As opposed to the bad habits that we always seem to concentrate on:
7 Habits of Highly Innovative People
other links from thinksimplenow.com
How to Capture Creativity
9 Ways of Cultivating Creativity
Probably the most interesting thing to an engineer would be the fact that the guidelines in these articles pretty much directly apply to engineering work.
SURPRISE!!!! Engineering is a […]
I read a fortune cookie once that said “Managers do things right. Leaders do the right thing.”
In case you were ever curious about a short version of “the right thing”. I found a good list here via Digg.
A quick Google query of “managers vs. leaders” will give you a lot of people with various takes. […]
Via Slashdot.
An editorial about how gaming is changing the psychology of the workplace.
They found that 80 percent of managers in the US under the age of 35 had significant video game experience and that gamers had a more positive outlook on life than non-gamers. Gamers tended to prefer multitasking to individual assignments, to stave off […]
One thing, especially in the Valley, that is important is understanding what people are looking for in their jobs.
GenY = tech savvy, but don’t necessarily want to work in tech. It’s an interesting push / pull in terms of technology vs. the people that are required to improve that technology.
The sense of entitlement, the hedonistic […]
Two extra years of college yielding you a six-digit income at a name company where you are going to be changing the business world and retire with a golden parachute and drive off to your private jet in your convertible Ferrari. I think that’s usually what people picture when they are thinking of going to […]