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Lessons in Leadership to Last a Lifetime

Leading Blog

Back then, the vast majority of Akamai’s 100 engineering staff had been recruited directly from MIT and other top universities. He is a Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at MIT. a start-up that was acquired by Intel in 2009.

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How Much Margin Do You Have? | Guy Harris: The Recovering Engineer

The Recovering Engineer

To explain what I mean, I’ll lean on my background as an engineer. In my engineering design classes, I learned about the concept of design or safety margin — a factor built into design calculations to allow for minor errors, miscalculations, under estimations, and other variables that are difficult to accurately determine.

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Get Over Yourself To Develop Effective Communication Skills | Guy.

The Recovering Engineer

I teach and coach others on developing effective communication skills, and I wasn’t really using them. The next time you have a communication challenge you might consider this thought: Get Over Yourself to Develop Effective Communication Skills If you liked this post, please tweet it, like it, share it, or leave a comment.

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This Is 'Out Of The Box' Thinking.

Rich Gee Group

Apple engineer rebuilds an ancient Greek mechanism — the oldest known computer – known as The Antikythera Mechanism. Watch: Get Shareaholic Tagged as: Antikythera Mechanism , Computer , Legos { 0 comments… add one now } Leave a Comment Previous post: Developing The CEO Within You. Out Of LEGO. Unported License.

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Entrepreneur, CEO or Both? | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

I believe great leaders will mentor and coach subordinates for the purpose of identifying and developing other great leaders. While there is an element of truth in that statement if this is what you aspire to as a leader it constitutes a complete under-utilization of leadership responsibility.

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Breakthrough Innovations Tend To Have Science Behind Them

The Horizons Tracker

million patents filed between 1980 and 2009 to look at the importance of scientific references in the filings. This approach tends to see rapid iteration as the way to go, with short development cycles the norm. A shift back towards longer development cycles may be already underway, however. Science-led innovation.

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Three practices of successful product managers

Lead on Purpose

Provide clear direction: One of the key directives for products managers is to provide clear direction to the engineering/development teams. A key to giving clear direction is for product managers to project their confidence and full support to the work engineering is doing. Earn their trust.