Selected, Promoted And Entrusted Based Upon Merit
If the charges had any merit, I would not have been selected, promoted and entrusted to serve in such a sensitive and important role.
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Jumping Through Every Hoop
The second woman, Goldman trader Allison Gamba, says she quintupled earnings for her stock portfolio, winning a nod from her boss that she’d be put up for managing director. He also told her that she should adopt a child instead of getting pregnant. She mentioned...
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Run For The Hills?
Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla (TSLA), made a big admission on the afternoon of April 13th. Apparently channeling the Friday the 13th horror spirit, Musk announced via tweet that the electric car manufacturer had over-automated its production process: “Excessive automation at Tesla was a mistake....
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Mitigating Cognitive Dissonance In Our Project
By continuing to try and understand all objections we unexpectedly won over many additional people.
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What Are The False Ideas That We Believe Today?
The question is, what are the false ideas that we believe today? An expert is someone who has mastery of current knowledge, not of future knowledge. I think we have to find a balance between having people who have expertise, but also understanding that not...
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Silencing The Objections
The lack of open discussion and debate was always a good indicator that the organization was beginning to fail.
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Don’t Be Normal
The company was all he really knew, he said. His father, a soft spoken engineer who founded Odebrecht in 1944, took him in as an apprentice in high school. By the time Emílio was named chairman and chief executive officer in 1991, spreading illicit cash...
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How to Avoid Suboptimal Decision Making
One of my favorite things to do is anytime I’m on TV and someone asks me a question, “Hey, where’s the Dow going to be a year from now?” I love to just say, “I don’t know.” They don’t know how to respond to it....
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What Problem?
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella met with Lenovo last year and quizzed the company over how it was responding to Skylake problems. “Lenovo was confused,” claims Thurrott. “No one was having any issues.” It appears Microsoft’s own problems were the result of the company’s unique approach...
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Take the Time to Explain and to Understand
Take time to explain why you believe something — not just what you believe and why your opponent is wrong. So how did Bastian switch over from home birth advocate to home birth critic? It started with conversations with researchers in Sydney, who were compassionate...
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No Definitive Evidence
Although it offers no definitive evidence that senior Obama administration officials ordered the reports to be doctored, it describes analysts as feeling as though they were under pressure from Centcom leaders to present a more optimistic view of the threat posed by the Islamic State,...
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What To Do When Unusually Sophisticated Problems Are Encountered
You wouldn’t believe how sophisticated hacking has become in the past few years. It has, in fact, gotten so mind-blowingly complex and erudite that this word, sophisticated, is now the only one human beings can really use to describe any single act of computer-security violation....
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New Year, New Projects, Same Old Ethics
He thinks it’s pretty obvious why any engineers who may have been involved have not come forward to date. For one thing, anyone who does stand up will most likely be swept aside … Confronted with questionable orders or restrictions, they find themselves in the...
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Lessons Learned From Volkswagen’s Tricks
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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How To Avoid Battling The Cleanup Squad And Get Something Done Instead
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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