The Fully Integrated Engineer

College teaches you to be a good engineer. But it's likely that your college engineering courses didn't have time to teach you how to effectively contribute your ideas or how to transition to management or leadership. This book provides you with those missing tools.   Identify patterns of behavior that don't serve you (or your organization) well and change them Create a plan of action that will allow for personal change that will impact your professional work Hone the ways that your technical work can be seen positively inside your organization Promote the talents and skills of the team players around you Become a flexible, supportive, and positive asset

Foreword xi A Note from the Series Editor xiii Preface xv Acknowledgments xvii 1 What You Learned in College is Limiting Your Growth As a Technology Professional 1 This Book is Your Safety Net 3 2 Why Should You Read a Book by Me? Or…Why is This Book Important Now? 5 A Few Words in Praise of Steven T. Cerri’s Work 7 3 If You are an Engineering or Technical Manager, Read This 11 4 Is Free Will Truly “Free”? 13 Do You Choose What You Eat? 13 A Hypothetical Situation That is Very Real 14 Personal Behavioral Subroutines 16 Limiting Beliefs and Personal Behavioral Subroutines 17 Just for Managers 17 Personal Subroutines Can Help as Well as Hinder Functionality 17 Turning Limiting Beliefs into Successes Using Gems of Wisdom 18 5 The Way You Change 19 Engineering is Easy. It is the People That are Difficult 19 Humans are Just Satellites on Earth 20 The Model of Human Behavior: The Four Stages to Action 21 What Makes an Inspiring Speech? 26 Close the Loop 27 A Real-World Example 27 Changing Behavior Requires That You Push the Right “Button” 29 How Difficult is it to Loose Weight? 30 6 The Origin of the 15 Limiting Beliefs and the 15 Gems of Wisdom 33 7 How to Use This Book and the Structure of Chapters 9 Through 23 35 Example: Chapter 9 35 Add Gem of Wisdom #1 to Your Current Map of the World 37 8 How to Add Any Gem of Wisdom to Your Map of the World 41 Steps to Add a Gem of Wisdom to Your Current Map of the World 41 9 Ideas as Identity: Career-Limiting Belief #1 45 Add Gem of Wisdom #1 to Your Current Map of the World 49 10 Being Right: Career-Limiting Belief #2 55 Add Gem of Wisdom #2 to Your Current Map of the World 59 11 What versus How: Career-Limiting Belief #3 63 Add Gem of Wisdom #3 to Your Current Map of the World 66 References 70 12 Avoiding Shoptalk: Career-Limiting Belief #4 71 Add Gem of Wisdom #4 to Your Current Map of the World 74 13 I’ll Do My Own Work: Career-Limiting Belief #5 79 Add Gem of Wisdom #5 to Your Current Map of the World 83 14 Ducking Delegation: Career-Limiting Belief #6 87 Add Gem of Wisdom #6 to Your Current Map of the World 90 15 I’ll Do What I Like: Career-Limiting Belief #7 95 Add Gem of Wisdom #7 to Your Current Map of the World 98 16 Inconsiderate Communication: Career-Limiting Belief #8 103 Add Gem of Wisdom #8 to Your Current Map of the World 106 17 Limited Visionary: Career-Limiting Belief #9 111 Add Gem of Wisdom #9 to Your Current Map of the World 114 18 Being Persistently Consistent: Career-Limiting Belief #10 119 Add Gem of Wisdom #10 to Your Current Map of the World 122 19 Pursuing Perfection: Career-Limiting Belief #11 127 Add Gem of Wisdom #11 to Your Current Map of the World 130 20 You are Not the Teacher: Career-Limiting Belief #12 135 Add Gem of Wisdom #12 to Your Current Map of the World 139 21 Withholding Expertise: Career-Limiting Belief #13 145 Add Gem of Wisdom #13 to Your Current Map of the World 149 22 Bluntness as a Virtue: Career-Limiting Belief #14 155 Add Gem of Wisdom #14 to Your Current Map of the World 159 23 The Fixer: Career-Limiting Belief #15 165 Add Gem of Wisdom #15 to Your Current Map of the World 168 24 A Parting Letter From Steven 173 Further Reading 177 Biography of Steven T. Cerri 179 Index 181