Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

It looked like a stuffed animal — a cartoonish plush bird with a beetling brow and goofy eyes — but it contained a microphone, tiny speaker, headphone jack, computer chip, and enough speech-recognition and voice-generation technology to engage in sassy banter in Mandarin. She was an engineer and programmer.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2017

“From a career aspiration standpoint, you worry that your reputation will suffer,” she says. Having an indecisive boss is not only hard on your day-to-day productivity, it’s also bad for your “internal reputation and career development,” says Finkelstein. Protect yourself. “It was never a ‘no.’

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2016

” It’s important to talk openly about how career paths can diverge. “Say something like, ‘The career move you’re talking about is not the one I see for you. Case Study #1: Use “radical candor” and look for ways to challenge your employee. Are you growing? The answer is yes.”

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2015

If so, you may need to rethink your career. Mistake constant fatigue and apathy for a temporary case of burnout; if you feel ineffective on a daily basis, it might be time to look for a new job. Case study #1: Reflect on why your work matters. Case study #2: Be prepared to change careers if your burnout symptoms linger.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2016

Case Study #1: Adapt to the boss’s communication style. Brooks, now CEO of PILOT, a tech startup helping people manage their careers, says that even if adapting to a new person’s style feels a little awkward at first, all that matters is whether it’s effective. Come to the table only bearing problems.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 11, 2010

Validating proof of concept around social media ROI is a discussion that may have had a bit of relevance 24 months ago, but unless you’ve been stranded on a desert island for the last couple of years you know that numerous case studies abound which validate social media beyond any reasonable doubt.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2014

“The phenomenal number of interacting parts, interacting people and continuing changes in technology mean that we will always have failures, full stop.” In a recent New York Times video on both disasters , one former engineer, Rodney Rocha, recalls asking why his request was rejected. It’s not my job.”

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2016

Managers understand that having employees who understand the latest tools and technologies is vital to keeping a company competitive. A recent study by researchers from Bucknell University found active learners perform better than their passive peers in mechanical and electrical engineering. Learning is not a spectator sport.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2016

You’re thinking about making a career change (or perhaps getting your first real job out of grad school), and you’re looking at different types of organizations. To help bring cool new technology to the world? “You might move from product to engineering to ops.” To broaden your managerial repertoire?

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2012

3M and Google, among others, have given "innovation time off" to their scientists and engineers. Some pharmaceutical scientists will spend an entire career working on drug development without a single one of their products reaching the market. It's a well-established principle that people need slack time to work through their ideas.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

There is a lot of advice out there about keeping your online activity from hurting your career. Expertise can be noticed more easily," says Soumitra Dutta, a professor in business and technology at INSEAD, author of "What's Your Personal Social Media Strategy?" Case study #1: What boundaries? But there's a flip side.

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