An earlier post (here) talked about understanding the nature of complaints and one royal road to feeling calmer through the speech act of making clearer requests. This post discusses an important point made by Don Migel Ruiz in his bestseller, The Four Agreements, in particular, a point made in his 2nd agreement, “Don’t take anything personally,” […]
CNNMoney reports that of the 15 top college majors, ten are in disciplines of engineering or engineering technology. Here’s the list and the associated salaries: Pre-med $100,000 Computer systems engineering $85,000 Pharmacy $84,000 Chemical engineering $80,000 Electrical and electronics engineering $75,000 Mechanical engineering $75,000 Aerospace and aeronautical engineering $74,000 Computer science $73,000 Industrial engineering $73,000 […]
In coaching, one of the ways to help clients to achieve greater peace is to work to help them reduce the proportion of their day they are occupied with negative emotions, and one of the regular sources of negative emotion is complaining, especially complaining about particular others. What is a Complaint? What is a complaint? Merriam […]
I was an academic for 27.5 years before I left to start ThreeJoy and the Big Beacon, and I’ve been to scores of conferences in a score of countries, but perhaps the coolest conference I ever attended was run by students last week (6-10 August 2012) for students, students who are immersed in giving themselves […]
Mark Somerville and I have an article out on Huffington Post entitled Three Habits at Three Levels for Improved Engineering Education. The article starts as follows: Students in advanced economies today want to become anything but engineers (A.B.E.) and often choose to become lawyers, physicians, or businesspeople instead. Even those who do study engineering sometimes leave because […]
Parents pay more and more for their children to learn less and less from faculty members who are increasingly less engaged in education and learning. Can this go on? httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAwBN2Q8L14 “No,” says Glenn Reynolds, who thinks it’s a bubble. Watch the RSA-style animation in the video above or read the book here. What do you […]
I was going through some old posts on my blog for my book the Entrepreneurial Engineer and found this (here) somewhat different take on Stephen Covey’s famous urgency-importance distinction. In The Entrepreneurial Engineer I talk about Julian Rotter’s work on the distinction between those with internal versus external motivation. In Stephen Covey’s famous book, he talks about the distinction between […]
There’s a new piece up on Huffington Post here called Below the Waterline: A Deep Dive to Rethink Engineering Education. This pieces discusses the ways that education concentrates on particular facts and figures and processes (above the waterline), but neglects deeper issues of reflection and learning (below the waterline): Focusing above the waterline and filling young minds […]
There are many things to like about Marilee Adams book Change Your Questions, Change Your Life (here). Written as a business parable, this book explores the role of asking questions and curiosity in effectiveness at work and in life. Routinely in my coaching and training practice, I use many of her particular questions as well as her idea of Q-storming (brainstorming […]
In developing a course at the University of Illinois on Modeling for Tech Visionaries, I did two lectures on creativity. The Powerpoint slides from the first lecture are presented in the viewer below or may be viewed on the slideshare page here. [slideshare id=55929&doc=what-is-creativity-55929-26002] Slides numbers 5 and 6 have dictionary definitions of the term […]