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Are you a Scientist or an Engineer? Things to think about.

Mike Cardus

How do I approach team building ; as a scientist? In what ways might I serve to create a bridge for teams and managers to understand their view and use that to achieve results? How might I work with a team and people to be ‘humbly arrogant’? Gilbert ‘Human Competence’. as a engineer? The riddle does exist.

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Posts from Top Leadership Bloggers

Michael Lee Stallard

is on Steve’s team as she carries the ball toward the goal line with Do Feelings Have a Place in Business ? Tanveer Naseer helps leaders’ to protect their blind side with tips on how to ease someone back into the team after an absence in Helping Employees Regain Their Productivity After A Prolonged Absence.

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The Best Leaders “Talk the Walk”

Harvard Business Review

But the more time I spend with game-changing innovators and high-performing companies, the more I appreciate the need for leaders to “talk the walk” — that is, to be able to explain, in language that is unique to their field and compelling to their colleagues and customers, why what they do matters and how they expect to win.

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Three Year-End Innovation Takeaways from Asia

Harvard Business Review

I've also had the chance to experience the world of venture capital investing through the small fund that our team in Singapore manages on behalf of the Singapore government. I argued a few months ago that the innovation axis was shifting from the West to the East. Innovation has never been more accessible.

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Kodak and the Brutal Difficulty of Transformation

Harvard Business Review

As the decade wore on and its core business continued to deteriorate, Kodak brought in a new leadership team, downsized its core operations, and began placing bets on even more radical ideas , such as a line of printers with low-cost ink. Gilbert's HBR article with Joseph Bauer that also discusses Kodak is available here.

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Transforming a Company Is Daunting, But You Can Prepare for It

Harvard Business Review

Those three activities ( detailed in an article Gilbert co-authored in December's Harvard Business Review based on his experience transforming Desert News and Deseret Digital, Utah-based media organizations) don't happen accidentally. For Gilbert, that meant attracting people who had worked at pure-play Internet companies like Yahoo!,

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How IBM, Intuit, and Rich Products Became More Customer-Centric

Harvard Business Review

Consider the battle waged by IBM’s software development teams between competing methods for getting closer to customers. Over time, teams adopted an even more aggressive approach to software development called “ continuous delivery , ” a highly automated method that enables them to make many small changes per day.