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Too Good Of A Story Not To Be Told At This Stage

Too Good A Story Not To Be Told At This Stage Johny-Srouji-tim-cook

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,...

March 10, 2016 Bruce Benson Planning

Chowing Down On Employees’ Brains

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...

February 3, 2016 Bruce Benson Staffing

Train or Just Hire The Best?

“In the early days, we had no choice but to hire rejects …. Nobody else would come. But we trained the hell out of them, and they became great.” Employees who’ve graduated from top business schools such as Harvard and MIT are incompetent when it...

August 26, 2015 Bruce Benson Training

How I Ran A Four Minute Mile And Why You Should Be Skeptical

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.

July 7, 2015 Bruce Benson Change Management

We Need To Understand This In Order To Manage Well

Some IT specialists mistakenly think business leaders cannot govern IT, since they lack technology skills. Understanding the capability IT brings or planning new, improved business capability enabled by smarter, more effective use of IT does not require specialized knowledge of how to design, build, or...

May 19, 2015 Bruce Benson Leadership

Don’t Take Too Long

It is indeed ironic that Hadoop is picking up support in the general community about five years after Google moved on to better things. Hence, the rest of the world followed Google into Hadoop with a delay of most of a decade. Google has long...

February 12, 2015 Bruce Benson Change Management

The Power Behind The Power Of Positive Thinking

According to neuroscientist Tali Sharot of University College, London, the group of people who turn out to be more accurate about predicting how long it will take to complete tasks — and how likely they are to succeed — are the clinically depressed. Optimists underestimate...

February 5, 2015 Bruce Benson Metrics

Could Not Possibly Have Picked A Worse Example

Given the data, they concluded that social scientists could not possibly have picked a worse population [Westerners] from which to draw broad generalizations.

January 15, 2015 Bruce Benson Honesty