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A Few Will Do

I just wanted to develop a rocket with a small team, and not 15,000 people like had been done in the past. I wanted to show you could do this with 200.

December 15, 2018 Bruce Benson Schedule

It was a scrum. No, not the agile software method, but a bunch of people all racing after the current big defect found in the product. It was a badge of merit to be the first to figure out the defect and to report on its fix. My boss expected me to jump into this competition of egos when these problems happened.

September 19, 2018 Bruce Benson Team Management No Comment

The Most Important Skill In The World

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!’...

June 16, 2018 Bruce Benson Innovation

Selected, Promoted And Entrusted Based Upon Merit

If the charges had any merit, I would not have been selected, promoted and entrusted to serve in such a sensitive and important role.

May 31, 2018 Bruce Benson Leadership

Purpose Has Become Incredibly Important

What we learned is that young people want to do good as well as do well. They really do want to come to work thinking that they’re going to do something that matters.

September 15, 2016 Bruce Benson Leadership

We Become Sloppy With Too Much

"I truly believe that engineers will do their best when they are constrained" -- Johny Srouji

May 26, 2016 Bruce Benson Planning

Why We Should Pay Our Employees Significantly More

It pays double the average retail wage—and believes it gets more than three times the value because of the quality of people it attracts.

December 17, 2015 Bruce Benson Leadership

Train or Just Hire The Best?

“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...

August 26, 2015 Bruce Benson Training

Overcome The Culture

At Jet, there will be no annual performance reviews, because [Marc] Lore thinks feedback should be immediate and civil. … And Lore isn’t making any of his employees sign noncompetes; he says that … without such stipulations “there’s more loyalty and trust that is built.”...

February 17, 2015 Bruce Benson Change Management

Did The Tech Giants Botch Obamacare?

Still, he says, the contractors are huge companies familiar with complexity, and in most cases they’ve had years to address the sites’ problems.

May 1, 2014 Bruce Benson Risk Management

Do We As Managers Tell or Sell Our Directions?

As our team goes through various predictable stages of growth, we as project managers should often vary our approach based upon the current stage of our team.

December 3, 2013 Bruce Benson Team Management