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APRIL 25, 2011

I was tired of our endless tech problems, our inability to find enough talented engineers who wanted to work, ultimately, on blog and CrunchBase software. And when we did find those engineers, as we so often did, how to keep them happy. It’s certainly not an engineering-driven company.

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APRIL 25, 2011

I was tired of our endless tech problems, our inability to find enough talented engineers who wanted to work, ultimately, on blog and CrunchBase software. And when we did find those engineers, as we so often did, how to keep them happy. It’s certainly not an engineering-driven company.

Engineering 182

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JUNE 13, 2017

Granted, given how their main product is a search engine, it makes sense that Google is a company driven by questions. Indeed, being inquisitive as leaders sends a clear message that we care about what others have to say [ Share on Twitter ]. Google’s CEO, Eric Schmidt, once said “We run this company on questions, not answers.”

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MARCH 5, 2013

design and engineering), and experiment and iterate instead of perfect. That binary world doesn’t exist anymore and actually, never did. It was an illusion that lasted a century. Increasingly, we define our jobs, blur lines of responsibility, integrate once discrete disciplines (e.g.,

Innovation 255

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DECEMBER 2, 2014

Hank Queen, former Vice President of Engineering, Manufacturing and Product Integrity for Boeing, put the leader’s dilemma about meetings this way, “I can order involvement, but I can’t order engagement.” How do you use your power in each situation?

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MAY 6, 2014

He offered to update my uninspiring site at zero cost and designed a website that has consistently maintained a page one search engine ranking in many key phrases. Michael is a website designer who works on many high profile online projects. The result has been a dramatic increase in enquiries and speaking engagements around the globe.

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AUGUST 5, 2014

He has experience working in financial services, energy, engineered products and services, and consumer goods. Jesse Newton is an organizational culture and change management specialist with Strategy&’s Katzenbach Center.

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JANUARY 15, 2013

He traces this dynamic back to Frederick Taylor, who was both an efficiency engineer and a fierce advocate of workplace democracy. Weisbord encourages cultures that take a case-by-case approach, honouring Mary Parker Follett’s “law of the situation,” which not surprisingly focuses on what’s happening here and now.

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JANUARY 28, 2014

Moreover, if the focus of individual companies is sustained, Human Capital may well be the engine that revives economic growth.” This is certainly encouraging news, as it reflects a growing shift from the survivalist/just treading water mindset to one that seeks opportunities for development and growth.

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JUNE 24, 2014

While he defined both the end goal and the timeframe for completion, he left these intentional spaces so that the various teams of scientists, engineers, and politicians involved in the endeavour could collaborate towards making his vision a reality.

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JULY 1, 2014

It was a wonderful moment for the normally staid engineering team. Landing on Mars is a huge engineering challenge. But to the young engineers it was simply a challenge to be bested. The engineers, led by the same Rob Manning who had designed much of Pathfinder’s landing system, knew they would need to learn from the past.

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MAY 26, 2011

An example he shares that demonstrates this principle is of aeronautics engineer Armando Martos who had to work with a well-known professor who insisted that the design Armando was proposing wouldn’t work because it contradicted what the professor wrote in his authoritative textbook.

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JULY 12, 2016

At Boeing, Alan Mulally was hired right out of college as an engineer and went on to become its CEO before becoming the chief executive at Ford. Similarly, Walmart CEO Doug McMillon began as an hourly summer associate in a distribution center, unloading trucks.

Kaplan 100

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JUNE 6, 2011

As a current member and attendee of past workshops and seminars, I can tell you that this is a great resource for anyone whose interested in learning more about leadership and improving their skills and understanding of how to become a better leader.

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MARCH 10, 2015

For example, if you asked Larry Page, CEO of Google, to define his company, do you think his answer would be, “We’re a search engine”? But that’s not the way radical innovators envisage their organizations. Not very likely.

How To 100

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NOVEMBER 15, 2011

In his TED talk “Build a tower, build a team” , Tom Wujec shares his findings from performing this challenge with a variety of different groups – recent business school graduates, lawyers, engineers, CEOs, and even kindergarten students.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2016

For these researchers, that moment where they captured the imagination and excitement of the world will certainly be a moment they’ll always remember and cherish as one of the biggest achievements in their careers.

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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. The man looked at the visitors and replied matter-of-factly, “I’m helping to put a man on the Moon”.

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JANUARY 13, 2015

It’s an issue that’s been weighing on mind over the past few months in light of the growing number of stories of women encountering sexual harassment and outright misogynistic attitudes on university campuses, as well as in many growing, high-demand sectors like the gaming industry and software engineering.

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OCTOBER 13, 2011

If the vision rested solely with Kennedy, scientists and engineers would never have been inspired to design and create the Saturn V rockets that took us to the Moon, along with the lunar lander from which we took that symbolic step onto another world.

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OCTOBER 20, 2015

The talk in question is one given by Mohammed Qahtani, a security engineer from Saudi Arabia, which won him the 2015 Toastmasters International World Championship of Public Speaking.

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APRIL 7, 2015

In designing spacecraft, engineers try to avoid situations in which the failure of a single component would cause loss of the ship, crew, or mission, and the best collaborative solutions likewise should not contain single point failures or depend solely on a particular individual or organization to ensure success.

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