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As you’ve probably heard, while Hillary Clinton won the majority of the popular vote, Donald Trump was awarded more than 270 votes in the Electoral College. Many, particularly on social media, were incredulous, partly at the candidates but also at the pollsters — in particular,...
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December 15, 2016 Bruce Benson
Metrics
The trick is to dig in and coax the insights out of our data that we already have.
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October 20, 2016 Bruce Benson
Metrics
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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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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July 14, 2016 Bruce Benson
Change Management
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It’s easy for stand-ups, which are supposed to be brief team-sharing ceremonies, to turn into extended meetings. Limit the conversation to simple statements about things the entire team should know — what you did yesterday, what you’re doing today, and any blockers or help needed....
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June 24, 2016 Bruce Benson
Team Management
You wouldn’t believe how sophisticated hacking has become in the past few years. It has, in fact, gotten so mind-blowingly complex and erudite that this word, sophisticated, is now the only one human beings can really use to describe any single act of computer-security violation....
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June 16, 2016 Bruce Benson
Reporting
[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
We’ll be successful, ironically, when it becomes boring.
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May 19, 2016 Bruce Benson
Reporting
Whether the demand is for capping the rise in Earth’s temperatures, creating therapies to halt memory loss in the elderly or expanding farm output to meet the world’s growing population, the answer is the same: Set targets. The urge to target is varied and insistent...
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April 27, 2016 Bruce Benson
Planning
Two top Volkswagen engineers who found they couldn’t deliver as promised a clean diesel engine for the U.S. market are at the center of a company probe into the installation of engine software designed to fool regulators …. The two men, Ulrich Hackenberg, Audi’s chief...
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October 28, 2015 Bruce Benson
Honesty
Looking at Volkswagen’s practices, one could argue that it didn’t hurt anybody.
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October 21, 2015 Bruce Benson
Leadership
The curse of the economic cycle to date, which has been its sluggishness, is now turning into a blessing, resulting in greater longevity.
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July 15, 2015 Bruce Benson
Metrics
The numbers are big, but the effectiveness of the infrastructure spending has been very, very poor.
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July 2, 2015 Bruce Benson
Cost
More money, more people and more time is not always the solution. Sometimes -- often times -- the solution is simply to take another approach, such as trusting people.
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June 25, 2015 Bruce Benson
Risk Management
Talk to turnaround experts, or read a little history, and you'll hear this story repeatedly: There were people who raised the alarm, and they got shouted down.
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June 9, 2015 Bruce Benson
Risk Management
