Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 26, 2012

Engineers have predictably mapped out how your computer and air conditioning unit works and performs under a variety of conditions. Posted in Leadership Development Your computer is a unit. You have an air conditioning unit. Unit is a measurement with a definite value. Businesses have a history of attempting to do the same thing to humans.

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Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 27, 2016

It is like Good Cholesterol (HDL) and Bad Cholesterol (LDL), terms we have gotten used to hearing from our doctors who explain them in layman’s language, but with Jugaad the audience is us Engineers. Bad Cholesterol contributes to plaque formation in the arteries restricting blood circulation due to clogging.

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Lead Change Blog

JUNE 22, 2021

The devotion that many leaders feel for their businesses infuses everything, from company culture and engineering to the snacks in the kitchen. CEOs who take command of a company also forge intense bonds, even if they are not the actual founder. It can impair your judgment and objectivity, preventing you from hearing what you need to hear.

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Lead Change Blog

JULY 9, 2021

Curiosity is the engine of achievement. In response, the little girl slumped in her seat and silently spent the rest of the meal pushing her food around on her plate. My companion and I exchanged knowing glances, having observed yet another example of societal pressure shutting people down, stifling their curiosity.

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Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 13, 2020

Communication is the engine that drives team performance. They have missed their quota by an average of 34% the last 5 quarters (data ), and we know from previous experience that teams who aren’t hitting quota by quarter 3 usually don’t improve (interpretation).

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Lead Change Blog

MAY 17, 2019

He was the electrical engineer who invented the game “pong” and founded Atari. There are a lot of stories about Nolan Bushnell. For a while there in the 1970’s, Nolan Bushnell could do no wrong. Nolan would sit around the living room with his friends and come up with ideas of all kinds.

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Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 20, 2020

No one wants to be on a plane, 35,000 feet in the air with one engine on fire and a flight crew sitting in silence. Someone needs to rally people together to stabilize the situation, assess for damage, and push ahead with a wise response. Think about it….

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Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2017

In 1943, Lockheed Martin commissioned an engineer to create an experimental team to begin work on a secret fighter jet for the U.S. Or, “What weaknesses make us vulnerable to losing customers or market share?” Flipping the conversation will prompt your team to think critically about things that need to change. Form an innovation team.

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Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 4, 2016

This half-day leadership conference will show attendees how to employ servant leadership to create and maintain a work environment that is trusting and highly motivating, where employees work collaboratively to fulfill organizations’ mission and purpose, and where people trust one another.

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Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

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. With many millions of contract dollars and the need to perform, NASA ignored Boisjoly and a handful of other engineers who begged for a re-examination of the booster’s O-rings.

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Lead Change Blog

APRIL 16, 2019

When I studied industrial engineering, I learned if you wanted to get the most from a machine or an assembly line, you didn’t run it at full speed. He found that, as you increase the number of hours, productivity increases. but only up to a point. After 50 hours a week, the growth in productivity slows down. Make Space to Recover.

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Lead Change Blog

MAY 18, 2021

Entrepreneurs and engineers have a lot in common. Cooking might not be your thing, but maybe you’re incredible at leading strategic meetings, designing marketing plans, building teams, or keeping finances well above board. Bring what you’re stellar at to every party! You notice broken things and find ways to fix them.

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Lead Change Blog

JULY 23, 2015

Consider the piston of an engine or the wheel of a car. As they do their job, they interact with other engine parts or with the axle and the road. We can’t avoid conflict. Conflict comes with purpose. Think of conflict like friction. We create friction as we pursue purpose. Purpose creates movement which in turn creates friction.

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Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 4, 2018

Shelley Row provided The Check Engine Light: Are You Looking Under Your Hood? Shelley shares: “ You have an internal check engine light. Learn how to accomplish more by changing your focus. “ Find Justin on Twitter at @plantolead. It’s the nagging feeling you get when something isn’t sitting right.

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Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

Not only because knowledge on any subject is much easier to come by (think of using your favorite search-engine on the internet, for example), but also because the knowledge base is ever expanding and changing. In contradistinction to how things used to be, knowledge is no longer the most important criterion.

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Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

The clean energy curriculum she and her team had designed was presented to children in Miami-Dade and Broward Counties, Florida and Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

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Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

Some systems are designed for engineer personalities that crave a high level of detail. You are willing to learn new techniques and you want to make it easier to hire more high performers to help reach your goals faster. Level of Detail. Do you like a broad framework? Or do you crave reconciled details and structure? Size of the Community.

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Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 28, 2017

Just like an engine, it needs maintenance to keep it running smoothly. As you work hard it is important to realize that you also need to enjoy and relax and unwind. You need to recharge to enable you to sustain your performance. Determine when to take that downtime to refresh and help you refocus. Learn something new.

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Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

In my native land (the UK), for instance, statistics suggest that the country has the lowest number of female engineers in Europe. Often, this kind of gender inequality is entirely inadvertent and simply the result of many years’ poor investment in – and management of – recruitment.

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Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 17, 2018

To this end, humor engineered by leaders can shape a culture of empathy and relationship satisfaction and be a foundation for greater alignment. This is particularly true in today’s complex and uncertain operating environments in which a culture of solidarity and knowledge sharing become critical drivers of staying relevant.

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Lead Change Blog

JUNE 16, 2020

As a mid-level manager in the software engineering unit of a startup of 400 employees doing Electronic Health Records (EHRs), he was given the task of shifting everyone to a telecommute setup as a cost-reduction measure due to rising rents on their office building.

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Lead Change Blog

APRIL 19, 2017

Just think how Steve Jobs had an amazing idea for the IPhone and how it should look and work but he needed entire teams of expert designers and engineers to convert his idea to reality. This is why they surround themselves with experts for guidance on matters and issues they do not know much about. All good leaders are honest.

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Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 29, 2014

The CEA is based on the concepts and research in my latest book, The Culture Engine. I recently invited Becky Robinson’s Weaving Influence team to complete my online Culture Effectiveness Assessment (CEA).

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Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 3, 2014

My latest book, The Culture Engine , presents a step-by-step process that guides leaders in the creating of their organizational constitution – then managing to it. Those are impressive numbers. What do you have to lose? Change Management Change Culture Culture Change leaders Leadership organizations'

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Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

I had read Chris’s book, The Culture Engine , and we had spoken about it via email and on the phone, yet I wanted more. I have been very fortunate in the past twelve months to connect face-to-face with three other Lead Change Group instigators. Chris Edmonds. A year ago, I made the decision to go to Denver, CO to meet S. Chris Edmonds.

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Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

In fact, they drove their b g, moaning, and whining (BMWs) through the open door and parked with their engines idling, wasting fuel, and polluting the atmosphere. No one came through my open door to directly ask for coaching on handling sticky issues in a more effective, productive, and efficient way.

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Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 26, 2017

She is currently pursuing her PhD in Psychology and Industrial/Organizational Engineering while working as a Senior Director in healthcare as well as a consultant for the healthcare ambulatory community. When not in the office you can find her writing, working out, and pursuing her passions in life, love, and servant leadership.

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Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

His most recent book, The Culture Engine , helps leaders create workplace inspiration with an organizational constitution. He has been a non-profit executive for 15 years, and a speaker, author, and executive consultant for 25 years. He is the author or co-author of seven books and two manifestos.

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Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

Despite all of these differences, we found managers’ top disconnects and frustrations with their millennials were strikingly similar across all companies regardless of location, size, or industry.

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Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 28, 2015

For example, before Elon Musk made Space X, he knew barely anything about rocket propulsion and the physics and engineering that goes into the entire process of sending something into space without it exploding. These practices are simply ingrained into the fiber of their being, so anything that they want to achieve is just moments away.

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Lead Change Blog

JUNE 1, 2016

She specializes in manager/employee interactions with organizations employing engineers, scientists and IT professionals, helping managers/owners successfully coach employees to tap into their own initiative and resourcefulness to deliver results.

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Lead Change Blog

APRIL 19, 2016

Kathy is an engineer. People always give me a hard time about my highlighting and notes. They tell me I’m ‘anal’…but you appreciated it. You said it was a good thing – that I was intentional.”. She had just lost her job due to economic conditions in the industry where she works.

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Lead Change Blog

MAY 8, 2017

These two companies decided to work together by having Global Vision’s Quality Control Platform integrated into Esko’s Automation Engine. The integration provides an all-in-one quality assurance solution that runs as a smooth background process.

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Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 10, 2016

Some people are naturally bubbly while others take a few hours to get their engines running. In order to fully understand this topic, we have to get beyond the “ glass half empty/half full” definition. The subject is also broader than a personality type. Yet both can be optimistic. He says everyone has an ” explanatory outlook.”.

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Lead Change Blog

JUNE 7, 2016

The Combustion Engine. We use science every day to save lives, invent revolutionary products and services that change the world. The Compass. The Printing Press. The Telephone. The Light Bulb. Penicillin. Contraceptives. The Internet. . Basically, how you get places both physically and directionally. The buildings where you live and work.

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Lead Change Blog

MAY 21, 2015

Recently, some great books have been published about “new organizations” for the 21-st century, such as “Reinventing Organizations” by Frederic Laloux and “My Steam Engine is Broken” by Mark Powell and Jonathan Gifford.

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Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 17, 2014

Jane Anderson discusses the potential impact of an organizational constitution in her review of Chris Edmonds’s book, The Culture Engine. Read the full article on Andy’s blog, SuperVISON Motivation. Read the full article on Jane Anderson’s blog, Insite Skill. As The Carnival Starts To Wind Down.

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