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Deep Dive
In contrast to the flybys typical of GM executives, his first official visit to Rüsselsheim a year ago became a six-hour inspection tour as he took a deep dive into Opel’s operations.
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It’s Not All Big Data
The funny thing is many problems aren’t big enough to use the fanciest big data solutions. Sure, companies like Google or Yahoo track all of our web browsing; they have data files measured in petabytes or yottabytes. But most companies have data sets that can...
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Don’t Set A Deadline
The first idea is to change your goal structure: don’t set a deadline, set a schedule. Rather than set a goal to read X number of books by the end of the year, set a schedule of when you’ll read. For example, you’ll read 20...
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How To Make Pseudo-controversial Changes
On the subject of making pseudo-controversial changes to classic Marvel characters, [Marvel’s Senior Vice President David] Gabriel added that internet outrage is never a good indicator of what actual comic book readers and fans want. “The first thing we do is watch the sales. If...
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Puttting Management On Autopilot
“Tesla is consistently introducing enhancements proven over millions of miles of internal testing to ensure that drivers supported by Autopilot remain safer than those operating without assistance,” the company said in a July 14 response. “We will continue to develop, validate, and release those enhancements...
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What To Do When Unusually Sophisticated Problems Are Encountered
You wouldn’t believe how sophisticated hacking has become in the past few years. It has, in fact, gotten so mind-blowingly complex and erudite that this word, sophisticated, is now the only one human beings can really use to describe any single act of computer-security violation....
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Lessons Learned From South Africa’s Infrastructure Initiatives
The numbers are big, but the effectiveness of the infrastructure spending has been very, very poor.
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Productivity Lessons Learned From The 113th US Congress
Activity was what was important, it seemed, not productivity nor effectiveness. We can always tell the COO, CQO and CEO what a great focus we had on quality!
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We’ve Known The Basics For Years But Still Need To Apply Them
We need to be reminded more instead of being being taught more.
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Happy Talk Is Not An Effective Management Approach
More lessons learned and blame shared from the Oregon Health Insurance Exchange failure.
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Our Desire To Help Often Gets In The Way Of Getting Things Done
He was just sure that if we asked more questions and understood each and every defect we would eliminate the backlog of defects. It never happened.
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Pay More Attention To The People Who Talk About Their Mistakes
Analysts who are the most confident about their predictions have some of the worst track records, while those with the best are always questioning their beliefs.
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How To Make Our Management Blunder Proof
I had pulled the wrong data in updating my status. It looked like a huge mistake in my data and it put me into a cold sweat. I was doomed.
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Past Performance Does Not Guarantee Future Results — Except In Project Management
The group estimated it would take two years to get done. Yet 40% of comparable projects failed, and for the teams that did finish, it took seven years.
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