Lead on Purpose

MARCH 8, 2010

Innovative engineers are recognized for their inventions. Then there’s product management… — The Product Management Perspective: One of the least palatable realities of product management is that applause and acknowledgment of great work does not come immediately; sometimes it comes slowly and many times not at all.

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Lead on Purpose

NOVEMBER 4, 2009

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. And for you who are product managers, look for people who are trying to make the shift and reach out and help them.

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LDRLB

DECEMBER 16, 2013

It’s not productive – IT DOESNT WORK. As a leader you must learn to build bridges leading from old habits and comfort zones to the more fertile grounds of disruptive innovation. It impacts culture, performance, brand, innovation, leadership development, succession and even the sustainability of your enterprise.

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Lead on Purpose

NOVEMBER 6, 2010

– The Product Management Perspective: Building effective relationships is absolutely crucial for success in product management. Product managers rely heavily on other people — engineers, sales people, support, etc. — to ship successful products.

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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). — The Product Management Perspective: Nothing comes easy in product management.

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Lead Change Blog

JULY 4, 2016

Jennifer Molina of the Institute for Corporate Productivity, Inc. The Institute for Corporate Productivity and ROI Institute have released the results of a new research study, which looks at positive trends and the state of human capital analytics. .” Find Jill on Twitter at @epiphanyatwork. And your organization?”

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The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 6, 2019

As technologies such as robotics and artificial intelligence have progressed, there has been considerable time and effort given to the ethics of this development. This is important to understand, as the technology is largely programmed to think purely rationally, with productivity and optimization the most important criteria in any decision.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

In July, the CEO of Whole Foods Markets issued a mea culpa after the supermarket was found to have manipulated product data, over-stating the weight of pre-packaged produce and meats. Business managers are missing the real issue: the people who collect, store, manage and process our data are not being held to any ethical standards.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

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. Each product-service is budgeted. The organization maintains and lives by an ethics statement. You never know when the next big recession will hit.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 30, 2011

That McDonald's or Pret a Manger is less open to disruptive innovation than El Bulli? If you believe any, or all, of those things, then you're not a business sophisticate, you're an innovation snob. My concern over innovation condescension was provoked by surprising comments on a previous post. What could be less innovative?

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

The good news is that AI is an opportunity to build technology with less human bias and built-in inequality than has been the case in previous innovations. This lack of diversity is reflected in the products it produces. Engineers conduct testing in labs and research facilities before a product launches.

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The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

Each year INSEAD produce their Global Innovation Index in an attempt to rank the nations of the world on their innovative capabilities. They highlight that Singapore has been at the forefront of medical innovation, with the government prioritizing health and medicine in its innovation strategy. Innovation leaders.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 15, 2012

Although the Environmental Protection Agency is mandating states such as New York to test cars for high emission levels, the policy may be eroding the ethics of some dealerships and garages. So many garages are letting their ethics slide a bit for the sake of customer loyalty. Microsoft's Emotional Advertising Engine (Ad Age).

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

Competition without relationships turns products and services turn into commodities. One half of building business is supplying quality products or services; the other half is skill in building relationships. Then come down—whether it is getting published or getting a new product into stores. Proceed with extreme caution.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2017

When Bernstein hid a set of production lines from managers’ view, the performance of employees on those lines increased by 10% to 15%. 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.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2018

My colleagues and I did an experiment in which I gave participants difficult ethical challenges where there seemed to be no good choice. “Sully” Sullenberger is the pilot of a USAirways jetliner that, shortly after taking off from New York’s La Guardia Airport in January 2009, hit a flock of birds and lost both its engines.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

Is your company ready to compete in a world of smart, connected products ? ” In this world, customers expect their suppliers to surround their products with data services and digitally enhanced experiences. A design studio is geared for collaboration and innovation work with customers and partners.

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Lead on Purpose

AUGUST 17, 2009

Jim’s passion is enabling product marketing teams. With a lifetime of experience, he has a fresh and unique perspective in guiding and managing product teams and has a knack for sensing markets, synthesizing ideas and turning them into reality. Enjoy the post and don’t hesitate to tweet your comments to Jim directly. Think about it.

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CO2

JUNE 29, 2010

Nothing gets done in organizations without followers, as they are people closest to the customers and issues, creating the products, taking orders, and collecting payments. Research has consistently shown that more engaged employees are harder working, more productive, and more likely to stay with organizations than those who are disengaged.

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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? The Ten Commandments and the Sermon on the Mount are all the ethical code anybody needs.&# - Harry S.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

trade deficit with Japan grew through the 1980s, for example, influential thinkers increasingly focused on how managerial innovations used in Japanese firms might be imported and adapted in the U.S. How Ethical Are You? Similarly, scholars in the U.S. As the U.S. Pick an Apt Objective. Link the New to the Old. More >>.

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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. Customers and suppliers: The ultimate goal of our business is not to sell products but to serve customers.

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Industry Strategy Supply Chain Long-term 10

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. However, once that product is launched, revenue streams in quickly and evenly.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

Now more than ever , businesses are reaching beyond the boundaries of their organizations, tapping experts, customers, and, more broadly, “the crowd” to build new products, services, and other solutions. Consider Ashoka , which provides start-up funding and support for social innovators worldwide.

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Miles Anthony Smith

JUNE 5, 2018

Or perhaps someone who can spend some days behind their desk and other days in the field, equally productive in both environments. If you enjoy your work, you'll be more productive, more motivated and a better team player. See above plus a caring attitude about contributing to making it both a warm and productive atmosphere.

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Career Advice Succession Learning-by-Doing 74

First Friday Book Synopsis

APRIL 5, 2011

Here are brief excerpts from two articles featured by McKinsey & Company. I suggest you read them in the order in which they appear here, then click where indicated to read each in its entirety. I presume to suggest, further, that you register to receive email updates on other resources that are also available at [.].

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 9, 2015

This technology becomes handy for the technical communicators, engineers, and developers when receiving instructional and design requirements from clients in PDF form and needing to edit or revise them. Employers find this type of response a reflection of one’s work ethic and performance. LinkedIn SlideShare: www.slideshare.net.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2018

They will demand that all their products display this new level of smartness, develop a hunger for applications and services to get ever smarter, and expect them to “play smartly” with one another. 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

When they want to do so, company leadership will provide leadership for change management and re-engineering… two of the many worthwhile concepts that should be advocated every business day. Gross National Product goes toward cleaning up problems, damages and otherwise high costs of doing either nothing or doing the wrong things.

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Planning Consultative Learning-by-Doing Cost 50

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2017

As brands assume more and more AI functionality, businesses must proactively manage any potential ethical and legal concerns. Indeed, Siri seems more persona than product. Now Ewing is deploying her creative talents to help engineers develop the personality of Sophie, an AI program in the health care field.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

You’ve got funding and the blessing of your CEO and Board to go ahead with this high-profile “experiment” Your venture could be a growth engine for your corporation’s otherwise large but slow and steady core business. Entrepreneurship Execution Innovation' Then you start worrying.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2013

Remember the $1 million prize Netflix offered to get people to improve its movies recommendation engine? You can bet the company’s savvier marketing leaders are looking to launch recommendation engines suggesting what programs would be best for hours of binge viewing. Customers Innovation Internet'

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

I admit that when Microsoft unveiled its holographic computing engine at its Windows 10 event last week, I didn’t pay much attention. They’ll see by then how it changes the way your customers interact with the products, services, and information that you provide them. Courtesy of Microsoft. This one comes to mind.).

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2018

Uber trade secrecy trial , Judge Aslup reminded the parties of this key distinction between actual secrets and general know-how: “Is an engineer supposed to get a frontal lobotomy before they go on to the next job?” However, judges are rightly skeptical. In the ongoing Waymo v. ” Alsup asked.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 9, 2014

This fuels your creativity and ability to find innovative solutions, because you’re no longer constrained by the experience of a single role. However, the decision and its outcomes might conflict with your ethics. Combining and integrating your various roles sparks new patterns of thoughts, feelings, and perspectives.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2017

The focus of people using a resources frame to understand sustainability is often on waste reduction and technological innovation. Meanwhile, Al Gore’s Generation Foundation sees sustainability as the new engine of economic growth. The Design Frame. billion years of evolution to find solutions for climate change.

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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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