Comments on: People Narrative http://techdoertimes.com/people/people-narrative Sat, 15 Oct 2011 05:21:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: sergio bogazzi http://techdoertimes.com/people/people-narrative#comment-592 sergio bogazzi Sun, 28 Mar 2010 11:01:30 +0000 http://techdoertimes.com/?p=1198#comment-592 More on humility: Humility: Recognizing Greatness Beyond Oneself: <a href="http://managinggreatness.com/2009/09/24/humility-recognizing-greatness-beyond-oneself/" rel="nofollow">http://managinggreatness.com/2009/09/24/humility-recognizing-greatness-beyond-oneself/</a> More on humility: Humility: Recognizing Greatness Beyond Oneself:
http://managinggreatness.com/2009/09/24/humility-recognizing-greatness-beyond-oneself/

]]> By: Sergio http://techdoertimes.com/people/people-narrative#comment-591 Sergio Thu, 18 Mar 2010 08:30:57 +0000 http://techdoertimes.com/?p=1198#comment-591 Here's a good quote from Satoshi Ishii, manager of automative sofware engineering at Toyota Motors: “If engineers feel their own skills are improving by ‘visualization’, they can get high motivation for their work. The most important thing in the project is not only to develop software but also to cultivate engineers.” http://blog.crisp.se/henrikkniberg/2010/03/16/1268757660000.html Here’s a good quote from Satoshi Ishii, manager of automative sofware engineering at Toyota Motors:

“If engineers feel their own skills are improving by ‘visualization’, they can get high motivation for their work. The most important thing in the project is not only to develop software but also to cultivate engineers.”

http://blog.crisp.se/henrikkniberg/2010/03/16/1268757660000.html

]]> By: sergio bogazzi http://techdoertimes.com/people/people-narrative#comment-590 sergio bogazzi Thu, 24 Dec 2009 05:00:45 +0000 http://techdoertimes.com/?p=1198#comment-590 Good "Corner Office' interview with Jeffrey Swartz, President and CEO of Timberland that similarly talks about the importance of understanding your people: "A willingness to be exposed, a willingness to acknowledge the personal dimension, a willingness to value the personal dimension — from the beginning, that’s what we’re after. I’m saying that there’s no chance that our company, in a cruddy industry in a world that’s in an L-shaped recession, not a V- or a W-shaped recession, is going to be able to reinvent itself with the speed and ease that it needs to unless we bring more than our intellects to the table." http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/20/business/20corner.html?pagewanted=2&sq=roar&st=cse&scp=1 Good “Corner Office’ interview with Jeffrey Swartz, President and CEO of Timberland that similarly talks about the importance of understanding your people:

“A willingness to be exposed, a willingness to acknowledge the personal dimension, a willingness to value the personal dimension — from the beginning, that’s what we’re after. I’m saying that there’s no chance that our company, in a cruddy industry in a world that’s in an L-shaped recession, not a V- or a W-shaped recession, is going to be able to reinvent itself with the speed and ease that it needs to unless we bring more than our intellects to the table.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/20/business/20corner.html?pagewanted=2&sq=roar&st=cse&scp=1

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