Leading Blog

APRIL 22, 2024

It’s that sense of meaning that inspires us to think of new, innovative ways to do the work. I once worked with a company that decided to collapse its engineering organization by turning Engineering Managers into Managing Engineers, and oh, what a difference the word order makes.

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Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

Are you leading in a way that taps into your team’s potential for innovation, engagement, and open communication, or are you inadvertently stifling it? In today’s episode, Drew Jones , PhD, discusses how traditional management techniques often shut down culture and engagement from the start.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 9, 2017

When it comes to innovation, it is no different. Jeff DeGraff writes in The Innovation Code , “ Your dominant worldview is your biggest strength —the quality that makes you stand out from other people.” DeGraff describes four basic worldviews or approaches to innovation : the Artist, the Engineer, the Athlete, and the Sage.

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The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 15, 2021

It’s well established that the majority of innovation today is what’s known as recombinative, which means that it takes what works well in one domain and applies it somewhere else. This can be highly effective, but it does lend towards more iterative than transformative innovations. Science-led innovation.

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Tanveer Naseer

JULY 1, 2014

In the past week or so, there’s been much discussion and debate over the merits of disruption and with it, how we view and understand what it means to innovate. It was a wonderful moment for the normally staid engineering team. Landing on Mars is a huge engineering challenge. It was innovative and seemingly crazy.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 23, 2024

Furthermore, technological developments in property management and real estate transactions are optimizing workflows and increasing market accessibility and efficiency for both buyers and sellers. Additionally, AI-powered property search engines can match buyers with homes that suit their preferences better than ever before.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Today, Chief People Officers and CHROs are not only responsible for the high-value functions of talent acquisition and employee engagement, but they play a crucial role in shaping organizational culture, driving diversity and inclusion, and ethically leveraging technology for effective HR management.

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Great Leadership By Dan

APRIL 9, 2019

Guest post from James Hlavacek: To improve innovation and growth, knowledge workers must be led, not managed. People at all levels of a company, both degreed engineers and factory-floor craftspeople, are needed to design user-friendly new products and assemble prototypes that users can experiment with in the field.

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Innovation Excellence

OCTOBER 3, 2019

When creating an innovation team, we often put a lot of thought and effort into bringing the right functional expertise together. Making sure we have diverse marketing, design, engineering, product supply, finance, research and innovation working together early in the process is certainly smart.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 27, 2016

An executive at a company I work with recently told me: “W e have very creative employees who want to be innovative but find many obstacles created by the cultural opposition to it. We spend a lot of time training and encouraging employees at all levels how to be more creative and innovation. Allow employees time to innovate.

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The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Everyone wins The study, which saw over 1,600 workers in a large online travel company analyzed, found that hybrid schedules tend to benefit both employees and managers. Many of these hybrid workers are professionals like lawyers, accountants, marketers, and software engineers, most with a college degree or higher.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 19, 2024

A solid online presence is crucial for conveying the complexities of biotech innovations while attracting stakeholders. Infographics, videos, and interactive content can break down intricate topics, allowing users to understand your innovations quickly. A picture, as they say, is worth a thousand words.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 17, 2023

Formula 1 racing is an industry built on speed, innovation, and teamwork. Flexible Work Arrangements and Pay Flexible work arrangements are not commonly offered to F1 team employees, especially those in roles that require on-track activities, such as mechanics, engineers, and drivers.

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Lead from Within

OCTOBER 7, 2024

This approach also boosts collaboration and drives innovation. Engineer “Collision Spaces” The most innovative leaders deliberately engineer “collision spaces” that bring adversaries together in unexpected ways. Rather than viewing discord as something to be avoided at all costs.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 16, 2020

For years now, huge corporations such as British Aerospace Engineering and Raytheon have completely dominated the market and swooped in to poach promising innovators. The asymmetrical aspects of America’s security, as well as the growing threat of flashpoints with China and Russia , require constant innovation at a quick pace.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JUNE 25, 2021

0:22 – Last chance to get your Kindle edition of Courageous Cultures: How to Build Teams of Micro-innovators, Problem Solvers, and Customer Advocates at a crazy-good price. 2:53 – How engineers plan for things to break to avoid more damage and minimize time to repair. Leading When Things Break. Why do they break at all?

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 12, 2012

Furthermore, you are likely just as familiar with my position that a static business, which doesn’t constantly innovate around the changing needs of the marketplace is the same thing as a dying business. From my perspective, I can’t imagine not integrating services throughout the talent management lifecycle.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 31, 2023

In the modern era of technology and business, fleet management has witnessed a transformative shift. The evolution of fleet management is underscored by several innovative practices and technological integrations that promise a more streamlined and intelligent approach.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 26, 2021

It turns out, they could withstand the impact, but the engineers designed them not to. The engineers design them to break cleanly for three reasons. Knowing that these breakdowns in traffic flow are inevitable, the engineers plan for it. The increased psychological safety permits healthy risk-taking and innovation.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 1, 2023

Professional development has emerged as a vital tool for business owners and engineers alike to enhance their skills, drive innovation, and achieve long-term success. The Power of Lifelong Learning The landscape of business and engineering is constantly evolving, driven by technological advancements and market demands.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

As a result of our conversation, I decided to dust-off an old post, give it a few updates, and pass along my thoughts, which can be best summarized as “ Ideas Don’t Equal Innovation. “ It is my hope to help dispel the myth that ideas are inherently good things.

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Eric Jacobson

OCTOBER 20, 2024

Amy Edmondson Edmondson is the Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management at the Harvard Business School. She has also studied the role of psychological safety in teamwork and innovation. Her work explores teaming – the dynamic forms of collaboration needed in environments characterized by uncertainty and ambiguity.

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LDRLB

FEBRUARY 6, 2014

Here’s my candidate for the worst innovation quote ever: Now, to be fair, it’s actually a paraphrasing of Emerson. Nevertheless, it reflects a very common innovation misconception – that it’s all about the idea. For the engineer, this usually means developing a design, or a model.

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Rich Gee Group

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

If you are employed, people are still checking out your profile - vendors, clients, upper management, or the competition - put on your best to show off your abilities. For example, "Innovative Tech CEO | Driving Digital Transformation and Leading High-Performance Teams." Most people forget and let their profile lay fallow for years.

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Coaching Tip

OCTOBER 4, 2013

All companies, no matter the size, need to continually innovate in order to remain competitive. Innovation is a two-part challenge. Organizations are not Structured to Execute Innovation. So why is innovation execution so hard? They are built to be performance engines. The first part is coming up with the big idea.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 12, 2024

Today, the CCO oversees various aspects of business operations, such as strategy development, customer relationship management, product development, and crisis management. Moreover, a CCO plays an instrumental role in driving marketing innovations.

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Modern Servant Leader

JULY 11, 2024

Accordingly, the departments are often titled, “Proposal Management” or “Sales Response” teams. the heartbeat of the revenue engine of the organization. Danelle Morrow Tweet In a recent Forbes article , Morrow suggests a better name for the function is Strategic Response Management.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

Organizations deploy automation technologies as the primary resource in their Business Process Management. Fortunately, today’s business leaders have numerous technologies and solutions available in order to effectively manage and integrate their entire enterprise.

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Mike Cardus

MAY 17, 2013

as a engineer? In what ways might I serve to create a bridge for teams and managers to understand their view and use that to achieve results? The engineer sees themselves as a tiny spot of ignorance surrounded by a vast see of knowledge. How do I approach team building ; as a scientist? Eli Goldratt ‘The Choice’.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 18, 2024

These solutions promote organizational resilience, innovation, and long-term success by sourcing the most qualified candidates worldwide. Each facet is instrumental in creating value, driving innovation, and ensuring sustainable growth in highly competitive markets.

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Skip Prichard

JULY 22, 2019

Innovation Capital. And one of the most overlooked reasons for entrepreneurial failure is innovation capital. That’s why I enjoyed talking with Jeff Dyer who, along with Nathan Furr and Curtis Lefrandt, wrote a new book, Innovation Capital: How to Compete and Win Like the World’s Innovative Leaders. Satya Nadella.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

Being a manager is not an easy job, especially in manufacturing, where there are lots of moving parts that you need to be aware of. To make sure that your manufacturing operations can run smoothly and that your business can reach success, here are some top tips to ensure that you can expertly manage your processes and your employees.

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The Horizons Tracker

JULY 8, 2020

That was the message from a new report from engineering recruitment company Terminal. This results in nearly 40% of Canadian and Mexican engineers preferring not to move to the US for work, even if they were offered a significant salary increase. Broken recruitment.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 12, 2024

Microelectronics, the backbone of our digital age, is a field where innovation is constant, and the stakes are high. They allow engineers to examine the intricate structures of the semiconductor at the atomic level. Engineers use it to fine-tune the fabrication process and maintain high quality.

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Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 1, 2013

Posted in Change Management Leadership Development Self Leadership Value Creation No one likes to fail. Failure is the engine of innovation. Change Management Leadership Development Self Leadership Value Creation failure lead practice success' Failure feels like losing. But failure is more generous than we might think.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 15, 2020

We are entering a new fluid state that will lead to an unprecedented period of innovation and transformation. While some organizations had begun to embrace these technologies before the pandemic, it’s now critical that business leaders keep moving ahead with innovation efforts as we move into a new normal. Autonomous machines.

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The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

There is seldom a shortage of hype surrounding new technology, but hype is equally seldom much use to managers seeking to determine whether a technology is actually valuable to them or not. Research from ETH Zurich highlights how managers can more effectively hone in on the real uses for such innovations.

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