Changer de poste ou de carrière

Un bon texte sur le sujet du changement de poste ou de carrière.

Des pistes de réflexion:
1) Identify your core work values
2) Identify your top strengths
3) Identify your needs
4) Identify your worries or fears.

I was on the wrong path

I was able to largely transform my health and life by changing my mindset and routine and by creating new habits, some of which I will share with you now.
- Have perspective and gratitude
- Meditate and be mindful
- Be aware
- Simplify and follow your purpose

La vie au travail

I left my corporate job and these 8 things became clear:

1. Two things will be the death of us: death and meetings
2. I miss most of the people and none of the processes
3. It's less about being impressive and more about making an imprint
4. All that little stuff really is little stuff
5. Flexibility is intoxicating
6. My presence is more of a present
7. There's no greater pick-me-up than feeling challenged and growing again
8. Your health belongs on a pedestal, period

Un p'tit café ?

La magie derrière le réseautage à la "Want to grab coffee" ?

Far from inconveniencing or annoying the advice-giver, research shows that asking for advice appears to boost perceptions of intelligence.

Ce que les clients peuvent devenir : un projet commun

What do you want your customers to become.

Successful innovators don’t just ask customers and clients to do something different, they ask them to become something different

Statistiques

Statistics are like a lamp post to a drunk: Useful for support but not for illumination

- Brian Burke dans le cadre de la conférence sur l'utilisation des statistiques dans le monde du sport

Patriotic Pull of the Railroad

Nouvelles campagnes de Union Pacific et CSX.  Site spécial de UP.
Analyse ici.

Amazon same day delivery

Amazon s'installe dans des centres de distribution dans les grandes villes pour offrir le same day delivery.

(via Peter Tirschwell)

Design Thinking

We need more mad designers focused on customer experience and business model innovation. If you don't have design talent in your organization doing more than product and website design you are making a mistake. Whether you are interested in business model innovation or not you should be leveraging design thinking and process to improve your customer experience. It is a requirement for business model innovation. In fact, maybe we need to bang together the heads of mad scientists and mad designers.

(via Fortune)

Consultants internes

Des beaux exemples ici.

Une job d'avenir

2011's hottest job you never thought of: Supply Chain Management.

Portrait de Union Pacific

Un portrait de Fortune.

De la grosse embauche

10,000 personnes en 5 ans.
Comment gérer ça ?

Stats

For Today’s Graduate, Just One Word: Statistics, un article tiré du NY Times.

I keep saying that the sexy job in the next 10 years will be statisticians,” said Hal Varian, chief economist at Google. “And I’m not kidding.

[...] the big problem is going to be the ability of humans to use, analyze and make sense of the data.

[..] I.B.M., seeing an opportunity in data-hunting services, created a Business Analytics and Optimization Services group in April. The unit will tap the expertise of the more than 200 mathematicians, statisticians and other data analysts in its research labs — but that number is not enough. I.B.M. plans to retrain or hire 4,000 more analysts across the company.

MBA + IT

Point de vue de SAS

There is a trend toward staffing IT departments with non-technical employees or “hybrids” (e.g., MBAs with some tech background). More and more, the pervasive thought of CIOs seems to be “I can teach the technology. But getting staff who understand business drivers and speak the same language as the business side of the house is harder to come by.”

[...]

The exec pulled the IT guys from those projects and has actively sought to staff his team with that rare, but highly-sought-after creature – MBAs with some background in technology.

[...]

So if you’re replacing the technologists with those hybrid business types, isn’t it logical to expect an IT backlash? I mean someone has to get down and dirty with the technology to make it all work. At some point more than a cursory knowledge is required, and no amount of business savvy can replace that.

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Article de Fortune, abordant le même thème avec l'angle du CIO.

There was a time when the geeks who keep a company's tech systems running could get by without knowing the finer details of corporate strategy. You called the chief information officer when you needed a server upgrade, not a strategic plan.

CN dans The Economist

L'acquisition du EJ&E mise en contexte dans The Economist.

A new bill would make it harder for the STB to approve a merger that does any local damage. Some call it nimbyism; others, democracy. [...] The quest for the common good is imperfect, but at least it is noisy.

Infrastructures ferroviaires en Amérique du Nord

Le projet d'acquisition du EJ&E par le CN vu dans une plus large perspective de développement des infrastructures ferroviaires en Amérique du Nord.

By all accounts, America will need more rail tracks in the coming years to handle freight for a growing population's needs, but laying down any new rails is a sure way for companies to stir up fierce local opposition. [...]

The growing furor over CN's plans to use this sleepy 198-mile loop around Chicago to circumvent its chronically clogged rail network is being watched carefully by other railroads to see how regulators handle the issue.

"The rail industry is keeping a pretty close eye on CN's bid for the EJ&E and the opposition to it," said Tom Mentzer, a logistics expert at the University of Tennessee. "This is one of a few test cases out there at the moment."

Analysts say the core issue for the rails is whether to pursue infrastructure projects without government support.

"The EJ&E case is symptomatic of the two faces that government shows on railroad issues," said Anthony Hatch, an independent railroad analyst. "On the one hand, politicians support trains as safer, more environmentally friendly and a good way to get freight off congested highways."

"But at the same time they pander to local political interests and campaign to have vital rail projects anywhere else but here," he added.

Rapport de consultant

Citation d'un consultant de longue date:

Si tu as un mandat en entreprise, ton rapport final doit absolument contenir les points suivants : il y a manque de communication dans la boîte, il y a manque de consultation et les gens ont trop de responsabilité par rapport aux pouvoirs réels qu’ils ont.

Truck vs. Rail

Article intéressant qui montre que les chemins de fer américains sont aussi sinon plus en croissance.

Don't f*** up

I am not alone !

At a lunch for managing directors at Mumbai's Indigo restaurant, Blankfein fields questions from roughly two dozen men (they are all men). To get things going, Blankfein asks, "Do you have any advice for me?" "Don't f--- up," says one MD.