In the CEO Afterlife

AUGUST 29, 2011

According to licensing agreements and industry sources, Monsanto’s stranglehold on the genetically-engineered seed market in the United States and the world squeezes customers, limits competitors and provides staggering profits. 5 principles of simplicity via @ matthewemay [link] Humans need a reminder RT @ hunterwalk Good design teaches.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2018

Dubbed the “Alien Dreadnought,” Tesla’s new manufacturing facility in Fremont, California, was designed to be fully automated — no humans need apply. The worker must also possess robotics and controls engineering skills, according to our analysis of Tesla’s recent recruiting efforts.

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Power Engineering Analysis Training 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 26, 2017

They need to trade that off against the effects of allowing a transaction that is fraudulent. Humans need to do so. Enter Reward Function Engineering. As AIs serve up better and cheaper predictions, there is a need to think clearly and work out how to best use those predictions. No AI can make that call.

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Engineering Learning-by-Doing Cost Training 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 22, 2015

Even more important to the redesign of GE, this portfolio of products has been a growth engine, providing ballast against the serious pain of the financial meltdown of 2008. Humanity needs the kind of hard-core, heavy, physical infrastructure that GE sells, and we badly need clean infrastructure in particular.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2013

Top down: target a demographic or economic segment, and engineer the product to meet that price. What you almost never hear about is a fifth track, which I call story analysis: an analysis of a product''s capabilities to fulfill a profound human need, to tell a story that gives your customers'' lives richer meaning.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2015

Who doesn’t stand in awe of the advances that science and its STEM siblings (technology, engineering, and math) have created to better our world? But since the time of Aristotle, it has also been recognized that the hard sciences and the humanities must walk side by side in governing human action.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2014

engineer or accountant) and personal experiences. They can also have privacy when they need it. All humans need privacy sometimes; when we have it we order our thoughts and develop a plan for moving forward. Stark is to be avoided; it’s alien to the environments in which we developed as a species and makes us tense.

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ExactHire - Leadership

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Or the straightforward “Age of Automation,” as coined by a self-described former Mechanical Engineer on a Quora forum. Which is why you may have had trouble figuring out how to develop your employer brand or even why you need an employer brand in the first place. The “ Era of Innovation ” is one contender. Really fast.

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ExactHire - Leadership

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Or the straightforward “Age of Automation,” as coined by a self-described former Mechanical Engineer on a Quora forum. Which is why you may have had trouble figuring out how to develop your employer brand or even why you need an employer brand in the first place. The “ Era of Innovation ” is one contender. Really fast.

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Brand Storytelling Strategy Diversity 52

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 2, 2014

Starbucks’ experience is common among a number of retailers who have taken their passion for engineering and optimizing schedules too far. Some systems, however, are implemented to create value for workers while simultaneously taking advantage of software’s benefits.

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In the CEO Afterlife

MARCH 21, 2011

Monsanto produces genetically-engineered seed; for several years the company has come under persistent criticism from farmers, government and environmentalists for its business practices. 5 principles of simplicity via @ matthewemay [link] Humans need a reminder RT @ hunterwalk Good design teaches. April 2011. March 2011.

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