Lead on Purpose

DECEMBER 6, 2010

Here are the key roles that are crucial to your success as a product manager, and why they are important: Engineering/QA: The relationship with the engineering/development team is paramount for product managers. Product management — at every level — is a leadership role within the organization.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 31, 2010

and any number of other appearance specific issues can add to, or detract from, the strength of your personal brand. I want to be clear that I’m not advocating for form over substance, extreme self-indulgence, narcissism, or masking insecurity by the trappings you surround yourself with.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 9, 2010

Largely due to the iPod’s strong integrated design qualities it is the dominant brand in its class, commands a pricing premium, and has developed an extremely loyal and satisfied customer base. Also worth noting is that there is certainly a difference between value engineering and arbitrary cost containment.

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Lead on Purpose

MARCH 8, 2010

Innovative engineers are recognized for their inventions. Instead we should embrace it and make sure that through our hard work and strategic insight we create great products that help development, marketing and sales receive high praise and recognition for their work. CEOs are praised for their vision.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

JUNE 20, 2010

The Gifts You Can Give Let’s explore some of the gifts you may have been given or that you have developed in your time on earth. Inspiration when given as a gift is like the fuel that feeds the engine of prosperity for your organization. These will be the traits that come easily to you. What keeps you from gifting your kindness?

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2010

By any category analysis or analytical standard blogging has obviously developed into a powerful communication medium. I’m also not a fan of going to a blog to read third party news, press or the re-blogging of someone else’s information published for no other reason then to boost their search engine rankings.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

On this Labor Day, I give homage to those who shaped my own early career: Mom: Who taught me the art of domestic engineering: how to wash dishes, vacuum floors, make beds, and do the laundry with a sense of pride in the finished product.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 22, 2011

Flores, web developer at 10K Webdesign, see her bio for Women on Business or visit her website [link]. The Three Things You Must Do Before You Engage in Social Media Many small business owners are reluctant to enter the social media. Categories : Uncategorized To learn more about Monica S. Follow her on Twitter as @monicadear.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

AUGUST 15, 2010

A simple example – when I was in engineering college, in the final year, my dad bought me a car after much begging and pleading. We partner with great leaders to help them become even greater at developing, improving, and sustaining relationships with the people who are essential to their success.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

Alexa Rank : 251,748 Google Page Rank : 5 PostRank Leadership Score : 18 Number of Posts in last 30 days : 30 TwitterGrader Score : 100 All Things Workplace : This blog offers opinions and general information on leadership and leadership development by Steve Roesler. Engineering Manager with Adobe Systems). I’m not an MBA.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

The way to develop and grow is to let go of what you think you know and be open to what is new. In the State of Nevada we, Professional Engineers, have to have 30 professional development hours of learning to renew our licenses every two years. Be open to the new learning. When you find yourself struggling with it, let it go.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

At the same time, fighter planes were coming in low overhead, their engines echoing in the cavernous atmosphere of Manhattan. Fifth Avenue was shut down and everyone was walking in the middle of it headed from hospital to hospital or up to the Red Cross to give blood. What was most striking was the attitude of everyone.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

OCTOBER 24, 2010

By continuing your own development, you’ll have a better idea of what matters. So, find a mentor, hire a coach, take a 360, read some self-development or leadership books. Keep working on “you&# : Odd as it sounds, there is no better time to work on “you&# than when you feel overwhelmed. Jennifer V.

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QAspire

JANUARY 21, 2010

I was thinking about why engineering disciplines focus so heavily on checklists? The review says - The utility of formal protocols, according to organizational experts, varies with the nature of the activity—some activities are highly systemized, like engineering, and others dependent on the judgment and personality of the individual.

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The Recovering Engineer

JANUARY 26, 2010

For part of my career, I diligently pursued technical roles. He has degrees in Chemical Engineering and he served as a Nuclear Engineering officer in the U.S. He is an engineer by nature, by training, and experience. Did you catch the reinvention part of the story? Did you catch the reinvention part of the story?

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Nathan Magnuson

JANUARY 7, 2013

He grew up during the Great Depression and following a stint in the military, began his career in sales. Dedicated to helping others get everything they want out of life, Ziglar’s speaking career took off soon after that. ” “Failure is an event. It’s not a person. Yesterday really did end last night.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

Develop those contacts as a ladder to reach higher, but more challenging, prospects. Test business development, starting with advice from your banker, accountant, and lawyer. Similarly, make sure your OWN site has the best key words for the search engines. We can leverage each other’s expertise. Mine your backyard.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 11, 2016

Women are historically underrepresented in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics. According to the US Department of Education, the number of computer science degrees peaked at 37 percent between 1984 and 1985 compared to only 18 percent in the period between 2008 and 2011. But let’s go further on education.

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CO2

JUNE 29, 2010

In addition, because of the successive generations entering the workforce, rising education levels, globalization, the flattening of organizations, and an increased willingness to change careers and companies, employees have come to understand they can add more value doing meaningful work.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 30, 2010

Let me be blunt – you won’t earn anyone’s respect, at least not the respect of anyone who matters if your concern for career success overshadows your concern for the well-being of your family. Think About Your Legacy: Create a legacy that transcends your career. What I can tell you is that I’ve always made my family a priority.

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Chris Brady

JANUARY 19, 2011

There were the occasional family trips across the country, the most memorable being the one to California and back after my High School graduation, complete with a robbery, car accident, and engine flames in the cab of the motor home while driving down the highway (these and other episodes will perhaps be covered in future musings).

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

In order for your enterprise to turn an idea into a monetizing and/or value creating event you should develop a strategic plan that attempts to measure the idea against the following 15 elements: 1. It should be developed as a solution to a problem or to exploit an opportunity. Be careful of high level, pie-in-the-sky projections.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 11, 2010

Like most things, building and maintaining your social media footprint should be engineered by design, but the truth is that most people allow it to be constructed by default. Remember that connections are not the same thing as relationships, but that connections can develop into relationships with the proper effort on your part.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 17, 2010

In further pondering this dichotomy an interesting thought came to mind – If I could genetically engineer the perfect leadership gene what qualities and characteristics would constitute the architecture of leadership DNA? No single leader can possess every needed attribute. Disagreement, at this state, stimulates me.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 1, 2017

You’re not cut out for engineering. But I’ve learned key lessons to help managers turn lofty goals — such as making learning and development a central pillar of the workday — into real actions that mitigate damage to, and even help strengthen, the bottom line. You’re not a data scientist. Here’s how.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2012

She was a training manager for a large corporation, advising middle and senior managers on career development. Located at the home office, she developed long-term relationship with her clients. Between 2007 and 2008, financial, information, and professional service jobs were outsourced at an average rate of 5.4% (PDF).

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Call me crazy, but I don’t want to talk to someone who wants to manage my account, develop my business, or engineer my sale. If you don’t engineer everything around the client, your client relationships will vanish before your very eyes. A sales person is trying to sell them something. Thanks for stopping by Wayne.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2011

And I'd also want team members who knew how to get people to adopt new skills and attitudes — experts in incentives, training and development, culture, communication, stakeholder management, and redeployment. Most process engineering starts out as a project," Coco explained. "We These are "people skills.".

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2013

Universities like Stanford, Caltech, and UC Berkeley continue to churn out the next generation of founders and engineers. We believe that when this incredible professional diversity collides with software engineering talent, you have the recipe for breakthrough innovation. In a word: culture. Established executives, like former Yahoo!

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2018

But over and over again in our three decades of experience as talent development and retention specialists, we’ve seen that companies consistently overlook half of them. These are jobs in R&D, technology, and other areas vital to a firm’s strategic direction, product development, and process efficiency.

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QAspire

FEBRUARY 7, 2010

My post “ On Leadership, Opening Up and Being Prepared &# is featured in February Leadership Development Carnival , along with a number of fantastic posts from Leadership community and friends. The brain, as Bill Calvin said to me is “nature’s connection making engine.&# Check it out. Wally Bock´s last blog.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2015

We also found that the professionals we spoke with at Accenture, in offices on three continents, consistently lauded the firm for its willingness to support innovations, from Accenture Development Partnerships to professional programs for First Peoples in Canada and support for call centers in native communities.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2015

In 2007 and 2008, the economy collapsed. A Romanian-born, US educated analyst, Dediu studied engineering in college, received an MBA but kept a lifelong passion for technology. But after only a few months of blogging, Crain’s Cleveland Business interviewed Juvan on the use of social media for lawyers. Good thing.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

After 12 years, 50% of technical women, predominately in engineering and computer science, had switched to other fields; 20% of other women professionals had done the same. Developing Tomorrow’s Leaders. The highest-profile losses in tech are those at the senior level. Insight Center. Sponsored by Korn Ferry.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2014

Early in my career, a lot of commentators were sure Japan was on its way to becoming number one. A new wave of it began before the crash in 2008, stopped while the world caught its breath, and is now resuming. an engine manufacturer, began building an engine for long-haul trucks optimized to run on natural gas.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2014

In a recent New York Times video on both disasters , one former engineer, Rodney Rocha, recalls asking why his request was rejected. ” At NASA, notes Rocha, “part of our engineering culture is that you work through your chain of command. I will regret always why I didn’t break down the door by myself.”

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HR Digest

APRIL 30, 2019

While most corporate cultures are focused on engineering the most common goal of every business, some employers are repositioning their cultures to address social inequality as well as drive diversity & inclusion. What do you say have been the most important transformations in your career? PHOTO: PHILIP MORRIS INTERNATIONAL.

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