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Be there
This past weekend, I got an urgent call from a close friend just after 6AM. Her young baby was running a high fever and she and her husband wanted to take her to the hospital. She asked if I could come over to watch over their older son while they were out. Of...
How to Write an Email – Signatures and Subject Lines
Here's my latest entry in my How to Write an Email series. These posts are meant to help you develop skills in the most common and ubiquitous form of written communication in the world of information work: email. Today's post is a bit of a twofer. I'm going to...
Why Technical Leadership Skills are Critical to Your Success
Today, I want to talk about something fundamental to this blog. I want to try and answer the question: why are technical leadership skills important anyway? I'm going to argue that technical leadership skills are the most important tool you have at your...
The Ultimate Leadership Development Plan
Many people are interested in leadership and have the potential to become incredible leaders. Unfortunately, the majority of those people don't ever realize their potential because they don't know where to start. Today, I want to offer a leadership development...
How to Get an Incredible University-Level Education in Leadership for (almost) Free
One of my goals for this blog is to share resources with you that could help you in developing yourself as an engineering leader. As of yet, I haven't really put much out there in terms of educational resources, but today I'd like to change that. Over the last...
How to Write an Email – To, CC and BCC Oh My!
Today's instalment of my how to write an email series is going to focus on the stuff you do before you actually write the email. Specifically, I want to tackle the To, CC, and BCC fields. You might think that this isn't all that important...
My 20-Mile March
Quite some time ago, I introduced the concept of the 20-Mile March. The idea comes from Jim Collins' latest book, Great by Choice. Collins describes the 20-Mile March as the set of activities that great companies do day in, day out, regardless of the prevailing...
Engineering Leadership Book Review: Critical Thinking – Getting it Right by Christian Knutson
I was recently asked to review a new eBook called Critical Thinking - Getting it Right by Christian Knutson. Today, I wanted to share with you what the book is about and what my overall thoughts were. The short version is that I think you would really dig this book....
Engineering Design Integration
Engineering design is something I don't write about nearly enough. Today, I'm going to buck the trend and cover something I feel is really important: designing with the outside world in mind. In engineering, it's a common problem to design a sub-system, plop it down...
How to Write an Email – 5 Formatting Tips
Here's the second part in my series about how to write an e-mail. Last time I wrote, I covered whether or not you should actually write an email in the first place. This time around, I'll assume that you've decided that you really need to communicate your message via...