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The answer to most companies’ developer shortages is likely to look within, and make those developers more productive.
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December 21, 2018 Bruce Benson
Staffing
It’s a familiar story. Soda taxes have also flopped in New York State and San Francisco. So far, only superliberal Berkeley, Calif., has succeeded in adopting such a measure over industry objections. The obvious lesson from Philadelphia is that the soda industry is winning the...
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January 19, 2017 Bruce Benson
Staffing
The best managers I’ve worked with have always been those who honestly immersed themselves in the business.
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April 21, 2016 Bruce Benson
Planning
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I think it’s too good of a story not to be told at this stage,” [Johny] Srouji says. “Hopefully, we won’t reveal too much.” When the original iPhone came out in 2007, Steve Jobs was well aware of its flaws. It had no front camera,...
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March 10, 2016 Bruce Benson
Planning
When BAE learns that an employee with deep institutional knowledge plans to retire, whether in a few months or a couple years, a knowledge transfer group of about a half-dozen people of varying ages working in the same area is formed. The teams meet regularly...
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February 3, 2016 Bruce Benson
Staffing
I found a great insight, that doesn’t show up that often, in the following article in my research archives. Robert Holler, the CEO of VersionOne (an Agile vendor) was quoted: “I think there might have been this anticipation five years ago that agile would take...
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July 28, 2015 Bruce Benson
Change Management
I went into the house and deadpanned to my wife that I had just run a couple of 4 minute miles. Her response? “Wow!” She was serious.
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July 7, 2015 Bruce Benson
Change Management
When you start your career, you might think you’re setting out to change the world. But the world is far more likely to change you.
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December 4, 2014 Bruce Benson
Personal Practices
I'd be sitting there reading the comics going, ‘Look at this. Just do this. This is incredible.'
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October 28, 2014 Bruce Benson
Planning
We need to be reminded more instead of being being taught more.
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October 23, 2014 Bruce Benson
Change Management
That’s exactly the mix you want to foster in a team. On one hand, you have your innovators. These are your dropouts and visionaries.
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October 2, 2014 Bruce Benson
Staffing
Thank you, but I’ll make my own decisions.
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September 11, 2014 Bruce Benson
Leadership
That turned out to be wrong as the panel’s lone skeptic delights in pointing out. “Look at all the money the Yankees have been spending without much success,”
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May 23, 2014 Bruce Benson
Metrics
My supervisors knew what I was up to. But I was a young Airman whose job, at least for the first six months, was to tear messages off of classified printers.
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March 24, 2014 Bruce Benson
Innovation
Thousands of engineers in the future would not see it. The funny thing about it is, once the hole is explained to you, it’s obvious.
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March 7, 2014 Bruce Benson
Change Management