by Pat Sweet | Aug 3, 2017 | Article, Productivity
Last month, I put on a leadership seminar for a large group of engineers in Mississippi. My talk introduced some basic business and management concepts to engineers, including leadership, communications, professional development, and productivity. During the...
by Pat Sweet | Mar 25, 2017 | Podcast, Productivity
http://media.blubrry.com/engineeringandleadership/p/traffic.libsyn.com/patsweet/EL005_-_Raw-_Normalized.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS In this podcast/ blog post, you’ll hear all about the formula that I’ve developed over the last...
by Pat Sweet | Sep 7, 2016 | Article, Productivity
Since having started this blog back in 2012, I’ve had the opportunity to work with thousands of engineers from around the world. My readers come from every discipline, every industry and every career stage. When speaking with engineers, there’s one...
by Pat Sweet | Jun 22, 2016 | Article, Productivity, Project Management
For whatever reason, the last few months have been filled with milestones in both my personal and professional life. I finished a degree and got a new job. My wife just finished her last big exam for her medical residency training. My daughter, now a wise and worldly...
by Pat Sweet | Mar 23, 2016 | Article, Productivity
One of the things I get asked about more than almost anything else is about how to improve engineering productivity. Not surprisingly, engineers love to find better ways of doing things, not just in their designs, but in the way they work as well. My articles on...
by David Yung | Sep 19, 2015 | Article, Productivity, Professional Development
[Note from Pat Sweet: Today’s post is a guest post from David Yung – an engineer with a passion for professional development. You can read more from David here.] We all have heard about routine before. We are taught to set routines at a very young age...