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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June 28, 2018 Bruce Benson
Innovation
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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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June 23, 2018 Bruce Benson
Process Improvement
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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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June 16, 2018 Bruce Benson
Innovation
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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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June 14, 2018 Bruce Benson
Communication
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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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May 31, 2018 Bruce Benson
Leadership
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The second woman, Goldman trader Allison Gamba, says she quintupled earnings for her stock portfolio, winning a nod from her boss that she’d be put up for managing director. He also told her that she should adopt a child instead of getting pregnant. She mentioned...
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May 25, 2018 Bruce Benson
Personal Practices
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Mr Musk’s other thoughts on improving productivity include avoiding large meetings – which he says are the “blight of big companies”. “It is not rude to leave, it is rude to make someone stay and waste their time,” he wrote. BBC News, April 18, 2018...
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May 19, 2018 Bruce Benson
Communication
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Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla (TSLA), made a big admission on the afternoon of April 13th. Apparently channeling the Friday the 13th horror spirit, Musk announced via tweet that the electric car manufacturer had over-automated its production process: “Excessive automation at Tesla was a mistake....
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May 11, 2018 Bruce Benson
Communication
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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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May 3, 2018 Bruce Benson
Tracking
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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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April 25, 2018 Bruce Benson
Risk Management
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Sometimes doing the opposite works better than doing the obvious.
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April 19, 2018 Bruce Benson
Innovation
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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
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Are your planning documents adding value or would they add more value by not being done?
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April 6, 2018 Bruce Benson
Planning
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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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March 29, 2018 Bruce Benson
Planning
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An expert is someone who has mastery of current knowledge, not of future knowledge.
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March 22, 2018 Bruce Benson
Innovation
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