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Are you a Scientist or an Engineer? Things to think about.

Mike Cardus

as a engineer? The engineer sees themselves as a tiny spot of ignorance surrounded by a vast see of knowledge. Gilbert ‘Human Competence’. Corporate Team Building Innovation Leadership Organization Development coaching create-learning team building and leadership quotes Team Building' Eli Goldratt ‘The Choice’.

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Leadership Lessons in Classlessness and Class

Next Level Blog

Apparently, Cleveland Cavaliers owner Dan Gilbert thought the same thing because it wasn’t long before he had posted a scathing open letter to the Cavs’ fans on the team’s official web site. In contrast to the seedy and classless drama engineered by James and Gilbert, this weekend marked the passing of Bob Sheppard.

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Transforming a Company Is Daunting, But You Can Prepare for It

Harvard Business Review

Creating a disruptive growth engine ("Transformation B"). Those three activities ( detailed in an article Gilbert co-authored in December's Harvard Business Review based on his experience transforming Desert News and Deseret Digital, Utah-based media organizations) don't happen accidentally. Transformation is hard work. Paradox.

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Kodak and the Brutal Difficulty of Transformation

Harvard Business Review

The engineer behind that project, Steve Sasson, offered a memorable one-liner to the New York Times in 2008 when he said management's reaction to his prototype was, "That's cute — but don't tell anyone about it.". .* Gilbert's HBR article with Joseph Bauer that also discusses Kodak is available here. This is hard stuff.

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You Need a Community, Not a Network

Harvard Business Review

At Best Buy in the early 2000s, Julie Gilbert was in charge of an internal network aimed at developing female leaders. Eager to change that, Gilbert encouraged her group to reach out to women customers. Meanwhile, they’re pragmatic enough to engineer ways for people to gain some direct personal benefits along the way.

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How IBM, Intuit, and Rich Products Became More Customer-Centric

Harvard Business Review

In response to the rapid advance of cloud computing, IBM’s software engineering groups embraced the Agile development method – with teams focused on incremental delivery of new capabilities every few weeks or months. To the engineers, the design thinking process seemed like a return to the Waterfall method.

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Make IT Delightful, and Other Ways to Enchant Your Employees

Harvard Business Review

And creativity in general is the key to unlocking “ big magic ,” as the writer Elizabeth Gilbert calls it. It cannot be measured or perfectly engineered. Research from John Bohannon has shown that dance performances can enhance the acquisition and development of knowledge. Have a challenging mission.