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Leadership Matters

N2Growth Blog

This programme which moved me through all major departments (Engineering, Finance, Supply, Vehicle Assembly, IS&T etc.) Paul assisted me particularly as I entered new territory in restructuring, and maintaining the focus on getting the balance right between the present and future business.

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Where Are All The Great Careers? Hiding Right Here.

Rich Gee Group

The average salary for a welding engineer is $48K to $101K. Technical Writing - There is a wide variety of sub-specializations which lean more toward engineering, how-to’s, or investigations. Even at a little company, there’s more random stuff than you would think (DNA, DEA, bacteria, electrical engineering, IT, etc.)

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A Shift in Leadership Can Make a Multi-Million Dollar Impact

Strategy Driven

We remained steadfastly committed to having all our staff from custodians, plumbers, and bus drivers to engineers, architects, and finance directors, trained in the culture we wanted to create and the culture we expected each of our people to honor. They spent five times that on one lost lawsuit in one year.

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What Your Innovation Process Should Look Like

Harvard Business Review

This prioritization process has to start before any new idea reaches engineering. This way, the innovations that do reach engineering will already have substantial evidence — about validated customer needs, processes, legal security, and integration issues.

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Who Killed the GE Model?

Harvard Business Review

The model was honed by Jack Welch in the 1980s and 1990s, with new portfolio restructuring strategies and a headlong expansion into finance. These strategies eroded GE’s competitive advantage in everything from consumer electronics and home appliances to trains and aircraft engines.

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What SpaceX Can Teach Us About Cost Innovation

Harvard Business Review

In large companies, the task of cost cutting is invariably incremental and left to finance, which works with individuals or small groups within a specific department, region, or area of the business. Though traumatic, the restructuring of GM and Chrysler, including a major reduction in overhead, led to their resurgence since 2009.

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Have a Real Impact; Keep Your Day Job

Harvard Business Review

James is using his expertise as a chemical engineer to develop new business models for base-of-the-pyramid consumers. Matt Ellis at CBRE, a global leader in real estate services, is designing financing structures that will provide capital for clients' energy efficiency initiatives. Take James Inglesby at Unilever, for example.