Great Leadership By Dan

MARCH 14, 2013

As a new project manager at Hewlett Packard I found that I interacted with a lot of brilliant people, many of who had been conditioned by higher learning institutions to compete rather than collaborate. He called it carefrontation.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2014

Investors have long shied away from start-ups making gadgets such as wearable electronics, because of the challenges posed by manufacturing, distribution, inventory, and technical support. venture capitalists are taking a rosier view of hardware start-ups.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

As a result, software-enabled manufacturing start-ups are poised to have a large economic impact. Examples of this trend include the Pebble , a Kickstarter-funded project that has now sold over one million smart watches (and which predated Google’s Android Wear smart watch and the Apple Watch).

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 14, 2016

Last year, networking giant Cisco Systems worked with one of its contract manufacturers in Malaysia to deploy 1,500 energy and temperature sensors on its manufacturing equipment. Use advanced financing mechanisms to expand energy project options. Consider McCormick & Co, a Fortune 1000 spice manufacturer.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 10, 2012

Actively track performance and shift budgets to monitor promising trends while killing off tracking projects that aren't going anywhere.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2012

About five years into the job, he took on a project manager role, thinking it would allow him to interact more with people. Still most of his tasks — managing schedules, developing contracts, reviewing documentation — involved working alone. He knew pretty early on that this work wasn't his passion. "So

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2011

The bad news is that he fixates on every facet of a project and can't set priorities. Don't give them projects that they will struggle to complete or roles that will cause them to spin out. Henry Chasen,* a director at a contract manufacturing company, managed Sean* for more than 15 years. Yes and yes. Give the right job.

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