Great Leadership By Dan

MARCH 29, 2008

I first came across this story from an engineering colleague of mine, Kyle Smith. The engineers who designed the SRBs might have preferred to make them a bit fatter, but the SRBs had to be shipped by train from the factory to the launch site. He said he got it from Howard Winsett, NASA Dryden Flight Research Center. ring any bells?

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 20, 2021

Owning and improving land necessitated getting to that land, and so a booming real estate enterprise led to America’s transportation industry. business history can be interpreted as suppliers to the transportation industry. More people meant more buyers. The mammoth steel, coal, and petroleum industries that tower over U.S.

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Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 13, 2012

In the apprentice model of leadership, the manager was a person who had mastered technical expertise and then passed on this expertise to followers who didn't know as much as he did. Peter Drucker loved to study the leadership of volunteer organizations. It was also clear their engineers were at least as respected as their managers.

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Next Level Blog

DECEMBER 10, 2010

  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.   As reported in Wired magazine a few months ago, Musk bought the former NUMMI manufacturing plant valued at $1 billion from Toyota for $42 million.

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Building Personal Strength

DECEMBER 22, 2010

Embedded in the signal are engineering plans for a huge, complex device to transport a human from Earth to Vega via a wormhole system. And if wormholes proved to be real, they wouldnt work for transportation. The math says that a theoretical wormhole would be unpredictable and unstable. Not in the least.

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Steve Farber

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

He also happens to be a Certified Facilitator of The Extreme Leadership Workshop. —SF Extreme Leadership by Richard Corder. I’d like to share some thoughts and stories that embody leadership for me. This story is about the notion of real, raw, leadership, and OS!M’s. Leadership is a funny word.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

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. The ‘Wastes’ of Execution: Transportation. For example, at the end of World War II, the people of Japan faced historically unprecedented difficulties.

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Steve Farber

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

He also happens to be a Certified Facilitator of The Extreme Leadership Workshop. —SF Extreme Leadership by Richard Corder. I’d like to share some thoughts and stories that embody leadership for me. This story is about the notion of real, raw, leadership, and OS!M’s. Leadership is a funny word.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2015

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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Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2015

To renew and reinvent our aging transportation infrastructure, we must turn our attention to coalition-building. Classic leadership lessons apply. Engineering innovations lowered the cost. The company sponsored a school program for National Engineering Week and a tunnel exhibit for the neighboring Miami Children’s Museum.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2015

How could an advanced country, once the model for the world’s most modern transportation innovations, slip so badly? The average family of four spends as much as 19% of its household budget on transportation. I put aside work on a book about leadership to tackle the infrastructure issue. The glory years were decades ago.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2017

They failed to come up with any, unable to imagine horseless transportation. Infomocracy , by governance researcher Malka Older, explores how software could change our public institutions through the social and technical engineering of elections. Assumptions are a luxury true leaders can’t afford.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2012

We excel in product leadership and advanced technology — values inconsistent with the ultra-low-cost products poor countries require. Bulk up on emerging market knowledge and expertise: Paliwal now transports his entire leadership team to China for a month every year. The lesson is clear.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2016

The company’s 136-year journey has taken it from power through transportation, appliances, health care, finance, media, and industry leaps. ” The brilliant factory is part of CEO Jeffrey Immelt’s mission to ensure GE’s leadership in the industrial Internet of Things (IoT).

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 28, 2012

Second, fix the transportation infrastructure. We need a more strategic approach to planning and funding our nation's transportation infrastructure for the future. Today, we address critical transportation needs in isolation. Trade is the most powerful engine of job growth and prosperity.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2016

As a city dweller, the need to transport our dog is starting to feel like the only thing preventing me from ditching our station wagon. We know that GM or Toyota cannot just close down production of gasoline engine cars and transform themselves into Tesla.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2017

When one of us (Vivek) and his team launched Roivant Sciences in 2014 and began developing treatments for Alzheimer’s disease — they were determined to learn from the pharma industry’s innovation issues and build a more sustainable innovation engine. Transportation is a significant issue for this patient population.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 14, 2015

The bike must be impeccably maintained — oil, gas, gears, engine — and the rider must know it intimately, down to the depth of the tire treads to the millimeter. But in Africa (or, for that matter, anywhere else), if reliable transportation is not part of the health-care delivery system, people die. Barry should know.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2017

Many people naively see collaboration as a leadership style in which relationships take precedence over the task at hand. For example, one earthquake engineer, Stuart, had a career breakthrough when he joined a large structural investigation project led by a team of senior partners in his firm. Collaboration is not a style.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2011

At Starbucks, that has meant contributing both money and time to meet local needs in the communities it serves, promoting sustainable farming communities and ethically sourcing coffee, and packaging and transporting its products with sensitivity to their environmental impact. He's now proved, for a second time, that his approach can work.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 16, 2021

There are many ways that even a good business with good leadership can be damaged or bankrupted. Opportunities were abundant, especially with used cars, since so many dealers were panicking and slashing their inventories even as demand for affordable transportation increased.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2013

By the summer of 2008 GE leadership wanted to sell the appliances business or spin it off. Dirk''s answer was: "We can save on transportation and be closer to our customers. We can have engineering work more closely with production. With leadership engagement and support, this system will thrive.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 1, 2014

The program pairs start-ups with government workers to improve government services in areas including transportation, energy, data services, and the environment. When we asked our fellows, here are the reasons they shared with us: The opportunity to explore something new and find new paths to leadership. At over $140 billion, the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

The trick, and it is a difficult one, is to add just enough complexity so that people can do their work, but not so much that “they feel as if they are walking in muck” as Twitter’s SVP of engineering Chris Fry puts it. Change management Customer service Informal leadership' Scaling starts and ends with individuals.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2011

The explosion of salaries on Wall Street has attracted many of the talented individuals who otherwise would have gone into research, design, and engineering occupations. This necessitates innovation and significant investment not only in power generation but also in the electricity grid, in the transport system, and in homes and factories.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MARCH 7, 2016

New DDI research explores leadership differences between men and women and makes the case for gender diversity in the workplace. DDI’s High-Resolution Leadership study reviewed true assessment data from 10,000 global leaders and found no difference in the battle of the sexes for leadership skills.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

How can these companies overcome the inevitable leadership, organizational, and cultural challenges involved? ” So GE has hired 1,000 software engineers and data scientists to provide enhanced software and analytical skills across GE’s many businesses. General Electric turns out to be an excellent case in point.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2016

Real digital transformation requires transformation at a deeper level—transformation of the leadership team’s core beliefs. Many established organizations hope that they can stay competitive making only minor tweaks—when these new disruptors have a different approach to everything.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2015

Companies were split into divisions, each with their own leadership. Google’s mission is to organize the world’s information, which helps it attract world-class engineers who share its mission. Tesla’s mission “to accelerate the advent of sustainable transport” transcends car manufacturing.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

So under the leadership of the city’s health department, a Faith and Diabetes Summit was held whose 100-plus participants included leaders of the Buddhist, Muslim, Hindu, Jewish, and Christian communities. An innovative example is Houston’s approach to engaging the faith community in health care.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2014

In an industry that involves selling machines that transport humans at fast speeds, the notion that employees wouldn’t be encouraged to discuss safety seems odd. In a recent New York Times video on both disasters , one former engineer, Rodney Rocha, recalls asking why his request was rejected.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2017

But most successful companies used electricity and motors to reinvent their existing businesses, whether in manufacturing, transportation, or construction. Everyone on the leadership team has a role to play in making this pivot. Every company should be thinking about how its products and assets could become a Social Network of Things.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 31, 2011

Janitor | custodian | sanitation engineer. Housewife | homemaker | domestic engineer. Transportation is necessary to get people from here to there. Transportation is a vital component of the economy…conveying goods throughout intricate networks to marketplaces. Transportation is a status symbol to some people.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2013

Well, put simply, the more elements of the design that are under your control, the more effectively you're able to radically change the design of a product — you give your engineers more degrees of freedom. Two key questions remain: Has Boeing learned from the mistake?

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2016

You’re competing against platforms like Uber in transportation, Google in automotive, Airbnb in hospitality, LinkedIn in recruiting, Netflix in television, and the list goes on. Pratt & Whitney has partnered with IBM to enhance its engine management offering. Build an adaptive organization with the right leadership structure.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

Among the new positions to emerge since 1980, women make up less than 10% of architecture, engineer, and construction managers. They are also vastly underrepresented as managers of general operations, computer information, industrial production, and transportation.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

In 1888, Emile Berliner invented the phonograph record, for the purpose of transporting music to consumers. They were combined derivatives of 78RPM, known by engineers as ‘the mother speed.’ It was the earliest Dictaphone, whereby messages would be recorded by a needle on a rolling tube. Why those speeds?

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