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Top 10 Innovation Management Concepts
I have had the pleasure of teaching Innovation Management this semester to our Master of Engineering Management students at Duke; both distance and residential. The student engagement in the material...
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You Can’t Predict the Future
Every year one of my blog posts is from the speech that I give to our Master of Engineering Management Students at graduation as they embark on the next phase of their careers. The post below is from...
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The Many Faces of Motivation
A thorn in every manager’s side is the very smart employee who is just not self-motivated, at least not with any consistency. When they are engaged, they are spectacular and provide brilliance that is...
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Business Lessons from FloydFest
For those of you who are aspiring engineering managers AND music festival fans, this post might be particularly interesting. Hopefully it is of interest to everyone as it illustrates how we can find...
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Building Relationships – The Right Way to Network
The topic of networking comes up quite often for our early career alumni and our MEM students. I like to emphasize that networking is about relationships. This means it is about giving and receiving...
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Campaigning in the Real World
In this season of politics and the pervasive media coverage of the current campaigns, it occurred to me how different campaigning in the corporate world is from what I see on the political campaign...
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My Top Ten Management Concepts
My Top Ten Management Concepts A few weeks ago we had an exciting “first” for not only the Duke program but all of the programs that are members of our Master of Engineering Management Programs...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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