The Recovering Engineer

JULY 13, 2010

To hear the full interview, check out From Bud to Boss at The Cranky Middle Manager. He has degrees in Chemical Engineering and he served as a Nuclear Engineering officer in the U.S. He is an engineer by nature, by training, and experience. The big issues facing new supervisors. Learn More… What Do You Think?

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Workshop Middle Management Engineering FAQ 194

QAspire

MARCH 25, 2014

The reality is that training middle managers on critical thinking skills is much like teaching an adult to ride a bicycle. If communication is defined as a meaningful exchange of information, thoughts and feelings between two living creatures, critical thinking is the engine that provides this meaning. - – - – -.

Leadership Development 185

Leadership Development Development Leadership Training 185

Marshall Goldsmith

MARCH 3, 2014

My friend Maria is a gifted engineer who has invested years in making a significant contribution to her firm. “If I go into management, I’m definitely going to lose my technical edge after a few years. Nobody is going to want to hire me as an engineer anymore. Being an engineer is fine; being in management is fine.

Engineering 144

Engineering Middle Management Learning-by-Doing Follow-up 144

leaderCommunicator

JANUARY 28, 2013

Throughout my career as a Principal engineer at Intel, I’ve repeatedly made a point to do that, and believe me, it wasn’t easy. Better yet, in some cases this allowed me to strike alliances and mount joint projects with like-minded engineers and managers – to the benefit of all our organizations.

Company 137

Company Conference Cooper How To 137

Michael Lee Stallard

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

Jim Taggart presents The Rise of Tiger Business Women posted at ChangingWinds , saying, “At present rates, it will take about 150 years before women and men are equally likely to reach middle management. Chris Edmonds presents Three Steps to a Bully-Free Workplace posted at Driving Results Through Culture. .”

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Blog Leadership Deming Storytelling 218

Great Leadership By Dan

NOVEMBER 6, 2011

Jim Taggart presents The Rise of Tiger Business Women posted at ChangingWinds , saying, "At present rates, it will take about 150 years before women and men are equally likely to reach middle management. And a century and a half is an eyeblink compared with the eternity it would take to achieve this benchmark in senior management".

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Leadership Development Development Leadership Deming 248

Sales Wolf Blog

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

 Ever the engineer at heart, Tom has come up with a series of "equations" to follow that will help implement these strategies regardless of what industry or line of business you work in. .  And, generally speaking, this does not create a lot of problems.

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Blog Human Resources McCarthy Talent Management 145

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2016

For Avaya, its lackluster NPS score reflected a simple truth: Innovation was the key to survival because it is the growth engine. In particular, I’d like to focus on three things Avaya did that other companies can learn from: Treat Innovation as a Risk-Management Exercise. Tie Your Goals to Hard Numbers.

Agility 8

Agility Innovation Metrics Middle Management 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2013

The next challenge is to strike the right balance between getting the most out of these opportunities AND keeping your performance engine humming. What are the best structures to create so you neither disturb the rhythm of the performance engine nor drop the ball on opportunities? Butter before Jam. Cake before icing. Cake AND icing.

Innovation 8

Innovation Engineering Core Competence Middle Management 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2012

Then, inspired by the clamshell cell phones of the 1990s, a clever engineer would connect the keyboard to the screen with a hinge, making tablet covers and stands obsolete. Third-party vendors would soon offer external devices modeled on typewriters that would make those annoying keyboarding errors a thing of the past.

McKinsey 9

McKinsey Automotive Committee Middle Management 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2014

In our research on how middle managers sell their ideas up the chain of command ( which we describe in the January-February 2015 issue of HBR ), we’ve found that those who do so most successfully are the ones who manage emotions on both sides. But his boss had selected the existing system just a year before.

Engineering 11

Engineering Tactics Influence Middle Management 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 24, 2013

Its practitioners are the modernization of the much-maligned yet depended-upon middle manager. What Sets Effective Middle Management Apart. How Google Sold Its Engineers on Management. Special Forces Innovation: How DARPA Attacks Problems. What Manufacturing Taught Me About Knowledge Work.

Management 19

Management Health Care Middle Management Agility 19

Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2018

But if middle managers wind up caught in bureaucratic procedures and rule-enforcement mindsets, implementations will falter. This learning curve is often the culprit behind implementation processes that take significantly longer than managers expect. Talent tech raises urgency for further talent innovation.

Technology 10

Technology Talent Management Process Management 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2012

It's an engine of value that boosts employee engagement and improves strategic alignment. Another highlighted a "disparity between the senior management team and middle management due to low transparency." For these leaders, internal communication isn't just an HR function. Promote two-way dialogue within your company.

Company 15

Company Survey Participative Talent Management 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

Ethan Mollick of Wharton will reveal the overlooked value of individual middle managers in executing on innovation. The best project managers, he writes, have a "magical" impact; companies need to do a better job of supporting and encouraging them. Gary Hamel will explore how companies build their innovation engines.

Innovation 8

Innovation Venture Capitalist Hamel Middle Management 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

Ethan Mollick of Wharton will reveal the overlooked value of individual middle managers in executing on innovation. The best project managers, he writes, have a “magical” impact; companies need to do a better job of supporting and encouraging them. Gary Hamel will explore how companies build their innovation engines.

Innovation 8

Innovation Venture Capitalist Hamel Middle Management 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2013

To close this gap, leading businesses like Google are exploring scalable strategies that make UX relevant to engineers and MBAs across their organizations. It is exactly this sort of UX R&D that is letting companies attract and retain critical crossover talent, i.e. engineers who work in code but think in "experience."

Strategy 9

Strategy Six Sigma Engineering Bottom-up 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

Its new management team took over an organization that was bureaucratic, overstaffed, and bleeding cash. Middle managers were confused about what to do, and many pushed their local agendas at the expense of the company's overall best interests. The team decided to adopt a simple-rules approach to the work ahead.

Strategy 8

Strategy Proposal Guidelines Net Present Value 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2016

“You mean like middle managers?” But at some point in my reporting, as I learned more and more about the qualities shared by effective middlemen from all industries, it dawned on me that middle managers — indeed, managers and professionals at every level — obviously are middlemen.

Middle Management 8

Middle Management Management Venture Capitalist Travel 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 8, 2014

With the studied intensity of a good engineer, he decided to demonstrate that this defense company was a safe place to talk about anything. On one memorable occasion Phil said in front of a group of middle managers: “I’ve been told I am unapproachable. Sacrifice ego. I don’t know what that means.

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Newsletter Audience Middle Management Tactics 13

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2018

Connectors in the middle. Although long ignored, these middle management positions have become increasingly recognized as critical to executing a company’s strategy. Essential experts possess crucial knowledge but don’t want to manage others. Let’s examine each a little more closely. Essential Experts.

McKinsey 8

McKinsey Human Resources Reputation Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 3, 2010

If you look at the number of top graduates from any Indian school," whether in management or engineering, as one HR manager for a global conglomerate notes, "a disproportionate number are women.". Also noteworthy: More than 50% of female college grads also hold a post-graduate degree, in comparison to 40% of men. "If

Globalization 15

Globalization Class Outsourcing Middle Management 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

Taken together, they create a kind of “Third Space” that differs sharply from the other two perspectives that have long dominated business thinking: the engineering and traditional MBA perspectives. Though empathy is almost universally seen as desirable, it is not distributed evenly among all levels of management.

Emotional Intelligence 8

Emotional Intelligence Audience PR Middle Management 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2016

Even if women are well represented as middle managers, their numbers drop off when making the jump to VP-level executives. You successfully resolved the divide between the engineering team and the product team on which features to prioritize in our last sprint, leading us to ship the product on time.”).

Review 8

Review Performance Review Analysis Reference 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

After 12 years, 50% of technical women, predominately in engineering and computer science, had switched to other fields; 20% of other women professionals had done the same. A study by Jennifer Glass and coauthors in 2013 found that women leave STEM fields at dramatically higher rates than women in other occupations.

Focus Group 8

Focus Group Skills Technology Review 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2013

With these rules in place, 8 cross-functional teams—each composed of middle managers, a consultant guide, and a sponsor from the leadership team—were formed. Resetting a health system’s cost structure also implies greater centralization and standardization, which goes against the grain of local facility leaders and clinicians.

Cost 8

Cost Health Care Six Sigma Insourcing 8

Tanveer Naseer

OCTOBER 20, 2015

The talk in question is one given by Mohammed Qahtani, a security engineer from Saudi Arabia, which won him the 2015 Toastmasters International World Championship of Public Speaking.

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Power Long-term Uncertainty Biotechnology 100

Sales Wolf Blog

JUNE 25, 2010

The Resource:    LinkUp Monthly Jobs Report What It Is:   LinkUp is a job search engine that finds and displays employment openings directly from the career section of employer websites for companies of all sizes.  Enjoy!  Currently LinkUp is keeping tabs on job postings from over 21,000 organizations.

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Report Human Resources Open-book Advertising 124

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2015

Whether you are at the top of the company driving the remix, in the middle managing an acquisition or a partnership, or among the operating ranks keeping the pieces humming, you need to know the answers to such questions. How are these ventures going to enhance your competitive position?

Competitive Advantage 8

Competitive Advantage Strategy Short-term Resources 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2016

The decision to venture away from traditional staffing models and invest in greater dependence on agile talent is, of course, made by senior management. The decision to venture away from traditional staffing models and invest in greater dependence on agile talent is, of course, made by senior management. Insight Center.

Management 8

Management Agility Middle Management After Action Review 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2016

The experts — middle management, analysts, engineers, consultants — aren’t asked to provide a comprehensive view of possible futures and their probability of occurring. Much of the failure of long-term strategizing arises not from its difficulty but from confusion about how to do it.

Uncertainty 10

Uncertainty Supply Chain Outsourcing Brand 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

The two approaches share a set of key principles and practices, with the main differences arising from jargon: Sociocracy, developed in the 1970s, was based on principles of cybernetics ; holacracy represents a repackaging of the principles in the vocabulary of software engineering.

Proposal 8

Proposal Self-aware Engineering CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2014

Google’s test machine is built and run by a “test engineering” group, whose size is about 15% of their total developers. The test engineers think a lot about creating incentives that motivate developers to fix bugs and write effective tests. This group only builds the automated test systems – they don’t do the actual testing.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Development Software 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2015

As one middle manager told me, “No one was willing to go to management and say, ‘Let’s redeploy everyone, including myself, and do something else because this project isn’t working.'” The company had invested $100 million in the project, which involved three divisions. Leading Teams.

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Team Project Software Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2014

Even middle management has its value, he says. When Google founder and CEO Larry Page cut out a bunch of managers in an effort to reduce "friction," the result was frustration and confusion. More than 100 engineers reported to a single overwhelmed executive."

Parcell 8

Parcell Magazine Trends Middle Management 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 15, 2018

The preparations, produced by small teams or individual cooks, are progressively assembled, with sous-chefs (akin to middle managers) controlling the quality at every step. Before the final dishes are served, the head chef personally tastes a sample from each batch, maintaining control over every single aspect.

Innovation 8

Innovation Project Creativity Open-book 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

Among them: an explosive and often chaotic increase in staff (mostly in middle management), relying too heavily on Facebook as the core of its strategy, a focus on getting new players instead of retaining old ones, and squeezing as much money out of its users as possible in ways some felt were unethical. I mean, why not] jugglers?

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Class Health Care Supply Chain Globalization 8