Lessons Learned From The US Internal Revenue System
More money, more people and more time is not always the solution. Sometimes -- often times -- the solution is simply to take another approach, such as trusting people.
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We Have To Find A Way To Learn From Winning
“You have to find a way to learn from winning,” said Brad Frost, women’s hockey coach at Minnesota.”It’s a lot easier to lose and learn.” Frost’s team racked up victory after victory in 2013. Without any losses to reflect on, though, Frost decided to rethink...
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Is Negativity Really Awesome?
Talk to turnaround experts, or read a little history, and you'll hear this story repeatedly: There were people who raised the alarm, and they got shouted down.
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Success Is Often Counter To What Everyone Else Is Doing
Everything Tesla did was unique for the auto industry. If you go back to Apple 15 years ago everything we did there was counter to the industry as well.
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Of Bicycles And Kanban
Keeping the bike in motion, just like the economy or a project, is what gives us the ability to work our way out of any problem.
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We Need To Understand This In Order To Manage Well
Some IT specialists mistakenly think business leaders cannot govern IT, since they lack technology skills. Understanding the capability IT brings or planning new, improved business capability enabled by smarter, more effective use of IT does not require specialized knowledge of how to design, build, or...
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Lessons Learned From Marathon Runners
The problem I continue to see in my coaching and consulting with runners is when time goals are selected that aren’t based on current fitness, actual training adaptation or performances along the way. Sometimes the number becomes a means to motivate and may not match...
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Top Down Or Bottom Up
We have a bias that everything has to be done in precise and perfect ways.
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First Have An Idea Then Mine Your Data
“There’s a creative moment when you think of a hypothesis, maybe it’s that interest rate data drives” currency rates, she says. “So we think about that first before we mine the data. We don’t mine the data to come up with ideas.” Lady Braga Steps...
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Sleep On It
Short periods of work followed by sleep reinforcement allow people to enhance their cognitive efficacy.
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We Solved The Hard Problems
“We had solved a lot of the hard problems, “ says Jeff Hammerbacher, one of the first data scientists at Facebook, who left in 2008 to start Cloudera, which makes data analytics software. “I kind of knew what it would look like in five years,...
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Lessons Learned From Seattle’s Tunneling Project
Megaprojects in the past 70 years have consistently come in over budget while delivering less than half of their promised monetary benefit.
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Your Project Plan Does Not Describe Our Real Project
What is in the tool and described in the views is an attempt to model a project, but as I said, it is NOT the project.
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Is Discrimination Undermining Your Project?
My conclusion was that a lot of discrimination was very subtle and very easy to mix up with other more socially common tribal behaviors.
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Delaying Projects — Lessons Learned From Electronic Arts
Two years ago, Electronic Arts, the second-largest U.S. video game company, ran on promises. … Several of EA’s biggest 2013 releases, including entries in its SimCity and Battlefield franchises, were so bug-ridden on release that they crashed game servers and were essentially unplayable for days...
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