Category: Career

Leadership and Systems Engineering (Part 2)

Last time we saw that systems engineers are uniquely positioned to use their systems view to capture and understand the vision around a systems design project. Today we consider how they traverse the ground from this natural advantage to a successful implementation process. Systems engineers must recognize that this advantage …

Leadership and Systems Engineering (Part 1)

It has been widely said that, “managers do things right; leaders do the right thing.” Stephen Covey tied a more vivid picture to the concept when he observed, “management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.” It is …