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. To rise from the ashes, our young management team made several tough sacrifices to transform a multi-product, multi-brand operation from generalist to specialist. Each engineer has a pet feature they’d like included in Samsung phones.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 5, 2021

More than 400 engineers and other workers at Google and its parent company, Alphabet , have formed a union open to all employees. On Monday, the group announced the creation of the AWU with an op-ed in The New York Times , after years of employees protesting for better workplace inclusivity and ethics at the search engine.

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The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 24, 2021

“Women have almost caught up to men in the fields of technology, engineering and mathematics, right? Indeed, recent data suggest that the proportion of female computer science graduates is actually going down. It’s a problem tackled in a new report from Accenture and Girls Who Code.

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Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

Back in my formidable days of being a twenty-something manager, Jack, one of the senior leaders of our theme park department, would spend time throughout his days discussing various leadership and operational strategies with us. Building a team, he said, is like putting together an engine or a puzzle.

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Rich Gee Group

JANUARY 8, 2011

Engineering, design, materials, and service just got better. What’s the impact on organizations like Symantec (virus), Gartner/Forrester (advisory), HP (printing), and Microsoft (operating systems)? When I was growing up, cars broke down frequently — there were repair shops all over the place fixing almost every part on a car.

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Skip Prichard

JANUARY 6, 2021

We are witnessing the most progressive organizations operate as engines for learning. It means shedding the old work ethic in favor of a new ethic of work. It entails operating from a place of what one can learn , not from what one knows. “. All five models focus on building transparency by being radically candid.

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Skip Prichard

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Effective leaders know how to achieve operational excellence, and they embrace continuous improvement. Effective leaders set the right tone at the top, which becomes the organization’s ethical standards. Employees trust and want to work for an organization with high ethical standards, and work for a leader who lives by those standards.

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In the CEO Afterlife

MAY 6, 2016

Taking a lesson from the signature phrase in the illustrated children’s book, The Little Engine That Could , the Leamington community did not throw in the towel. That’s right, one day. But, one little town was not about to give in to the seemingly inevitable. This would save the jobs of 30% of the original workforce.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

AUGUST 15, 2010

August 15th, 2010 | Author: Mary Jo Asmus Yet another Fortune CEO has fallen due to ethics violations. Is there hope for ethical, moral power to prevail? Am I acting ethically in this situation?” Assuring that your leadership is moral and ethical can be easier when you have good relationships with those around you.

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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. The movement is not operating from a standing start however, as there has already been some fascinating work done to explore how humans interact with industrial robots.

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Skip Prichard

AUGUST 25, 2019

On that score, the company’s Code of Ethics claimed that “gaming” (the manipulation and / or misrepresentation of sales or referrals) was against the rules and grounds for dismissal. There’s nothing wrong with operating out of self-interest. Tim asked the engineer: “What are you looking for while you’re up there?”

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2016

It’s hard for good, ethical people to imagine how these meltdowns could possibly happen. But what about the ordinary engineers, managers, and employees who designed cars to cheat automotive pollution controls or set up bank accounts without customers’ permission? Wells Fargo. Volkswagen. and the U.K.,

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

When you own and operate a business you need to have certain procedures for an efficient and seamless function. Sometimes the difficulty of managing your time makes for a haphazard operation. An inefficient operation results in unproductive activities which often miss the point and worse yet, result in wasted time and wasted resources.

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Joseph Lalonde

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

With core values, you can guide your business in the ethical direction you want the business to go. Until living and leading out the core values intersects with business operations. Photo by engin akyurt on Unsplash. Every business needs to know what its core values are. Sounds great, right? Not to the business itself.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 4, 2015

Futurism is a continuum of thinking and reasoning skills, judicious activities, shared leadership and an accent upon ethics and quality. The following concepts do not constitute Futurism by themselves: sales, technology, re-engineering, marketing, research, training, operations, administration. Quotes on The Future.

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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. Bill Sebra is Chief Operations Executive at Korn Ferry Futurestep. About the Author.

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The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 30, 2019

IMD Business School’s Mark Greeven and Imperial College London’s George Yip suggest that the engine of this growth is in what they refer to as China’s hidden champions. Europe has great potential to draw level with its American and Asian competitors and win the race on data platforms for industry and ethical AI applications.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2018

Perhaps the least concerning implication is that there is systemic bias in our information feeds, that we operate in and are informed by tiny echo chambers. From browsing privately in incognito mode to searching anonymously with a search engine that doesn’t track you like duckduckgo , there are a host of methods at your disposal.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2018

The company last entered China in 2006 with a censored search engine, but pulled the plug on the operation four years later after it discovered that human-rights activists’ Gmail accounts had been hacked. It is now clear that companies operating in China are kept on a short leash even when they comply with governmental demands.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 31, 2015

Long-term track record, unlike anything accomplished by any other individual, all contributing toward organizational philosophy, purpose, vision, quality of life, ethics, long-term growth. No entity can operate without affecting or being affected by its communities. Develop and share own philosophies. Let the buyer beware.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2017

In Precision’s case, good tactical performance required developing rules, checklists, and standard operating procedures and then following them closely. A great salesperson will operate much more efficiently with a defined process for reaching out to prospects. We made a number of operational changes to the call center.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

Mauricio is president of the European operation for a Fortune 500 manufacturing firm, and his firm has had its trials lately. One of its major suppliers is under an ethics investigation resulting in significant delays. Yet their meetings continued to focus on the day-to-day numbers, operational processes, and immediate crises.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 31, 2015

They saw it as an opportunity to completely transform the operation to improve care and the patient experience and to lower costs. To that end, they decided to have a team study how care is delivered, identify the barriers to smooth operations, and fix the barriers. It was fully integrated into emergency room operations at St.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2018

How companies are using artificial intelligence in their business operations. Sustainers who ensure intelligent systems stay true to their original goals without crossing ethical lines or reinforcing bias. Insight Center. Adopting AI. Sponsored by SAS.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2018

How companies are using artificial intelligence in their business operations. Drew Conway and I discussed his company Alluvium, which “uses machine learning and artificial intelligence to turn massive data streams produced by industrial operations into insights.” Ethics is among the field’s biggest challenges.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

Today, many companies are exposed to intelligent device risks that could harm both their own operations as well as their customers. Finally, policymakers should establish international trust and ethics guidelines to govern the development and implementation of ever more advanced AI products and systems. AI International Protocols.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 15, 2015

By 1973, there were 3,000 industrial robots in operation. It’s with good reason engineers, scientists, writers, ethicists, and philosophers are considering the ramifications of advanced robotics and artificial intelligence. It was precise, but not necessarily elegant. By 2003, there were 800,000. Today, more than 1.3

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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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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2012

Back in 1908, the Army learned of a clever engineer — Frederick Taylor , subsequently dubbed "the father of scientific management" — and his success in making steel manufacturing more productive in Pennsylvania. How Ethical Are You? It's a familiar story with management ideas. HBR's 90th Anniversary: Why Management Matters.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2014

Manager, Operations. Manager, Operations. To: Ioana Romana, VP Operations. I can do the job of just about anyone in the factory and can work most of the software the engineering guys use. He joined just after completing his BS in engineering and has had an excellent progression with the company. To: Dana Knight.

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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. Brown-Nosers constantly check in with their leaders and operate by seeking permission, rather than forgiveness.

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Terry Starbucker

SEPTEMBER 6, 2015

I’d always appreciated the Code of the West ( from Jim Owen’s book, “Cowboy Ethics” ) – I saw it often on posters in the offices of many of my staff in Wyoming: Live each day with courage. It’s all going down” my Network Operations Center (NOC) manager reported to me. We can’t fire that engineer Terry”. “I I know.”. “It

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Leading Blog

APRIL 16, 2021

Operating a small business is not unlike owning a really old house: things break a lot, and you need to fix them, over and over and over. To this day, I get excited about seeing Subaru’s new products and learning about the engineering that went into making them. Ours did; over 700 did not.)

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2014

Ethical leadership was also mentioned. Others emphasized that strategic thinking also calls for the ability to execute a vision, which one respondent called “operating savvy” and another defined as “a high standard in execution.” One said that hiring companies want “unquestioned ethics.”

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 14, 2013

He’s a slacker; he works 50 hours a week,” commented a Silicon Valley engineer. This highlights the point, too often forgotten, that 24/7 work ethic often compromises work outcomes—a finding reported in a variety of industries , including Silicon Valley and consulting. Extreme schedules remain a key metric of manliness.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2012

People have become increasingly concerned with business's impact on the world, and search engines like Google or Bing make it trivially easy to find out who makes a product and how, where they operate, who they have offended, and what causes they have supported. For all kinds of reasons, that has changed.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2016

Successful computer hacks now more often than not involve “social engineering,” the modern equivalent of an old-fashioned con. Partly this is an operational capability — how do you quickly shut down avenues through which information is escaping? This means you must have a way of containing the damage and recovering.

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