Lead on Purpose

DECEMBER 6, 2010

Product management — at every level — is a leadership role within the organization. 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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In the CEO Afterlife

DECEMBER 7, 2014

A long time ago, this ethic saved a near-bankrupt company that I had a part in restructuring. Each engineer has a pet feature they’d like included in Samsung phones. To do that, Samsung’s leaders must sacrifice the egos of their engineers. The strategy I’ve grown to love and count on over a 45-year career is do less, better.

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LDRLB

DECEMBER 21, 2012

This included clever work on smarter cities which turned IBMs computer expertise to solving complex problems with transport, urban planning, and rebalancing the global economy, and encouraged innovation to support customers in those areas. But that’s about the ethics of the people using the tools of strategy.

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LDRLB

DECEMBER 16, 2013

Mike is America’s Top CEO Coach, recognized by Thinkers50 as a global authority on the topic of leadership, a Forbes leadership columnist, author of Leadership Matters , and CEO at N2growth. In my latest book Hacking Leadership I write on hacking the talent gap. Leadership myatt talent'

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Lead on Purpose

MARCH 8, 2010

Innovative engineers are recognized for their inventions. CEOs are praised for their vision. Top salespeople are rewarded with high commissions. The rewards for applied skill and hard work come quickly after the work is complete. Within two years I was speaking and writing fluently.

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Lead on Purpose

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Provide clear direction: One of the key directives for products managers is to provide clear direction to the engineering/development teams. A key to giving clear direction is for product managers to project their confidence and full support to the work engineering is doing.

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Lead on Purpose

NOVEMBER 4, 2009

— The Product Management Perspective: The ideas for this post came from a question posed to me about how an engineer can become a product manager. Following these three things will help you progress from your work as an engineer (or support or SE or any other job) to becoming a successful product manager.

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Lead on Purpose

AUGUST 25, 2009

Teenagers and cars: When parents buy their teenager a brand new car for his 16th birthday, he’s no doubt happy to have the car, but too often doesn’t take good care of it and crashes it or burns up the engine (or does something else to ruin it). Too often the business fails because the heirs did not learn the value of hard work.

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Lead on Purpose

NOVEMBER 6, 2010

Leadership grows and develops through building effective relationships. I highly recommend It’s Not Just Who You Know as guidebook to building effective relationships and increasing your leadership potential. Product managers rely heavily on other people — engineers, sales people, support, etc.

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Lead on Purpose

AUGUST 6, 2009

Their newest online certificate, A Systems Approach to Product and Service Design is authored by Professor Peter Jackson, Director of Systems Engineering at Cornell University. As eCornell’s marketing agency, we partnered with them to launch a new Systems Design program. This is an awsome incentive that could motivate a lot of people!

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

Provide leadership. It is important to identify swings and trends so that innovation can remain a strength of your business. Design and re-engineering of products-services. The organization maintains and lives by an ethics statement. A leader’s purpose and job is to give direction and purpose and motivate his people.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 17, 2010

In further pondering this dichotomy an interesting thought came to mind – If I could genetically engineer the perfect leadership gene what qualities and characteristics would constitute the architecture of leadership DNA? Leadership DNA aside, I recently crafted my definition of leadership.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

I list these below as a guide for anyone — from bloggers, to academics, to strategy consultants — looking to produce world-class thought leadership. In transition periods, during big technological shifts or the ends of recessions, companies often turn their aspirations to growth through innovation. How Ethical Are You?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

The world's biggest and fastest search engine can't help but generate terabytes and petabytes of actionable investment intelligence. In fact, Google chief economist Hal Varian (and other economists and forecasters) already use the search engine's data and analytics to predict economic futures.

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CO2

JUNE 29, 2010

We believe the strength of any team is in the followers and there can be no leaders without followers, but the vast majority of research to date has focused on the leadership side of this equation. It is worth keeping in mind that some jobs have clear leadership requirements; virtually all jobs have followership requirements.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Similarly, when Starbucks baristas make your latte the same way across cafés, or when a software engineer delivers the expected features each sprint, you are witnessing tactical performance. Adaptive performance manifests as creativity, problem solving, grit, innovation, and citizenship. This is also true of executives.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2013

The three leadership traits that most mattered were the ability to focus intensely on customer needs, the ability to collaborate with colleagues — and the ability to inspire. Of the 16 leadership competencies we most frequently measure, it is clearly the one that stands out. They encouraged those about them to be more innovative.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2012

That was the question we put to a global community of hackers and innovators in the Long-Term Capitalism Challenge. In just two-and-a-half months, we received some 148 entries from leaders, thinkers, and innovators of all stripes, from every corner of the globe. Management Innovation According to Nature's Genius.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2011

Not to mention boardroom soap operas, front-page ethics scandals, and more changes of direction than a surfer in a hurricane. What's important about HP is what it says about how hard it is for any organization to maintain its leadership position from one generation of technology and markets and culture to the next.

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Lead on Purpose

AUGUST 17, 2009

Imagine flying a single engine plane at extremely low altitudes, maneuvering into position, as you dive over treetops, houses and power lines dropping a fine mist about 30 feet from the ground at precisely the right time and then, throttling yourself to safety avoiding the same obstacles and more. Think about it.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

How can these companies overcome the inevitable leadership, organizational, and cultural challenges involved? ” So GE has hired 1,000 software engineers and data scientists to provide enhanced software and analytical skills across GE’s many businesses. General Electric turns out to be an excellent case in point.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

Similarly, make sure your OWN site has the best key words for the search engines. Connect as many strengths and resources as possible, for innovation lives in fresh combinations. Google your name periodically. If you rely on searches for your background research, so will those you work with (if they are sharp).

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

Consider Ashoka , which provides start-up funding and support for social innovators worldwide. As Linda Hill and her colleagues have described, the company needed expert knowledge as it navigated the technically and ethically challenging waters of pharmaceutical development and marketing. Informal leadership Managing people'

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2011

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. The DNA that has been in HP's bones from the start is all about excellence in hardware engineering. Fundamentally, people just do not see software as part of HP's DNA.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2011

The perception has been eroding our industry's image and has caused many in our industry to assume that R&D, innovation, and social contribution are unaffordable luxuries in a fiercely cost-based competitive game. This philosophy has started to take its toll.

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Miles Anthony Smith

JUNE 5, 2018

When your work requires you to use your genius it’s not only more fun but you’ll naturally be motivated to deliver great work, you’ll naturally continue to evolve and grow and innovate, and you’’ll naturally be of service and find others are seeking you out for greater opportunities. Self-assuredness.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2018

Data science and AI lie at the most overheated end of the software engineering spectrum, and there is a massive shortage of graduates and postgraduates emerging with the necessary skills. These are essential transformative skills, not just for those who may go on to become software engineers, but also for everyone.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 6, 2012

Among the lessons which we learned from the Y2K Bug exercise were: When they want to do so, company leadership will provide sufficient resources to plan for the future, including crisis management and preparedness (of which computer glitches are one set of ‘what ifs.’). Repairing ethically wrong actions. Empty activities.

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Great Leadership By Dan

APRIL 24, 2012

A colleague from another business school recommended the book, The Future of Leadership Development, Corporate Needs and the Role of Business Schools , edited by IESE Business School Dean Jordi Canals. The use of coaching in leadership development programs. There are pros and cons to both group and individual leadership development.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2017

Susan Fowler, a former site reliability engineer at Uber, recently wrote about her “very, very strange year at Uber,” characterized by a pervasive culture of alleged sexual harassment. Ultimately, boards, CEOs, and investors get the quality of leadership — and HR — that they demand and permit.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2013

For upper-middle class men, notes sociologist Michèle Lamont, ambition and a strong work ethic are "doubly sacred. This ideal has roots in the 17th century Protestant work ethic, in which work was viewed as a "calling" to serve God and society. Okay, okay, it might boost productivity," was the argument, "but it inhibits innovation."

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2012

The United States is home to some of the key pioneers of Technik whose innovations help society adapt to the future. Those companies' hardware and software platforms are the foundation for almost endless innovation by diverse users worldwide, a contribution no Europeans or Asians can match. But business schools can and should do more.

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