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Managing by the Numbers
There is an old saying that “Numbers don’t lie”. Unfortunately, the assumptions used to generate them do! In todays “data analytics” driven world, this is an important issue to keep in mind. One of the...
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For the love of the game
There is an old saying, “For love of the game” made famous by a novel and film. For me, the phrase is an excellent summary of the struggle between motivations on opposite sides of the spectrum; for...
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Fair not Equal; Regular not Permanent
I received an interesting question from an alumnus not too long ago that went something like this; If you are the champion for hiring someone, how much of an obligation do you have to them once they...
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Who Says You Can’t Go Home?
For the Jon Bon Jovi fans out there, you already know the punch line of this post because you know the song of the same name (although the best version of the song is the duet with Jennifer Nettles...
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How Coachable Are You?
Growing up, I played Little League baseball and football. Picture a bunch of 10 year olds on the field trying their hardest to look like they know what they are doing without betraying the underlying...
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Blue Sky Research: Is Google X the New Bell Labs?
Happy 2015! My New Year’s resolution is to write more posts for this Blog by trying to write some short, simple observations for our MEM community. We’ll see how that goes. Now on to my current blog; I...
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Professional Societies, Trade Shows and Conferences
What is the most important activity for an early career professional? Probably exceeding expectations in the quality and quantity of your work product and making your boss look good. OK, the second...
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Find Your Happy
Each year I post my remarks from the MEM graduation ceremony. It is always a wonderful celebration. Here are my remarks from a few weeks ago at our 2014 ceremony… MEM Graduation Remarks: Find Your...
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Sell, Sell, Sell
As we approach the end of the school year, students are anxiously awaiting the start of the new jobs they have lined up or in some cases looking more intensely for a job as classes wind down and...
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Give Your Boss a Holiday Gift
No, I do not mean a traditional gift for the holiday season (in fact, I don’t think holiday gifts are appropriate for most workplaces or corporate cultures but that is a topic for another post). I mean...
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Black Swans and Business Lessons from Floydfest (year 2)
Last year I wrote about some of the lessons that can be learned from a music festival called Floydfest in the Appalachian Mountains near Floyd, Virginia. This was illustrative of the more general point...
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Guest Post: How I Have Used My MEM Degree (Part B)
As promised in the previous post, below is part B of an insightful piece from guest blogger, Brandon Sights, on how he has used his MEM degree and generally how to apply yourself and navigate various...
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Guest Post: How I Have Used My MEM Degree (Part A)
We are very fortunate to have a guest blogger today, Brandon Sights, a graduate of Duke’s Master of Engineering Management program (the distributed version – http://memp.pratt.duke.edu/distance). While...
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Puzzles versus Mysteries – their impact on how we make engineering management...
The renowned author Malcolm Gladwell has a book titled “What the Dog Saw” which is a compilation of his New Yorker Magazine articles. One of these articles (Open Secrets: Enron, intelligence, and the...
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So much to learn, so little time
Each year I post my speech from the Master of Engineering Management Graduation Hooding ceremony so this is my post for 2013. As always, it was great fun to see our students excited to receive their...
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Recommendation for “Lean In” by Sheryl Sandberg
I don’t usually recommend business books unless I am specifically asked to because a person’s reaction to such books is strongly influenced by our individual preferences and experiences. But in this...
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Career Development Insights – What I Would Tell Myself at 22 (Part B)
Our previous post was the first part of a very insightful piece by Duke MEM alumnus Charelle Lewis. It was very well-received so I am particularly happy to post Part B. For Charelle’s bio and Part A...
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Career Development Insights – What I Would Tell Myself at 22 (Part A)
We are very fortunate to have guest blogger Charelle Lewis provide numerous insights on Career Development for this post and the next. Charelle is a PMI certified IT Project Manager for GlaxoSmithKline...
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The Power of Deadlines – Know Thyself
Self-awareness is critical in any organization. It has been determined to be a key attribute for great leadership. This is also true for “leading yourself” which is a critical step in becoming a leader...
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Holiday Reflections
The holidays offer us time and perspective for reflecting on our activities in both our career and personal lives. In today’s world, it is difficult, and perhaps not even desirable, to maintain a rigid...
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