The Recovering Engineer

OCTOBER 26, 2010

In developing the book, Kevin and I thought of many ways to get the tips, techniques, insights, and ideas we developed in the book into as many people’s hands as possible, and you have an opportunity to take advantage of two of those events in the next few weeks. The book is scheduled for release in January of 2011.

Performance Review 105

Performance Review Engineering FAQ Emotional Intelligence 105

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2017

Analytics are critical to companies’ performance. executive whose 360-degree performance reviews point to a brusque and alienating communication style. This twinned production thermostat could be instrumented to help predict the most cost-effective ways to heat critical chemicals in a production process.

KPI 8

KPI Directory Human Capital Self-aware 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2018

The culmination was an incident at an insecticide plant in LaPorte, Texas, where, as a result of a basic process safety management failure , an extremely toxic chemical—methyl mercaptan—was released and two workers were overcome. Each firm needs to select or develop its own, appropriate to its functions and products.

Operations 16

Operations Chemicals CEO Metrics 16

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2015

When I was in the midst of researching what caused cross-functional teams to succeed — and finding that many of them failed — I discovered a deeply dysfunctional development project in a huge multinational IT company. The company had invested $100 million in the project, which involved three divisions.

Team 8

Team Project Software Engineering 8