Mentors, Not Managers
This generation craves mentors that guide and inspire them.
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Eliminating The Black Hole Of Complexity
The bug-laden software resulted in fix after fix, each fix reconciling some problems but introducing new ones. This all produced an enormous revenue source from the selling of Systems Engineer’s services.
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Being Too Simple Can Be A Good Thing
Yet Abt, on behalf of Carthage College, in Kenosha, Wis., has returns that beat Harvard ’s $37 billion endowment and most others. In the 10 years through the most recent college fiscal year, ended on June 30, 2017, the former beer company executive racked up...
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The Most Important Skill In The World
Drayton had a reputation as an around-the-clock worker, but one with a creative streak. “Much of what he did was very innovative and very controversial,” Gamse says. “A lot of times my first reaction would be, ‘This is crazy. This has no chance of happening!’...
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Teams That Do Not Interact As Much Perform Better
Face-to-face interactions, as measured by the sociometric badges, emerged as a strong negative predictor of success in the competition.
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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.
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Jumping Through Every Hoop
"I did everything that should have gotten me the title that I wanted. And I didn’t get it."
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Just Walk Out Of Bad Meetings
My trick was simple. I would suddenly grab my mobile phone, look at it, and then head out the door.
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Run For The Hills?
This looks to me like a great case of brutal honesty, where we then get opportunists yelling run for the hills. Why, one may ask, is this happening?
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It’s Not All Big Data
The funny thing is many problems aren’t big enough to use the fanciest big data solutions. Sure, companies like Google or Yahoo track all of our web browsing; they have data files measured in petabytes or yottabytes. But most companies have data sets that can...
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Deep Dive Into The Little Problems Now
Essentially, it was by luck. At ongoing hearings, senior bank executive Clive van Horen explained that the error had escaped numerous internal bank controls that should have caught it. The error was finally uncovered after troubling questions were raised over the bank’s overdraft application process...
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Change The Mindset And Cause A Revolution
Sometimes doing the opposite works better than doing the obvious.
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Mitigating Cognitive Dissonance In Our Project
By continuing to try and understand all objections we unexpectedly won over many additional people.
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These Things Are Just Always Wrong
Are your planning documents adding value or would they add more value by not being done?
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Build Something Extraordinary By Pursuing More Than Just Profit
It is OK to make a profit but we’ll probably feel better about ourselves and about life in general if we also do something that is good for people in general
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