Category: Communication

Leadership and Systems Thinking

Two commonly confused concepts in our lexicon are management and leadership. We use the terms “manager” and “leader” interchangeably. I am our company’s Professional Services Team Leader, but much of what I do is best described as management. Common usage aside, what does it mean to “lead” as opposed to …

Systems Engineering and the Runaway Trolley

Complexity, artificial intelligence, emergent behavior, systems of systems . . . these are a few of the factors that are making problems and solutions both more interesting and more vexing for today’s systems engineer. In the problem space, systems that we have thought of as merely complicated are now being …