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Don’t Fall for These 5 Hiring Myths
Is engineering management right for you? Here are five myths that every mechanical engineer should understand and avoid when deciding to advance their career to a management position. Often, new managers are selected from the ranks of the engineering staff, but while they may be excellent engineers and project leaders, they may be poor managers simply because they’ve never been taught management skills. Selection of the next manager should be based upon a requisite for training.
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Lucent Technologies employed a novel management strategy to engage its employees to stimulate new business ideas and speed the process from creation to commercial success. Called Entrepreneurial Boot Camp, the program engaged small teams of employees who rallied around an idea. The teams would learn how to turn their initial concepts into solid business plans and present their plans to a jury of top managers. Lucent would fund the winning proposals to create new businesses
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While any organization can craft an impressive strategic plan, many companies find that there exists a gap between their organization's ability to develop a strategy and its ability to execute that strategy. A book written by Richard Lepsinger and Dr. Gary Yukl, entitled Flexible Leadership: Creating Value by Balancing Multiple Challenges and Choices, offers thoughts and suggestions for executives to create a culture of execution.
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