Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2018

Believe it or not, bureaucracy was once a progressive innovation. But agile innovation teams work better than current approaches, and agile principles hold that making immediate progress beats waiting for perfect solutions before starting out. I wasn’t a software engineer, and I was tempted to leave agile methods to the geeks.

Bureaucracy 11

Bureaucracy Agility Energy Constraint 11

Michael Lee Stallard

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

Guy Harris presents Three Power Phrases to Disarm a Verbal Aggressor posted at Guy Harris: The Recovering Engineer , saying, “How do you respond to coworkers or colleagues when they are verbally aggressive? It’s much more effective to direct our creative energy by Brainsteering. Here are three phrases that might help.”

Blog 218

Blog Leadership Deming Storytelling 218

Great Leadership By Dan

NOVEMBER 6, 2011

Guy Harris presents Three Power Phrases to Disarm a Verbal Aggressor posted at Guy Harris: The Recovering Engineer , saying, "How do you respond to coworkers or colleagues when they are verbally aggressive? It’s much more effective to direct our creative energy by Brainsteering. Here are three phrases that might help.".

Leadership Development 248

Leadership Development Development Leadership Deming 248

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2011

We all know innovation has its own language conventions, rich with revolutions , evolutions , ecosystems , and more. Innovators, after all, are trying to communicate the promise of something that may not exist yet, and sometimes that requires some optimistic adornment. We wanted to learn more.

Innovation 15

Innovation Construction Engineering Self-aware 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2013

Clients often hire Open Innovation companies like ours when their research and development teams can''t get past — or maybe over is a better word — the way they have always looked, and where they have always looked for solutions. It went on to solve its problem in a truly innovative way. I believe it is possible.

Innovation 8

Innovation Open-book Objective Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 15, 2016

Being a successful corporate hacker thus requires an enormous amount of energy and persuasiveness. Through sheer force of will (her passion was contagious and her research was solid) she enlisted 20 technical experts at the company, including a number of engineers who worked on their own time to help her advance the idea. The prize?

Bureaucracy 8

Bureaucracy Innovation Brand Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2015

Type 1 diabetes renders the pancreas incapable of producing the insulin necessary to shift glucose out of the bloodstream and into cells where it can be converted into energy. When his son, Hayden, was diagnosed with the disease, in 2009, Lane was a product manager at GE Energy. Look for passion.

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Business Model System 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2012

At present, the startup ecosystem's inability to differentiate mom and pop tech entrepreneurs from high growth entrepreneurs ready to build the next billion-dollar company wastes a lot of people's time and energy. In the past, the magic formula was two engineers or an engineer and a businessman. The formula worked. What gives?

Venture Capitalist 17

Venture Capitalist Software Entrepreneur Engineering 17

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2012

At present, the startup ecosystem's inability to differentiate mom and pop tech entrepreneurs from high growth entrepreneurs ready to build the next billion-dollar company wastes a lot of people's time and energy. In the past, the magic formula was two engineers or an engineer and a businessman. The formula worked. What gives?

Venture Capitalist 17

Venture Capitalist Software Entrepreneur Engineering 17

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2013

If one head was cut off, two rapidly grew in its place before another head could be cut off — an energy-sapping disappointment for any opponent trying to overcome it. To sustain a competitive edge, your company''s new business development engines must similarly fire on all cylinders at supersonic speed.

Organization 9

Organization Engineering Agility Delegation 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2017

He’s unleashed huge innovations and presided over unprecedented growth. He empowered a group of executives and engineers, called Team Tomorrow, to turbocharge learning throughout the company. .” It is created by highly motivated people, by enthusiasts, by men and women who want something very much or believe very much.”

Banking 14

Banking Learning-by-Doing Business Model Energy 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

Coca-Cola recently reshuffled its leadership team to focus on growth, innovation, and digital. Plug-and-play e-commerce technology, search engine optimization, and other distribution solutions are making it ever easier for products to directly reach consumers. Help Employees Embrace Agility.

P&L 12

P&L Agility Fashion Media 12

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2015

It came by great gas mileage on the back of a scam: The car’s supposedly low emissions were fraud — perpetrated by VW engineers who designed the car’s software to lower emissions during testing, only to let them bump back up in real life use. Now we know that vehicle wasn’t green. But it just hasn’t happened.

PPM 8

PPM Policies Engineering Airlines 8

Coaching Tip

DECEMBER 18, 2013

A good vision inspires and motivates employees, provides the basis (along with other intangibles like assumptions/beliefs, values and guiding principles) for setting goals along with the strategy to achieve them. •Values/Aspirations: An attitude or world-view depicted by one word or one single concept observed through one''s behavior.

Chief Executive Officer 146

Chief Executive Officer Development Mission Statement Self-aware 146

Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

We need to decide how to best divide energies—whom to feed first. Do what has to be done and don’t waste energy on fear that undermines performance— unless the doubt is a nagging hunch of a wrong direction! Similarly, make sure your OWN site has the best key words for the search engines.

Press Release 100

Press Release Discount Sharpe Advertising 100

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 8, 2018

These are hobbies and volunteering gigs that often start at a young age and that individuals continue to invest considerable time and energy into. pound marlin after a protracted wrestling match that cost his boat an engine. Does serious leisure make you a better leader? It may simply make you a better leader.

CEO 14

CEO Sports Energy Bottom-up 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 1, 2014

The program pairs start-ups with government workers to improve government services in areas including transportation, energy, data services, and the environment. As one put it: “I was curious about finding a professional path that would tap into my energy, excitement, and motivation to make a difference and get things done.”.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Politics Policies Budgeting 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 13, 2016

The company could not eradicate the skills and processes that continued to power its core performance engine but, at the same time, it had to enable embryonic growth ideas to forget the orthodoxies of the core. Above all, don’t ignore this challenge as you try to innovate your way to a new model.

Company 8

Company Licensing Incentives Construction 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2011

Bob is the Managing Partner of The Re-Wired Group in Detroit, an innovation incubator and consultancy specializing in demand-side innovation. An engineer, designer, serial entrepreneur, investor, and researcher, he has developed 1,000+ products/services and has collaborated with Clay Christensen at HBS for more than 15 years.

Mentor 15

Mentor Christensen Incubator Learning-by-Doing 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

For example, GE has created a digital platform in the energy sector that its own and third-party software developers can write applications to. The platform brings wind, solar and other renewable energy producers — even individual homes equipped with solar panels — into the same ecosystem. Make the tough calls on people.

Short-term 8

Short-term How To Venture Capitalist CFO 8

Miles Anthony Smith

JUNE 5, 2018

If they aren't paying you enough to walk through that door with a smile on your face, or the job doesn't motivate you enough to be eager about the work, you're in the wrong job. What you like, what motivates you, what fires you up. If you enjoy your work, you'll be more productive, more motivated and a better team player.

Career 74

Career Advice Succession Learning-by-Doing 74

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

But according to a recent Gallup poll, 70% of the workforce is either “actively disengaged” or “not engaged,” meaning there are millions of professionals who have discretionary effort — effort they could give if they felt motivated and inspired. Gallup estimates that this disengagement costs the U.S.

Leadership 8

Leadership Loyalty Greenleaf Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 30, 2011

But all of us can look at his body of work, and the reaction to that body of work, and use it as an opportunity to ask more of ourselves as leaders and innovators with a chance to make a small positive difference for our industry, our customers, and our colleagues. Few of us have the chance to achieve 1/100th of what Steve Jobs has achieved.

Industry 15

Industry Retail Learning-by-Doing Project 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2016

Similarly, about one-fourth of all technology and engineering companies started in the U.S. It appears plausible that entrepreneurial individuals are more likely to migrate and that immigration policies in many countries favor highly motivated and capable individuals. In the U.S., Immigrants represent 27.5%

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Venture Capitalist Retail Incubator 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

The energy, collaboration, and drive can fade as the staff grows, individuals separate into discrete silos, and workers in specialized functions grow disconnected from the larger purpose. . You have to be willing to experiment with new policies and initiatives to demonstrate your company’s commitment to keeping employees motivated.

Bond 8

Bond Video Audience Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

Consider Ashoka , which provides start-up funding and support for social innovators worldwide. Meanwhile, they’re pragmatic enough to engineer ways for people to gain some direct personal benefits along the way. There’s nothing so motivating as feeling that you’re really needed for something important.

Gilbert 9

Gilbert Participative Cooper Network Economy 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2013

The premise is that all energy should be focused solely on turning fabulous ideas into hyper growth. And in the earliest stages of a company, the need to organize, motivate and inspire large groups of people to accomplish shared goals may not be obvious. Rule 5: Innovation is not instant. Rule 7: Build for scale.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Team Constraint 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

Joe Nigro, CEO of energy company Constellation, told me, “Everyone needs to know how each metric fits into the big picture…why and how we’re measuring something, and how it’s relevant to performance.” Properly motivated and led, incumbents can be particularly dangerous, as they already have scale and credibility.

Metrics 8

Metrics Business Model Retail Automotive 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2015

Coworkers reported that having a community to work in helps them create structures and discipline that motivates them. In a way, the company is reverse-engineering its office into a coworking space. Too much autonomy can actually cripple productivity because people lack routines. They feel part of a community.

Chief Operating Officer 8

Chief Operating Officer Survey Learning-by-Doing Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2012

Spreitzer and Wrzesniewski suggest using a job crafting exercise to redesign your job to better fit your motives, strengths, and passions. Focus on forging relationships that give you energy, rather than sapping it. And you don't necessarily have to transfer departments or get a promotion to do it.

Contract Manufacturing 16

Contract Manufacturing Case Study Delegation Learning-by-Doing 16

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

Digital startups had begun producing virtual products that ZF did not know how to compete against, and engineers in logistics, operations, and other functions were finding that their traditional approaches couldn’t handle the complex issues they faced. The team had to be motivated. ” Domain experts.

Company 10

Company Automotive Project Chief Information Officer 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2017

If it wasn’t an engineer inadvertently building a vulnerability into a piece of software, it was an end user clicking on a bad link, falling for a phishing attack, using a weak password, or neglecting to install a security update in a timely manner. For example, how many times has your spam filter missed a phishing email?

Software 8

Software Learning-by-Doing Technology Compliance 8

Miles Anthony Smith

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

It leads to a higher search engine visibility through stronger online authority (links and social shares). Siege Media stands out from the rest by innovating the way they create their content. Sheryl Dawson Create profiles of the audience you're trying to reach, including their values, mindsets, motivators, and interests.

Marketing 105

Marketing Content Audience Brand 105

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2018

Having cofounded and sold PayPal, he quickly moved on to launching a range of ventures with world-changing aspirations for how we generate energy , transport ourselves and our goods, interface with machines, and explore our solar system. Hyde” side is a relatively straightforward problem.

Succession 14

Succession Armstrong Self-aware Wilde 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2018

For example, the invention of more efficient train engines allowed for cheaper transportation that catalyzed the industrial revolution. When more efficient machines use less energy, they cost less, which often encourages us to use them more—resulting in a net increase in energy consumption.

Technology 8

Technology Cooper Efficiency Globalization 8