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We measured all types of individual work environments, and what we’ve found is that if you solve for design, noise, and access to people and resources, they perform equally, and one is essentially not better than the other.
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December 7, 2018 Bruce Benson
Staffing
Suddenly, it turns out there are many years of hard work behind Tesla’s overnight success.
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November 24, 2018 Bruce Benson
Innovation
People think that doctors are immune to petty disagreements, but they're human beings, and sometimes ego and primitive emotions take over.
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September 13, 2018 Bruce Benson
Risk Management
I've found that "having the data" is about half the effort. The other half is not how to make it compelling. The data was always compelling in my experience because it generally showed that we were making poor decisions. That rarely went over well.
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August 11, 2018 Bruce Benson
Metrics
This generation craves mentors that guide and inspire them.
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July 4, 2018 Bruce Benson
Staffing
If one assumes that randomness constitutes deep wisdom.
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January 27, 2018 Bruce Benson
Leadership
A lot of what you saw in America and you see overseas is, “I want a change.” They want a wrecking ball brought to these governments. A lot of us are sympathetic with that. We want to see something different. We want things to be...
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February 10, 2017 Bruce Benson
Leadership
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It’s a familiar story. Soda taxes have also flopped in New York State and San Francisco. So far, only superliberal Berkeley, Calif., has succeeded in adopting such a measure over industry objections. The obvious lesson from Philadelphia is that the soda industry is winning the...
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January 19, 2017 Bruce Benson
Staffing
We’ll be successful, ironically, when it becomes boring.
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May 19, 2016 Bruce Benson
Reporting
GM has been talking about self-driving cars since its Futurama display at the 1939 New York World’s fair.
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December 2, 2015 Bruce Benson
Leadership
Looking at Volkswagen’s practices, one could argue that it didn’t hurt anybody.
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October 21, 2015 Bruce Benson
Leadership
Rather than accept their view of his business, the CEO shouted at them for wasting his time.”
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August 5, 2015 Bruce Benson
Change Management
I went into the house and deadpanned to my wife that I had just run a couple of 4 minute miles. Her response? “Wow!” She was serious.
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July 7, 2015 Bruce Benson
Change Management
What is in the tool and described in the views is an attempt to model a project, but as I said, it is NOT the project.
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April 8, 2015 Bruce Benson
Planning
“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