Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2012

Back in 1908, the Army learned of a clever engineer — Frederick Taylor , subsequently dubbed "the father of scientific management" — and his success in making steel manufacturing more productive in Pennsylvania. It was the first worker rebellion against Taylorism.

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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

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. Within two years I was speaking and writing fluently.

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Tanveer Naseer

JANUARY 15, 2013

He traces this dynamic back to Frederick Taylor, who was both an efficiency engineer and a fierce advocate of workplace democracy. She is an author, speaker, and leadership development consultant whose most recent book is The Female Vision: Women’s Real Power at Work , co-authored with Julie Johnson.

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Lead on Purpose

NOVEMBER 6, 2010

Leadership grows and develops through building effective relationships. I highly recommend It’s Not Just Who You Know as guidebook to building effective relationships and increasing your leadership potential. Product managers rely heavily on other people — engineers, sales people, support, etc.

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The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 16, 2019

.” One of the more interesting challenges currently live on the platform is the Base 11 Space Challenge, sponsored by Base11, who are a non-profit organization that tries to encourage and support young people in developing and deploying skills in science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM). ” Broad experience.

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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). It’s a simple principle with profound results.

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Chartered Management Institute

APRIL 19, 2023

They discussed the strategic impact that leadership assessment and profiling can have on successful executive succession planning. CMI Malaysia at IET Gala On 18 February, representatives from CMI Malaysia attended the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) Malaysia prestige lecture and award dinner.

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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. This is an awsome incentive that could motivate a lot of people!

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CO2

DECEMBER 10, 2010

What drives your economic engine? It asks the leader and their team to determine what is the measurement of their success (Collin’s economic engine). His book Just Ask Leadership - Why Great Managers Always Ask The Right Questions (McGraw Hill 2009). What are you passionate about? Your people do not care about that number.

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CO2

DECEMBER 10, 2010

What drives your economic engine? It asks the leader and their team to determine what is the measurement of their success (Collin’s economic engine). His book Just Ask Leadership - Why Great Managers Always Ask The Right Questions (McGraw Hill 2009). What are you passionate about? Your people do not care about that number.

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CO2

DECEMBER 10, 2010

It is based on Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) and is implemented by fastworks as an add-in to Microsoft Excel, a ubiquitous engine that many already use for various business applications, which reduces the learning curve and the need for expensive proprietary software. The weighting of criteria is increased by one multiple per item.

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CO2

DECEMBER 10, 2010

It is based on Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) and is implemented by fastworks as an add-in to Microsoft Excel, a ubiquitous engine that many already use for various business applications, which reduces the learning curve and the need for expensive proprietary software. The weighting of criteria is increased by one multiple per item.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2011

The team has a translator, a facilitator to run the design meeting, an engineering expert with the requisite technical knowledge and — of course — a representative from top management to make sure the team's bold designs align with the firm's strategic roadmap. I can always find and hire an "average" engineer.". Of course!

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2015

What made them such was not the efficiency of railways’ engineering or the success of one pricing strategy. We once reserved such feelings for our more charismatic leaders, but technology and leadership are associated ever more closely. It was the freedom and connections they afforded us.

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CO2

JUNE 29, 2010

We believe the strength of any team is in the followers and there can be no leaders without followers, but the vast majority of research to date has focused on the leadership side of this equation. It is worth keeping in mind that some jobs have clear leadership requirements; virtually all jobs have followership requirements.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

We're fortunate to own a leadership position amongst our traditional competitors but recognize that we're at a point at which our benchmark must move. Engineer organizational breakdowns. HBR Lives Where Taylorism Died. In much of the world, those meters are Itron's meters. Audit the organization. Harness contention. More >>.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2011

But like so much of what we do in America's startup culture, I worry that we are taking this basic insight to crazy excess, making the claim that one superstar engineer is literally more valuable more than one hundred good engineers (Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg) or worth more than 200 good engineers (Netscape cofounder Marc Andreessen).

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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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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2012

Every senior executive would love to have an Allan Taylor on his or her team. The first is to enlist his current boss's help in finding an assignment where he can demonstrate his ability to take a leadership role in crafting strategy. And that was the nub of Allan's problem.

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Terry Starbucker

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

Out there for the search engines to find and world to read. Dr. Taylor put it this way, “you want to write, huh? It hides in journals, in Word docs on computers, on personal sites that never see the light of Google. For my some of my writing, that was me. And comment, which IMO is part of blogging, the feedback.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2013

James Fallows has a lovely piece about why the moment is significant for journalism; Kara Swisher writes about what the Post didn''t see coming and offers Bezos some excellent advice; and (on our own site) Bill Taylor and Justin Fox explore new leadership and investment models related to the acquisition.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

Taylor s textbook about "productivity" squarely at my nose if youd like, but Id suggest: the sharpest implement you might not yet have in your toolkit is a set of reflection items. Theyve been finely engineered, instead, to do. Theyve been finely engineered, instead, to do. So throw Frederick W. So throw Frederick W.

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