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The Danger In Safety

Lead Change Blog

.” Accepting losses and missteps as inevitable opens time for managers to plan restoration and even unexpected improvements. Roger Boisjoly was a booster rocket engineer at NASA contractor Morton Thiokol in Utah in January 1986 prior to the launch of the space shuttle Challenger. Every night I both lost and learned.

Insurance 150
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Inside the Big Tech’s Brutal Layoffs

HR Digest

Everyone’s getting slammed,” says Roger Lee, founder of Layoffs.fyi, told Yahoo Finance “Earlier in the year, layoffs in tech were concentrated within food, transportation, and finance startups — but at this point it’s hitting every sector within tech.”. Google-parent Alphabet may also reduce workforce.

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The Big Picture of Business – The Future Has Moved… and Left No Forwarding Address.

Strategy Driven

” Will Rogers. Futurism: ideas that inspire, manage and benchmark change. The ingredients may include such sophisticated business concepts as change management, crisis management and preparedness, streamlining operations, empowerment of people, marketplace development, organizational evolution and vision.

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The Three Keys to Employee and Company Fulfillment

Strategy Driven

Even if you are fulfilled, the odds are that many of your managers and employees are not, according to new study conducted by Metrus Institute. In hiring talent at any level, especially senior managers and executives, this ‘fit’ is critical. Who wouldn’t like to be more fulfilled? A good test of this is to ask about priorities.

Company 50
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Secular Sermon

Steve Farber

For several months prior to launch Roger Boisjoly’s written memo’s predicted: “The result could be a catastrophe of the highest order, loss of human life,”. The day before the launch, and on the morning of the launch, he pleaded with NASA and his managers to delay… To no avail.

Energy 58
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When a Leader Aims to Please

Harvard Business Review

The question on the tip of everyone's tongue when this type of nightmare takes hold is, "Why doesn't senior management do something?" The less obvious, but equally culpable, individual is often the manager who fumbles the job of taking this employee to task promptly. I'm at a loss when it comes to managing Cynthia," Roger confessed.

Rogers 15
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Secular Sermon

Steve Farber

For several months prior to launch Roger Boisjoly’s written memo’s predicted: “The result could be a catastrophe of the highest order, loss of human life,”. The day before the launch, and on the morning of the launch, he pleaded with NASA and his managers to delay… To no avail.

Energy 40