Engineering entrepreneurial

This change in work life has been as rapid as it has been dramatic, and the job here is to survey those nontechnical skills essential to being a successful engineer in tlie 21st century. As opposed to the Cold War engineer, we call the ideal engineer of our times an entrepreneurial engineer, and here we interpret the word entrepreneur quite broadly. 

The Entrepreneurial Engineer, by David E. Goldberg Copyright 2006 John Wiley Sons, Inc. 

Chapter 1 Entrepreneurial Engineer Ready for the 21st Century... 

So perhaps we agree that an engineer needs to be skilled in matters nontechnical. Bnt what areas are particnlarly important to understand Here we proceed from matters of individual concern, to interpersonal matters, to matters of team and organizational significance. Specifically, an entrepreneurial engineer should ... 

These 10 competencies are at the heart of what entrepreneurial engineers need to master to be effective in a faster moving world of deals, teams, startups, and innovating corporations. 

The entrepreneurial engineer has many nontechnical skills to master, but at then-root, these manifold skills of managing time, space, people, and money can be reduced, in many cases, to just three recurring principles ... 

Figure 2.3 Spectrum of models goes from tacit knowledge (unarticulated wisdom) to fuU equations of motion. In between, qualitative and quantitative models of various degrees exist and should be mastered by competent entrepreneurial engineers. [Adapted with permission from Goldberg (2002).]...

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