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What we do, day to day makes the difference. These are some of the lifehacks I use after six decades of life. A lifehack is a habit or activity that provides significant benefits for a reasonable price.
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December 31, 2019 Bruce Benson
Change Management
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I just wanted to develop a rocket with a small team, and not 15,000 people like had been done in the past. I wanted to show you could do this with 200.
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December 15, 2018 Bruce Benson
Schedule
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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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Many of you are familiar with the “technology adoption life cycle” model, long a pillar of everything from new tech product pitches to IPO roadshows. However, overuse has eroded the model’s impact. Today, it’s less an effective visualization of market traction, and more a symbol...
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August 29, 2018 Bruce Benson
Change Management
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By continuing to try and understand all objections we unexpectedly won over many additional people.
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April 14, 2018 Bruce Benson
Change Management
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Are your planning documents adding value or would they add more value by not being done?
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April 6, 2018 Bruce Benson
Planning
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“It’s almost like a dark state going on in Tallahassee,” said Rep. Carlos Trujillo, a Miami Republican and critic of the “culture of Tallahassee that compromises the process” because “priorities are shaped not on policy, but on relationships. Code of silence is breaking on Tallahassee’s...
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February 22, 2018 Bruce Benson
Process Improvement
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I recall their often repeated truism that new tools or new processes wouldn't fix an otherwise dysfunctional organization.
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February 16, 2018 Bruce Benson
Change Management
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I was terrified to charge against conventional wisdom, and was often “gently” reminded of what might happen, with descriptions of crippling disability and advanced dependency.
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February 9, 2018 Bruce Benson
Leadership
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The most important and productive new ideas come from B-teams comprised of employees who don’t always have to be the smartest people in the room.
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January 5, 2018 Bruce Benson
Team Management
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They all sounded good in theory, but our ability to attain the complete and stated goal of the development phase was limited.
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September 6, 2017 Bruce Benson
Planning
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It’s a truism in economics that most technological change in any industry takes place not during the boom times, but during the downturns, when firms have to be clever to survive. The Atlantic:This Is the Way the College ‘Bubble’ Ends, July 26, 2017. I’ve often...
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August 17, 2017 Bruce Benson
Change Management
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This is not to say Musk will realize his most ambitious goals: landing on Mars, electrifying much of the world’s transportation fleet, and accelerating the transition from a fossil-fuel to a carbon-free economy. But each is closer than most thought possible in such a short...
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August 4, 2017 Bruce Benson
Metrics
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In the runup to the planned debut of the latest MacBook Pro, Apple’s home computer division had a bit of a meltdown. Enhanced battery life was supposed to be one of the big selling points for the new version of the company’s main laptop, with...
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February 3, 2017 Bruce Benson
Schedule
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1 percent of Baby Boomers claimed to be vegetarian, which then progressed to 4 percent of Gen X’ers saying no to meat, and onward to an even bigger bump with roughly 12 percent of Millennials saying they are total vegetarians.
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November 2, 2016 Bruce Benson
Requirements Management
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