Human Challenges of Engineering

1 remember being surprised by the human relations challenges of my first full-time job, and I did what any red-blooded boy born with a library card in his hand would do 1 read. I read about human relations, about sales, about marketing, about organizational behavior, and about leadership. And 1 made mistakes. 

To start a useful dialog on human relations we must forget about your favorite person—you—and try to look at life through the eyes of others. This is the one axiom of human relations, but a number of theorems and corollaries follow directly from it. In particular, we must consider the role of praise and criticism as well as the importance of asking questions in dealing with others. 

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

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