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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
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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
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True contrarians make a point of investing differently from everybody else. Rather than accept the consensus opinion, true contrarians ask questions and seek out factors others are ignoring …. Note that this is a different behavior than what is often the stereotype of contrarian investing...
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September 24, 2015 Bruce Benson
Innovation
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“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
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In 2003, when Nidec bought Sankyo Seiki Manufacturing, an industrial robot maker based in the foothills of the Japanese Alps, the company was headed for a $280 million loss, its third bad year in a row. Twelve months after the acquisition closed, it had $178...
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September 3, 2015 Bruce Benson
Change Management
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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
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“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
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Last March, Rocky King, executive director of Oregon’s health insurance exchange, predicted that Cover Oregon was about to become the pride of the state. “This is an incredible project” he told … a local health-care news site. … “The state of Oregon is leading the...
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June 9, 2015 Bruce Benson
Risk Management
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One of Tesla’s first employees from Apple was George Blankenship, who made the leap in 2010 after helping to create the company’s retail stores. Musk hired him to do the same for Tesla. “Everything Tesla did was unique for the auto industry,” says Blankenship …....
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June 2, 2015 Bruce Benson
Change Management
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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