Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2012

Harvard Business Review editors go to work every day on articles they hope will make their mark on the history of management thinking. Coincidentally, the site where they go to work is itself of historical importance to management — because of a fight that is still alive today. 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. Then there’s product management… — The Product Management Perspective: One of the least palatable realities of product management is that applause and acknowledgment of great work does not come immediately; sometimes it comes slowly and many times not at all.

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Chartered Management Institute

APRIL 19, 2023

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. Well coordinated and managed, it celebrated the best that the profession has to offer. Listen to their discussion here !

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Lead on Purpose

NOVEMBER 6, 2010

He cites as proof a 2007 Gallop Management Journal survey that estimates that “actively disengaged workers&# cost the U.S. – The Product Management Perspective: Building effective relationships is absolutely crucial for success in product management. economy about $382 billion annually.

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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). — The Product Management Perspective: Nothing comes easy in product management.

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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 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. You can find more information about our program at www.ecornell.com or please take a look at our recent press release eCornell Press Release.

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CO2

DECEMBER 10, 2010

What drives your economic engine? These are really helpful questions if you take them to the extreme and I so often do not find CEOs, Executive Directors, or Managing Partners being pushed far enough on becoming clear in their answer to these questions. 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? These are really helpful questions if you take them to the extreme and I so often do not find CEOs, Executive Directors, or Managing Partners being pushed far enough on becoming clear in their answer to these questions. What are you passionate about? Your people do not care about that number.

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Executive Coaching Execution Strategic Planning Marketing 104

Deming Institute

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

The content of this blog was prepared as an article for the first edition of the Lean Management Journal, later known as The LMJ. In the late 1960s, Frank Pipp, an assembly plant manager for a Ford Motor Company factory, instructed his staff to purchase competitor’s cars. Deming is the core of our management.”

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2014

Whether you’ve heard of them or not, two gurus from the early 20 th century still dominate management thinking and practice — to our detriment. It has been more than 100 years since Frederick Taylor, an American engineer working in the steel business, published his seminal work on the principles of scientific management.

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CO2

DECEMBER 10, 2010

If you use this tool effectively you will be able to manage big complex issues down to the core elements that are effecting the decision. Gary Cohen grew the company from two people to 2,200 employees Currently, he is Managing Partner of CO2 Partners, LCC, operating as an executive coach and consultant.

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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.".

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2015

Drucker Forum 2015: Managing in the Digital Age. What made them such was not the efficiency of railways’ engineering or the success of one pricing strategy. He presented a humanistic view of managers’ function in the enterprise that cast both as vehicles for people’s expression and growth.

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CO2

DECEMBER 10, 2010

If you use this tool effectively you will be able to manage big complex issues down to the core elements that are effecting the decision. Gary Cohen grew the company from two people to 2,200 employees Currently, he is Managing Partner of CO2 Partners, LCC, operating as an executive coach and consultant.

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Executive Coaching Strategic Planning Brainstorming Execution 68

Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2011

And some do get the value of shopping for talent now: Engine maker Cummins Inc., jobs in 2011, many requiring engineering or other technical skills. Similarly, Sony gave sound labs engineer Ken Kutaragi enough latitude to progressively develop the Sony PlayStation gaming platform. now with about 14,800 U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2014

Where once Marx lamented capitalistic alienation, today’s talent management gurus celebrate gamification and giving employees a consumer-like experience. A new era of Taylorization has begun, thanks to the widespread penetration of technology at work. The second obstacle is lack of expertise.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2011

Anytime a CEO, quarterback, engineer or author is paid ridiculous amounts of money, dozens of investors, armchair quarterbacks, and scholars jump in to debate the value of individual contributors versus teams. I have heard plenty of people argue that no one individual is worth the price of many.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

I'm not one to manage by magazine but, if I were, "The Reinvention Roller Coaster: Risking the Present for a Powerful Future" would be required reading. Engineer organizational breakdowns. HBR's 90th Anniversary: Why Management Matters. Your Most Pressing Management Concerns: What You've Told Us. Especially right now.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Paul Taylor/Getty Images. It can’t be denied, however, that in the age of increased social-engineering attacks and unmanaged device usage, reliance on a human-based strategy is questionable at best. The scope of IoT is far too complex for a traditional security teams to manage with legacy solutions.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 6, 2014

My fellow HBR blogger Bill Taylor recently made a pitch for all of us to stop using the word “innovation” in 2014. Third, be clear about how managers can best enable innovative thinking. Despite his plea, I suspect this word isn’t going anywhere. It’s too important as a driver of growth and renewal.

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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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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2012

Every senior executive would love to have an Allan Taylor on his or her team. For a number of years, Allan has reported to a highly visionary manager, and they made a great team. What types of topics do your colleagues and senior managers typically hear you discussing? And that was the nub of Allan's problem.

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Lead on Purpose

AUGUST 17, 2009

With a lifetime of experience, he has a fresh and unique perspective in guiding and managing product teams and has a knack for sensing markets, synthesizing ideas and turning them into reality. Jim’s passion is enabling product marketing teams. Enjoy the post and don’t hesitate to tweet your comments to Jim directly. Think about it.

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CO2

JUNE 29, 2010

And perhaps more importantly, anyone occupying a position of authority plays a followership role at times, as first-line supervisors report to mid-level managers, mid-level managers report to vice-presidents, vice-presidents report to CEOs, CEOs report to Boards of Directors, etc.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 19, 2013

With Frederick''s Taylor invention of scientific management in the 1880s, and its subsequent assimilation into what we now consider modern management, organizations have used logic and rationality to the eliminate waste, to seek efficiency, and to transfer human knowledge to tools and processes. IT management'

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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. So does it work? Stirman says yes.

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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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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2015

Taylor , the founder of scientific management who died 100 years ago. The nerds’ power was sharply amplified: Massive investments required the centralized engineering of business processes, putting all the control in the hands of a cohort of experts. How did the war start, and why is it important?

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