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California captures enough water each year to meet all its needs if it operates efficiently — a big if. … “There’s learning, information sharing, creativity, and discovery.” The drought is speeding up the process. “What causes change more than anything is crisis,” Thomas Howard, executive...
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October 7, 2015 Bruce Benson
Change Management
Each container Driscoll’s sells in the U.S. and Canada has a code on the back that tracks variety, grower, and harvest date. Originally a food safety measure, it’s become a way for Driscoll’s to test the market. Consumers can enter their codes on Driscoll’s website...
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September 30, 2015 Bruce Benson
Change Management
“Worldly wisdom teaches that it is better for reputation to fail conventionally than to succeed unconventionally.” — John Maynard Keynes
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September 24, 2015 Bruce Benson
Innovation
“It’s naive to think that three presidents and three U.S. military services would have spent so many billions of dollars on a program that doesn’t work, “ [Loren Thompson, chief operating officer of the Lexington Institute who has worked as a consultant for Lockheed] said....
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September 17, 2015 Bruce Benson
Planning
Success was not a problem, I was told, as long as I fit in and did the same as everyone else.
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September 9, 2015 Bruce Benson
Leadership
When we’d removed the influences that pulled an organization down, we didn’t have to crack the whip to get people going again.
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September 3, 2015 Bruce Benson
Change Management
“In the early days, we had no choice but to hire rejects …. Nobody else would come. But we trained the hell out of them, and they became great.” Employees who’ve graduated from top business schools such as Harvard and MIT are incompetent when it...
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August 26, 2015 Bruce Benson
Training
In today’s atomized medical system, it can take 10 to 20 years for a major treatment advance to become ubiquitous.
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August 19, 2015 Bruce Benson
Change Management
Intensely monitoring healthy individuals could make them less well, not more.
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August 12, 2015 Bruce Benson
Metrics
Rather than accept their view of his business, the CEO shouted at them for wasting his time.”
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August 5, 2015 Bruce Benson
Change Management
I found a great insight, that doesn’t show up that often, in the following article in my research archives. Robert Holler, the CEO of VersionOne (an Agile vendor) was quoted: “I think there might have been this anticipation five years ago that agile would take...
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July 28, 2015 Bruce Benson
Change Management
Spend weeks working up a pitch, promising software so customized that both parties knew it probably couldn't be built.
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July 22, 2015 Bruce Benson
Innovation
The curse of the economic cycle to date, which has been its sluggishness, is now turning into a blessing, resulting in greater longevity.
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July 15, 2015 Bruce Benson
Metrics
I went into the house and deadpanned to my wife that I had just run a couple of 4 minute miles. Her response? “Wow!” She was serious.
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July 7, 2015 Bruce Benson
Change Management
The numbers are big, but the effectiveness of the infrastructure spending has been very, very poor.
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July 2, 2015 Bruce Benson
Cost