From financial fraud to plagiarism, online scams and scientific misconduct, deceivers retrospectively describe how minor dishonest decisions snowballed into significant ones over time.
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November 10, 2016 Bruce Benson
Honesty
1 percent of Baby Boomers claimed to be vegetarian, which then progressed to 4 percent of Gen X’ers saying no to meat, and onward to an even bigger bump with roughly 12 percent of Millennials saying they are total vegetarians.
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November 2, 2016 Bruce Benson
Requirements Management
We’ve delivered some pretty unexciting products -- on time and with good to great quality -- but good project management and engineering won’t turn a mediocre idea into a winner.
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October 27, 2016 Bruce Benson
Schedule
The trick is to dig in and coax the insights out of our data that we already have.
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October 20, 2016 Bruce Benson
Metrics
Sometimes O’Neil’s comments on corporations are not as nuanced as you’d expect from a math-prof-turned-hedgefunder. “The model is optimized for efficiency and profitability, not for justice or the good of the ‘team.’ This is, of course, the nature of capitalism,” she writes. Yes, but there...
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October 12, 2016 Bruce Benson
Leadership
Using real data from good sources helps to anchor our decision making and often, but not always, helps to settle down those emotionally driven opinions.
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October 5, 2016 Bruce Benson
Change Management
Employers are recognizing the disconnect between college and career readiness. Google, for instance, changed its hiring strategies after Laszlo Bock, senior vice president of people operations, analyzed their data and found no correlation between job performance and an employee’s GPA, SAT’s, or college pedigree. Google...
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September 29, 2016 Bruce Benson
Innovation
One senior manager barked at me “Meetings are how we manage!”
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September 21, 2016 Bruce Benson
Communication
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What we learned is that young people want to do good as well as do well. They really do want to come to work thinking that they’re going to do something that matters.
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September 15, 2016 Bruce Benson
Leadership
All we are trying to do is stay unaffected by the hype and emotions and stay grounded in reality.
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September 7, 2016 Bruce Benson
Planning
It does not take much, a simple shake of the head by an influential person, for a whole team to know what is expected of them.
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August 18, 2016 Bruce Benson
Leadership
What’s the worst advice you ever got? "Listen to what your boss tells you." Stan Lee
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August 13, 2016 Bruce Benson
Change Management
“Tesla is consistently introducing enhancements proven over millions of miles of internal testing to ensure that drivers supported by Autopilot remain safer than those operating without assistance,” the company said in a July 14 response. “We will continue to develop, validate, and release those enhancements...
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August 5, 2016 Bruce Benson
Change Management
Refactoring not only helps improve the mechanical quality of code; it also helps you learn from your code. When refactoring, you converge on better models. Right now, your code works, but it may feel tense, even a bit brittle. Refactoring reveals the implicit model, which...
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July 27, 2016 Bruce Benson
Process Improvement
Needless to say, on many struggling projects, management could often “talk-the-talk” but inevitably could not “walk-the-walk.” If they could, then they would probably not be in the crisis I was called in to help solve.
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July 14, 2016 Bruce Benson
Change Management
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