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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I always figured that if I worked my way up far enough I'd find a senior manager who would immediately get it, recognize that what was going on was a problem, and would then help to fix it. But it never happened that way.
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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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“It’s almost like a dark state going on in Tallahassee,” said Rep. Carlos Trujillo, a Miami Republican and critic of the “culture of Tallahassee that compromises the process” because “priorities are shaped not on policy, but on relationships. Code of silence is breaking on Tallahassee’s...
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February 22, 2018 Bruce Benson
Process Improvement
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I recall their often repeated truism that new tools or new processes wouldn't fix an otherwise dysfunctional organization.
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February 16, 2018 Bruce Benson
Change Management
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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.
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February 9, 2018 Bruce Benson
Leadership
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The lack of open discussion and debate was always a good indicator that the organization was beginning to fail.
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February 3, 2018 Bruce Benson
Communication
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If one assumes that randomness constitutes deep wisdom.
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January 27, 2018 Bruce Benson
Leadership
Modern ethos is that all data is valuable, should be stored forever, and that machine learning will one day magically find the value of it.
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January 22, 2018 Bruce Benson
Metrics
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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...
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January 12, 2018 Bruce Benson
Leadership
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The most important and productive new ideas come from B-teams comprised of employees who don’t always have to be the smartest people in the room.
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January 5, 2018 Bruce Benson
Team Management
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Being brutally honest can have surprising and humorous results.
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December 18, 2017 Bruce Benson
Risk Management
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Too many plans are based upon perfect execution and having no issues, even when no project they've ever managed has ever come close to such perfection.
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December 6, 2017 Bruce Benson
Risk Management
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Elon to a meeting member: "You haven't said anything. Why are you in here?"
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November 30, 2017 Bruce Benson
Communication
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As Smith outlines in his written testimony, the Department of Homeland Security’s Computer Emergency Readiness Team (CERT) sent Equifax (alongside many other companies) a notice on March 8th, 2017 about the vulnerability in certain versions of Apache Struts. Equifax sent out an internal mass-email, which...
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November 15, 2017 Bruce Benson
Risk Management
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