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

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

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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Marshall Goldsmith

AUGUST 4, 2013

I just reviewed my 360-degree feedback. 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. From the beginning of the process, Kent led by example.

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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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Coaching Tip

JANUARY 16, 2017

An engineering guide to getting the "soft stuff" right, TRUST FACTOR identifies eight components of a culture where employees feel empowered, valued and happy, reinforeced by the acronym OXYTOCIN. . But two out of three employees are surprised by the feedback in their annual performance reviews. Work colleagues hate surprises.

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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. Except in rare cases, the ethics of these decisions are never broached. So what can be done?

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Marshall Goldsmith

MAY 17, 2011

I just reviewed my 360- degree feedback. His leadership team reversed the company's poor image and engineered an amazing turnaround. He communicated clear expectations for ethics, values, and behavior. I have been working on becoming a better coach for the past year or so. My coworkers have been helping me improve.

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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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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. One Response Toni , on August 6, 2009 at 9:07 pm said: This is great!

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2017

The onus for ethical behavior falls first to the employee. Most companies talk a good ethics game and even make their goals public. The punishing, pressure-cooker work environment meant that Volkswagen engineers were apparently loath to say no or admit failure to superiors. But it is the employee incentives that really matter.

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Purdue is known for its bright engineers, top flight technology students, it is the alma mater of the first and last men to walk on the moon. Can we ever admit we are fried, exhausted, done, and not be judged as lacking in mojo, courage, stamina?

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Women on Business

JANUARY 3, 2011

Here’s a tip: learn about search engine optimization (SEO) techniques and use of keywords. Get started by contributing content to sites that utilize freelance writers. Some will take unsolicited articles, many will give assignments to freelancers.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 22, 2011

If you are the type of person who simply does not “get&# social networking, then please review my introductory posts on this subject (link) and (link). What if you don’t understand these types of marketing avenues?

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Marshall Goldsmith

MAY 3, 2011

I just reviewed my 360-degree feedback. At Northrop Grumman, CEO Kent Kresa and his leadership team reversed the company's poor image and engineered an amazing turnaround. He communicated clear expectations for ethics, values, and behavior. I have been working on becoming a better coach for the past year or so.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 31, 2015

An Institutional Review is a look at activities that contribute to an organization's success and well-being. 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. Develop and share own philosophies.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

Design and re-engineering of products-services. Performance reviews are conducted annually updated, with realistic, measurable goals. The organization maintains and lives by an ethics statement. The business you’re in. Study and refine your own core business characteristics. Body of Knowledge. About the Author.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 19, 2019

Search Engine Rankings. We all put a lot of trust in the algorithms that determine search engine rankings, even if we don’t necessarily realize it. Customer Reviews. When shopping online, around 91 percent of people will look at the reviews of a product before buying it so they can get an impartial opinion on it.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2013

But what are the ethical lines this paid-for content should not cross? The public relations and communications company Edelman definitely has a horse in this race, but it has issued a useful paper on the relationship of paid content and journalism, which ends with "An Ethical Framework" that makes some unexpected points.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2017

industries, and a review of hundreds of academic studies on the psychology of human performance, shows that most leaders and organizations tend to focus on just one type of performance. These stats were reviewed by managers every week. They couldn’t adapt to improve their work. This is also true of executives.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2016

Second, they don’t consider at a human level how their stated strategic intents shape the acceptable ethical boundaries for those who must turn those intents into reality. He didn’t set ethical boundaries in a scoop-focused media market, and he hired executives who didn’t set policies and procedures to preclude such acts.

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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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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2018

While data scientists, policymakers, and ethics boards work on large-scale, long-term fixes , it’s incumbent on us, as individual agents, to ensure that we find out and learn what we really need. What can be done? Force the system to cast its net wider. Third, get off the radar. This needn’t be a permanent or absolute switch.

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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. 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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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. The ethical case for resisting Chinese regulation is clear. China has long enforced a strict media and information regime.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

Software and hardware engineers regularly test new technology products to ensure they are not harmful to people or businesses that will use them in the real world. Engineers conduct testing in labs and research facilities before a product launches. Eliminating Biases in AI: The Technology.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2018

Sustainers who ensure intelligent systems stay true to their original goals without crossing ethical lines or reinforcing bias. The importance of strong analytical skills will grow with the demand for human workers with a digital engineer’s skill set.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 31, 2015

A collaboration of the editors of Harvard Business Review and NEJM Group, exploring how pioneering providers are making change happen. 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.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2012

Harvard Business Review editors go to work every day on articles they hope will make their mark on the history of management thinking. As the historian Hugh Aitken has described , Taylor's engineers started by replacing the metal-cutting machines and streamlining the flow of materials. How Ethical Are You? More >>.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2018

.” Although many working data scientists are currently generalists and do all three, we are seeing distinct career paths emerging, as in the case of machine learning engineers. Ethics is among the field’s biggest challenges. You may gather that the profession offers its practitioners a great deal of uncertainty.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2014

Clean Up Your Subcontracts 4 Tips for Business to Ensure Ethical, Slavery-Free Supply Chains The Guardian It may not seem like a topic for a listicle, but this quick rundown of what businesses need to keep in mind to avoid exploiting vulnerable people – and becoming embroiled in often well-deserved PR nightmares — is entirely useful.

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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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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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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

Finally, policymakers should establish international trust and ethics guidelines to govern the development and implementation of ever more advanced AI products and systems. But they should also begin to explore steps to deal with when smart devices become even more sophisticated and potentially set and follow their own objectives.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2015

For example, the skills and knowledge required to be a good neurosurgeon are quite different from those needed to be a good lawyer, banker, or software engineer.) Clearly, web scraping has ethical and legal implications, particularly when firms request applicants’ social media passwords as part of the vetting process.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2014

Editor’s note: This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers. I can do the job of just about anyone in the factory and can work most of the software the engineering guys use. Ethics Job search Managing yourself' Manager, Operations.

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