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Four Project Management Hints That Work

Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected. Steve Jobs

January 1, 2024 Bruce Benson Leadership

Selected, Promoted And Entrusted Based Upon Merit

If the charges had any merit, I would not have been selected, promoted and entrusted to serve in such a sensitive and important role.

May 31, 2018 Bruce Benson Leadership

Successfully Doing What Nobody Supports

I was terrified to charge against conventional wisdom, and was often “gently” reminded of what might happen, with descriptions of crippling disability and advanced dependency.

February 9, 2018 Bruce Benson Leadership

Committees Producing Deep Wisdom

If one assumes that randomness constitutes deep wisdom.

January 27, 2018 Bruce Benson Leadership

Don’t Be Normal

The company was all he really knew, he said. His father, a soft spoken engineer who founded Odebrecht in 1944, took him in as an apprentice in high school. By the time Emílio was named chairman and chief executive officer in 1991, spreading illicit cash...

January 12, 2018 Bruce Benson Leadership

What Value Do You Bring To Your Project?

According to [Ashlee] Vance, the assistant, Mary Beth Brown, asked Musk for a significant raise after she’d been working with him for 12 years. In response, Musk told Brown to take two weeks off, during which he would assume her responsibilities and see if she...

September 14, 2017 Bruce Benson Leadership

Maintaining Peace While Things Fall Apart

A lot of what you saw in America and you see overseas is, “I want a change.” They want a wrecking ball brought to these governments. A lot of us are sympathetic with that. We want to see something different. We want things to be...

February 10, 2017 Bruce Benson Leadership

Being Successful By Focusing On Something Other Than Just Profit

Sometimes O’Neil’s comments on corporations are not as nuanced as you’d expect from a math-prof-turned-hedgefunder. “The model is optimized for efficiency and profitability, not for justice or the good of the ‘team.’ This is, of course, the nature of capitalism,” she writes. Yes, but there...

October 12, 2016 Bruce Benson Leadership

Purpose Has Become Incredibly Important

What we learned is that young people want to do good as well as do well. They really do want to come to work thinking that they’re going to do something that matters.

September 15, 2016 Bruce Benson Leadership

No Definitive Evidence

It does not take much, a simple shake of the head by an influential person, for a whole team to know what is expected of them.

August 18, 2016 Bruce Benson Leadership

New Year, New Projects, Same Old Ethics

He thinks it’s pretty obvious why any engineers who may have been involved have not come forward to date. For one thing, anyone who does stand up will most likely be swept aside … Confronted with questionable orders or restrictions, they find themselves in the...

January 13, 2016 Bruce Benson Leadership