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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
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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
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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
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[Anouk] Wipprecht finds that her keys to success are curiosity, being willing to work across disciplines, and having a clear mission. “Whatever triggers your attention, go for it,” she says. “A lot of engineers ask me,” ‘How do I do design?’ I say, just go...
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June 2, 2016 Bruce Benson
Process Improvement
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Whether the demand is for capping the rise in Earth’s temperatures, creating therapies to halt memory loss in the elderly or expanding farm output to meet the world’s growing population, the answer is the same: Set targets. The urge to target is varied and insistent...
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April 27, 2016 Bruce Benson
Planning
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Who doesn’t want recognition for their hard work and contributions? Early in my career I wanted to believe if you worked hard, and added value, you would be rewarded. I wanted to believe in the utopian ideal that hard work, discipline, and contributions were the...
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March 31, 2016 Bruce Benson
Honesty
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I think it’s too good of a story not to be told at this stage,” [Johny] Srouji says. “Hopefully, we won’t reveal too much.” When the original iPhone came out in 2007, Steve Jobs was well aware of its flaws. It had no front camera,...
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March 10, 2016 Bruce Benson
Planning
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When BAE learns that an employee with deep institutional knowledge plans to retire, whether in a few months or a couple years, a knowledge transfer group of about a half-dozen people of varying ages working in the same area is formed. The teams meet regularly...
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February 3, 2016 Bruce Benson
Staffing
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“You have to find a way to learn from winning,” said Brad Frost, women’s hockey coach at Minnesota.”It’s a lot easier to lose and learn.” Frost’s team racked up victory after victory in 2013. Without any losses to reflect on, though, Frost decided to rethink...
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June 15, 2015 Bruce Benson
Innovation
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“There’s a creative moment when you think of a hypothesis, maybe it’s that interest rate data drives” currency rates, she says. “So we think about that first before we mine the data. We don’t mine the data to come up with ideas.” Lady Braga Steps...
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April 30, 2015 Bruce Benson
Metrics
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Activity was what was important, it seemed, not productivity nor effectiveness. We can always tell the COO, CQO and CEO what a great focus we had on quality!
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February 3, 2015 Bruce Benson
Process Improvement
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[Doctors Without Borders] is able to move so swiftly, in large part, because of its decentralized structure, which is more akin to a guerilla network than a top-down corporation. How To Manage A Plague, Bloomberg Businessweek, Nov 17, 2014. Contrary to such notable initiatives such...
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January 22, 2015 Bruce Benson
Management
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“I was very worried when an insider was chosen as the new CEO. I was especially worried when suboptimal execution continued: missed delivery dates, buggy products, weak marketing.” The Rise And Fall of BlackBerry: An Oral History. Bloomberg Businessweek, Dec 9, 2013. The product looks...
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January 20, 2015 Bruce Benson
Tracking
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As a consultant, a lot of my income potential is based upon a customer struggling with issues. Isn’t it better to just help them get along so that I can continue to get paid?
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January 8, 2015 Bruce Benson
Leadership
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If employers don’t think their workers can manage the shift to defined-contribution retirement plans, why make it? Here, the companies were remarkably candid.
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December 18, 2014 Bruce Benson
Leadership
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