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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Shaw Telecommunications Engineering Ethics 52

Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

Poor work ethic. Ineffective business planning. Despite all of these differences, we found managers’ top disconnects and frustrations with their millennials were strikingly similar across all companies regardless of location, size, or industry. Lack of initiative and problem-solving. Sense of entitlement. Overly self-focused.

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Management Public Relations Insurance Industry 150

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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Strategy Ethics Transportation Consultative 153

Rich Gee Group

JANUARY 8, 2011

Engineering, design, materials, and service just got better. When I was growing up, cars broke down frequently — there were repair shops all over the place fixing almost every part on a car. Nowadays, it’s rare to have to fix your car (maintenance excluded – I have Hondas/Acuras). Unported License.

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Technology Forrester Licensing Software 248

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. Earn their trust.

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Productivity Products Succession Management 192

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?” Discuss or create an action plan for change based on what you hear. Certainly. Keep your ears open. Be kind and respectful.

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Ethics Morale Open-book Blog 184

Marshall Goldsmith

AUGUST 4, 2013

Even fewer candidly discussed that feedback and their personal developmental plans. His leadership team reversed the company’s poor image and engineered an amazing turnaround – ultimately becoming the Forbes’ most-admired company. He communicated clear expectations for ethics, values, and behavior.

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Development 360-Degree Feedback CEO Open-book 180

Lead on Purpose

NOVEMBER 6, 2010

While relationships seldom fit into a nice, tight definition, the “Five Floor&# plan provides definition and gives boundaries that define relationships: First Floor: We meet and greet. Product managers rely heavily on other people — engineers, sales people, support, etc. The deeper the relationship, the higher the floor.

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Review Books ROI Loyalty 157

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

Plan for the future. When your business has contingency plans for future scenarios you will seldom be caught by surprise. Most successful businesses have planned responses to most scenarios because they took the time to think “What If”. Design and re-engineering of products-services. The business you’re in.

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Marshall Goldsmith

MAY 17, 2011

Even fewer candidly discussed that feedback and their personal development plans. His leadership team reversed the company's poor image and engineered an amazing turnaround. He communicated clear expectations for ethics, values, and behavior. Twenty years ago, few CEOs received feedback from their colleagues.

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Development 360-Degree Feedback CEO Reputation 125

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. On one occasion, the company sent a civil engineer to the top of a 500-foot cooling tower to do a walkdown. They’d typically ask: “Why are you here?”

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Competitive Advantage Leadership Analysis Tips 97

Lead on Purpose

AUGUST 6, 2009

Quite often much emphasis is placed on designing and developing products, and the actual launch goes unplanned (or under-planned) until it’s too late. 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.

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Productivity Products Press Release Discount 100

Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 4, 2011

They cannot define a strategy or a plan of action that takes them closer to that grand vision." Aisle Six: Textbooks: Linda Fisher Thornton presents Ethical Grey Areas: Our Choices Define Us posted at Leading in Context LLC. "Leaders establish a lofty vision for a large scale change initiative and then strategize to align the team.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 4, 2015

One plans for business success through careful strategy. It is an ongoing process of evaluation, planning, tactical actions and benchmarking accomplishments. Futurism is a continuum of thinking and reasoning skills, judicious activities, shared leadership and an accent upon ethics and quality. Quotes on The Future.

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Marshall Goldsmith

MAY 3, 2011

Twenty years ago, few CEOs received feedback from their colleagues--or candidly discussed that feedback and their personal developmental plans. At Northrop Grumman, CEO Kent Kresa and his leadership team reversed the company's poor image and engineered an amazing turnaround. From the beginning, Kent led by example.

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360-Degree Feedback Gordon CEO Learning-by-Doing 115

Strategy Driven

JULY 31, 2015

Take ownership of planning programs, rather than abdicate them to human resources or accounting people. 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. What do we want to become?

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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. When questioned about its China plans on Capitol Hill, Google dodged. ” Google’s bind is a common one.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 22, 2011

If you are thinking ahead and you plan to be in business in 3, 5, 10, or 20 years, now is the time to consider your strategy for working with the Millenial Generation. Your company’s ability to dominate your chosen keyword or key phrase will make the difference in terms of your business success.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2018

Through AI, machine learning, robotics, and advanced analytics, firms are augmenting knowledge-intensive areas such as supply chain planning, customer order management, and inventory tracking. Sustainers who ensure intelligent systems stay true to their original goals without crossing ethical lines or reinforcing bias.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 16, 2021

For example, if your partner isn’t on board, many people might choose to avoid conflicts between “your-wife-or-your-life” or “your-man-or-your-plan.” How does owning a business fit into your overall life plan? To this day, I get excited about seeing Subaru’s new products and learning about the engineering that went into making them.

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Learning-by-Doing Long-term Automotive Open-book 255

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. Essentially, tactical performance is how well you stick to your plan, and adaptive performance is how well you diverge from your plan.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

Intelligent Device Recovery Plans. Like the risks associated with natural disasters, companies cannot completely protect against smart-device risks by buying insurance; they must have worst-case scenario recovery plans. Contingency plans must go beyond a natural disaster playbook. AI International Protocols.

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Insurance Contingency Plans Globalization Ethics 8

Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

Similarly, make sure your OWN site has the best key words for the search engines. Include a press release approach both to business planning and communication. Therefore, because everyone can get discouraged, plan for downtimes to ease their sting. Google your name periodically. Be willing to be scattered. Practice frugality.

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Rich Gee Group

NOVEMBER 28, 2010

He also attended MIT, where he received 3 degrees: a Masters in Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, a B.S. in Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, and a B.S. What can you plan today, to then take action tomorrow, and change your situation? Laura, what’s the plan now? in Mathematics.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2016

Its purpose was to enhance people’s lives through great engineering that offered everyone an accessible, high-quality car. Soichiro Honda and his business partner Takeo Fujisawa founded their company to restore Japanese pride in engineering rather than military achievement. Nestlé was founded to save the life of a baby.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2014

Ethical leadership was also mentioned. Executives no longer sit behind closed doors,” one consultant said; instead they must be “team-oriented, capable of multitasking continuously, leading without rank, resisting stress, ensuring that subordinates do not suffer burnout—and do all of this with a big smile in an open-plan office.”

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Skills Consultative Ethics Chief Information Officer 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

One of its major suppliers is under an ethics investigation resulting in significant delays. For example, Mauricio started as an engineer in his manufacturing firm, moved up the ranks, and 10 years later was promoted to president of European operations. The company recently took a hit on the stock market.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

We said that we were looking for hard-working individuals with a high school diploma, whom we could train on all the hard skills necessary to become a software engineer and then hire as paid apprentices. We selected 15 people from that group who demonstrated strong work ethic, grit, and excitement for the program.

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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. I advocated a balanced approach toward planning, visioning and the Big Picture. Never mind planning for tomorrow… we’ll just deal with problems as they occur.

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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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Marketing Productivity Products Ethics 173

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. That customer’s trouble call got escalated, correctly, to one of our engineers in the NOC. We can’t fire that engineer Terry”. “I I know.”.

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How To Leadership Engineering Bottom-up 150

Miles Anthony Smith

JUNE 5, 2018

Keep adapting your plan over time as well. The times of having one job for a long time are long gone, so while it's good to have some plan and direction, it's good to be adaptable. You don’t need to have a career plan set in stone and spend your life working that plan like a dog! Embrace happenstance.

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Career Advice Succession Learning-by-Doing 74

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. Indeed, in the earliest days of the magazine, after we had a business plan but before we published the premiere issue, we convened a conference around the theme, "How Do You Overthrow a Successful Company?"

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Venture Capitalist CEO Long-term Magazine 14

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 are earnest, dutiful, conscientious, and loyal employees who will do whatever their leaders ask them to do. Pulse Meme Feed What Is Your Brand Against?

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Executive Coaching Execution Blog Self-aware 129

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2013

To address this question we engaged in what some might refer to as a reverse-engineering exercise. Or maybe he encouraged the team to find an ethical goal that focused on the organization''s mission (in which case he took the "principled" route). They simply do not know what to do. What inspiring leaders do.

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Learning-by-Doing Goal Ethics Innovation 12

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2011

At Starbucks, that has meant contributing both money and time to meet local needs in the communities it serves, promoting sustainable farming communities and ethically sourcing coffee, and packaging and transporting its products with sensitivity to their environmental impact. In 2000, he stepped down as CEO of Starbucks.

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Conference Business Model CEO Transportation 15

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. An equally good term for this master plan is DNA.

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