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Identifying Transformational Deans at Top Engineering Institutions

N2Growth Blog

Effective engineering leadership lies at the heart of a premier academic institutions ability to differentiate itself in a competitive market. Leadership marked by empathy, transparency, and the courage to navigate complex institutional challenges is what sets truly exceptional candidates apart.

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Lessons in Leadership to Last a Lifetime

Leading Blog

A FTER 18 YEARS on the MIT faculty, I thought I knew a thing or two about leadership. But in 1999, at the height of the Internet boom, I took a two-year leave of absence to serve as director of system architecture at Akamai Technologies, an MIT start-up located here in Cambridge.

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Should We “Defund” Leadership?

Lead Change Blog

The Pixar 2018 documentary on the company tells the tale of a group of passionate, driven people who worked around the clock, sleeping under their desks to bring to market revolutionary technology tools. ” One of the General Magic engineers immediately responded, “Thanks, but we don’t need a manager.

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Are We Experiencing A Technology Tsunami?

Rich Gee Group

home about rich our team news our fans services executive coach business coach speaking inspire media knowledge books affiliates contact Rich Gee Group 203.500.2421 Are We Experiencing A Technology Tsunami? Lately, I find as each month progresses, I am leveraging the old basics of business and office technology less and less.

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Leadership and Digital Transformation

N2Growth Blog

Don’t attempt to compete with those who are more evolved, piggy-back off of them, partner with them, engineer around them, on move out in front of them. Stop thinking about managing the risk of technology, tools, and process improvement. The post Leadership and Digital Transformation appeared first on The Executive Hub.

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What a Mechanical Shark Can Teach Us About Leadership and Innovation

Leading Blog

He could have bawled out the engineers and technicians behind the mechanical prop, demanding that they somehow find a way to carry out his vision. In fact, an original, revolutionary vision isn’t innovation at all (and it certainly isn’t leadership). Spielberg could have insisted on the shot. But he didn’t.

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5 Leadership Lessons: How Google Works

Leading Blog

One of our early engineers, Matt Cutts, recall how he would often see Urs Hölzle, the engineering executive who led the creation of Google’s data center infrastructure, pick up small bits of trash in the hallway as he walked through the office. Leadership requires passion. If all we have are opinions, let’s go with mine.”