has lost confidence in the CIO as a strategic partner and views IT as a commodity rather than a difference-maker.

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CIO Crisis Competitive Advantage Webinar 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

Exposing people to a conference, a few speeches, or a bit of training isn’t enough to fuel scaling. The trick, and it is a difficult one, is to add just enough complexity so that people can do their work, but not so much that “they feel as if they are walking in muck” as Twitter’s SVP of engineering Chris Fry puts it.

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Case Study Pharmaceuticals Airlines Hotels 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

Ana Lobato, a Brazilian engineer, had been working at her headquarters assignment in Brussels for more than a year and was doing a great job, but her husband, Oswald, was increasingly unhappy. The point of the meeting quickly became clear as Maria searched for a conference room where she and Anton could talk. she asked. "We

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Case Study Chemicals ROI Engineering 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2018

The numbers of women and people of color in leadership roles are still staggeringly low across industries. Some are actual housework — getting the coffee for the morning stand-up, or cleaning up after a lunch meeting — and some are the unsung operational or administrative work that keeps the company rolling along.

Management 12

Management Committee Diversity Survey 12

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

The two approaches share a set of key principles and practices, with the main differences arising from jargon: Sociocracy, developed in the 1970s, was based on principles of cybernetics ; holacracy represents a repackaging of the principles in the vocabulary of software engineering.

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Proposal Self-aware Engineering CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

Over the past two decades, we’ve led dozens of innovation projects and have talked to thousands of managers about the challenge of building a high-performance innovation “engine.” The engine may be otherwise well built, but without just one of these components, it will be essentially worthless.

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Innovation Company Engineering Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2011

I captured some of these difference effects in a cartoon called A Tale of "O," about what happens when there are very few O's in a group of mostly X's, operating with X's as the mainstream standard; O's get stared at for the wrong reasons and find their effectiveness undermined.

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Fashion Conference Engineering Diversity 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2018

These ventures are unified in their vision — really more of an obsessive quest — for a more sustainable and resilient future for humanity, executed through a mixture of brilliant engineering and out-of-the-box thinking. Hyde” side is a relatively straightforward problem.

Succession 10

Succession Armstrong Self-aware Wilde 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2017

Like marketers, politicians obsess over messaging (what journalists would call “content”) and a few key metrics that historically have determined success: amount of television advertising, number of “foot soldiers,” intensity of get-out-the-vote operations, and voter demographics. An advertising-based model.

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