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Stuart Walesh offers useful ideas on ways in which engineers can more effectively approach the nontechnical or “soft-side” aspects of working with colleagues, clients, customers, the public, and other stakeholders.<\/p>\n

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8<\/td>\nContents <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
12<\/td>\nAbbreviations and Acronyms <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
14<\/td>\nPreface <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
16<\/td>\nAcknowledgments <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
18<\/td>\nAbout the Author <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
20<\/td>\nPart 1: Personal Roles, Goals, and Development <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
22<\/td>\n1. Leading, Managing, and Producing: A Success Model for Organizations and Individuals <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
30<\/td>\n2. Roles\u2014Then Goals: Setting Goals to Fit Chosen Life Roles <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
34<\/td>\n3. Smart Goals: A Guide for Setting Well-Formulated Goals <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
41<\/td>\n4. Too Much of a Good Thing: Avoiding the Pitfalls of Too Much Experience <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
45<\/td>\n5. DWYSYWD: Do What You Said You Would Do <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
49<\/td>\n6. Defining Moments: Transforming Problems into Opportunities <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
52<\/td>\n7. Courage: Real and Counterfeit: Risking Change and Confronting the Unknown <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
56<\/td>\n8. Thank Our 50 Stars: Appreciating the Freedom to Choose and Change Careers <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
59<\/td>\n9. Go Out on a Limb: Opening Doors of Opportunity <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
62<\/td>\n10. Keeping Our Personal Financial Score: Measuring and Increasing Our Net Worth <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
68<\/td>\n11. Job Security Is an Oxymoron, Career Security Doesn’t Have to Be: Career Security That Ensures Employability <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
75<\/td>\n12. Are You Unemployable?: Exploring Self-Employment Options <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
82<\/td>\n13. Afraid of Dying, or Not Having Lived?: Realizing our Dreams Instead of Living with Regret <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
86<\/td>\nPart 2: Communication <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
88<\/td>\n14. Communicating Five Ways: Developing Career Security through Communication Competence <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
94<\/td>\n15. So, What Do You Know about Bluebirds?: Questions that Start Conversations <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
98<\/td>\n16. Talk to Strangers: Making Contacts the Old-Fashioned Way <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
102<\/td>\n17. You’re Tall and That’s All: Choosing Our Words Carefully <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
105<\/td>\n18. Balance High Tech and High Touch: Mixing Technology with Human Contact <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
108<\/td>\n19. Trimming Our Hedges: Targeting Level of Detail to Audiences <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
111<\/td>\n20. Write to Find Out What We Think: Clarify Thinking Using Pen and Paper <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
115<\/td>\n21 Start Writing on Day 1: Report Writing that Parallels Progress <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
120<\/td>\n22. P[sup(5)]: Preparing, Presenting, and Publishing Professional Papers: Sharing Results with the Engineering Profession <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
125<\/td>\n23. Practice Out Loud: A Primer on Preparing for Presentations <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
131<\/td>\n24. DAD Is Out, POP Is In: Inviting Involvement: “Public Owns Project” Instead of “Decide-Announce-Defend” <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
136<\/td>\nPart 3: Learning and Teaching <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
138<\/td>\n25. Professional Students: Keeping Current with Engineering and Management Trends <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
143<\/td>\n26. Garage Sale Wisdom: Some Older Ideas are Still in Style <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
146<\/td>\n27. Read and You Won’t Need a Management Consultant: Self-Education in Leadership and Management <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
150<\/td>\n28. Caring Isn’t Coddling: Practicing High Expectations and High Support <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
153<\/td>\n29. More Coaching, Less Osmosis: Bringing Junior Engineers up to Speed <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
158<\/td>\n30. Education and Training: From Ad Hoc to Bottom Line: How Organizations Can Support and Encourage Continuing Education <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
164<\/td>\nPart 4: Improving Personal and Organizational Productivity <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
166<\/td>\n31. We Don’t Make Whitewalls: Work Smarter, Not Harder: Increasing Efficiency While Maintaining Quality <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
173<\/td>\n32. The Power of Our Subconscious: Solving Problems Using Our Natural Creativity <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
178<\/td>\n33. Delegation: Why Put Off Until Tomorrow What Someone Else Can Do Today?: Sharing Work to Advance You and Others <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
182<\/td>\n34. TEAM: Together Everyone Achieves More: Building and Belonging to a Winning Team <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
187<\/td>\n35. Virtual Teams: Using Technology to Close the Distance <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
191<\/td>\n36. Fruits of Effective Project Management: Growing Your Organization by Meeting Requirements, Budgets, and Schedules <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
197<\/td>\n37. Every Project Is Done Twice: Planning the Work, Then Working the Plan <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
201<\/td>\n38. Limiting Liability: Minimizing Negligence through Diligence <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
208<\/td>\nPart 5: Meetings <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
210<\/td>\n39. An “Unhidden” Agenda: Keeping the Mystery out of Meetings <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
215<\/td>\n40. Agenda Item: Good News: Positive Recognition Brings Job Satisfaction <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
217<\/td>\n41. Minutes: Earning a Return on the Hours Invested in Meetings: Documenting Instead of Remembering <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
220<\/td>\nPart 6: Marketing <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
222<\/td>\n42. A Simple Professional Services Marketing Model: Earn Trust, Learn Needs, Close Deal <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
227<\/td>\n43. Speed as a Competitive Edge: Using Quickness as an Advantage <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
230<\/td>\n44. The Chimney Sweep and the Sewer Cleaner: The Importance of Style: Distinction by Design <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
234<\/td>\nPart 7: Building Mutually Beneficial Employee-Employer Partnerships <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
236<\/td>\n45. Our Most Important Asset: Culture Your Organization’s Experience Base <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
242<\/td>\n46. Interviewing So Who You Get Is Who You Want: Prepare by Defining Specific Needs <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
247<\/td>\n47. Eagles and Turkeys: Associating with Winners Helps You Become One <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
250<\/td>\nPart 8: The Broad View <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
252<\/td>\n48. AH HA! A Process for Effecting Change: Incorporating Human Behavior in the Strategy and Tactics of Change <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
258<\/td>\n49. Giving to Our Profession and Our Community: Volunteering Service Brings its Own Rewards <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
262<\/td>\n50. F = ma and You Can’t Push a Rope: Appreciating Both the Scientist and the Engineer <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
265<\/td>\n51. The Two Cultures: Bridging the Gap: How Science and the Humanities Work Together <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
271<\/td>\n52. Looking Ahead: Can You Spare a Paradigm?: Staying Flexible for the Future: Adapting or Creating New Approaches <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
278<\/td>\nAppendix: Sources of Quotations <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
284<\/td>\nBibliography <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
294<\/td>\nIndex
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295<\/td>\nD
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296<\/td>\nF
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297<\/td>\nK
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298<\/td>\nP
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299<\/td>\nT
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300<\/td>\nZ <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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