Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 20, 2017

You’ll be able to implement it with greater speed, confidence, and consensus than if you were trying out the best idea that bubbled up in your conference room. When you’ve found the root cause to your crisis, the most effective and efficient solution will become readily apparent.

Crisis 140

Crisis Supply Chain How To Conference 140

The Practical Leader

MAY 15, 2019

” The Seattle Times investigative report found, “a company that once encouraged its engineers to raise questions or concerns about programs and designs began to do the opposite.” ” An engineering leader said, “there was a theme of just follow the plan, and that was code for don’t bring me bad news.”

Open-book 92

Open-book Consensus Engineering Brainstorming 92

Coaching Tip

JULY 16, 2017

Applying technology to provide easy access for societal dialog has the promise of peer-to-peer co-creation of knowledge and rapid consensus solution-building. Today's technology holds the promise of quickly connecting problem solvers with problems, converting actionable knowledge into value that transforms the world.

Consensus 88

Consensus Software Influence Engineering 88

Lead on Purpose

DECEMBER 6, 2010

Their success depends on their ability to build consensus and inspire the other team members to do great things. Here are the key roles that are crucial to your success as a product manager, and why they are important: Engineering/QA: The relationship with the engineering/development team is paramount for product managers.

Productivity 182

Productivity Products Management Leadership 182

Kevin Eikenberry

JANUARY 24, 2011

A consensus decision – a decision where the leader themselves isn’t making the decision, but truly the full group comes to the decision collectively. Engineer Blogs January 31, 2011 at 10:54 am { 4 comments… read them below or add one } Duncan Brodie January 25, 2011 at 3:07 am Hi Kevin Excellent blog post.

Consensus 210

Consensus Blog Workshop Learning-by-Doing 210

LDRLB

MARCH 18, 2013

Toyota’s 100 year plan had weekly strategic meetings after high level of consensus was gained from the core of Japanese managers with life-time contracts. The real world is global, not local Toyota’s strategic process involved consensus in Japan not consensus worldwide.

Strategy 60

Strategy Consensus Strategic Planning Quality 60

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

When I joined Instagram in 2015 as head of engineering, the company had been part of Facebook for three years. It had 115 engineers, but we would soon scale to 300, and later grow to over 400 in 2017. The engineering department needed better organization and management, and its employees were craving more career development.

Engineering 8

Engineering Team Consensus Committee 8

The Empowered Buisness

JUNE 16, 2015

Your management team struggles to identify and reach consensus on key issues and clear goals for the future. You expect or foresee major changes in the internal and/or external environment of your business sector over the next year or so. Systems Focused Approach to Strategic Planning. It is also the approach most used by our clients.

Strategic Planning 100

Strategic Planning Planning Fashion Consultative 100

Lead on Purpose

NOVEMBER 6, 2010

Product managers rely heavily on other people — engineers, sales people, support, etc. PMs who build consensus and inspire team members develop a high ROI on their products and ROR with their colleagues. — to ship successful products. PMs that focus on building strong relationships experience more success.

Review 157

Review Books ROI Loyalty 157

Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

But, the general consensus was that if someone recommended a book that inspired them or taught them how to be a better leader, the book was worth their time. Here is the list of all 235 books, in alphabetical order.

Books 80

Books Leadership Handbook Kotter 80

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

Be aware, however, that constant re-engineering, reorganization, and restructuring in pursuit of efficiency (or the latest management fad) has a questionable effect at best. The alignment culture is a company’s “must do” culture, and encompasses cooperation, consensus, and working together toward overarching goals.

Succession 50

Succession Teamwork Restructuring Commitment 50

Eric Jacobson

MAY 25, 2012

But, the general consensus was that if someone recommended a book that inspired them or taught them how to be a better leader, the book was worth their time. Within the list of favorites you'll find titles published decades ago and ones published last month.

Books 93

Books Handbook Kotter Leadership Pipeline 93

Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

But, the general consensus was that if someone recommended a book that inspired them or taught them how to be a better leader, the book was worth their time. Here is the list of all 235 books, in alphabetical order.

Books 50

Books Leadership Handbook Kotter 50

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. Have each team member record his or her selected behaviors on flip charts.

Team Building 137

Team Building Team Teamwork Survey 137

Eric Jacobson

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

But, the general consensus was that if someone recommended a book that inspired them or taught them how to be a better leader, the book was worth their time. Within the list of favorites you'll find titles published decades ago and ones published last month.

Books 62

Books Leadership Handbook Kotter 62

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2014

When Dan Akerson became CEO in 2010, he brought a bit of daylight into the hallowed halls, breaking down siloes to urge collaboration between departments that had long stopped talking to each other — engineering and parts buyers, product development and purchasing, to name some especially critical relationships.

Team 8

Team McGregor Parcell Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2017

But collaboration is not consensus. Too often, people will try to collaborate on everything, and wind up in endless meetings, debating ideas and struggling to find consensus. Collaboration is not a style. Many people naively see collaboration as a leadership style in which relationships take precedence over the task at hand.

Chief Operating Officer 11

Chief Operating Officer Consensus How To Project 11

Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2011

Unless people understand why innovation is necessary, it always loses to core business or the performance engine in the battle for resources. The performance engine is bigger, is the center of power, and can justify resources based on short term financial results. A compelling case for innovation. Old models don't work.

Critical Success Factor 15

Critical Success Factor Innovation Stage-Gate Succession 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2018

Consider a 1985 study by Carnegie Mellon researcher Robert Kelley and Janet Caplan, who analyzed the characteristics of exceptional engineers at Bell Labs. The purpose of these groups is not to come to consensus.

How To 11

How To Diversity Class Consensus 11

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

As this work continues, consensus is emerging that citizenship behavior tends to have negative implications when employees go above and beyond at work not because they intrinsically want to, but because they feel that they have to, or when they are unable to carry out their regular job duties and be a good citizen at the same time.

Motivation 15

Motivation How To Consensus Reference 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2018

Across industrial sectors, from healthcare to energy, from construction to retail, engineers are creating new technologies with potentially disruptive implications for the current architectural order of the global economy. One of the technologies, an “ AI doctor ”, shows great promise for the future of healthcare in Africa.

Health Care 10

Health Care Technology System Library 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

That was the general consensus after one of my favorite HBS classes: an entrepreneurship case on a company called Tickle. The most important way to mitigate risk is to become excellent at either engineering, product, selling, or operations and management. “I’m so glad we read that case — I’m NEVER going to start a company.”.

Career 8

Career Company IPO Christensen 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2013

New workers are not entering the market as fast as veterans — particularly engineers — are retiring. The result is PG&E''s PowerPathway program which has already graduated hundreds of new workers with skills that span from linemen to advanced power engineering. While the labor challenge is especially stark in the U.S.,

Energy 8

Energy Industry Engineering Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2014

Most pundits, however, jumped over the details of the contact to point out that United Launch Alliance (ULA) will use engines made by Bezos’ Blue Origin. At first glance, it appears that Blue Origin is merely supplying a resource, its innovative BE4 engine, to ULA. For entrepreneurs this provides a valuable lesson.

Industry 9

Industry Disruptive Innovation Innovation Engineering 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 7, 2015

Here’s a conundrum: On the one hand, there’s a consensus among thoughtful business leaders that too many companies are sacrificing long-term growth on the altar of smooth, reliable short-term earnings. It’s fashionable to put your engineers onto solving customer problems. I see a small example of this in R&D.

Short-term 8

Short-term Henderson Long-term Metrics 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

Society at large is more consensus-oriented.". It is hard to imagine The Economist arguing that "cooperation and modesty" may be an effective engine for competitiveness and growth. Its opposite, femininity, stands for a preference for cooperation, modesty, caring for the weak and quality of life.

Hofstede 10

Hofstede Cooper Leadership Styles Consensus 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2011

Given those science-based plans, Ford is investing in the long-term — the sexy, new EV market that everyone is going after — and rolling out a series of efficiency technologies in the existing, combustion-engine fleet. The 2011 Ford Explorer, for example, is using EcoBoost engine technology to improve fuel efficiency by 25%.

Strategy 15

Strategy PPM Long-term Short-term 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Unnecessary consensus-seeking for reversible, non-consequential decisions. Start: Do whatever it takes to start your engine. Unplanned interruptions, helped in no small part by open-plan offices, instant messaging platforms, and the “ding” of desktop and smartphone notifications.

Outsourcing 15

Outsourcing Stress Productivity Products 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2011

I wanted to accept the consensus as a sign that the company had rounded the corner on its 3-year slog to be more relevant in their market. I knew that the new head of engineering and the head of product management had worked through a ton of issues to get to this review meeting prepared. She was told to join in the effort.

CEO 16

CEO Engineering Consensus Innovation 16

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

Studies comparing the problem-solving abilities of groups in which dissenting views are voiced with groups in which they are not find that dissent tends to be a better precondition for reaching the right solution than consensus. Yet how many leaders actively seek out and encourage views alien and at odds to their own? All too few.

Consensus 9

Consensus Hedge Diversity Stress 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

Studies comparing the problem-solving abilities of groups in which dissenting views are voiced with groups in which they are not find that dissent tends to be a better precondition for reaching the right solution than consensus. Yet how many leaders actively seek out and encourage views alien and at odds to their own? All too few.

Consensus 9

Consensus Hedge Diversity Stress 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2017

They will not be transformational, but they will help build consensus on the potential of AI. Further, to increase organizational learning, the company is dispersing machine learning experts across product groups and training thousands of software engineers, across all Google products, in basic machine learning.

Insurance 10

Insurance Video Long-term Project 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2010

Each of the industries that have sprung up around these innovations has become an engine for America's economic growth. Their lobbying and advertising have made it practically impossible to form political consensus. The builders of every technical revolution — engineers — are being turned out at incredible rate in China.

Politics 14

Politics Innovation Engineering Entrepreneur 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 3, 2011

As a result of a deeply engrained deference to authority, Asians in the CWLP survey are also significantly less likely than other ethnic groups to challenge a consensus, let alone participate in the "in your face" leadership model rewarded in much of corporate America. "In In Asia, there's a saying that the loudest duck gets shot.

Human Capital 11

Human Capital Survey Globalization Policies 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2012

The rapid pace and impact of these changes did not allow the luxury of time and resources to endlessly research or build consensus around an idea or course of action. As a result of engagement with India, terms like jugaad , Gandhian engineering , and the bottom of the pyramid have entered the global business lexicon.

Globalization 14

Globalization Bottom-up Class Consensus 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 6, 2012

This challenge has been especially difficult at the entry levels of science and engineering. MISE's charge is to collaborate with teachers, school administrators, parents, Merck employees, and higher education institutions to improve science education in the classroom as well as build consensus around the urgency for reform.

Education 12

Education Creativity How To Pharmaceuticals 12

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2011

Daimler's engineers in Germany could not work with their Chrysler counterparts in Detroit , leading to the sale of the latter at a loss of some $35 billion. Massive failures abound in the business world. Sony was unable to come up with its version of iPod/iTunes because divisions competed with one another.

CIO 15

CIO Consensus Bottom-up Organizational Behavior 15