Leading Blog

JULY 12, 2021

R EVERSE ENGINEERING is systematically taking things apart to discover how and why they work. Just as both “Jobs and Gates reaped enormous benefit from studying the works of their contemporaries, extracting crucial insights, and applying those lessons to develop new products, says Ron Friedman in Decoding Greatness , you can too.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 19, 2020

A good marketing strategy must be memorable and eye-catching, drawing in the target audience and perhaps even reaching a secondary demographic. Search Engine Optimization, in essence, is boosting your company’s website up to higher rankings in search engine results pages. Understand SEO tactics. Social Media.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 3, 2008

Most of us have heard of the concept of "leader's teaching leaders" - Noel Tichy commercialized the concept in his 2002 book, The Leadership Engine. Here's 10 practical ways to get leaders involved in leadership development programs: 1. Get input from executive sponsors, your target audience , and managers of your target audience.

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ExactHire - Leadership

APRIL 23, 2021

First, you’re writing for the search engines. Each of these “audiences” requires a different approach. Search engine writing elevates your ad near the top of search results where applicants can find it. Your words should be clear to a general audience and spelled out completely for search engines.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 11, 2016

It’s just different enough to turn heads and to position your brand as savvy to emerging tech trends and developments. It can be challenging to direct an audience to a specific page of your client’s website, especially if the user has to navigate an extensive website menu in order to get there. Is your client’s brand on Facebook?

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2018

Engineering faces a serious gender-based retention problem. Despite all the efforts encouraging women to study engineering, over 40% of highly skilled women who enter the field end up leaving. In 2014 we interviewed 34 women engineers in two FTSE 100 firms in the UK. vgajic/Getty Images.

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Chartered Management Institute

APRIL 19, 2023

CMI Malaysia at IET Gala On 18 February, representatives from CMI Malaysia attended the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) Malaysia prestige lecture and award dinner. The award recognises a high level of academic attainment, plus dedication to their course and to their own personal and professional development.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 10, 2019

Of late, there has been an increase in the use of various social media platforms for business purposes and building careers. Within a short time, your audience will grow, and you won’t have to boost posts regularly to reach many people. Did you know that people can know about your business through organic search from search engines?

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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. What We Can Learn from Zig? ” “Failure is an event.

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The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 10, 2020

Creativity – Companies need people who can creatively approach problems and tasks across all business roles, from software engineering to HR. To advance your career, hone your ability to effectively communicate ideas and persuade your colleagues that it’s in their best interest to follow your lead.

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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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Women on Business

JANUARY 22, 2011

Use social networking as a powerful way to engage your audience, share your expertise, increase your “validity&# as a provider in your chosen field, and build your community of clients on the web. Flores, web developer at 10K Webdesign, see her bio for Women on Business or visit her website [link].

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Curious Cat

AUGUST 4, 2015

My career has been largely shaped by the pursuit of better ways to communicate. As I moved into high school Dad was doing much more direct management consulting (it was also a combination of statistics, engineering and management but the emphasis shifted over time) based on Deming’s ideas.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

Develop those contacts as a ladder to reach higher, but more challenging, prospects. To test service, put yourself in the shoes of your audience’s experience. Test business development, starting with advice from your banker, accountant, and lawyer. We can leverage each other’s expertise. Mine your backyard.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2018

Entrepreneurship, even in the form of part-time work to complement a traditional day job, can provide a useful hedge against economic uncertainty and a way to develop new skills. ” Don’t just come up with a clever notion; make sure people actually want it before you spend a lot of money developing it.

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HR Digest

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

The question people ask is: What are the careers with the highest satisfaction? In this post we’ll explore some of the most satisfying jobs, what is the most satisfying aspect of your job or business and why they make for such fulfilling careers. . And find your perfect career fit! The Most Satisfying Jobs . Well, read on!

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2016

For example, engineers tend to be far more attracted to companies that emphasize innovation, while those in more commercial roles tend to be far more attracted by leadership opportunities. They don’t pay as much attention to processes like performance management reviews and career planning. Standing out from the crowd.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

Even the best-crafted job description may not capture every person who might flourish in the position and some applicants with untraditional backgrounds or non-standard career trajectories may offer something that you may not want to miss. Take David’s story. You and Your Team. Hiring and Firing. How to build a strong team.

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Modern Servant Leader

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Audience : Hi. Back when you started leadership development working with those unions, how did servant leadership come to you? He was down the road in a new career a couple years later. I’ve seen it my whole career. And contrast that to Devon’s son who got out of college, chemical engineering degree, six figures.

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Modern Servant Leader

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Audience : Hi. Back when you started leadership development working with those unions, how did servant leadership come to you? He was down the road in a new career a couple years later. I’ve seen it my whole career. And contrast that to Devon’s son who got out of college, chemical engineering degree, six figures.

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ExactHire - Leadership

APRIL 23, 2021

First, you’re writing for the search engines. Each of these “audiences” requires a different approach. Search engine writing elevates your ad near the top of search results where applicants can find it. Your words should be clear to a general audience and spelled out completely for search engines.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2014

By making a compelling case to redesign a key process or develop a promising new offering, for instance, you can have a big impact on productivity or revenue. And if you fail to get buy-in , the organization might suffer — along with your career.) In our study, an engineering manager at an energy company did this especially well.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2013

This is called Functional Fixedness and while you probably won''t need to build a fort during your professional career, chances are you do suffer from it and it is impacting your work. Companies often struggle to develop breakthrough products because they are hobbled by Functional Fixedness. How can I be so sure? you''re human, right?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2014

A world-class leader must be able to hire and develop an exceptionally strong leadership team—he/she cannot succeed as a brilliant one-person player,” one asserted. Another said that today’s executive must be “more interested and skilled in developing his/her team, less self-oriented.” Developing Mindful Leaders for the C-Suite.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

Ask them if they apply much else from else from economics in their actual business careers, and you’re likely to hear “not much.”. Consider first the increasing use of auctions, which have a distinguished history in the development of economics. Here a few notable examples.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

JANUARY 4, 2010

In reference to social media and blogging, just because the technology seems a bit alien, it doesn’t mean that the reason one engages with it is any less tried and true than simply having a conversation with someone, or expanding upon an idea for the benefit of an interested audience. Here’s to learning from each other with patience!

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

The ability to immerse oneself in terabytes of data, identify (individually or collaboratively) what''s most important and restructure it in an accessible, meaningful and usable form for a variety of audiences will increasingly be an essential skill. Reverse Engineering. Business education Career planning Education'

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2011

While many tend to think of commercial pressures as anathema to scientific openness, Fiona Murray, Scott Stern and I developed a hypothesis that suggested the opposite. Because scientists get personal (and possibly career) value from it and so you can pay them less. My presentation there was actually about just that.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2013

Most of all, we in the audience were moved by Larissa’s story of how her involvement in a range of Girl Scout programs helped her develop skills, confidence, and a social network that enabled her to make better choices. Larissa had been removed from her parents’ home – both were drug addicts — and placed in foster care.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 9, 2015

More applicably, using these technologies will develop one’s technological skills, methodological knowledge, and subject matter experience, which is an asset to one’s career. LinkedIn SlideShare is really a content catchall in the business world and is an expedient method of connecting with a broad audience on one platform.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2013

Great managers can help improve job satisfaction and employee retention by leading their organizations with a strong vision, strategic execution and opportunities for career growth. Rule 1: Know your audience. Innovation Managing people Product development' The team’s results are now on the upswing. Rule 7: Build for scale.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

She was an engineer and programmer. She had bounced around from retail to media to tech throughout her career, but she had great instincts and Steph valued her outlook. She could also develop an image-recognition capability for the Brrrd to help people learn to write Chinese characters. Actually — talk to me in Mandarin.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2018

Instead of asking an analyst to develop their statistics or machine learning skills, consider encouraging them to seek the heights of their own discipline first. Engineering excellence is a must. ” Their semi-sloppy coding style baffles traditional software engineers — but leaves them in the dust. The result?

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 10, 2011

Do you parade the halls, factory floors, or store aisles of your organization, holding audience with only the small entourage of upper management trailing after you? One of the most important lessons I’ve learned in my career is that respect doesn’t have to be won by giving orders and demanding adherence to those orders.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2017

A coworker, who knows I am gay, told them they should know their audience but it went right over their heads and they returned to the conversation unashamed and unaware.” “I am the only woman on a team of software engineers. I feel it’s because I’d be a buzz kill in the male-locker-room atmosphere.”

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 24, 2017

” The goal, Nawaz says, is to “think about your audience” and “what’s in it for them.” “He also suffered from selective amnesia — we’d have a good meeting, develop a plan, and then he would ‘forget’ what we talked about.” Over time, Nancy improved.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2012

The obvious targets were people in the field of innovation — those working in strategy, R&D, business development, and entrepreneurship. But there are a lot of thought-leaders competing for the attention of that audience. They partnered up with IBM to develop OS/2 , and decimated the Windows team. Lucky thing, that.

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