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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
What’s the worst advice you ever got? "Listen to what your boss tells you." Stan Lee
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August 13, 2016 Bruce Benson
Change Management
Following the Sept. 11 attacks, a consensus emerged that cockpit doors should be reinforced and fitted with elaborate locks. This was an eminently sensible idea. Then last year, a pilot named Andreas Lubitz boarded Germanwings Flight 9525. When his captain left the cockpit, Lubitz locked...
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March 18, 2016 Bruce Benson
Change Management
During a college job at an Air Force weapons lab in New Mexico, [Robert Mercer, co-CEO Renaissance Technologies] says, he found a life’s calling. “I loved everything about computers,” he said. “I Loved the solitude of the computer lab late at night. I loved the...
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February 10, 2016 Bruce Benson
Change Management
The stakes are high for this program. As any physician will tell you, physician burden and frustration levels are real. Programs designed to improve often distract. Done poorly, measures are divorced from how physicians practice and add to the cynicism that people who build these...
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January 20, 2016 Bruce Benson
Change Management
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
China wasn't even the first country to experiment with forcible population control. In the late 1970s, Indira Gandhi, then prime minister of India, introduced a program that involved the involuntary sterilization of many men and women.
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November 18, 2015 Bruce Benson
Requirements Management
Each container Driscoll’s sells in the U.S. and Canada has a code on the back that tracks variety, grower, and harvest date. Originally a food safety measure, it’s become a way for Driscoll’s to test the market. Consumers can enter their codes on Driscoll’s website...
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September 30, 2015 Bruce Benson
Change Management
“Worldly wisdom teaches that it is better for reputation to fail conventionally than to succeed unconventionally.” — John Maynard Keynes
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September 24, 2015 Bruce Benson
Innovation
Success was not a problem, I was told, as long as I fit in and did the same as everyone else.
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September 9, 2015 Bruce Benson
Leadership
When we’d removed the influences that pulled an organization down, we didn’t have to crack the whip to get people going again.
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September 3, 2015 Bruce Benson
Change Management
In today’s atomized medical system, it can take 10 to 20 years for a major treatment advance to become ubiquitous.
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August 19, 2015 Bruce Benson
Change Management
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
Until a few years ago, Evan Blake made about $300,000 a year selling corporate software with a formula straight out of Mad Men. Working for companies such a Cisco Systems and BMC Software, he’d use connections and charm to land a few meetings a year...
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July 22, 2015 Bruce Benson
Innovation
Everything Tesla did was unique for the auto industry. If you go back to Apple 15 years ago everything we did there was counter to the industry as well.
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June 2, 2015 Bruce Benson
Change Management
