Everyone Was Wrong
Suddenly, it turns out there are many years of hard work behind Tesla’s overnight success.
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Falling Prey to a Simple Message
The simple message is almost always just a useful abstraction of a fuller methodology that needs to be understood.
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Not A HIT
The healthcare industry may be experiencing an ongoing productivity paradox, mirroring earlier patterns in manufacturing and other industrial sectors.
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Stay In The Game
I prefer agility and efficiency to being the biggest.
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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.
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Jumping Through Every Hoop
"I did everything that should have gotten me the title that I wanted. And I didn’t get it."
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Just Walk Out Of Bad Meetings
My trick was simple. I would suddenly grab my mobile phone, look at it, and then head out the door.
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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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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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Take Your Moonshot
“We grew up,” says Verily Chief Executive Officer Andy Conrad. The middle-aged geneticist has adopted the Silicon Valley T-shirt and-flip-flops wardrobe of eternal youth, but he’s given up on a lot of the jargon, including Google’s onetime favorite word. Like some other Alphabet holdings, 500-staffer...
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A Little More Science And A Little Less Politics
When it comes to economic data, it can be difficult to separate what people believe to be true from what they want to be true.
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Make A Plan
“If you are failing to plan, you are planning to fail.” -- Tariq Siddique
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Good Management Won’t Save A Poor Product
We’ve delivered some pretty unexciting products -- on time and with good to great quality -- but good project management and engineering won’t turn a mediocre idea into a winner.
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Lessons Learned From Microsoft Meeting Madness
One senior manager barked at me “Meetings are how we manage!”
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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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