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OCTOBER 27, 2021

Here are three things leaders can learn from engineers who have figured out how to make jet engines go faster. The post Boosting Team Performance: 3 Ways to Make Your Team’s Engine More Powerful appeared first on RapidStart Leadership. Want to boost team performance?

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

But if you ignore the environment the bridge is built in, you risk spectacular collapse, as the engineers of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge learned in 1940. Don’t make the same mistake as the engineers of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge and ignore the environment they were working in.

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RapidStart Leadership

AUGUST 22, 2017

I was recently re-telling this story to a friend of mine, and she pointed out that this lesson is one that has not been taken to heart in the world of computer engineering.

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RapidStart Leadership

OCTOBER 10, 2017

That’s the question that French professor of agricultural engineering Max Ringleman was trying to figure out back in the 1880s. Today we’ll look at why social loafing happens, and six ways you can be sure to get the best effort from everyone. Here, Pull this Rope.

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RapidStart Leadership

AUGUST 1, 2017

After some great acting by the cook, the truck engine coughed to life. Ultimately the boys decided that if both teams used the tug-of-war rope to pull the truck together, they might be able to get it started. Both groups shouted together, “Yeah! We won the tug-of-war against the truck.”. Other situations.

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RapidStart Leadership

APRIL 5, 2017

Where the stream intersected Interstate 80, the highway engineers had constructed large tunnels to allow the water to flow underneath the roadway. It wasn’t running so much as “sprained ankle avoidance.”. Always be mentally ready for something more, right? What tunnel? We had to follow. Seven feet square, the tunnels were long and dark.

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MAY 4, 2017

She lives in Chicago with her engineer husband and rescue black lab. About the Author. Johnson has worn many hats – wife, mother, jet pilot, Ph.D., federal agent, and now Amazon best-selling author. For more about her and her award-winning books, check out her author blog , and be sure to follow her on Twitter.

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