Engineering News

In the face of rapid, disruptive change, companies are realizing that managers can’t be expected to have all the answers and that command-and-control leadership is no longer viable. As a result, many firms are moving toward a coaching model.Source: The Leader as Coach...

As degrees increasingly fall by the wayside in favor of certifications and other credentials, TA leaders are facing new the challenges.Source: Certifications overtake college degrees in disruptive trend | Human Resource Executive

Businesses hoping to survive over the long term will have to remake themselves into better competitors at least once along the way. Source: Leading Change: Why Transformation Efforts Fail | Harvard Business Review

Will smart machines really replace human workers? Probably not. People and AI both bring different abilities and strengths to the table. The real question is: how can human intelligence work with artificial intelligence to produce augmented intelligence. Source: AI...

IQ and technical skills are important, but emotional intelligence is the sine qua non of leadership.Source: What Makes a Leader? | Harvard Business Review

Employee experience may be suffering because business leaders are failing to understand what their workers really want.Source: Employee experience: Why aren't employers delivering it? | Human Resource Executive

Effective leaders take a personal interest in the long-term development of their employees, and they use tact and other social skills to encourage employees to achieve their best. It isn’t about being “nice” or “understanding”—it’s about tapping into individual...

Scholars are deeply gratified when their ideas catch on. And they are even more gratified when their ideas make a difference — improving motivation, innovation, or productivity, for example. But popularity has a price: People sometimes distort ideas and therefore fail...

Human systems engineering aims to combine engineering and psychology to create systems that are designed to work with humans’ capabilities and limitations. Interest in the subject has grown among government agencies, like the FDA, the FAA and NASA, as well as in...

Taking a skills-first approach can unlock the organization’s ability to manage upsides and downsides. Since skills know no borders and technology facilitates alignment with country and local regulatory requirements, a skills-based approach to hiring enables employers...

Executives have always been—and always will be—expected to produce results. But today they’re expected to produce them in a fundamentally different way. Source: The Leadership Odyssey | Harvard Business Review

Corporate governance delegates tremendous authority to the chief executive. Yet authority alone provides a limited license to lead. We listen to those in authority because we’re required to do so; authority motivates via a follow-the-rules mechanism that will never...