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Two top Volkswagen engineers who found they couldn’t deliver as promised a clean diesel engine for the U.S. market are at the center of a company probe into the installation of engine software designed to fool regulators …. The two men, Ulrich Hackenberg, Audi’s chief...
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October 28, 2015 Bruce Benson
Honesty
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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October 7, 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
“It’s naive to think that three presidents and three U.S. military services would have spent so many billions of dollars on a program that doesn’t work, “ [Loren Thompson, chief operating officer of the Lexington Institute who has worked as a consultant for Lockheed] said....
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September 17, 2015 Bruce Benson
Planning
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
Spend weeks working up a pitch, promising software so customized that both parties knew it probably couldn't be built.
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July 22, 2015 Bruce Benson
Innovation
“You have to find a way to learn from winning,” said Brad Frost, women’s hockey coach at Minnesota.”It’s a lot easier to lose and learn.” Frost’s team racked up victory after victory in 2013. Without any losses to reflect on, though, Frost decided to rethink...
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June 15, 2015 Bruce Benson
Innovation
Talk to turnaround experts, or read a little history, and you'll hear this story repeatedly: There were people who raised the alarm, and they got shouted down.
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June 9, 2015 Bruce Benson
Risk Management
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
IT used to be sold to CIOs. Now an employee adopts a piece of software and pushes his company to do the same. An Expense App to Hook Road Warriors, Bloomberg Businessweek, Dec 15, 2014. I had found a program called “Packrat” which was a...
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February 24, 2015 Bruce Benson
Change Management
In my case, in 1999 I arrived in Japan and had to face the turnaround of Nissan. The fact that I wasn’t Japanese and was a newcomer to the industry helped me. People knew I wasn’t involved in the industry’s past. I dismantled keiretsu [interlinked...
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January 27, 2015 Bruce Benson
Communication
You’d think the government would make this type of thing stop … but years later, these scams still exist.
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January 13, 2015 Bruce Benson
Change Management
Ray Anderson went on to describe industry’s toxic legacy and evoked a future in which companies like his clean up their act, compelling others to do the same.
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January 6, 2015 Bruce Benson
Change Management
If you kept your money in the stock market this summer, you're likely feeling pretty smart now.
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December 30, 2014 Bruce Benson
Planning, Schedule
When you start your career, you might think you’re setting out to change the world. But the world is far more likely to change you.
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December 4, 2014 Bruce Benson
Personal Practices
