Coaching Tip

JULY 16, 2017

Back in October 1971, an engineer (who I knew when we both went to a small high school in Upstate New York during the late 1950s) named Ray Tomlinson chose the '@' symbol for email addresses and wrote software to send the first network email. .

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

Besides engineers, software developers, and product managers, the burgeoning community of data scientists are also complicit in developing the concepts, algorithms, and software to enable the deception. Except in rare cases, the ethics of these decisions are never broached. So what can be done?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

This means that many organizations and their leaders are running as fast as they can to quickly build their software capabilities. CEO Jeff Immelt declared in 2011 that GE needed to become a software and analytics company or risk seeing its hardware products become commodities as information-based competitors took over.

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HR Digest

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

The use of AI tools at work can be harmless when it’s company-enforced and there is updated software that is highly secure and protects the company data. The unrestricted use of ChatGPT at work, however, can bring about a lot of ethical and safety concerns along with unexpected legal concerns for the company.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

Software and hardware engineers regularly test new technology products to ensure they are not harmful to people or businesses that will use them in the real world. Engineers conduct testing in labs and research facilities before a product launches. Eliminating Biases in AI: The Technology.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2011

I remember attending a Hewlett-Packard meeting for industry analysts in the early 1990s and hearing HP proudly declare that it was becoming a software company. Software had turned into a stronger driver of revenue in the computer industry than hardware, and HP management had realized that it had to make the shift to sustain its growth.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2016

Its purpose was to enhance people’s lives through great engineering that offered everyone an accessible, high-quality car. Soichiro Honda and his business partner Takeo Fujisawa founded their company to restore Japanese pride in engineering rather than military achievement. Or take SAP, the German business software company.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Similarly, when Starbucks baristas make your latte the same way across cafés, or when a software engineer delivers the expected features each sprint, you are witnessing tactical performance. The second type, known as adaptive performance , is how effectively your organization diverges from its strategy.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2015

For example, the skills and knowledge required to be a good neurosurgeon are quite different from those needed to be a good lawyer, banker, or software engineer.) Clearly, web scraping has ethical and legal implications, particularly when firms request applicants’ social media passwords as part of the vetting process.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

One of its major suppliers is under an ethics investigation resulting in significant delays. For example, Mauricio started as an engineer in his manufacturing firm, moved up the ranks, and 10 years later was promoted to president of European operations. The company recently took a hit on the stock market.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 31, 2015

The team that implemented the initiative was led by a physician and a scientist-engineer, and its members were drawn from Mayo’s Emergency Department (ED) and the Clinic’s Robert D. The ED-CELL team developed software to provide the stream of RFID data to frontline staff in a usable manner. and Patricia E.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

We said that we were looking for hard-working individuals with a high school diploma, whom we could train on all the hard skills necessary to become a software engineer and then hire as paid apprentices. We selected 15 people from that group who demonstrated strong work ethic, grit, and excitement for the program.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

Look at the accomplishments of Wikipedia contributors, open-source software developers who find and fix bugs in Linux, or doctors who help each another with difficult diagnoses as part of the Sermo social network. Meanwhile, they’re pragmatic enough to engineer ways for people to gain some direct personal benefits along the way.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 30, 2011

One of America's most sophisticated design and engineering critics observed that: "I have repeatedly heard articulate people say that their family's latest automobile purchase hinged on which cup holders worked best for them.". Auto interior designers loathed them. How vulgar and crass. No snobbish "Not Invented Here" theatrics from Jobs.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2014

I can do the job of just about anyone in the factory and can work most of the software the engineering guys use. He joined just after completing his BS in engineering and has had an excellent progression with the company. Ethics Job search Managing yourself' But I feel pretty far behind on the business side of things.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

In the course of an independent study during my third year of law school at Chicago, I came across an interesting experiment going on at nearby Motorola, which had built software to "engineer" complex contracts. If not his insights, then certainly his work ethic. And I thought, ah, it''s all about transaction costs.

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CO2

JUNE 29, 2010

Moreover, ethical followers can help leaders avoid making questionable decisions and high performing followers often motivate leaders to raise their own levels of performance. There are times when situational demands require that individuals in formal followership roles step in to leadership roles.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 9, 2015

This technology becomes handy for the technical communicators, engineers, and developers when receiving instructional and design requirements from clients in PDF form and needing to edit or revise them. Employers find this type of response a reflection of one’s work ethic and performance. LinkedIn SlideShare: www.slideshare.net.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2018

Data science and AI lie at the most overheated end of the software engineering spectrum, and there is a massive shortage of graduates and postgraduates emerging with the necessary skills. These are essential transformative skills, not just for those who may go on to become software engineers, but also for everyone.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2012

If you are an operating systems software engineer who spends even part of the day working on her great idea for a new video game, you should be collecting unemployment. If your passion for creating something new is that all encompassing, then quit and go pursue it.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2013

The Social-Engineer Toolkit , a cyber version of the Anarchist Cookbook , openly provides tools and techniques for launching attacks and engaging in other malevolent behavior (though it''s also a useful tool for the security community). It may end up someplace where laws, regulations, and ethics are highly questionable.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2012

We always sought individuals with high character strengths and strong work ethics. When Kevin Batchelor — now one of our two VP's of Engineering — came to work here, he was not a programmer at all; his degrees were in theater and anthropology. Now, eight years later, his software designs are winning awards.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

It’s now done by economists, data engineers, IT operatives, and anyone who has access to the data. It also migrated outside the firm to an ever-growing crowd of vendors who offer enticing claims about the benefits of their prediction software. The psychologists have lost control of the effort.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

It’s now done by economists, data engineers, IT operatives, and anyone who has access to the data. It also migrated outside the firm to an ever-growing crowd of vendors who offer enticing claims about the benefits of their prediction software. The psychologists have lost control of the effort.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2013

But the power of analytics as a mechanism for making decisions about hiring and firing is still growing, and the "application of predictive analytics to people’s careers … is enormously challenging, not to mention ethically fraught." We want to make cars that are better than drivers," says one Google engineer.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2012

Those companies' hardware and software platforms are the foundation for almost endless innovation by diverse users worldwide, a contribution no Europeans or Asians can match. Science and engineering have become devalued amongst American students and policy-makers. But business schools can and should do more.

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