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Ethics Is Serious Business

Great Leadership By Dan

Guest post by John Hooker : Everyone knows that an organization can’t function without physical infrastructure communications, transportation, computer technology, and the rest. Building and maintaining physical infrastructure requires a certain kind of know-how, which we call engineering.

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2010 Has Been A Pretty Good Year for Elon Musk

Next Level Blog

  When his company was just about to run out of cash, his engineers rigged a Smart car with Tesla batteries and he convinced the executives of Daimler Benz to license his technology. That's where Tesla is going to build battery powered family sedans.    It's funny and informative. Click Here.

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6 Silent Productivity and Profitability Pitfalls, part 1 of 7

Strategy Driven

The last decade ushered in an economic meltdown and technological breakthroughs that have forever changed the business world as we knew it. During this time, an engineer named Taiichi Ohno (known today as the father of Toyota) began the task of building a new capacity for Japanese industrial production.

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America’s Leaders Need to Tell a New Story About Infrastructure

Harvard Business Review

Narratives are powerful leadership tools. This kind of leadership communication is sorely needed now to get moving on America’s infrastructure problems. Transportation infrastructure must be renewed and reinvented. The state of transportation infrastructure has implications for every major issue.

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Too Many Infrastructure Projects Go It Alone

Harvard Business Review

To renew and reinvent our aging transportation infrastructure, we must turn our attention to coalition-building. Classic leadership lessons apply. Developing and deploying new technology requires building a supportive ecosystem surrounding it. Engineering innovations lowered the cost. Enter a coalition.

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Why Business Leaders Need to Read More Science Fiction

Harvard Business Review

They failed to come up with any, unable to imagine horseless transportation. Extrapolating from past trends is useful but limiting in a world of accelerating technological change. Assumptions toppled Kodak despite the fact that its engineers built the first digital camera in 1975. Science fiction can help.

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Reversing the Curse of Dominant Logic

Harvard Business Review

Rich countries are the most technologically advanced. We should be able to meet their needs with cheap products based on older technology. We excel in product leadership and advanced technology — values inconsistent with the ultra-low-cost products poor countries require. The lesson is clear.