Persuasive Powerhouse

MARCH 19, 2014

Diane is six months into her assignment as a mid-level manager in a large technology company. She was promoted to this position because of her previous “wild success” as a first line manager, where she managed a team of engineers. This post was originally published in Smartblog on Leadership.

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Leading Blog

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. 4 Don’t Mimic, Evolve. 10 Ask Wisely.

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Rich Gee Group

MARCH 19, 2014

The average salary for a welding engineer is $48K to $101K. Technical Writing - There is a wide variety of sub-specializations which lean more toward engineering, how-to’s, or investigations. Even at a little company, there’s more random stuff than you would think (DNA, DEA, bacteria, electrical engineering, IT, etc.)

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Michael Lee Stallard

DECEMBER 15, 2010

Instead, it was an understated, bespectacled, computer engineer named Ed Catmull. When Catmull’s name was announced to receive an Oscar for his lifetime of work in computer animation, the crowd went wild, whistling and whooping. In most organizations only 25 percent of employees – the managers and the stars — feel included.

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Modern Servant Leader

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

We continue the servant leadership interview series with a real treat. I was honored to have Jim Hunter sit down for an interview on Servant Leadership. Jim has over 30 years of experience teaching and consulting on servant leadership principles. Steve: It’s Leadership 291, it’s called, “Becoming an Influential Leader”.

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Modern Servant Leader

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

We continue the servant leadership interview series with a real treat. I was honored to have Jim Hunter sit down for an interview on Servant Leadership. Jim has over 30 years of experience teaching and consulting on servant leadership principles. Steve: It’s Leadership 291, it’s called, “Becoming an Influential Leader”.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 28, 2019

By deriving the intersection of three key questions: what are we wildly passionate about, what can we do better than anyone else, and what drives our economic engine, you set a direction for people that is easy to align with. Harris is Associate Vice-President and Country Manager for Allergan PLC in Brazil. About the Author.

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Skip Prichard

JULY 22, 2019

But without the backing of the great entrepreneur and gifted engineer George Westinghouse, Tesla’s revolutionary inventions would probably have come to nothing.” [3]. Being a corporate entrepreneur has a profound effect on both your reputation for innovation and your prospects for leadership opportunities. Moreover, it’s hard. “I

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leaderCommunicator

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

And to others, anything social media falls in what they believe is the age of experimentation: the “Wild West” of the Internet. While I’m a big proponent of innovating with social media strategies, the days of the Wild West are – in a word -- over. MIT Sloan Management Review 2012 Social Business Global. IBM 2012 CEO study.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2016

In our experience, embracing the future as you scale requires solving what we call the Engine 1 vs. Engine 2 problem. Engine 1 is your core business, the engine that got you here. Engine 2 is the one you will eventually need to power your company’s future.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

Some 650 people had already joined, and thus began the company’s wild ride toward becoming a social networking site with over a billion users, thousands of employees, and a market capitalization well north of $100 billion. For example, one new engineer reported that his dad called to say, “There’s a problem with this drop-down menu.”

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

For example, as a designer/writer, my skills are not well applied to bookkeeping or financial management. Similarly, make sure your OWN site has the best key words for the search engines. Media momentum is much like a wild fire—the power of one well-placed match can ignite dramatic pyrotechnics! Mine your backyard.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2015

Sure, there are exceptions who are both visionary CEOs and innovators — Steve Jobs and Jeff Bezos, for example — but there are very few companies that can stomach that sort of leadership. The Chief Entrepreneur is an executive as powerful as the CEO, with clear leadership over radical innovation within the company.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 7, 2011

The question on the tip of everyone's tongue when this type of nightmare takes hold is, "Why doesn't senior management do something?" When an office bully starts running wild, there are often two employees to blame. The problem limiting this manager's potential is often embedded in his or her power style.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2014

And the more growth opportunities stretch beyond a company’s current capabilities, the more the company needs to build systems to manage the unique nature of these opportunities (the kind we describe in more depth in our recent article “ Build an Innovation Engine in 90 Days ” and our 2012 e-book Building a Growth Factory ).

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

Even within a discipline there are differences in core operational strengths: often highly technical businesses will have more than one highly technical co-founder, but one of them will, for example, be a terrific architect while the other will be excellent at R&D or engineering. Michael recently co-authored Wild West 2.0

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2015

Despite spending billions of dollars every year on the latest security products and hiring the best security engineers and analysts, companies are more vulnerable than they’ve ever been. Their IT and security teams are peripheral concerns, costs to be managed rather than centers of excellence that support the core business.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

The Google/Alphabet metamorphosis has catapulted Sundar Pichai into one of the highest profile leadership jobs in Silicon Valley. Pichai now leads an all “bits” business even though he was trained, solidly, in the world of “atoms,” as a metallurgical engineer. Born in Chennai, India, he came to the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

But you know, my leadership team is smart. There have been plenty of recent examples where shareholders would have been well served by systems to curtail wild risks. The other day I had coffee with a friend who was complaining about her company's ability to innovate. That iteration-itis post you wrote really hit home," she said.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2016

Inevitably, not all of the final pitches were winners but, to Facebook, the potential for uncovering groundbreaking innovations is worth pulling a couple hundred engineers away from their everyday tasks. Hackathons are no longer just for coders. The company wanted to make its banking services more enticing to millennials.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

Theyve been finely engineered, instead, to do. Theyve been finely engineered, instead, to do. What most companies (and economies) dont do is to stop doing — and thats a self-defeating problem. We seem to be clueless about making room for deep questioning and thinking: reflecting. Our doing/reflecting ratio is wildly out of whack.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

The best analysis of the resource scarcity mega-trend came from asset manager Jeremy Grantham. The extreme weather seriously disrupted coal production , one of the most important economic engines in the country. In January, China "seized" its rare earth metals (meaning it wouldn't export them anymore).

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2018

These ventures are unified in their vision — really more of an obsessive quest — for a more sustainable and resilient future for humanity, executed through a mixture of brilliant engineering and out-of-the-box thinking. Hyde” side is a relatively straightforward problem.

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