“ is valuable to the organization and its projects because it is the engine that drives positive change.”  The leaders of systems engineering projects must understand and manage conflict to the benefit of their projects and organizations. Our initial instinct, conditioned by cultural norms, is that conflict should be minimized …

Having considered the role of the systems engineer as a leader, we will turn our attention in this post to one of the critical skills area for any leader: communications. The idea of the design process is to capture the content of the contributions offered by each member of the …

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 …

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 …