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MAY 4, 2023

Former NASA engineer-project manager and launch director at SpaceX John Muratore on the importance of purpose: “Tom Holloway, a very famous Program Manager, and head of Flight Directors for a long time, told me something very interesting.

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JULY 4, 2021

Decoding Greatness: How the Best in the World Reverse Engineer Success by Ron Friedman. By reverse engineering what has worked for others, we can unlock patterns that will work in our own lives. We are told to work smarter, not harder. Friedman will show you how.

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JUNE 24, 2021

Source: Decoding Greatness: How the Best in the World Reverse Engineer Success. It’s the only way to improve at a task you already perform reasonably well and elude the grasp of automaticity.”. Preparation means you know the plan, but you also have the functionality and skill to pivot when things don’t go according to that plan.

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JULY 12, 2021

R EVERSE ENGINEERING is systematically taking things apart to discover how and why they work. To reverse engineer is to look beyond what is evident on the surface and find a hidden structure—one that reveals both how an object was designed and, more important, how it can be re-created.

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MARCH 25, 2021

Source: The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn. * * *. Scientist and mathematician Richard Hamming on the purpose of education: “Teachers should prepare the student for the student’s future, not for the teacher’s past.”. Look for these ideas every Thursday on the Leading Blog.

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DECEMBER 17, 2018

He could have bawled out the engineers and technicians behind the mechanical prop, demanding that they somehow find a way to carry out his vision. Spielberg could have insisted on the shot. After all, this was the scene he needed to “hook” the audience and keep their attention throughout the entire movie. But he didn’t.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Boosting Team Performance: 3 Ways to Make Your Team's Engine More Powerful by Ken Downer @RapidStartLdr. Three Ways Leaders Can Solve the “People Problems” That Hold Teams Back via @KelloggInsight “I am trying to point out flaws in your approach. I am not attacking you, I am being hard on the problem. Lessons from Pops from @wallybock.

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DECEMBER 7, 2021

An engineer by training, he began his career as a Navy officer and member of the US Naval Construction Battalion (Sea-bees) and the Navy Dive Community. In 2005, he brought his experience and insights into the performance of engineered systems to McKinsey and Company, where he worked as a consultant and member of the Operations Practice.

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AUGUST 9, 2017

DeGraff describes four basic worldviews or approaches to innovation : the Artist, the Engineer, the Athlete, and the Sage. The Engineer The Engineer constantly improves everything. Finally, when the organization gets really big, it needs structure, processes, and hierarchy—the gifts of Engineers.”

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JANUARY 29, 2021

Engineer Defaults. Several of my colleagues already do his by engineering an auto-response in email to say, ‘Thank you for your message; as a rule, I check email once a day at 8:30 a.m.’”. Apps like Beeminder “takes $5 from your credit card for every goal you don’t meet.”. Turn off your notifications. Check less often. Just say no.

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JUNE 13, 2019

A highly engineered conversation—engineered serendipity. And collisions can be engineered. Their first task together is agreeing on how to deconstruct the question into the right component parts to discuss.”. Put people On A Collision Course. Serendipity often happens where people, domains, and/or systems collide.

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DECEMBER 12, 2022

Entrepreneurs can avoid false starts by undertaking a thorough and thoughtful design process before commencing engineering work. The entrepreneur can pivot, but they have boosted their failure odds by wasting time and money on a flawed first product. False Positives. Eisenmann covers how to shut down and how to bounce back.

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MAY 16, 2020

Steve holds Bachelor of Science and Master of Engineering degrees in Micro-Electronic Systems Engineering from Manchester University. He is the author of The Innovation Ultimatum: How Six Strategic Technologies will Reshape Every Business in the 2020s , a how-to guide on innovation and digital transformation. He was born in the U.K.

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JUNE 1, 2021

Culture clashes, infighting among executives and engineers, dueling corporate traditions, and government maneuvering constantly threatened the venture. Expertly reported, Collision Course explores the complex suspicions around what and who was really responsible for Ghosn's ouster.

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APRIL 12, 2021

People, culture, and work design form a “social engine” that drives innovation and execution personalized for each customer. The social engine, a company’s culture and way of organizing work, helps drive the growth of the big digital companies. Most of these digital giants operate with only three or four layers below the CEO.

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MARCH 12, 2021

Strategy #4: Engineer an Ecosystem. They’re also becoming more selective about which markets to enter and paradoxically deepening their reengagement in their chosen markets. Operating Beyond: Rethink How Their Companies Operate.

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DECEMBER 28, 2022

Here are a few that people in jobs ranging from nursing home administrator to mechanical engineer are working on this week: For a client who’s finding their voice – participate in every meeting you attend for one month; for one who finds it hard to focus – document and prioritize a task list, then share it with your boss to become more aligned.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2014

One of our early engineers, Matt Cutts, recall how he would often see Urs Hölzle, the engineering executive who led the creation of Google’s data center infrastructure, pick up small bits of trash in the hallway as he walked through the office. If all we have are opinions, let’s go with mine.”

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AUGUST 1, 2021

They are engines of change, windows on the world and lighthouses erected in the sea of time. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. Without books, the development of civilization would have been impossible.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2016

The clutch, as you well know, provides the linkage between the engine and the transmission, which ultimately provides power to the drive shaft. When the clutch is engaged, the power produced by the engine is harnesses and transferred to the drive shaft to produce motion.

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APRIL 22, 2024

I once worked with a company that decided to collapse its engineering organization by turning Engineering Managers into Managing Engineers, and oh, what a difference the word order makes. Managing Engineers are expected to have their hands on a keyboard most of the time.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2019

It is a superb faith greater than any obstacle that has made the great discoveries, that has been the great inventor, the great engineer, the great achiever in every line of human endeavor.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Maria has authored multiple books, including The Empathy Edge: Harnessing the Value of Compassion as an Engine for Success. . * * * Maria Ross , the founder of brand consultancy Red Slice, believes cash flow, creativity, and compassion are not mutually exclusive.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2020

“Blaming the bureaucracy is an easy way to gloss over the failures of government, yet running a government without the support of the bureaucracy is like running a train without an engine.” — Stephen Hess, Organizing the Presidency. “No No real-world human being brings to the U.S.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Then ensure that performance initiatives are engineered to promote the necessary mindset and behavioral shifts. Use four levers to reshape the work environment: role modeling, understanding and conviction, reinforcement mechanisms, and confidence-building efforts. Act : Generation of energy.

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MARCH 15, 2021

He sees this as a waste of time that reduces productivity and impacts the environment from engines idling for minutes at a time. Page went on to explain that he sits at his desk in Mountain View, California, most mornings and watches his employees sitting at a traffic light, waiting to come to work.

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MARCH 13, 2023

At the end of their shift, a team of software engineers in Boston can transfer the work where they left off (“asynchronically”) to another team in Bangalore, within or outside their own company, which continues the work until, at the end of their shift, they transfer it back — all with remarkable seamlessness.

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OCTOBER 8, 2019

What will differentiate your organization as a future-focused, customer-centric, innovation-driving engine of growth? And, importantly, are you adding value in ways that mean the most to you, the company, the customer, and your clients? Assess the market. Where will you see profitable openings in the market?

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DECEMBER 1, 2019

The Amazon Management System : The Ultimate Digital Business Engine That Creates Extraordinary Value for Both Customers and Shareholders by Ram Charan and Julia Yang. Redman went on to launch two successful companies and speaks all over the country on how to build better leaders through his Overcome mindset.

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JULY 1, 2019

Follow the Feeling will show you how to best build and position your brand so you can stand out from competitors, build a tribe, and engineer a positive feeling across five important branding territories—lexicon, audio cues, visual stimuli, experience, and culture. Designing Experiences by J. Robert Rossman and Mathew D.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

The next Larry Page or Sergey Brin won’t make a search engine. What we need to restore is our sense of adventure—our sense of possibility. Are we too busy competing to do something new? The next Bill Gates will not build an operating system. And the next Mark Zuckerberg won’t create a social network.

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MARCH 6, 2019

And yet we often approach it with an engineering mindset. The great question of our age is: How do we rebuild trust in the state, trust in authority? Andrew Keen, Entrepreneur and Author. ? What could be a more human endeavor than management? Julia Kirby, Senior Editor, Harvard University Press. ? Power is not given to you by hierarchy.

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AUGUST 13, 2021

As he applied power to the engine of the chopper, he whispered a prayer to his higher power to mitigate the risk. This was not a pre-planned mission, and no one designated a route or objective. His intent was to succeed, not to fail, even though this was an extremely risky venture. He began flying east over the South China Sea.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2020

VCs are trying to determine whether this founder will be able to create a compelling story around the company mission in order to attract great engineers, executives, sales and marketing people, etc.

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AUGUST 6, 2012

In The Pivot Point , authors Victoria and James Grady ask, “What if this is not a ‘ resistance ’ problem for which the organization must engineer a solution, but a deeper ‘people’ problem that the organization must first learn to understand and respect?” The general answer is our resistance to change. But what if it’s something else?

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JUNE 30, 2012

Here are a selection of tweets from June 2012 that you might have missed: Engines of Innovation by @wallybock. Two Words of Wisdom that will Change Your Life by @RonEdmondson. Do you make these body language mistakes ? What you do that impact relationships even more than what you say. Then a post like this gets you saying "of course!".

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FEBRUARY 7, 2018

In Great at Work , Hansen reports on a five-year survey of 5,000 managers and employees, including sales reps, lawyers, actuaries, brokers, medical doctors, software programmers, engineers, store managers, plant foremen, nurses and even a Las Vegas casino dealer. They discovered seven work smart practices.

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