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.

Engineering 10

Engineering Management Offshoring Learning-by-Doing 10

HR Digest

DECEMBER 17, 2023

Unstable Income While flexibility is desirable, knowing what the gig economy is will tell you that regular work is an uncertainty. Growth Opportunities are More Difficult to Come Across Working independently through contracts and job platforms means that growing in your career is largely left to you.

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Short-term Long-term Project Advertising 52

Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 4, 2011

Mark Bennett , from the Oracle team, starts us off with Uncertainty, Fear, and Our Response posted at TalentedApps , saying, "How leaders respond to uncertainty shows whether they think they even have a choice and how their choices can seriously affect the future.". Where would you like to be?" Good questions, Kevin - Thanks!

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Leadership Development Development Leadership Team Building 248

Coaching Tip

MARCH 5, 2014

Insecurity is a species of discontent--an anxious uncertainty about your worth or place in society, a feeling of worry that you or what you''ve done or what you have is in some fundamental way not good enough. Everyone of America''s extremely successful groups fosters a belief in its own superiority. INSECURITY.

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Succession Self-aware Competitive Advantage Ethics 97

HR Digest

JANUARY 10, 2024

The HR Digest: In your podcast “Break the Rules To Get the Job You Deserve,” you discuss unconventional career advice. It doesn’t work well for hiring managers, candidates, agency recruiters or the HR and TA people who administer the recruiting engine. Yes, there are so many. It’s not effective.

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Ryan Handbook Letter Competitive Advantage 59

Skip Prichard

JULY 22, 2019

But without the backing of the great entrepreneur and gifted engineer George Westinghouse, Tesla’s revolutionary inventions would probably have come to nothing.” [3]. Bezos’ approach works especially well when the innovation requires overcoming a lot of market/demand uncertainty (will people buy it?) v=HfnFeJlkfZE. [5]

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Innovation Social Capital Reputation How To 80

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2018

Show me a person who sees uncertainty as opportunity, and I’ll show you a person who has mastered the new world of work. A person like Juliet (not her real name), for example, who described a stressful stretch of her career as “disgustingly exciting.” This uncertainty kept them on edge. Imagno/Getty Images.

Career 15

Career Uncertainty Self-aware Learning-by-Doing 15

The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 18, 2020

The researchers set out to explore what set the early adopters apart from their peers, and trawled through the database of academic papers held by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. It helps us to dispel ambiguity and uncertainty.

Innovation 88

Innovation Early Adopters Technology Constraint 88

The Center For Leadership Studies

JANUARY 12, 2021

More transparency—I can vividly remember being so much younger and daydreaming every now and then about what I would be like when I was somewhere in my 60s and in the twilight of a long and eventful career: First — I would absolutely be the sort of person that people would not hesitate for a second to approach and ask for advice.

Management 81

Management Situational Leadership Objective Short-term 81

QAspire

JUNE 1, 2014

Joel Garfinkle on his Career Advancement Blog shares “ 7 Competencies Successful HR Executive MUST Know ” to be successful. ( @workcoach4you ). These recall delays are a failure of internal systems, of engineering, and, most critically, a failure of the heart. Read more in his post “ GM’s Heart Failure ” ( @scedmonds ).

Leadership Development 185

Leadership Development Development Leadership McCarthy 185

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2012

She is reaching a point in her career where the path seems to be narrowing suddenly and precipitously. And they don't like it when Boomers assume they're interested only in the "obvious" career path choice. Melissa, a talented Gen X'er , is given a promotion that puts her in direct contention for a key senior spot.

Career 14

Career Restructuring Skills Uncertainty 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

The financial risk of a career in entrepreneurship is the chance of spending 20 years in startups with nothing to show for it — neither money nor an impact on the world. The most important way to mitigate risk is to become excellent at either engineering, product, selling, or operations and management.

Career 8

Career Company IPO Christensen 8

Your Voice of Encouragement

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

I kept my foot off the accelerator and just glided along to avoid splashing water on the engine. When you face uncertainty about the future, it’s easy to feel anxious and afraid. As I approached the water, I looked out the window and could see that it was only a few inches deep. So I decided to go ahead. What I learned.

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Influence Gordon Entrepreneur Blog 102

The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

The researchers argue that combining mechanical engineering, materials science, computer science, chemistry, and biology in a single teaching discipline would provide students with the skills needed to make lifelike robots. Physical AI. Skills gap.

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Proposal Engineering Education Uncertainty 83

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

There was so much fear and uncertainty. At the same time, fighter planes were coming in low overhead, their engines echoing in the cavernous atmosphere of Manhattan. " I was on a plane a week later to attend my grandmother's funeral, and my wife and I were 2 of about 20 on that flight.

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Blog Hotels Follow-up Brand 362

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 1, 2017

You’re not cut out for engineering. Part of your job will be to manage this uncertainty. I regularly hired people right out of college, as well as people who were looking to pivot from an existing career and, although they still needed to learn fundamentals, had a good base of core skills and the ambition to learn.

CTO 8

CTO Goal How To Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2015

Talk to people in such professional service industries as private banking, auditing, consulting, even engineering, and you begin to hear concerns about the commoditization of professional knowledge. It affects career potential, skills development and the entire value-chain of organizations that serve the expertise business.

Drucker 8

Drucker Core Competence Engineering Sample 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2011

The Kauffman Foundation reports that the median age of founders is 39 - right at the midpoint of a typical professional career - and 69% are 35 or older. Another study by Washington University professors of 86,000 science and engineering graduates showed that age was not a significant predictor of becoming an entrepreneur.

Entrepreneur 17

Entrepreneur Stage-Gate Objective Career 17

Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2014

They are professional Predict, Plan & Execute (“PP&E”) machines, and as they have evolved over time, are carefully engineered to stamp out anything that induces uncertainty. The stock market demands this—and the systems, structures, and procedures (including the career path of your boss) support and reward it.

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Entrepreneur Innovation Operations Consultative 9

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. Facebook ads or search engine marketing might be appealing possibilities, but for now, they’re too much.

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Webinar How To Audience Hedge 13

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

It''s a nice primer on a range of views about what search engines should and shouldn''t reveal, and how the extraordinarily powerful company in the middle of the battle is responding. In the past, Ellison has been quoted as saying that the island feels to him like “this really cool 21st-century engineering project.”

Management 9

Management Risk Management Finance Real Estate 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2012

Here's what we believe, surveying the landscape: It would take something like 1,000 hours — and maybe a lot longer — to recover from a forced career change. In 1966, students arriving at an engineering college were told that they would be obsolete in seven years. Especially in this job market. And you may be right.

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Retail Gordon Education Industry 13

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2012

Although he could have a successful career supporting other, presumably more strategic leaders, he's unlikely to get the senior-level general management position he aspires to. As a result, he is in grave danger of being pegged as a highly-skilled number two.

Competitive Advantage 8

Competitive Advantage Taylorism Taylor Reputation 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2015

There is often a lot of confusion and uncertainty, and if colleagues were laid off , people might also be sad or angry. ’” Showing compassion is not only kind it’s also a smart career move, according to Coyne. “He took me aside and said, ‘You’re young in your career to focus on only HR.

Restructuring 8

Restructuring Stress Uncertainty Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2014

On the theoretical side, there seems to be much less consensus than there was 50 years ago about what rational behavior under uncertainty even looks like. That evidence has just kept on piling up in finance. In macroeconomics, too.

Cooper 9

Cooper Finance Open-book Risk Management 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2018

While there is no well-defined career path for data scientists, and little support for junior data scientists, we are starting to see some forms of specialization. You may gather that the profession offers its practitioners a great deal of uncertainty. Specialization is becoming more important.

Ethics 8

Ethics Learning-by-Doing Industry Telecommunications 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2018

You might be an applied machine learning/AI engineer if your response to “I bet you couldn’t build a model that passes testing at 99.99999% accuracy” is “Watch me.” Engineering excellence is a must. In other words, they use data to minimize the chance that you’ll come to an unwise conclusion.

Organization 15

Organization Engineering Learning-by-Doing Storytelling 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2017

Making predictions in terms of mathematical probabilities forces employees to quantify their own uncertainties about future events. Our lead engineer Jixuan Wang made his own prediction: he was 70% confident he could build the feature in eight engineering weeks. Almost half of participants saw 10% increases in their viewership.

Company 8

Company Participative Training Project 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2011

Our research of more than 1,800 organizations over the last two years suggests at least five reasons for this: Business Uncertainty. Consider how an engineer in our study must tap networks each time she develops a new research proposal for grant funding. Does your organization enable this sense of mission?

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Team Short-term Proposal Uncertainty 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2012

They decided to pursue their doctorates, and offered their search engine to Yahoo for $1 million. Ask for the keys to career success and you'll get logical explanations, recommendations, pathways and approaches. Your organization, career, even life can change in a single moment. Yahoo declined (as did others). Lucky thing, that.

Succession 17

Succession Diversity Open-book Innovation 17

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

But large firm CEOs didn’t score much higher than other professionals, like doctors, lawyers, or engineers. ” What else shapes the careers of successful CEOs? Perhaps the most sweeping indictment of the idea that CEOs’ careers are shaped by skill comes from a 2013 paper by Markus Fitza at Texas A&M.

CEO 8

CEO Succession Industry Skills 8

The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

In many ways, the slump in oil prices since 2014 have been a boon to the startup scene in Oslo as so many engineers have either voluntarily or otherwise chosen to deploy their talents in non-oil disciplines, with many choosing to create startups. This can be compounded by government policies that continue to tax stock options highly.

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Resources Innovation GDP Education 78

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2017

While an internal combustion engine has thousands of parts, a Tesla electric engine contains a few dozen, each needing different engineering skills. This is why Volkswagen recently announced that it would retrain 7,000 engineers in electric technology.

Skills 8

Skills Engineering Telecommunications Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2011

In a series of teleconferences that evening, Thiokol engineers initially recommended against a low-temperature launch. But after their view was challenged by NASA shuttle managers, an off-line "caucus" among engineers and managers at Thiokol reversed that recommendation.

Engineering 14

Engineering Open-book Review Operations 14