Engineering & Manufacturing Staffing

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...

While garnering social capital has always been essential to internal corporate collaboration, it has become even more critical for every hybrid employee, remote-working person, or solo entrepreneur today. Simply having the skills to do a particular job is no longer...

Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) and UC Berkeley want to give quadrupeds more capabilities similar to their biological counterparts. Just like real dogs can use their front legs for things other than walking and running, like digging and other...

Imagine you’ve developed a clear and compelling strategy that addresses the most important challenges facing your organization. What could possibly distract you from such an endeavor? Quite a lot, in fact. Source: Don’t Let Distractions Derail Your Company’s Strategy...

A team of researchers from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) has introduced a method for drones to master vision-based fly-to-target tasks in intricate and unfamiliar environments. The team used liquid neural networks that...

Many say that people fear change, but everywhere I go in the world speaking, advising executives and conducting workshops, I find most are excited about it. Senior leaders tell me about their inspired visions for their enterprise, but complain that they can’t get...

John Bubnikovich, ABB US Robotics Division President, is making several predictions on key trends in robotics automation in the US for 2023 and beyond.   The post ABB: Top US robotics trends appeared first on Robotics Business Review.