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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
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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
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“I had two whiteboards filled up with questions left unanswered, tests left undone, and every other question we could think of,” Amber wrote on her Facebook page that day. Amber says that at one point during that meeting, she told the staff she felt like...
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September 13, 2018 Bruce Benson
Risk Management
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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
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Today’s workers don’t need some Big Brother figure hovering over us to tell us that budgets are cut, that we will be in big trouble if we don’t meet deadlines, and to “make do with less.” We need leaders who set us up for success,...
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July 4, 2018 Bruce Benson
Staffing
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But what does this have to do with program committees? In 2014, the Neural Information Processing Systems Foundation (NIPS) Conference split the program committee into two independent committees, and then subjected 10% of the submissions 166 papers to decision making by both committees. The two...
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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
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We’ll be successful, ironically, when it becomes boring.
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May 19, 2016 Bruce Benson
Reporting
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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
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German weekly Bild am Sonntag reported that VW’s internal investigation has found a 2007 letter from parts supplier Bosch warning Volkswagen not to use the software during regular operation. Separately, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung reported that a Volkswagen technician raised concerns about illegal practices in...
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October 21, 2015 Bruce Benson
Leadership
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HSBC compliance officers began their audits of the bank’s U.S. operations in September 2013 …. Unlike the heads of commercial banking and retail banking, the investment bank leader at the time … Chief Executive Officer Patrick Nolan, didn’t attend the first meeting with HSBC’s compliance...
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August 5, 2015 Bruce Benson
Change Management
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I had just finished running my morning workout. The GPS had been wonky, and instead of showing me running my normal sedentary 10-11 minute miles, it showed a couple of 4 minute miles intervals during my run. I went into the house and deadpanned to...
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July 7, 2015 Bruce Benson
Change Management
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In software development, project planning is often viewed as a definitive prediction that charts the future of the project, rather like laying down track for a railroad. If the plan is “good” the project will follow it unerringly like a train on rails. … This...
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April 8, 2015 Bruce Benson
Planning
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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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