Lead on Purpose

NOVEMBER 6, 2010

Developing relationships drives engagement (in school, in work, in personal lives) that pays dividends. Third Floor: People develop an emotional comfort level that goes beyond facts and information. Leadership grows and develops through building effective relationships. economy about $382 billion annually.

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Purdue is known for its bright engineers, top flight technology students, it is the alma mater of the first and last men to walk on the moon. Leadership Development and Educating our Young Think back to when you began your school years. It is also the alma mater of Amelia Earhart who was the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 3, 2011

Here’s a tip: learn about search engine optimization (SEO) techniques and use of keywords. Offer your services for website design , IT Consulting , or Internet Marketing. Market your service to small businesses, and people with home offices. Get started by contributing content to sites that utilize freelance writers.

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Lead on Purpose

NOVEMBER 4, 2009

— The Product Management Perspective: The ideas for this post came from a question posed to me about how an engineer can become a product manager. Following these three things will help you progress from your work as an engineer (or support or SE or any other job) to becoming a successful product manager.

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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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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 21, 2011

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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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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N2Growth Blog

MAY 16, 2010

It applies to your branding, marketing, supply chain, and ultimately to your customer base. When Google started they had the greatest focus, the simplest vision, and the least cluttered search engine. Here is a simple rule of thumb…the bigger the key man policy the less scalable the company is.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 31, 2010

I actually prefer to play to the middle in that I am neither understated nor overstated, but I am comfortable with who I am and my approach to the market. and any number of other appearance specific issues can add to, or detract from, the strength of your personal brand.

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Kevin Eikenberry

JANUARY 24, 2011

Engineer Blogs January 31, 2011 at 10:54 am { 4 comments… read them below or add one } Duncan Brodie January 25, 2011 at 3:07 am Hi Kevin Excellent blog post. Tagged as: choices , decisions , meetings { 2 trackbacks } Tweets that mention Do You Really Need a Meeting to Make a Decision?

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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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Lead on Purpose

AUGUST 6, 2009

Quite often much emphasis is placed on designing and developing products, and the actual launch goes unplanned (or under-planned) until it’s too late. As eCornell’s marketing agency, we partnered with them to launch a new Systems Design program. What problems have you faced when trying to launch a new product?

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Women on Business

JANUARY 22, 2011

What if you don’t have the time or inclination to dedicate resources to this type of marketing? What if you don’t understand these types of marketing avenues? 20 Best Marketing and Social Media Blogs by Women from Forbes Includes WomenOnBusiness.com Forbes.com published a list of the top 20 marketing and.

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The Recovering Engineer

MARCH 27, 2010

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. Tweets that mention Effective Communication Skills: You Don’t Know Until You Ask : Guy Harris: The Recovering Engineer -- Topsy.com says: March 27, 2010 at 5:35 pm [.]

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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. Steve’s insights are thoughtful and always spot-on.

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CO2

DECEMBER 10, 2010

What drives your economic engine? I use a tool I have developed to help companies Vision statement worksheet (attached). It asks the leader and their team to determine what is the measurement of their success (Collin’s economic engine). What are you passionate about? Where are you taking your company and why?

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CO2

DECEMBER 10, 2010

What drives your economic engine? I use a tool I have developed to help companies Vision statement worksheet (attached). It asks the leader and their team to determine what is the measurement of their success (Collin’s economic engine). What are you passionate about? Where are you taking your company and why?

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Tanveer Naseer

MAY 6, 2014

Some went on to dominate a market without any previous background in it. However, these developments haven’t changed the fundamental principle of his work. The man changing the face of the financial world had no prior background in the industry before he began in 2009. Not less gut wrenching, but simpler. So what’s the secret?

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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. When this happens they aren’t motivated to update their headshots, create video marketing or present themselves as speakers.

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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. Evaluate organizations online: their mission, major products/markets, history, and biographies of key participants. Mine your backyard.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 1, 2016

In the text that follows you’ll hear Sam’s views on leadership, the state of the market, and you’ll be introduced to his retirement ambitions and the future challenges for the boardroom, following his return to Perth, Australia. I had joined the Rio Board in 2009, so I already had broad oversight of the company’s diverse operations.

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Mills Scofield

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

Back in the fall of 2009, Cindy, one of our customer service representatives, received a phone call that nearly made her fall off her chair. The development process continues and we introduce the “Amalgatome” in the middle of 2011 to a narrow market of fifteen primary processors with an annual sales potential of $2.76

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Lead on Purpose

AUGUST 17, 2009

Jim’s passion is enabling product marketing teams. With a lifetime of experience, he has a fresh and unique perspective in guiding and managing product teams and has a knack for sensing markets, synthesizing ideas and turning them into reality. What market problems are you discovering or need to understand? Think about it.

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Rajesh Setty

DECEMBER 4, 2008

We had offshored our development team but when we did a rightshoring exercise, we found that a dual-shore approach works better. Apart from using PPC (pay-per-click) and CPE (cost-per-engagement) based advertisements to jump-start adoption, we have engaged some experts to work on social media marketing.

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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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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2014

We need to ensure we have a growth engine. This led to a hypothesis that saturating a market with stores to ensure there’s a store close to any job site will produce outsized market share growth. Sherwin-Williams tested the hypothesis in four markets and it worked. We need to keep up with other companies.

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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. Let me say this as clearly as I can…a ready, fire, aim approach will rarely find the target.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2018

Over the past few decades, Silicon Valley has been such a powerful engine for entrepreneurship in technology that, all too often, it is considered to be some kind of panacea. The Silicon Valley model, for all of its charms, was developed at a specific time, for a specific industry, which was developing a specific set of technologies.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2014

That includes learning from the outside and striving to adopt certain start-up practices, with a focus on three key management processes: (1) resource allocation that nurtures future businesses, (2) faster-cycle product development, and (3) partnering with start-ups. Marketing plays a catalyst role, providing growth funding.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2013

An “innovation engine” is an organization’s capability to think and invest in long-term opportunities along with the competence to drive continuous innovations for top-line growth each year. In 2009, Amazon bought Zappos for $1.2 What are methods and tactics to develop intrapreneurs and intrapreneurial teams?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2018

For example, in 2009 professors Brian Becker, Mark Huselid, and Richard Beatty estimated that in most companies less than 15% of jobs are what they call strategic positions and said management should focus “disproportionate investments” on finding A players for those jobs. Connectors in the middle. Customer experience creators.

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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.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 30, 2010

Trying to re-engineer an entire life in a few short years down the home stretch is a tough row to hoe. The best legacies are built moment-by-moment and day-by-day. Have fun with your father in law and congratulations to you and your wife on the upcoming birth.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2012

In recent years, however, the ability of our research ecosystem to sustain a leading global position has come into question, especially as new competitors emerge, such as China, which churns out huge numbers of new scientists and engineers and increases its research and development (R&D) expenditures at a 20% annual rate. About 15.7%

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2011

Cheap, plentiful labor was readily available in developing countries like China, India, Mexico and Eastern Europe. Consider that many multinationals like GE and the big pharma companies expect that over 50 percent of their revenue growth over the next 10 years will come from developing economies. Or that China surpassed the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

Since 2009 we have interviewed and surveyed 181 executives who run PE-owned companies, as well as eight to 15 people who work with each of these 181 executives (supervisors, board members, director reports, and others). Selectively developing top team members to accomplish the strategy. Not seeking CEOs who value talent development.

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