Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Right out of engineering school, I worked on vacuum tubes – CRTs ruled then – and later on, monochrome LCD. TFEL (Thin Film Electroluminescent) : Sharp demonstrated TFEL in 1975 and made the first commercial display in 1983. It has been thrilling to be part of this industry the past 25 years.

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Technology Innovation Industry Sharpe 121

Center for Creative Leadership

MAY 19, 2019

David Altman, our COO, argues for giving leaders and employees a short, sharp shock: In effect, “If you think change is constant now, then you ain’t seen nothing yet.”. It’s also not just about hiring more good engineers.”. Engineers are trained to identify problems and come up with a solution; they are steeped in LEAN and Six Sigma.

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Altman Six Sigma COO Sharpe 86

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 15, 2018

Search engine marketing. Search engine marketing is paving the way for businesses to find their audiences. Used effectively, this are a great way to share your services through sharp visuals that are designed to attract your target consumer. You can use advertising networks to assist you in creating the ads.

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Audience Advertising Newsletter Sharpe 67

HR Digest

MAY 3, 2021

As the COVID-19 crisis takes a sharp turn from government to business, the issue of redefining jobs moves up the agenda. Some examples include the Black Employee Network (BEN), Amazon Women in Engineering (AWE), and Indigenous@. The HR Digest: What is Amazon’s secret sauce for being recognized several times as “Great Place to Work?”

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Quality Engineering Technology Resources 59

The Recovering Engineer

JUNE 12, 2010

His voice tone grew sharp, and his volume went up. 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. Apparently, John heard Joe question the necessity of solving the problem. Reply What Do You Think?

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Pryor Emotional Intelligence Engineering FAQ 210

Strategy Driven

MAY 16, 2018

Your descriptions will require keywords that online users search for in search engines, as well as being compelling enough to convince your customers to buy. You need to ensure that your website is easy to navigate, has a clean and sharp design, and holds all the information your customers might need.

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Strategy Customer Loyalty Sharpe Outsourcing 51

Lead on Purpose

DECEMBER 12, 2011

Startup success can be engineered by following the right process, which means it can be learned, which means it can be taught.”. Through this process of steering, we can learn when and if it’s time to make a sharp turn called a pivot or whether we should persevere along our current path.”.

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Ries Company Entrepreneur Agility 216

Terry Starbucker

MARCH 6, 2014

There seems to come a time in a leadership career where you think you can actually change a person – the hubris level gets to a point where you believe your skills are so sharp, and so good, that you can actually overcome the Peter Principle. Leaders are not genetic engineers. Several times.

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Leadership Core Competence Sharpe Learning-by-Doing 259

Strategy Driven

MAY 12, 2021

Engineers/Designers/Architects —Engineers and designers in virtually every field, as well as interior designers and architects, will appreciate the realism and detailed spatial relationships 3D displays provide. Peruvemba has also held senior level positions at Sharp Corp, Cambrios, Novasentis, TFS Inc.,

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Technology Content Video Globalization 105

Skip Prichard

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

In business terms, a superstar computer engineer is unlikely to write 100 times more code than an average performer. However, the quality of the code the super-star writes could result in billions of people using Google as opposed to AltaVista and other search engines. Copyright Atta Tarki, Used by permission.

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Sports Definition Long-term Quality 102

N2Growth Blog

MAY 16, 2010

Having such a sharp focus ensures you can better whittle down the complexity of processes/interactions, as well as ensuring you don't become too dependent either on your top talent or even on your bigger customers, which can cause you to shift your goals to better suit their needs instead of your purpose.

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Business Model Brand Blog Supply Chain 320

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

The sharp focus and direction on your objectives and goals can only be maintained with constant monitoring of your procedures and processes. Design and re-engineering of products-services. It is important to identify swings and trends so that innovation can remain a strength of your business. Instill discipline.

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Succession Strategic Planning Budgeting Goal 50

Joseph Lalonde

MAY 8, 2017

And when you need to use another skill you may not be as sharp in it as you should be. Your bad actions will catch up with you: The Sovereigns, a genetically engineered race, had hired the Guardians of the Galaxy to dispense of the Abilisk. I believe this can cause you trouble in the long run. Practice multiple skills.

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Leadership Energy Power Team 266

Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

Being sharp means being succinct. Similarly, make sure your OWN site has the best key words for the search engines. If you rely on searches for your background research, so will those you work with (if they are sharp). Follow some basic ground rules to best focus the time and resources you have: Know what you need.

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Press Release Discount Sharpe Advertising 100

Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2017

For example, while women typically make up roughly 16 % of software engineers in the U.S. and almost no companies report engineering data specifically), Pinterest’s goal in 2016 was to hire women engineers at nearly twice this rate. For us, we missed our aggressive 2016 goal of 30% of newly hired engineers being women.

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Diversity Engineering Goal Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2018

In prior research , we at the Center for Talent Innovation (CTI) found that women leave STEM fields in droves: 52% of highly qualified women working for science, technology, or engineering companies leave their jobs. For example, Dr. Velma Deleveaux, a director at Booz Allen Hamilton, leads a Science and Engineering business.

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Succession Reputation Focus Group Leadership Styles 13

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Don’t let your engineers hack together workarounds that will need to be maintained down the road; provide real engineering solutions to the types of problems new software has. Your customer feedback is coming in through a variety of channels: phone calls to founders, emails to engineers, even the occasional text message.

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Metrics Engineering Efficiency Learning-by-Doing 14

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.

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Innovation Company Incentives Industry 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2012

The result was not only a multi-billion dollar business but a sharp increase in bar soap sales. The perceptions of GE Jet Engines in no way detracts from the positioning of GE Capital, and some GE associations apply to both. The success of Virgin Airline also helped rather than hurt the legacy Virgin brand.

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Trout Ries Brand Retail 13

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 16, 2018

How is it that sharp-toothed activists are becoming advocates of long-term sustainable investing? Despite their reputation as slash-and-burn financial engineers, activists are actually no strangers to seeking returns from genuine, long-term value creation. Daly, OP ; Sting ; Trudie Styler ; and myself. But it is reportedly not alone.

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Hedge Long-term Short-term Letter 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2011

Despite the technological prowess of India's engineers and outsourcing firms, the country's basic infrastructure isn't sophisticated enough to support telecommuting and work-from-home arrangements on a widespread basis. Some Indian companies are taking steps to help these stressed women.

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Stress Human Resources Pharmaceuticals Sharpe 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2011

The answer is the sharp and unexpected rise of existential risk. Old efficiency thinking based on engineering and rational market models needs to be replaced by a creative intelligence based on imagining, building and managing new futures.

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Uncertainty Supply Chain Scenario Planning Sharpe 14

Miles Anthony Smith

JUNE 5, 2018

Become an expert and keep the saw sharp – always be looking for ways to expand your knowledge, experience and command of your craft. Find work that keeps you sharp and keeps you in a learning mode. Can you be sharp and to the point with your messages to maintain high productivity and efficiency.

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Career Advice Succession Learning-by-Doing 74

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 30, 2011

Wozniak brought exceptional engineering chops. What made and still makes Apple products great — and what other tech firms can't seem to grasp — is that Jobs and Wozniak didn't apply their talents to make money or demonstrate engineering prowess. Customers should run the firm. Steve Jobs is above all an Apple customer.

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P&L Supply Chain Retail COO 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

This handy, anger-inducing blog post from Tim Fernholz uses Congressional Research Service data to systematically dismantle the notion that American companies are simply successful in global markets, arguing instead that they're financially engineering profits abroad to avoid U.S. corporate income taxes. — Andy O'Connell.

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Fashion Performance Review Sharpe Budgeting 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2012

Then rapid improvement in cell phone technology combined with sharp reductions in cost opened up massive new markets that existing terrestrial business telecommunications companies had missed. For example, early cell phones were woefully unreliable, and their voice quality paled in comparison with land lines.

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Disruptive Innovation Christensen Telecommunications Incubator 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2013

While Functional Fixedness has no doubt been around since Man first tied a sharp rock to a stick with a length of vine and called it a spear, it was Gestalt psychologist Karl Duncker that originally coined the term after conducting what has become a famous (among psychologists, anyway) cognitive bias experiment.

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Innovation Open-book Objective Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2017

Think of word processors replacing typists or engineers using AutoCAD software. Until recently, economists thought of this trend as a gradual phenomenon that didn’t depend much on the ups and downs of the economy. We distinguish routine-cognitive occupations (e.g., clerical, administrative, and sales) from routine-manual ones (e.g.,

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Skills Sample Technology Depreciation 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2012

The only person not applauding was Wang Xiguo, the engineer who had led the development of Prime's power train technology. Granted, we don't have a long history in cars like Nissan does, but our power electronics engineering is every bit as good. I don't think they'd be capable of reverse engineering every one of the components.". "I

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Case Study Technology Tacit Knowledge Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

In one case, an emergency room doctor failed to recognize a patient was having an acute heart attack because he appeared fit and healthy and did not have any typical risk factors — even though the patient told the doctors he was having sharp chest pains. Listen to colleagues.

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Health Care How To System Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2013

As the meeting progressed, it was clear that these Ivy-schooled individuals were slick, sharp, and well-structured. adults involved in start-ups hit a record 13% in 2012 , the White House proclaimed that " entrepreneurs are the engine of our economy " [PDF]. You could almost smell the overhead. As the percentage of U.S.

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Entrepreneur Sharpe Hotels Career 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

So large-scale re-engineering programs, productivity drives, and changes to the incentive system are unlikely to work: they can easily be resisted, ignored or gamed. Our research and work with companies suggest three broad approaches you can try, each with its own pros and cons: Enact a sharp "decree" to force a specific change in behavior.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Peer Review Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2014

I can do the job of just about anyone in the factory and can work most of the software the engineering guys use. He joined just after completing his BS in engineering and has had an excellent progression with the company. In my time at BABA, I’ve had four promotions and consistently high evaluations. From: Ioana Romano.

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Case Study Engineering Commitment Operations 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2011

Backing them up are legions of qualified and ambitious women who, increasingly, are the engines powering China's economic juggernaut. These women offer a solution to a cutthroat war for talent in one of the world's fastest-growing economies.

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Survey Policies Globalization CFO 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Just yesterday, on the front page of the New York Times , came a report about how "low-level engineers, product managers and prominent managers" from the executive ranks are leaving the company for high-profile companies such as Facebook as well as venture-funded startups of the sort that dot the technology landscape.

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Tacit Knowledge Long-term McKinsey Venture Funding 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

Their future prosperity, however, will depend on sharp increases in domestic consumer spending. There will still be significant new infrastructure needs for the over 60% of China’s population living there. This will include everything from sewers and water to quality schools.

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Education Politics Globalization Hedge 8

Terry Starbucker

APRIL 18, 2010

You get to a point where you believe your skills are so sharp, and so good, that you can actually overcome the Peter Principle, and change a person into something they are clearly not. Leaders are not genetic engineers, nor should they be. We can’t change personalities that were locked in long before they arrived at the interview.

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Open-book Blog Core Competence Books 222