Army scientists recently found that the best, high-performing cybersecurity teams have relatively few interactions with their team-members and team captain. While this result may seem counterintuitive, it is actually consistent with major theoretical perspectives on professional team development. “Successful cyber teams don’t need to discuss...
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June 14, 2018 Bruce Benson
Communication
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In withdrawing his nomination Thursday morning, Jackson said the range of allegations made against him were “completely false and fabricated.” “If they had any merit, I would not have been selected, promoted and entrusted to serve in such a sensitive and important role as physician...
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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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A gamble 20 years ago unleashed the source code for the browser that became Firefox. The approach is now core to Facebook, Google and everyone else. … “For so long the mindset was ‘protect the code, protect the code, protect the code,'” said Chris Tino,...
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April 19, 2018 Bruce Benson
Innovation
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Many of the cards were normal, but some were made anomalous, e.g., a red six of spades and a black four of hearts. … With a further increase of exposure to the anomalous cards, subjects did hesitate and to display awareness of anomaly. … Moreover,...
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April 14, 2018 Bruce Benson
Change Management
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If Musk is concerned about any of his multiple risky ventures, he isn’t letting on. At SXSW, Jonathan Nolan asked the billionaire if he tries to plan around failures based on his experience dealing with SpaceX and Tesla obstacles in the past. “I don’t really...
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April 6, 2018 Bruce Benson
Planning
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I succeeded my father. I always heard him telling me that whatever the size, a company needs to pursue a cause that is beyond the profit target you usually have. It’s a matter of being a part of the society where you want to do...
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March 29, 2018 Bruce Benson
Planning
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The question is, what are the false ideas that we believe today? An expert is someone who has mastery of current knowledge, not of future knowledge. I think we have to find a balance between having people who have expertise, but also understanding that not...
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March 22, 2018 Bruce Benson
Innovation
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The B-21’s core design initiative has been to use mature and semi-mature components and subsystems not only to lower risk and to decrease development time and costs, but also to better ensure support for the aircraft over time. Although many look to history to predict...
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March 17, 2018 Bruce Benson
Schedule
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Kobe Steel Ltd admitted on Tuesday its data fraud has been going on nearly five decades and also revealed new cases of cheating, highlighting the challenges facing the 112-year-old company mired in compliance failures and malfeasance…. “What you see is a pattern, a culture,” said...
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March 8, 2018 Bruce Benson
Change Management
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The 2.6 billion-rouble ($45 million) satellite — the Meteor M — was launched last month from Vostochny, with Roscosmos losing contact with it shortly after. It then emerged that the rocket carrying the satellite had been programmed with the wrong coordinates, and had instead been...
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March 3, 2018 Bruce Benson
Risk Management
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