Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 28, 2017

The purpose of this blog post is to share my experience in my over 27 years in the Information Technology (IT) industry. The goal is elicit readers to ask themselves what they are willing to do to be successful through better career management. One person cannot do it alone, teamwork is necessary to get the job done.

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Succession Long-term Mentor Learning-by-Doing 239

Tanveer Naseer

MAY 6, 2014

They run app companies, consultancies, clinics and sprawling technology corporations. Four Argentinian business people wanted to make their country a technology hub during a financial crisis when the peso was devalued, even though they had no business plan, the country had no history in technology, and they had only $5000 in capital.

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Execution CTO Entrepreneur Learning-by-Doing 257

Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

When Piyush Gupta recounted how he turned around the Singapore bank DBS, now the largest in southeast Asia, with an audacious vision of becoming the Alibaba of the banking sector – a technology company that delivers financial services, not vice versa – it was very powerful.

CEO 104

CEO Banking Learning-by-Doing McKinsey 104

Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 28, 2012

Search Engine Optimization Specialist. Somehow the Romans were able to manage remote employees without all of the methods written about when ISOE was published in 1982, as well as Skype, texting, social media, IPhones, Sharepoint, WebEx, and a host of other technologies. Technology. . - Consultants. Social Media Manager.

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Management MBO Learning-by-Doing Micromanagement 243

Eric Jacobson

MARCH 14, 2022

When Piyush Gupta recounted how he turned around the Singapore bank DBS, now the largest in southeast Asia, with an audacious vision of becoming the Alibaba of the banking sector – a technology company that delivers financial services, not vice versa – it was very powerful.

CEO 94

CEO Banking Learning-by-Doing McKinsey 94

Eric Jacobson

JUNE 23, 2022

When Piyush Gupta recounted how he turned around the Singapore bank DBS, now the largest in southeast Asia, with an audacious vision of becoming the Alibaba of the banking sector – a technology company that delivers financial services, not vice versa – it was very powerful.

CEO 86

CEO Banking Learning-by-Doing McKinsey 86

Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 18, 2023

When Piyush Gupta recounted how he turned around the Singapore bank DBS, now the largest in southeast Asia, with an audacious vision of becoming the Alibaba of the banking sector – a technology company that delivers financial services, not vice versa – it was very powerful.

CEO 65

CEO Banking Learning-by-Doing McKinsey 65

Eric Jacobson

DECEMBER 31, 2022

When Piyush Gupta recounted how he turned around the Singapore bank DBS, now the largest in southeast Asia, with an audacious vision of becoming the Alibaba of the banking sector – a technology company that delivers financial services, not vice versa – it was very powerful.

CEO 65

CEO Banking Learning-by-Doing McKinsey 65

Lead Change Blog

JULY 4, 2016

Art writes, “The emerging digital and technology-driven world demands that we rethink everything about how we manage, lead, structure and run our organizations. Chris summarizes: “Great bosses inspire growth, ensure accountability, spur teamwork and more. Let’s Get Started. ” Find Beth on Twitter at @bethbeutler.

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Leadership Development Development Leadership Advice 170

Tony Mayo

OCTOBER 13, 2010

Top Executive Coaching with Tony Mayo About Tony Mayo Newsletter Sign-up Sections Client Comments For Executive Coaches For Executives For Fun For Salespeople Quotes and Aphorisms Recommended Books Technology Tips Videos & Podcasts Popular Posts Twitter Log IX About Tony Mayo Truth or Consequences? Productivity plummeted.

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Mayo Executive Coaching Efficiency Handbook 146

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

If we could only put the same level of resources into inspiring girls in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) that we do into discovering America's Next Top Model , the chance wouldn't seem so remote. They tinker and use tools, and take apart things like lawnmower engines and hairdryers to learn how they work.

Engineering 14

Engineering Learning-by-Doing Career Class 14

Tanveer Naseer

MAY 16, 2011

Russell is an educational psychologist, author, executive coach and management consultant whose clients include Fortune 500 executives in aerospace, healthcare, pharmaceutical and biotechnology, information technology, telecommunications and oil and gas. Can We Engineer Them Right Out of Business?

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Bureaucracy Compliance Learning-by-Doing Engineering 232

Tanveer Naseer

JANUARY 15, 2013

He traces this dynamic back to Frederick Taylor, who was both an efficiency engineer and a fierce advocate of workplace democracy. But they caution that such technologies are tools that, if misused, can just as easily be counterproductive. Weisbord sees an inherent tension between top-down management and participative cultures.

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Open-book Books Competitive Advantage Participative 273

Strategy Driven

JUNE 5, 2015

Today, I see Houston as a collection of communities, economic engines and entrepreneurial opportunities. As the city lives the 21st Century, we celebrate the historical, utilize state-of-the art technology and reflect changing social needs will always be at the forefront of the future. I had an aunt, uncle and cousins that lived here.

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Entrepreneur Competitive Advantage Quality Books 50

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 8, 2014

Those of you who already lead people (as opposed to technology, science or thought leaders, for example) may think you got to your position because you are a good leader and were recognized as such. The exception is teamwork within or outside your family. There is no debate about this, and you know it’s plain old common sense.

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Competitive Advantage Skills Strategic Planning Content 66

Modern Servant Leader

JANUARY 15, 2015

Customer Service, Teamwork, Leading Change. Love hugs from hubby, 3 kids and grandoggies 28 39,800 1,409 Norman Reiss Leadership, Nonprofits Blogs at Nonprofit Bridge on intersection of technology, communications & fundraising. Author of The Culture Engine & six other books. Everything rises & falls on leadership.

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Leadership Executive Coaching Goleman Emotional Intelligence 100

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2013

An engineer with a diemaker father who worked in a Pontiac plant, Barra is a 33-year company veteran. Barra began her career at the old GM as a young student engineer. Mary Barra is good for GM first and foremost because she’s an engineer who cares about cars. This is a new GM.

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Engineering Industry CFO Bureaucracy 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 20, 2014

Staying true to its roots as an engineering-centric company, Google has stood out both for its early skepticism of the value of managers as well as for its novel, often quantitative approaches to management decisions. If you only read one piece, make it this one by David Garvin in 2013 , on how Google sold its engineers on management.

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IPO Management Engineering Innovation 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2011

Unless people understand why innovation is necessary, it always loses to core business or the performance engine in the battle for resources. The performance engine is bigger, is the center of power, and can justify resources based on short term financial results. A compelling case for innovation.

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Critical Success Factor Innovation Stage-Gate Succession 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2017

Teamwork all too often feels inefficient (search and coordination costs eat up time), risky (can I trust others to deliver for my client?), On the contrary, clarity about where the buck stops is one of the most critical enablers of efficient teamwork. Vincent Tsui for HBR. But collaboration is not consensus.

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Chief Operating Officer Consensus How To Project 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2016

A team typically consists of three to seven people who have strong software engineering, product management, testing, and marketing skills. They require uncommon teamwork between marketing-oriented product managers and software developers with a technical orientation. The technologies and processes that are transforming companies.

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Innovation Company Software Engineering 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2011

But as economic, political, social, and technological change continue to accelerate, and competitive pressure grows more intense, leaders can't afford those odds. At the same time, he created a "not-to-do" list including projects that were driven by technology rather than customer needs.

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Long-term Short-term Engineering Self-aware 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 15, 2015

For example, when a large technology firm integrated specialized engineers into its regional sales teams, there were shifts in roles, client coverage, compensation, goal setting, and teamwork. What we know much less about is how to engineer a transformation. The change affected hundreds of people.

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Kotter Decentralization Business Model Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

companies can’t fill their open positions, according to a McKinsey Global Institute study that found that analytical, engineering, and management roles are the hardest to fill. Individual contributors should be able to quickly form relationships and facilitate teamwork among project staff who have never worked together before.

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Content Katz Forrester Budgeting 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2014

In traditional product management, smart people (marketing, engineering, strategy, product managers, R&D) come up with new products and lob them over the wall to operations to put into production. As Singleton told me, “The technology world is a cult of innovation. Software is an almost-pure form of innovation.

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Software Industry Productivity Products 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2016

Stereotypes about women’s care-giving abilities may cause reviewers to more frequently attribute women’s accomplishments to teamwork rather than team leadership. Comments such as “You had a great year” populated many women’s reviews. The good news is that investing in better feedback can have dramatic results.

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Review Performance Review Analysis Reference 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2012

The earliest known attempt to investigate the relation between team size and productivity dates back about a hundred years to the now famous experiments by French engineer, Maximilien Ringelmann. Here's why. Purists will argue that this no longer constitutes a team but a working group, with one central figure to coordinate everyone's output.

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Ingham Team Brainstorming Fashion 16

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2011

The Verizon Wireless side of the telecom giant, which is 45 percent owned by Vodafone, is also deepening ties with Google for the Droid and betting on its faster fourth generation (4G) network based on new LTE (long term evolution) technology to leap forward in the wireless marketplace.

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Wireless Suri Power Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2017

The difficult angle for the Dana-Farber — the challenge shared by many companies — is that collaboration doesn’t come naturally to many of the highest performers and the system seems almost geared against teamwork. The organizational stars have tremendous autonomy over key work decisions. Get the benefits flowing faster.

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Payback Period How To Real Estate Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2011

In reality, each country needs the other to succeed in order to thrive — to finance growth, secure export markets, train talent, transfer technology, and more. As organizations have become more global and more reliant on cross-functional processes, teamwork and collaboration are increasingly becoming the currency of success.

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Apparel Pharmaceuticals Finance Licensing 15

HR Digest

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

People, Business, Human resource management, Recruitment, Teamwork, strategy and leadership Concepts. The app focuses on outbound hiring, and with the curated search engine tool, it matches a multitude of profiles as per the requirements of the company and offers the most eligible candidatures.

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Productivity Products Management Conference 101

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2015

This Dallas-based company offers technologies that connect hospitals and blood centers nationwide to ensure the efficient flow of lifesaving blood products to patients in need. Nashville-based Medalogix has developed a technology, Medalogix Bridge, which leverages predictive analytics to identify hospice-eligible patients.

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Health Care Innovation Cost Self-aware 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

On a separate track, he launched the device and content ecosystem, starting with iPod and iTunes, that would become the company’s new growth engine. In 2011 the board selected as the new CEO one of its own members, Heinrich Hiesinger, a Siemens executive with experience supplying technology to many industries.

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Franchising CEO Business Model Strategy 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2012

Robert Sutton, a professor of management science and engineering at Stanford University and the author of Good Boss, Bad Boss and The No Asshole Rule , says this is part of the human condition. He shared with pride the teamwork, the late evenings filled with collaboration, shared success and accomplishment." What the Experts Say.

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Goleman How To Emotional Intelligence Self-aware 18

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). Coding for success.

Education 59

Education Software Skills Engineering 59

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 3, 2012

This review is the basis for most elements that will appear in a strategic plan, including the organization’s strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats, actions, challenges, teamwork, change management, commitment, future trends and external forces. The same analogy holds true for accountants, engineers, doctors and architects.

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Review Company Strategic Planning Industry 57

Tanveer Naseer

OCTOBER 20, 2015

I imagine for some of you, your answer would be the personal computer and all the technological marvels that now make up our digital world. 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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