It’s Fair. We Have To Fix Someone Else’s Problems
It’s not fair. When we screw up, it’s fair, we have to fix it. But it feels less fair when we have to fix someone’s else’s problems.
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Deep Dive
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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Clean Out The Queep
The Air Force has revoked more than 226 Air Force instructions deemed unnecessary or outdated over the past year as part of its ongoing effort to get rid of so-called “queep.”
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How To Do Agile Estimation The Right Way
What had worked for us? Velocity, or better stated, the methodology behind velocity, the average. It always drove people crazy that I'd use averages on my projects.
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Let Others Do the Work
It was a scrum. No, not the agile software method, but a bunch of people all racing after the current big defect found in the product. It was a badge of merit to be the first to figure out the defect and to report on its fix. My boss expected me to jump into this competition of egos when these problems happened.
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Experts Are Human Beings Too
People think that doctors are immune to petty disagreements, but they're human beings, and sometimes ego and primitive emotions take over.
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Shortcuts Do Not Exist
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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The Truth Should Suffice
It's going to be very difficult to distinguish yourself with a truthful claim about having returns in the high teens when everyone else is bragging about returns that are orders of magnitude greater.
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Apple’s India Meeting Madness
Company executives are supposed to conduct daily conference calls with stores to gauge progress. Queue the MeanMeetingBots.
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Data Is A People Problem
I've found that "having the data" is about half the effort. The other half is not how to make it compelling. The data was always compelling in my experience because it generally showed that we were making poor decisions. That rarely went over well.
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It Just Needs To Be Written Better?
Surprisingly, no other disclosures we tested differed significantly from the meaningless control disclosure.
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Efficient vs Innovative
That was one of my biggest fears. We would deliver the product on time with good quality but the product wouldn't sell well.
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Lessons Learned From 800 Million Tweets
At 6 am, analytical thinking was shown to peak. However, in the evenings and nights this thinking style changed to a more emotional and existential one.
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Making It Naturally Difficult To Go Back
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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Mentors, Not Managers
This generation craves mentors that guide and inspire them.
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