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What we do, day to day makes the difference. These are some of the lifehacks I use after six decades of life. A lifehack is a habit or activity that provides significant benefits for a reasonable price.
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December 31, 2019 Bruce Benson
Change Management
The system should be able to automatically approve them, freeing up people to focus on the more high-risk changes that do require more in-depth analysis and understanding before they can be approved.
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December 2, 2018 Bruce Benson
Change Management
There is no way at this point to stop climate change. Pretty much every system is going to have to change. We're going to have to adapt to this.
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November 17, 2018 Bruce Benson
Change Management
The simple message is almost always just a useful abstraction of a fuller methodology that needs to be understood.
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November 7, 2018 Bruce Benson
Change Management
In contrast to the flybys typical of GM executives, his first official visit to Rüsselsheim a year ago became a six-hour inspection tour as he took a deep dive into Opel’s operations.
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October 8, 2018 Bruce Benson
Change Management
Knowing the adoption curve an organization will go through makes it almost easy, almost, to patiently endure the inevitable initial resistance.
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August 29, 2018 Bruce Benson
Change Management
The advent of the fiduciary rule led the industry to make changes that may not be reversed, according to Aron Szapiro, Morningstar Inc.’s director for policy research. After the Labor Department’s announcement in 2016, financial companies began moving to comply with it. Bank of America...
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July 10, 2018 Bruce Benson
Change Management
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By continuing to try and understand all objections we unexpectedly won over many additional people.
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April 14, 2018 Bruce Benson
Change Management
I always figured that if I worked my way up far enough I'd find a senior manager who would immediately get it, recognize that what was going on was a problem, and would then help to fix it. But it never happened that way.
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March 8, 2018 Bruce Benson
Change Management
I recall their often repeated truism that new tools or new processes wouldn't fix an otherwise dysfunctional organization.
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February 16, 2018 Bruce Benson
Change Management
I remember the first time it happened to me. I’d been an agile developer for less than a year. We were having our morning stand-up, and something felt off. The room was oddly crowded. The scrum master was having a heated discussion with a developer....
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October 25, 2017 Bruce Benson
Change Management
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It’s a truism in economics that most technological change in any industry takes place not during the boom times, but during the downturns, when firms have to be clever to survive. The Atlantic:This Is the Way the College ‘Bubble’ Ends, July 26, 2017. I’ve often...
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August 17, 2017 Bruce Benson
Change Management
On the subject of making pseudo-controversial changes to classic Marvel characters, [Marvel’s Senior Vice President David] Gabriel added that internet outrage is never a good indicator of what actual comic book readers and fans want. “The first thing we do is watch the sales. If...
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October 5, 2016 Bruce Benson
Change Management
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What’s the worst advice you ever got? "Listen to what your boss tells you." Stan Lee
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August 13, 2016 Bruce Benson
Change Management
“Tesla is consistently introducing enhancements proven over millions of miles of internal testing to ensure that drivers supported by Autopilot remain safer than those operating without assistance,” the company said in a July 14 response. “We will continue to develop, validate, and release those enhancements...
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August 5, 2016 Bruce Benson
Change Management
