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Leaders need to Lead

Great Leadership By Dan

My father is a retired engineer with his Master’s degree in thermodynamics. He worked on the Mercury and Gemini space programs before moving to Cummins Engines where he helped develop the small diesel engines now used in pickup trucks. Marine Corps Leadership also requires that leaders have true “domain expertise.”

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Alphabet Workers Union to bring back the ‘Don’t be evil’ motto

HR Digest

More than 400 engineers and other workers at Google and its parent company, Alphabet , have formed a union open to all employees. On Monday, the group announced the creation of the AWU with an op-ed in The New York Times , after years of employees protesting for better workplace inclusivity and ethics at the search engine.

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22 Leadership Lessons And Quotes From The Fate Of The Furious

Joseph Lalonde

Revving the engine and trying to feel like I was one of the characters from The Fast And The Furious. You can work with people you disagree with: Luke Hobbs and the rest of the Furious crew were enemies with Deckard Shaw. I was driving my 5-speed manual 1994 GMC Sonoma. Alas, I never was and never will be but the thought still lingers.

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43 Weird Books to Shock & Delight: Some Odd Books, Some Funny

Miles Anthony Smith

Extreme Ironing by Phil Shaw This one looks fun UNTIL someone gets hurt, and by hurt, I mean, someone dies. The Practical Pyromaniac: Build Fire Tornadoes, One-Candlepower Engines, Great Balls of Fire, and More Incendiary Devices by William Gurstelle Now, this one is right up my alley. I had to include my book!)

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Would You Rather be Revolutionary or Evolutionary?

Harvard Business Review

Likewise, we can also think of more linear innovations that were evolutionary: better engines for cars; better sound systems for the phonograph; the World Wide Web (enabled by another incremental invention, html code) for the Internet. internal combustion engine, hybrid cars. I dream things that never were and say why not.".

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Making Virtual Teams Work: Ten Basic Principles

Harvard Business Review

The playwright George Bernard Shaw famously described Americans and the British as "two nations divided by a common language." When the domain of team work is technical, then the languages of science and engineering often provide a solid foundation for effective communication.

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India's Decade of Collaboration

Harvard Business Review

Inventors are engineers, scientists, or entrepreneurs who come up with an original idea. The vision and purpose of Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw , chairman and managing director of Biocon, is to deliver affordable drugs to the masses in both India and other markets. Transformers.

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