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.

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Taylorism Taylor Ethics Godin 145

Skip Prichard

JANUARY 6, 2021

We are witnessing the most progressive organizations operate as engines for learning. No longer is there paying lip service to personal and professional growth –it’s a sound retention and innovation strategy. It means shedding the old work ethic in favor of a new ethic of work. A leader is only one if they have followers.

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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

DECEMBER 6, 2010

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

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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 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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Taylorism Taylor Ethics Godin 150

The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 30, 2019

They suggest that while the last 30 years have been typified by increasing Asian consumption and integration into the global flow of trade and innovation, the coming decades will see Asian economies driving and determining the direction of these flows, with the region set to account for 50% of global GDP by 2040. Digital dominance.

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Marketing McKinsey Innovation GDP 40

Lead on Purpose

NOVEMBER 6, 2010

Product managers rely heavily on other people — engineers, sales people, support, etc. This powerful statement comes from Tommy Spaulding in his new book It’s Not Just Who You Know: Transform Your Life (and Your Organization) by Turning Colleagues and Contacts into Lasting, Genuine Relationships.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

Besides engineers, software developers, and product managers, the burgeoning community of data scientists are also complicit in developing the concepts, algorithms, and software to enable the deception. Development resources are secured based on a technical or business rationale.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

Always at the forefront of innovation, technologies pioneered by the military are often adopted by the commercial sector; companies looking for cyber knowledge or network engineering skills can find this expertise among veterans. Attracting former service members is only half the battle.

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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.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

An inefficient operation results in unproductive activities which often miss the point and worse yet, result in wasted time and wasted resources. 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. Instill discipline.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

APRIL 5, 2011

I presume to suggest, further, that you register to receive email updates on other resources that are also available at [.]. I suggest you read them in the order in which they appear here, then click where indicated to read each in its entirety.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

How do you best focus the time and resources you have? Follow some basic ground rules to best focus the time and resources you have: Know what you need. By investigating resources MOST open to you, momentum increases. Similarly, make sure your OWN site has the best key words for the search engines. Mine your backyard.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

Capitalism might be the greatest engine of prosperity and progress ever devised, but in recent years, individuals and communities have grown increasingly disgruntled with the implicit contract that governs the rights and responsibilities of business. Capitalism degenerates into narrow self-interest without a strong ethical foundation.

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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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CO2

JUNE 29, 2010

Moreover, ethical followers can help leaders avoid making questionable decisions and high performing followers often motivate leaders to raise their own levels of performance. They do not suffer fools gladly and expect their leaders to promptly clear obstacles and acquire the resources needed to succeed.

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Executive Coaching Execution Blog Self-aware 129

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2017

It allows organizations to increase strength by directing limited resources to the fewest targets. 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. This is also true of executives.

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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. Prior to this article's publication, academics had talked for decades about the resource-based view of the firm. How Ethical Are You?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 31, 2015

The team that implemented the initiative was led by a physician and a scientist-engineer, and its members were drawn from Mayo’s Emergency Department (ED) and the Clinic’s Robert D. An important lesson of this initiative is that you cannot rely on technology alone to bring about innovation and change in a fast-paced environment.

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Technology Mayo Health Care Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Organizational characteristics — cultures, structures, politics, economic resources, their presence or absence, their allocation — put pressure on individuals to behave in deviant ways to achieve organizational goals. The design engineers kept taking incremental risks that they thought were acceptable and normalized them — until the disaster.

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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. Finally, ground support (a.k.a.

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Marketing Productivity Products Ethics 173

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2015

Our VitalSmarts global “Cultural Operating System” study involved over 10,000 managers and executives from hundreds of organizations in an attempt to find the cultural “viruses” that most sapped the ability to execute and innovate. Do I frame our budget and resources as property or stewardship?

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 9, 2014

This approach isn’t just about making you more comfortable when you negotiate (although that happens too); it’s about tapping into an abundance of resources and generating greater value. This fuels your creativity and ability to find innovative solutions, because you’re no longer constrained by the experience of a single role.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

As Marco Annunziata , Chief Economist at GE, told me, “We’re no longer selling customers just a jet engine, a locomotive, or a wind turbine; we’re bringing data and actionable solutions along with the hardware to reduce costs and improve performance.” The first step was to hire someone to run it.

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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

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. Environment: Scarcity of natural resources and degradation of environment are among the most acute challenges facing us.

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Industry Strategy Supply Chain Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

In most organizations, collaborating the way the Harvard students allegedly did would get you a gold star: when they stumbled on a problem they could not solve, they used all available resources and worked together to devise a solution. Traditional schooling frequently fails to prepare students to think critically, innovate, and be creative.

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Education Incentives Efficiency Learning-by-Doing 9

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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Career Advice Succession Learning-by-Doing 74

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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Tools Document Restructuring Software 50

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2018

AI could see us progressing in a multitude of different ways, from augmenting our abilities as human beings to enabling us to achieve things we currently cannot or do not want to do to making smarter use of our scarce resources, whether that be time, energy, water, or land. These applications could see us achieving world-changing results.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 6, 2012

Thus, efforts to treat a fraction of one percent took resources away from addressing the other 99.999% of companies’ full-scope planning. 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.

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Planning Consultative Learning-by-Doing Cost 50

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. All too often, however, startup leaders are less savvy when it comes to human capital, until it’s too late.

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Compliance Hedge Human Capital Finance 11

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2017

As brands assume more and more AI functionality, businesses must proactively manage any potential ethical and legal concerns. Now Ewing is deploying her creative talents to help engineers develop the personality of Sophie, an AI program in the health care field. And then there are ethical challenges.

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Brand Disintermediation Ethics Technology 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2017

The Resources Frame. The forecast is often dire, with population growth eventually overwhelming available resources and the resilience of key ecosystems. The focus of people using a resources frame to understand sustainability is often on waste reduction and technological innovation. The Design Frame.

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