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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.

June 2, 2015 Bruce Benson Change Management

Top Down Or Bottom Up

We have a bias that everything has to be done in precise and perfect ways.

May 6, 2015 Bruce Benson Change Management

“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,...

April 22, 2015 Bruce Benson Change Management

How To Successfully Manage Fast Unexpected Changes

The other fly in the petroleum jelly is the risk of a financial crackup such as Russia’s 1998 default. “You will always have financial risks associated with fast, unexpected changes,” says Anders Aslund, a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics. Oil’s Price...

March 10, 2015 Bruce Benson Change Management

Fast Innovation Now

Innovation has been happening in pockets of excellence for just about, forever.

February 26, 2015 Bruce Benson Change Management

Boy, Are You Behind The Times

IT used to be sold to CIOs. Now an employee adopts a piece of software and pushes his company to do the same. An Expense App to Hook Road Warriors, Bloomberg Businessweek, Dec 15, 2014. I had found a program called “Packrat” which was a...

February 24, 2015 Bruce Benson Change Management

Overcome The Culture

At Jet, there will be no annual performance reviews, because [Marc] Lore thinks feedback should be immediate and civil. … And Lore isn’t making any of his employees sign noncompetes; he says that … without such stipulations “there’s more loyalty and trust that is built.”...

February 17, 2015 Bruce Benson Change Management

Don’t Take Too Long

It is indeed ironic that Hadoop is picking up support in the general community about five years after Google moved on to better things. Hence, the rest of the world followed Google into Hadoop with a delay of most of a decade. Google has long...

February 12, 2015 Bruce Benson Change Management

Lead, Follow Or Get Out Of The Way

For advanced economies, innovation requires pushing on the frontiers of science and technology. That can’t happen without heavy government funding for basic research … The Internet and the Global Positioning System (GPS) are only two of the crucial technologies that originated as projects of the...

February 10, 2015 Bruce Benson Change Management

The Boss Will Solve Our Problems

You’d think the government would make this type of thing stop … but years later, these scams still exist.

January 13, 2015 Bruce Benson Change Management

Project Management Lessons From A Radical Industrialist

Ray Anderson went on to describe industry’s toxic legacy and evoked a future in which companies like his clean up their act, compelling others to do the same.

January 6, 2015 Bruce Benson Change Management