How To Make Pseudo-controversial Changes
Using real data from good sources helps to anchor our decision making and often, but not always, helps to settle down those emotionally driven opinions.
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Whatever Triggers Our Attention Go For It
[Anouk] Wipprecht finds that her keys to success are curiosity, being willing to work across disciplines, and having a clear mission. “Whatever triggers your attention, go for it,” she says. “A lot of engineers ask me,” ‘How do I do design?’ I say, just go...
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We Become Sloppy With Too Much
"I truly believe that engineers will do their best when they are constrained" -- Johny Srouji
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It Won’t Work It Can’t Be Done
"There is no evidence that consumers can self diagnose and self-treat." Really?
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Tackling The Hard Truth
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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Too Good Of A Story Not To Be Told At This Stage
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,...
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Winning The Bureaucracy Game
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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How To Manage A Chaos Machine
They assumed that, if a project was intensely and minutely planned, everything would naturally and inevitably proceed in an orderly and deterministic way. … And when projects did go off the rails, their response was to stop everything and replan. Sometimes that works, but sometimes...
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Programs Designed To Improve Often Distract And How To Avoid Them
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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Why We Should Pay Our Employees Significantly More
It pays double the average retail wage—and believes it gets more than three times the value because of the quality of people it attracts.
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How To Rock The Boat For Greater Success
I guarantee if you get a diverse group of people aligned around a common objective with a process to work together, they will out engineer, out-solution a homogeneous team 90 percent of the time.
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Is Our Product Direction Driverless?
GM has been talking about self-driving cars since its Futurama display at the 1939 New York World’s fair.
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How To Avoid Great Ideas That Go Awry
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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Lessons Learned From The California Drought
California captures enough water each year to meet all its needs if it operates efficiently — a big if. … “There’s learning, information sharing, creativity, and discovery.” The drought is speeding up the process. “What causes change more than anything is crisis,” Thomas Howard, executive...
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Do It But Only If There Is More Than One Reason To Do So
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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