We Are Going To Have To Change
There is no way at this point to stop climate change. Pretty much every system is going to have to change. We're going to have to adapt to this.
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Making It Naturally Difficult To Go Back
The advent of the fiduciary rule led the industry to make changes that may not be reversed, according to Aron Szapiro, Morningstar Inc.’s director for policy research. After the Labor Department’s announcement in 2016, financial companies began moving to comply with it. Bank of America...
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Eliminating The Black Hole Of Complexity
The bug-laden software resulted in fix after fix, each fix reconciling some problems but introducing new ones. This all produced an enormous revenue source from the selling of Systems Engineer’s services.
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These Things Are Just Always Wrong
Are your planning documents adding value or would they add more value by not being done?
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The B-team Innovators
The most important and productive new ideas come from B-teams comprised of employees who don’t always have to be the smartest people in the room.
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Dealing With Human Error
"The human error was that the individual who's responsible for communicating in the organization to apply the patch, did not." Wait, what?
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What Value Do You Bring To Your Project?
According to [Ashlee] Vance, the assistant, Mary Beth Brown, asked Musk for a significant raise after she’d been working with him for 12 years. In response, Musk told Brown to take two weeks off, during which he would assume her responsibilities and see if she...
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What’s In Your Methodology?
They all sounded good in theory, but our ability to attain the complete and stated goal of the development phase was limited.
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Does Anybody Listen To You?
It takes three elements: the right people, the right timing, and the right way? Not so fast.
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Murder He Calculated
Threats of federal intervention aside, it will be difficult to fix the problem of high murder rates without first addressing clearance rates. So it’s fortuitous, perhaps, that we are living in an age in which the analysis of data is supposed to help us decipher,...
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Use Unconventional Persistence To Prepare For The Emergency
In the runup to the planned debut of the latest MacBook Pro, Apple’s home computer division had a bit of a meltdown. Enhanced battery life was supposed to be one of the big selling points for the new version of the company’s main laptop, with...
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Lessons Learned From The Elizabeth Holmes Ban
Needless to say, on many struggling projects, management could often “talk-the-talk” but inevitably could not “walk-the-walk.” If they could, then they would probably not be in the crisis I was called in to help solve.
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We Become Sloppy With Too Much
"I truly believe that engineers will do their best when they are constrained" -- Johny Srouji
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It Won’t Work It Can’t Be Done
"There is no evidence that consumers can self diagnose and self-treat." Really?
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Programs Designed To Improve Often Distract And How To Avoid Them
The stakes are high for this program. As any physician will tell you, physician burden and frustration levels are real. Programs designed to improve often distract. Done poorly, measures are divorced from how physicians practice and add to the cynicism that people who build these...
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