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Two Great Learning Opportunities for Aspiring Leaders

The Recovering Engineer

Kevin will be leading a free teleseminar on How to Make a Smooth and Rapid Transition to Leadership on Monday November 1st, and I will be leading another free teleseminar about the Secrets to Make Your Next Performance Review Meeting Productive, Powerful, and Painless on Wednesday November 10th.

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When You Criticize Someone, You Make It Harder for that Person to Change

Harvard Business Review

Managers should keep this in mind, particularly during performance reviews. This brain circuitry — vital for working toward our goals — runs on dopamine, a feel-good brain chemical, along with endogenous opioids like endorphins, the “runner’s high” neurotransmitters.

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Bots Won’t Just Help Us Buy Stuff. They’ll Help Us Become Better Versions of Ourselves

Harvard Business Review

Analytics are critical to companies’ performance. executive whose 360-degree performance reviews point to a brusque and alienating communication style. This twinned production thermostat could be instrumented to help predict the most cost-effective ways to heat critical chemicals in a production process.

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7 Ways to Improve Operations Without Sacrificing Worker Safety

Harvard Business Review

The culmination was an incident at an insecticide plant in LaPorte, Texas, where, as a result of a basic process safety management failure , an extremely toxic chemical—methyl mercaptan—was released and two workers were overcome. Needed repairs and upgrades were delayed, worker training postponed, and risk assessments overlooked.

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75% of Cross-Functional Teams Are Dysfunctional

Harvard Business Review

I studied cross-functional teams in industries including communications, software, pharmaceuticals, semiconductors, agricultural, chemical, manufacturers, retail, utility, consulting, internet software, government, insurance, and banking. Every project should be constantly re-evaluated.

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