Year: 2014

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Did The Tech Giants Botch Obamacare?

Still, he says, the contractors are huge companies familiar with complexity, and in most cases they’ve had years to address the sites’ problems.

May 1, 2014 Bruce Benson Risk Management

Experts Can Save The Day, But Not For The Reasons We Expect

Outside of the traditional government pipelines, talented individuals are waiting and willing to help [to save Obamacare].

April 17, 2014 Bruce Benson Leadership

How To Fix Why Our Good Ideas Don’t Get Adopted

We are idea rich, selection baffled, and adoption poor.

April 9, 2014 Bruce Benson Innovation

Argue With Each Other If We Want To Be Successful

Amazon’s culture is notoriously confrontational, and it begins with Bezos, who believes that truth shakes out when ideas are banged against each other.

April 2, 2014 Bruce Benson Leadership

What I Learned By Hacking At The National Security Agency

What I Learned At The National Security Agency

My supervisors knew what I was up to. But I was a young Airman whose job, at least for the first six months, was to tear messages off of classified printers.

March 24, 2014 Bruce Benson Innovation

How To Respond Before It Is Too Late

There it was up on the screen. The list of competitors for our products One, over in the corner of the slide, was called the iPhone.

March 19, 2014 Bruce Benson Change Management

Project Management Lessons From Obamacare

Sometimes, we just have to change the system to see how things will really work.

March 17, 2014 Bruce Benson Change Management

What We Use To Motivate Our Team Matters

When I began to focus on numbers of customers and associated income, it pretty much sucked the soul out of the whole effort.

March 11, 2014 Bruce Benson Leadership

You Have To Be Looking For It

Thousands of engineers in the future would not see it. The funny thing about it is, once the hole is explained to you, it’s obvious.

March 7, 2014 Bruce Benson Change Management

Certification Is Useful But Not For The Reasons We Think

Certificaiton Is Useful But Not For The Reasons We Think

I remember a candidate once presented me page after page of certifications, each in its acetate protector, neatly organized in a faux-leather binder.

March 4, 2014 Bruce Benson Training

Project Management Lessons From The US Congress

There is a lot of fear among people who have been here for a long time that those from the new generation are a threat to the way things have worked.

February 27, 2014 Bruce Benson Change Management

The Role Of Luck And Skill In Our Success

If you’ve done that and you get a bad outcome in the short term, pick yourself up and go back at it the next day because over time it will lead to success.

February 25, 2014 Bruce Benson Leadership