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I prefer agility and efficiency to being the biggest.
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October 19, 2018 Bruce Benson
Cost
The Air Force has revoked more than 226 Air Force instructions deemed unnecessary or outdated over the past year as part of its ongoing effort to get rid of so-called “queep.”
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October 4, 2018 Bruce Benson
Process Improvement
This generation craves mentors that guide and inspire them.
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July 4, 2018 Bruce Benson
Staffing
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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May 25, 2018 Bruce Benson
Personal Practices
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My trick was simple. I would suddenly grab my mobile phone, look at it, and then head out the door.
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May 19, 2018 Bruce Benson
Communication
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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
It is OK to make a profit but we’ll probably feel better about ourselves and about life in general if we also do something that is good for people in general
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March 29, 2018 Bruce Benson
Planning
The 2.6 billion-rouble ($45 million) satellite — the Meteor M — was launched last month from Vostochny, with Roscosmos losing contact with it shortly after. It then emerged that the rocket carrying the satellite had been programmed with the wrong coordinates, and had instead been...
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March 3, 2018 Bruce Benson
Risk Management
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
The lack of open discussion and debate was always a good indicator that the organization was beginning to fail.
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February 3, 2018 Bruce Benson
Communication
Being brutally honest can have surprising and humorous results.
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December 18, 2017 Bruce Benson
Risk Management
As Smith outlines in his written testimony, the Department of Homeland Security’s Computer Emergency Readiness Team (CERT) sent Equifax (alongside many other companies) a notice on March 8th, 2017 about the vulnerability in certain versions of Apache Struts. Equifax sent out an internal mass-email, which...
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November 15, 2017 Bruce Benson
Risk Management
I remember the first time it happened to me. I’d been an agile developer for less than a year. We were having our morning stand-up, and something felt off. The room was oddly crowded. The scrum master was having a heated discussion with a developer....
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October 25, 2017 Bruce Benson
Change Management
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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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July 26, 2017 Bruce Benson
Communication
The trick was always to look past common wisdom and corporate culture even when everyone was encouraging us to do it the same old way.
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June 7, 2017 Bruce Benson
Planning