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The system should be able to automatically approve them, freeing up people to focus on the more high-risk changes that do require more in-depth analysis and understanding before they can be approved.
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December 2, 2018 Bruce Benson
Change Management
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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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November 17, 2018 Bruce Benson
Change Management
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Employees viewed Fadell — who’s known as the godfather of the iPod and played a key role in designing the iPhone — as a product visionary and leader. Fawaz, by contrast, was considered a business development manager, focused on efficiencies. … Another said he believes...
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July 23, 2018 Bruce Benson
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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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September 14, 2017 Bruce Benson
Leadership
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Samsung declined to comment on whether it moved up the Note 7 launch to beat Apple’s. “Timing of any new mobile product launch is determined by the mobile business division based on the proper completion of the development process and the readiness of the product...
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October 27, 2016 Bruce Benson
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[S]elf-reporting data can be very misleading. For instance, in an Australian hospital, 73 percent of staff doctors claimed that they soaped up before interacting with patients. But a study based on observed behavior showed that only 9 percent of them did. Stephen Dubner, Freaky Thinkers...
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June 9, 2016 Bruce Benson
Planning
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“What RevUp really is,” says Joe Rospars, an Obama campaign veteran who founded Blue State Digital (a partner and investor in RevUp), “is a software version of Steve himself. He’s put his personality and experience into code.” Steve Spinner Just Fixed The Worst Thing About...
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April 7, 2016 Bruce Benson
Innovation
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Then came the Great Recession. by 2009, as GM was descending into bankruptcy, a small band of its engineers and researches agitated for producing driverless cars. A much larger group of more cautious executives found the idea reckless, says John Capp, GMS’s director for safety...
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December 2, 2015 Bruce Benson
Leadership
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The expansion’s modest pace has kept inflation down, allowing the Fed to hold its target for short-term interest rates near zero since 2008. Moderate growth also means that the U.S. has avoided debt-driven excesses that can bring an upswing to an abrupt halt, as happened...
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July 15, 2015 Bruce Benson
Metrics
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“The numbers are big, but the effectiveness of the infrastructure spending has been very, very poor,” says Dennis Dykes, chief economist at Nedbank Group, South Africa’s fourth-largest lender. “Thus far, we have got no return at all from a number of capital projects. We have...
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July 2, 2015 Bruce Benson
Cost
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Mr. Richards spent thousands of hours studying all the great blues artists and rock virtuosos and integrated this knowledge into his musical compositions.
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July 29, 2014 Bruce Benson
Training
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“A simple tool,” he says, “can be much more empowering than some massive effort.”
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June 5, 2014 Bruce Benson
Planning
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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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January 30, 2014 Bruce Benson
Management, Metrics
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Development is primarily a knowledge discovery activity. But sometimes there are things about the system we don’t know we don't know. Here is one solution.
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June 26, 2013 Bruce Benson
Planning
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Everything is perfect ... until it all goes wrong! Huh? This is how we stayed on top of our biggest projects.
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April 18, 2013 Bruce Benson
Metrics
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