N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 1, 2016

This programme which moved me through all major departments (Engineering, Finance, Supply, Vehicle Assembly, IS&T etc.) Gordon Berridge: Did you have a mentor at Rio Tinto, if so, how important was that person to you and your development?

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 21, 2011

I believe great leaders will mentor and coach subordinates for the purpose of identifying and developing other great leaders. While there is an element of truth in that statement if this is what you aspire to as a leader it constitutes a complete under-utilization of leadership responsibility.

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Entrepreneur CEO Blog Welch 365

N2Growth Blog

JUNE 14, 2010

While much has been written about corporate vision, mission, process, leadership, strategy, branding and a variety of other business practices, it is the engineering of these practices to be disruptive that maximizes opportunities. Does anyone on your executive team have a coach or mentor? Has your business embraced social media?

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2011

Bob Lutz in his recent book Car Guys vs. Bean Counters makes the point that GM was doing fine until in the mid 1970s the MBA-trained finance guys took control of product development from the "car guys," who were engineers and designers. The result, he says, was inferior cars and a decline in the firm. Strategic judgment.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 22, 2016

Running a business might seem daunting for an 18-year-old, but my wife and I felt equipped to mentor them through the process. I had been an engineering manager at GE, so my areas of expertise included managing projects, inventory, and finances, all of which would be helpful.

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Company Finance Real Estate Fashion 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 29, 2013

As someone who mentors entrepreneurs, I constantly hear the question from founders located across the United States or around the world: Should we move to Silicon Valley? Rehearse the pitch in your head, and please come share it with me at one of my Thursday morning free mentoring sessions. This is no idle question. Costs are low.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Don’t let your engineers hack together workarounds that will need to be maintained down the road; provide real engineering solutions to the types of problems new software has. Your customer feedback is coming in through a variety of channels: phone calls to founders, emails to engineers, even the occasional text message.

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Metrics Engineering Efficiency Learning-by-Doing 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 25, 2014

in January 1968 as a young 22-year old with $8 in his pocket and an undergraduate degree in mechanical engineering from IIT Bombay. Expand the traditional notion of mentoring. The best mentoring comes from successful individuals who are perceived as mainstream in the organization. I had an unlikely journey to the top.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2013

Companies can also foster vital connections between off-ramping women and designated mentors, with role models who have successfully on- and up-ramped, and through informal networks of colleagues. That way, when you come back, it's not a strange place," notes a female general manager at a finance multinational.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2013

It’s generally acknowledged that it’s more difficult to find talent, raise funds, identify mentors… but the data suggests that it’s even worse than you’d imagine. Many small businesses don’t require the sort of financing required by firms in pursuit of s-curve growth. It takes longer to raise money. But it is an important metric.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 1, 2014

As one remarked, “After eight years, I had built the foundation and expertise in markets and finance. Cities and states are becoming the R&D engines of the U.S. It was time for me to explore paths to leadership in other contexts.” . The opportunity to regain a sense of purpose and passion about their work.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2013

The CIO must step up and mentor the C-suite on the potentials, possibilities, threats and opportunities of information technology, but likewise, the HR lead needs to discuss the impact of a free-agent workforce, the head of legal needs to discuss the impacts of open innovation and IP sharing, and so on. Now, however, the model is changing.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 26, 2013

Inexperienced friends and family (and, increasingly, crowdsourced investors) lack the ability to gauge the viability of a business, or to mentor naïve entrepreneurs. Hiring managers may often be expensive, but high IQ engineers have historically been very good at picking up business skills with the right mentoring.

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Incubator Business Incubator Real Estate Venture Capitalist 17

Reiter Thinks

JUNE 8, 2011

For a large number of people who aren’t engineers and computer science majors you’re probably going to revert back to what you know. Filed under: Inspiration , mentor , Self Help , Success Tagged: class of 2011 , family , high school , Personal Finance , personal success , Success , Work. You decide which one makes more sense.

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Class Follow-up Education Finance 42

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

Take architectural and engineering firm EYP as an example. The educational concepts developed in that program have since evolved into a larger learning program called EYP University, which provides an average of 20 courses a year for architects, engineers, and a combination of the two.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 2, 2012

Marketers might contend that the latest advertising campaign is equivalent to re-engineering the client company (though the two concepts are light years apart). Also examine potential consultants regarding their own track record at mentoring other business professionals. What is their longevity? Were they consultants 10-20 years ago?

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

Other managerial occupations that became majority-female were education administration, human resources, property and real estate, and finance. Among the new positions to emerge since 1980, women make up less than 10% of architecture, engineer, and construction managers. Several positions, however, remain dominated by men.

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Management Real Estate Human Resources Diversity 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2011

* For more prolonged relationship building, have a mentoring program where a newcomer is paired up with someone who's been around a while. You may even have a "networking" mentor who is different from the usual expertise mentor. * Don't segregate engineering from marketing, HR from finance, and so on.

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Sports Team Bond Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2014

I tried to get Greenspan to talk me for my November HBR article on economics and finance since the crisis , but he said he’d promised his publisher to keep mum until the book was out, which was too late for my purposes. It was the form in which the asset was financed. One is finance and the other is non-finance.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2018

Most inquiries from other departments — engineering, finance, product, marketing — are relatively simple requests that anyone with basic training could fulfill. Encourage the proficient ones to mentor the others. It will become clear that some team members are more comfortable using data skills than others are.

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