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Engineering Leadership 101: Practical Insights for Becoming an Engineering Leader at Any Stage

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  • How to grow as a leader, no matter what career stage you’re in.
  • The mistakes engineers make when trying to lead that hold them back.
  • The important differences between being a manager and being a true leader.
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The Passionate Engineer How to take control of your career, do what you love, and be successful

The Passionate Engineer is a guide for engineers who want to take charge of their careers. It really is possible to do make a living doing what you love.

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    Finding the 6th Day An Engineer's Quick Guide to Making More Time Now

    Finding the 6th Day is a productivity guide built specifically for engineers to create 8 hours of productive time this week.

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    Other Engineering Leadership and Management Resources

    Below I’ve listed a number of books, sites, resources, and other material that engineering leaders and managers can use to help improve themselves.

    **Note – In the interest of being 100% transparent, some of the links below are affiliate links. That means that if you purchase/ sign up for something, I may receive a commission, which is an important way to help keep this site up and running. It’s important to know that I only recommend things that I’ve personally evaluated , and that you never, ever pay more as a result, and often get a discount instead. **

    Books

    Below, I mention a number of my favourite books. You can get any one of these books for free in an audio version with Audiobooks.com’s 30-day trial, if you’re the auditory type like I am.

    • I’m a huge fan of Jim Collins. His books, including Good to Great, and Great by Choice are excellent reads for anyone interested in business and leadership.
    • Anthony Fasano works as a full-time engineering career coach. His book, Engineer Your Own Success, is an excellent resource for any engineer looking to boost their career.
    • The Trusted Advisor is all about how to model professional relationships after real relationships. It provides some excellent advice, and is especially pertinent to anyone in consulting.
    • Getting Things Done by David Allen is among the best reads in personal productivity out there.
    • The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People is a classic book on how to reorient your life to, well, be more effective.
    • The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership is an excellent resource that is able to really dig into what exactly leadership is all about.
    • Eat That Frog! is a collection of tips and life hacks that will help you get more done in less time.
    • Start Finishing by Charlie Gilkey is a great read on how to finish the brilliant projects that you start.

    Courses and Continuing Education

    • PDHEngineer.com – Thousands of discipline specific courses for engineers. You can use these courses to satisfy PDH requirements as well.
    • Coursera.org is my favourite massive open online course provider.

    Productivity

    • My NEW favourite online to-do list – Asana.
    • Never forget anything again with Evernote.
    • Skitch is a product in the Evernote family for annotations and markups. I’ve started using this for schematics markups, and it’s awesome.

    Blogs

    • The Engineering Career Coach blog by Anthony Fasano and co. is an excellent resource for engineering career development and leadership skills.
    • More Than Engineering with Jeff Perry is a great resource for career advice specifically for engineers.
    • The Engineering Mentor with Sol Rosenbaum is for younger engineers who want to gain the non-engineering skills you need for engineering success.
    • Ash Norton’s blog has great content for engineers who are striving to improve their leadership skills.
    • The “At Work” section of the IEEE Spectrum blog has great career and educational articles.
    • Engineering.com. The name pretty much speaks for itself. I contribute to the jobs section of this site regularly.
    • David Allen’s GTD Times Blog is an excellent resource for personal productivity.
    • Engineer Your Life is a site and blog that Erica Lee Garcia runs. She’s an engineer, a coach, an entrepreneur, and full of awesome ideas.

    Podcasts and Video Channels

    Other Sites

    • Eng-Tips is an awesome forum to get your technical questions answered by other engineers.

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    Read the Blog

    The Engineering Management Blog is a great free resource for information on project management, people management, and productivity.

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