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ASCE 9780784406755 2003

ASCE 9780784406755 2003

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Managing and Leading

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ASCE 2003 300
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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.

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8 Contents
12 Abbreviations and Acronyms
14 Preface
16 Acknowledgments
18 About the Author
20 Part 1: Personal Roles, Goals, and Development
22 1. Leading, Managing, and Producing: A Success Model for Organizations and Individuals
30 2. Roles—Then Goals: Setting Goals to Fit Chosen Life Roles
34 3. Smart Goals: A Guide for Setting Well-Formulated Goals
41 4. Too Much of a Good Thing: Avoiding the Pitfalls of Too Much Experience
45 5. DWYSYWD: Do What You Said You Would Do
49 6. Defining Moments: Transforming Problems into Opportunities
52 7. Courage: Real and Counterfeit: Risking Change and Confronting the Unknown
56 8. Thank Our 50 Stars: Appreciating the Freedom to Choose and Change Careers
59 9. Go Out on a Limb: Opening Doors of Opportunity
62 10. Keeping Our Personal Financial Score: Measuring and Increasing Our Net Worth
68 11. Job Security Is an Oxymoron, Career Security Doesn’t Have to Be: Career Security That Ensures Employability
75 12. Are You Unemployable?: Exploring Self-Employment Options
82 13. Afraid of Dying, or Not Having Lived?: Realizing our Dreams Instead of Living with Regret
86 Part 2: Communication
88 14. Communicating Five Ways: Developing Career Security through Communication Competence
94 15. So, What Do You Know about Bluebirds?: Questions that Start Conversations
98 16. Talk to Strangers: Making Contacts the Old-Fashioned Way
102 17. You’re Tall and That’s All: Choosing Our Words Carefully
105 18. Balance High Tech and High Touch: Mixing Technology with Human Contact
108 19. Trimming Our Hedges: Targeting Level of Detail to Audiences
111 20. Write to Find Out What We Think: Clarify Thinking Using Pen and Paper
115 21 Start Writing on Day 1: Report Writing that Parallels Progress
120 22. P[sup(5)]: Preparing, Presenting, and Publishing Professional Papers: Sharing Results with the Engineering Profession
125 23. Practice Out Loud: A Primer on Preparing for Presentations
131 24. DAD Is Out, POP Is In: Inviting Involvement: “Public Owns Project” Instead of “Decide-Announce-Defend”
136 Part 3: Learning and Teaching
138 25. Professional Students: Keeping Current with Engineering and Management Trends
143 26. Garage Sale Wisdom: Some Older Ideas are Still in Style
146 27. Read and You Won’t Need a Management Consultant: Self-Education in Leadership and Management
150 28. Caring Isn’t Coddling: Practicing High Expectations and High Support
153 29. More Coaching, Less Osmosis: Bringing Junior Engineers up to Speed
158 30. Education and Training: From Ad Hoc to Bottom Line: How Organizations Can Support and Encourage Continuing Education
164 Part 4: Improving Personal and Organizational Productivity
166 31. We Don’t Make Whitewalls: Work Smarter, Not Harder: Increasing Efficiency While Maintaining Quality
173 32. The Power of Our Subconscious: Solving Problems Using Our Natural Creativity
178 33. Delegation: Why Put Off Until Tomorrow What Someone Else Can Do Today?: Sharing Work to Advance You and Others
182 34. TEAM: Together Everyone Achieves More: Building and Belonging to a Winning Team
187 35. Virtual Teams: Using Technology to Close the Distance
191 36. Fruits of Effective Project Management: Growing Your Organization by Meeting Requirements, Budgets, and Schedules
197 37. Every Project Is Done Twice: Planning the Work, Then Working the Plan
201 38. Limiting Liability: Minimizing Negligence through Diligence
208 Part 5: Meetings
210 39. An “Unhidden” Agenda: Keeping the Mystery out of Meetings
215 40. Agenda Item: Good News: Positive Recognition Brings Job Satisfaction
217 41. Minutes: Earning a Return on the Hours Invested in Meetings: Documenting Instead of Remembering
220 Part 6: Marketing
222 42. A Simple Professional Services Marketing Model: Earn Trust, Learn Needs, Close Deal
227 43. Speed as a Competitive Edge: Using Quickness as an Advantage
230 44. The Chimney Sweep and the Sewer Cleaner: The Importance of Style: Distinction by Design
234 Part 7: Building Mutually Beneficial Employee-Employer Partnerships
236 45. Our Most Important Asset: Culture Your Organization’s Experience Base
242 46. Interviewing So Who You Get Is Who You Want: Prepare by Defining Specific Needs
247 47. Eagles and Turkeys: Associating with Winners Helps You Become One
250 Part 8: The Broad View
252 48. AH HA! A Process for Effecting Change: Incorporating Human Behavior in the Strategy and Tactics of Change
258 49. Giving to Our Profession and Our Community: Volunteering Service Brings its Own Rewards
262 50. F = ma and You Can’t Push a Rope: Appreciating Both the Scientist and the Engineer
265 51. The Two Cultures: Bridging the Gap: How Science and the Humanities Work Together
271 52. Looking Ahead: Can You Spare a Paradigm?: Staying Flexible for the Future: Adapting or Creating New Approaches
278 Appendix: Sources of Quotations
284 Bibliography
294 Index
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295 D
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296 F
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297 K
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298 P
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299 T
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300 Z

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