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Drayton had a reputation as an around-the-clock worker, but one with a creative streak. “Much of what he did was very innovative and very controversial,” Gamse says. “A lot of times my first reaction would be, ‘This is crazy. This has no chance of happening!’...
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June 16, 2018 Bruce Benson
Innovation
Face-to-face interactions, as measured by the sociometric badges, emerged as a strong negative predictor of success in the competition.
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June 14, 2018 Bruce Benson
Communication
"I did everything that should have gotten me the title that I wanted. And I didn’t get it."
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May 25, 2018 Bruce Benson
Personal Practices
Essentially, it was by luck. At ongoing hearings, senior bank executive Clive van Horen explained that the error had escaped numerous internal bank controls that should have caught it. The error was finally uncovered after troubling questions were raised over the bank’s overdraft application process...
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April 25, 2018 Bruce Benson
Risk Management
It does not take much, a simple shake of the head by an influential person, for a whole team to know what is expected of them.
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August 18, 2016 Bruce Benson
Leadership
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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February 10, 2016 Bruce Benson
Change Management
Although Pompeii is frozen in time, the workers are in a hurry — to spend money. In the next 11 weeks they have to burn through almost $100 million — about five times what they’ve spent in the past three years — or risk losing...
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November 4, 2015 Bruce Benson
Cost
“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
“In the early days, we had no choice but to hire rejects …. Nobody else would come. But we trained the hell out of them, and they became great.” Employees who’ve graduated from top business schools such as Harvard and MIT are incompetent when it...
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August 26, 2015 Bruce Benson
Training
How much trickery is legal?
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January 29, 2015 Bruce Benson
Leadership
Frequently, what government contracting officers were requesting was ridiculous.
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October 14, 2014 Bruce Benson
Leadership
Still, he says, the contractors are huge companies familiar with complexity, and in most cases they’ve had years to address the sites’ problems.
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May 1, 2014 Bruce Benson
Risk Management
My supervisors knew what I was up to. But I was a young Airman whose job, at least for the first six months, was to tear messages off of classified printers.
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March 24, 2014 Bruce Benson
Innovation
We know they have the answers, but now we’re whining because they expect us to learn their way of thinking. Why is it so hard?
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November 25, 2013 Bruce Benson
Change Management
That’s astonishing to me. The rules are not being applied well or they need to be more strict! Uh, oh - not so fast Senator.
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September 11, 2013 Bruce Benson
Process Improvement
