Engaging Leader

DECEMBER 6, 2012

Guest Megan Burns is a consultant, speaker, & managing director of Operations Strategy Consulting. She has more than 15 years of industrial engineering and supply chain management experience. — Jesse Lahey, SPHR (@JesseLahey) December 6, 2012. ©iStockphoto.com/AnsonLu. MeganEBurns explains [link].

Resistance 184

Resistance Six Sigma Supply Chain Stakeholder Analysis 184

Terry Starbucker

JANUARY 13, 2013

We have cultivated a unique culture and management approach that we call the Hacker Way. At Facebook, allegiance to the hacker way permeates every aspect of the business, from product innovation to organizational structure to management and training. Walter was named among 25 Women Who Rock Social Media in 2012.

CEO 335

CEO Word of Mouth Marketing Leadership IPO 335

Deming Institute

JUNE 4, 2019

A chemical engineer by training, Dr. Latzko spent most of his career in quality control as a manager, consultant, and educator. A Fellow of the American Society for Quality Control and certified quality engineer, he published multiple books and more than 20 papers on management quality. Latzko, Ph.D. 1928 – 2018).

Deming 56

Deming Chemicals Automotive Engineering 56

QAspire

MARCH 25, 2014

In American Management Association’s critical skills survey 2012 , respondents emphasized on 4 C’s ( C ritical thinking and problem solving, Effective C ommunication, C ollaboration and team building and C reativity and innovation) as their key priorities for employee development, talent development and succession planning.

Leadership Development 185

Leadership Development Development Leadership Training 185

Tanveer Naseer

JANUARY 15, 2013

In the new edition, updated and expanded, Weisbord recasts some of his stories from management history, describes his recent work with collaborative teaming, and offers both updated and new cases. The new chapter on “Ten Management Myths” alone, in which the author summarizes five decades of experience, makes this edition worth reading.

Open-book 260

Open-book Books Competitive Advantage Participative 260

Marshall Goldsmith

MARCH 3, 2014

My friend Maria is a gifted engineer who has invested years in making a significant contribution to her firm. Her face lit up as she replied, “I think that I could do a great job managing a project team and eventually leading a larger part of our business. I have seen other managers. I know that I can do what they do.

Engineering 144

Engineering Middle Management Learning-by-Doing Follow-up 144

The Center For Leadership Studies

JUNE 8, 2023

Scientific Management An industrial engineer in the early 1900s, Frederick Winslow Taylor was obsessed with productivity enhancement. This study examined thousands of managers across industries with two basic parameters: Was the manager successful? Did the team or group the manager led hit their productivity targets?

Situational Leadership 52

Situational Leadership Hersey Blanchard Argyris 52

Jason Womack

FEBRUARY 18, 2012

On February 15th, 2012, I shared the stage with four amazing entrepreneurs and business thought-leaders in Santa Barbara, speaking for the MIT Enterprise Forum. The event was titled, "Effective Startup Management: Featuring Paul Orfalea ". For just over 2 hours, the discussion turned this way and that.

Advice 124

Advice Audience Engineering Entrepreneur 124

Deming Institute

JUNE 4, 2019

A chemical engineer by training, Dr. Latzko spent most of his career in quality control as a manager, consultant, and educator. A Fellow of the American Society for Quality Control and certified quality engineer, he published multiple books and more than 20 papers on management quality. Latzko, Ph.D. 1928 – 2018).

Deming 31

Deming Chemicals Automotive Engineering 31

Coaching Tip

JULY 16, 2015

This is CEO Shigetaka Komari's own story of why Fujifilm succeeded where Eastman Kodak failed with hard-won lessons for managers and employees everywhere. In 2012, Eastman Kodak filed for bankruptcy. Eastman Kodak was head and shoulders above all the others in the manufacture of photographic film when Fujifilm wasn't in 1963.

Film 70

Film Crisis Innovation Brand 70

Marshall Goldsmith

AUGUST 4, 2013

Hewitt found that these organizations tend to more actively manage their talent. His leadership team reversed the company’s poor image and engineered an amazing turnaround – ultimately becoming the Forbes’ most-admired company. It applies to all levels of management. The end result: No one gets much better.

Development 180

Development 360-Degree Feedback CEO Open-book 180

Coaching Tip

FEBRUARY 3, 2012

Jonah Lehrer's article, "GroupThink" in The New Yorker , January 30, 2012 states that brainstorming seems like an ideal technique, a feel-good way to boost productivity. Now Boeing needs hundreds of engineers just to design and produce engines." But there is a problem with brainstorming. It doesn't work.

Brainstorming 99

Brainstorming Groupthink Engineering Creativity 99

Mills Scofield

MAY 13, 2012

Khalil is preparing for a 2012 Fall launch. What was a ‘job shop’ is now a high-tech and biomedical design and engineering company with rapid prototyping/additive manufacturing up to full-scale injection molding capabilities. Lesson : Get out, meet some Gen-Zs and Millennials. They are hiring talent and growing.

Business Model 154

Business Model Constraint Innovation Licensing 154

HR Digest

JUNE 5, 2019

The negative effects of pay transparency could translate to hidden flaws in the existing management culture. Harvard was paying its fund managers employed by external investment management firms much higher and there was peace until it implemented salary transparency. Employees and job applicants are now better informed.

Survey 66

Survey Comparison Learning-by-Doing CEO 66

Deming Institute

JANUARY 29, 2018

This webcast shows Bill Bellows’ presentation, Do You See What I See, at the 2012 Annual Deming Conference. … A Boeing airplane, or rocket engine, is not a bunch of parts that fly in close formation. … A Boeing airplane, or rocket engine, is not a bunch of parts that fly in close formation.

Deming 28

Deming Conference System Engineering 28

Leading Blog

MARCH 7, 2013

With so much stuff coming at me from all angles, daily prosperity relies on spam filters, Internet search engines, and personalized music and movie recommendations. This veritable Big Bang delivers a plethora of examples so great in number, only a computer could manage to learn from them. These predicaments matter. Introducing.

Learning-by-Doing 277

Learning-by-Doing Insurance Wireless Discount 277

Chart Your Course

AUGUST 14, 2012

George is an industrial engineer. We provide a comprehensive portfolio of hiring and development solutions including 360, team, customer service, executive talent and management development reports and assessments. Smith, copyright 2012. Employee Turnover on the Increase. Employee turnover is starting to increase.

Newsletter 162

Newsletter Library Video Class 162

N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

A 2012 Custom Insight survey revealed that 49% of workers cited problems with their direct supervisor as their reason for disengagement. Some may be engineers, marketers, finance directors, or salespersons. With input from their managers, peers, and teams, leaders know what they need to focus on when it comes to their development.

Leadership Development 265

Leadership Development Development Leadership Self-aware 265

Coaching Tip

JUNE 21, 2012

Considering the expansion of the Internet, powerful search engines, and social media, it should be much easier to match potential employees with employers. Sources: Bloomberg BusinessWeek, June 14, 2012 and. Yet since the 1970s, access to information has exploded. Apparently not. “We We find that in the U.S., We find that in the U.S.,

Tips 128

Tips Succession Social Capital McKinsey 128

Marshall Goldsmith

JUNE 16, 2013

A moderately good accountant who is great with people outside the firm and skilled at managing very smart people? And not many people remember that Jack Welch has a PhD in chemical engineering. What Got You Here Won’t Get You There has just been listed as the #2 bestselling business book for 2012 by INC magazine / 800 CEO Read.

Chemicals 133

Chemicals Welch CFO CEO 133

Strategy Driven

MARCH 28, 2014

International Harvester changed its name to Navistar International in 1986 when it sold its farm equipment business and entered the truck, diesel engine, and bus markets. When Kraft split off its snack division in 2012, they named it Mondelez. Miller Felpax had been family owned since its inception more than 60 years ago.

Brand 58

Brand Marketing Engineering Competitive Advantage 58

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2012

And I predict that leaders who get the whole story, and act on it, will reap unexpectedly better workplace morale in 2012, despite all the uncertainty and volatility of the global economic realities. They want to chug ahead, like the Little Engine That Could. Bad news, right? But I'm not certain such surveys tell the whole story.

P&L 13

P&L Construction Survey Stress 13

Mills Scofield

OCTOBER 26, 2014

Springsteen has always been insistent and clear--with his band, producers, engineers, and audiences--about the sounds inside his head that he’s trying to recreate. He talked to the 2012 South by Southwest crowd about his hunger to learn and how he had to step out of the mold to discover his own musical style.

Learning-by-Doing 129

Learning-by-Doing Audience Open-book Innovation 129

Skip Prichard

DECEMBER 2, 2019

In addition, the group manages guest ranches in Montana, PGA Tour Superstores, and the Arthur M. Product designers and engineers worked on creating a filtration system that was affordable and easily transportable. One story that stands out for me came from some of the foundry managers. Blank Family Foundation.

Leadership 95

Leadership Automotive System Motivation 95

Deming Institute

OCTOBER 13, 2015

The Union of Japanese Scientists and Engineers (JUSE) has announced the 2015 Deming Prize winners. One company was awarded the Deming Grand Prize this year: National Engineering Industries Limited (India). That prize has previously been named the Japan Quality Medal but was renamed, in 2012, to the Deming Grand Prize. .”

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Deming TQM Committee Engineering 28

Deming Institute

JANUARY 5, 2017

I don’t think I learned anything about Deming or his work as an undergraduate Industrial Engineering student from 1991 to 1995. I was fortunate that my father had an opportunity to be a student in the famed four-day seminar, while working as an engineer at the Cadillac division of General Motors, in the late 1980s. Edwards Deming.

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Deming TQM Kaizen Crisis 46

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 20, 2014

It has also helped shape the practice of management. Staying true to its roots as an engineering-centric company, Google has stood out both for its early skepticism of the value of managers as well as for its novel, often quantitative approaches to management decisions. How Google manages. How Google innovates.

IPO 14

IPO Management Engineering Innovation 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2011

Forrester Research predicts that by 2012 half of all consumer purchases will be either transacted online or digitally driven in some way — influenced by search, social media, or emerging digital platforms like location-based services and digitally augmented store environments.

Engineering 12

Engineering Forrester Software Mass Marketing 12

Curious Cat

NOVEMBER 9, 2015

I have written a few posts on my science and engineering blog about his work over the years including a short post on the first web server (Tim’s NeXT computer). I was working for the Office of Secretary of Defense, Quality Management Office at the time. Follow me on Twitter: @curiouscat_com.

Health Care 40

Health Care Innovation Follow-up Quality 40

Deming Institute

JANUARY 16, 2017

As I wrote about in my first post , my first job out of college was at the GM Livonia Engine Plant, outside of Detroit. A forward-thinking plant manager modified the Deming Philosophy to create something called “The Livonia Philosophy.”. That sounds very much like the Toyota Production System and Lean management.

Kaizen 28

Kaizen Deming Lean Manufacturing Handbook 28

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2014

Gallup has found that one of the most important decisions companies make is simply whom they name manager. Bad managers cost businesses billions of dollars each year, and having too many of them can bring down a company. Managers account for at least 70% of variance in employee engagement scores across business units, Gallup estimates.

Management 13

Management Metrics Absenteeism Talent Management 13

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2017

The best software developer at Apple, for example, writes nine times more useable code each day than the average software engineer in Silicon Valley. In 2012, the National Bureau of Economic Research studied the impact that great bosses have on team productivity. They get more time from senior management.

Team 12

Team Management How To Productivity 12

Mills Scofield

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

In the early weeks we learn that our product won’t stand up to the sanitation requirements of the industry and we’re presented with real engineering problems in design and materials, but these are problems we know how to solve. So into the “Scoping” stage we go and the learning begins.

Succession 70

Succession Industry Stage-Gate CFO 70

Marshall Goldsmith

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

The process of re-engineering and streamlining, when coupled with increased demand for services, has led to a situation in which most leaders have more work to do and fewer staff members to help them do it. Some people may report to the same manager, but legitimately have little reason to work interactively as a team. 1-858-759-0950.

Team Building 137

Team Building Team Teamwork Survey 137

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

In 2012, HBR dubbed data scientist “the sexiest job of the 21st century ” It is also, arguably, the vaguest. Data science for humans: the consumers of the output are decision makers like executives, product managers, designers, or clinicians. Monty Rakusen/Getty Images. They are modeling scientists.

Engineering 13

Engineering Software Metrics Stage-Gate 13

Deming Institute

OCTOBER 24, 2016

Deming Lecture at the 2012 ASA Joint – Quality Improvement: From Autos and Chips to Nano and Bio” by Jeff Wu, Georgia Institute of Technology. I discussed Deming and DoE a bit in a previous post: Statistical Techniques Allow Management to do a Better Job (about a paper Dr. Deming wrote).

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Deming Quality Tools Process 28

Tanveer Naseer

JULY 1, 2014

was the joyous cry that rang out across the central quad at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory on the night of August 5, 2012. It was a wonderful moment for the normally staid engineering team. Landing on Mars is a huge engineering challenge. It was a wonderful moment for the normally staid engineering team.

Innovation 226

Innovation Engineering Learning-by-Doing Creativity 226