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Suddenly, it turns out there are many years of hard work behind Tesla’s overnight success.
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November 24, 2018 Bruce Benson
Innovation
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The simple message is almost always just a useful abstraction of a fuller methodology that needs to be understood.
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November 7, 2018 Bruce Benson
Change Management
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The healthcare industry may be experiencing an ongoing productivity paradox, mirroring earlier patterns in manufacturing and other industrial sectors.
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October 27, 2018 Bruce Benson
Process Improvement
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I prefer agility and efficiency to being the biggest.
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October 19, 2018 Bruce Benson
Cost
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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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May 31, 2018 Bruce Benson
Leadership
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The second woman, Goldman trader Allison Gamba, says she quintupled earnings for her stock portfolio, winning a nod from her boss that she’d be put up for managing director. He also told her that she should adopt a child instead of getting pregnant. She mentioned...
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May 25, 2018 Bruce Benson
Personal Practices
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Mr Musk’s other thoughts on improving productivity include avoiding large meetings – which he says are the “blight of big companies”. “It is not rude to leave, it is rude to make someone stay and waste their time,” he wrote. BBC News, April 18, 2018...
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May 19, 2018 Bruce Benson
Communication
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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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January 5, 2018 Bruce Benson
Team Management
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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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September 6, 2017 Bruce Benson
Planning
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“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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June 22, 2017 Bruce Benson
Planning
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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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March 8, 2017 Bruce Benson
Metrics
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“By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.” — Benjamin Franklin “If you are failing to plan, you are planning to fail.” — Tariq Siddique Well, it is the New Year in many parts of the world, so why not make a plan for the...
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January 12, 2017 Bruce Benson
Planning
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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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October 27, 2016 Bruce Benson
Schedule
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One senior manager barked at me “Meetings are how we manage!”
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September 21, 2016 Bruce Benson
Communication
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“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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August 5, 2016 Bruce Benson
Change Management
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