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Ethics Is Serious Business

Great Leadership By Dan

Building and maintaining physical infrastructure requires a certain kind of know-how, which we call engineering. The field that provides this kind of know-how is called ethics. This means that ethics is serious business. When organizations go astray ethically, it is usually due to a lack of ethical competence, not bad people.

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Leadership and Product Management

Lead on Purpose

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.

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Effective Online Communication

Coaching Tip

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.

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Book Review: It's Not Just Who You Know

Lead on Purpose

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.

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What Data Scientists Really Do, According to 35 Data Scientists

Harvard Business Review

.” Although many working data scientists are currently generalists and do all three, we are seeing distinct career paths emerging, as in the case of machine learning engineers. Ethics is among the field’s biggest challenges. You may gather that the profession offers its practitioners a great deal of uncertainty.

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Will Economics Finally Get Its Paradigm Shift?

Harvard Business Review

Ethics alert: this account is shamelessly self-plagiarized from something I wrote a few years ago.). 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. Physicists, in his experience, didn’t do that. In macroeconomics, too.

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Can HP Change its DNA?

Harvard Business Review

It's the company's deeply embedded belief system, its prevailing ethics, and the way people within the company interact with each other and with customers. Usually when people talk of DNA they're raising questions of corporate culture: Does the company rely on consensus among managers or are strategies and tactics directed from the top?