Preface |
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Authors |
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1.1 Forty Years (or More) |
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1.5 Finding Your Passion in Your Current Situation |
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1.6 Finding Your Passion Elsewhere |
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1.7.1 Definition of Niche |
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1.8 Other Passionate People |
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1.10 Shunning Family/Peer Pressure to Make the Right Decisions for Your Career |
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2.1 So What Exactly Is Emotional Intelligence? |
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2.2.3 What Is My Version of Success? |
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2.2.4 What Is the Meaning of Success to Me? |
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2.2.5 Playing to Your Strengths |
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2.2.6 Being Needed (Which Is What Most People Want) |
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2.2.7 Putting El to Work for You |
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2.2.7.1 First and foremost ... don't give up your power! |
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2.2.7.2 Build strong relationships at work |
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2.2.7.3 Your attitude at work |
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2.2.7.4 When emotions hold you prisoner |
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2.2.1.5 Beware the blame game |
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2.2.7.6 Being right just doesn't matter |
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2.2.7.7 Seeing possibility |
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2.3 How Much Do You Care about What Others Think? |
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2.4 Be Memorable, Be Yourself |
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3 Thinking Strategically about Your Career |
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3.1 Your Attitude Determines Your Altitude |
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3.1.1 Attitude, Attitude, Attitude and Working Hard |
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3.1.3 Seeing Obstacles as Opportunities |
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3.1.4 Getting Involved---The Story of a Bar Lady |
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3.2 Taking Responsibility |
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3.2.2 Taking on Responsibility |
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3.2.3 Learning to Make Decisions, Even Wrong Ones |
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3.2.4 Making My Boss's Life Easier |
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3.2.7 Becoming Aware of My Own Productivity |
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3.2.8 Relationships with Clients |
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3.3 Professional Registration in STEM |
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3.3.1 Why You Should Do It |
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3.3.2 Tips on Registration |
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4.1 It's a Lonely, Lonely Road to Walk |
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4.2 What Is Mentorship and What Is Coaching? |
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4.3 Why a Mentoring Relationship? |
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4.4 What Are the Responsibilities of a Mentor? |
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4.5 What Are the Responsibilities of a Mentee? |
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4.6 Personalities and Possible Pitfalls |
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4.7 What Are the Responsibilities of a Coach? |
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4.8 Building a Career Path with Your Mentor |
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4.9 It's a Two-Way Street |
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4.10 Standing on the Shoulders of Giants |
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4.11 Life Is a School of Hard Knocks |
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5.1.1 Inspirational Leadership (People Leave Managers) |
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5.1.3 Don't Get Personally Involved |
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5.1.4 Treat Everyone Equally |
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5.1.5 Give Praise When It's Deserved |
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5.1.8 Don't Force Unrealistic Deadlines |
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5.1.9 ALWAYS Take FULL Responsibility |
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5.1.10 Working with Clients |
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5.1.10.1 Everyone has responsibilities |
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5.1.10.2 Bigger picture marketing |
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5.1.10.3 Everyone appreciates hard work and dedication |
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5.1.10.4 Delivering realistic products (listen!) |
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5.1.10.5 Going beyond the expected |
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5.1.10.6 Promoting the client |
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5.2 Developing Leadership Skills |
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6 Authority, Responsibility, and Ownership |
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6.1 What Is Authority versus Responsibility? |
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6.2 Pitfalls of Responsibility without Authority |
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6.3 How Do You Fit into Your Company and What Are Your Responsibilities? |
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6.4 How Will Your Responsibilities Change as You Move to Where You Want to Be? |
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6.5 What Is Business Ownership? |
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6.6 What Type of Ownership Structures Exist? |
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6.6.1 Public versus Private |
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6.6.2 Financial versus Other Input |
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6.7 What Are the Benefits of Ownership? |
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6.8 What Are the Pitfalls of Ownership? |
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6.9 What Are the Responsibilities of Ownership? |
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6.10 Do You Deserve Ownership? |
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7.1 How to Communicate with Clients |
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7.2 How to Communicate with Leadership |
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7.3 How to Communicate with Peers and Subordinates |
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7.4 Benefits of Frequent Communication or "Checking In" |
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7.5 Pitfalls of Communication and Technology |
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7.5.2 Phone Calls and WhatsApp |
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9.1 See Your Unit as a Business |
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9.2 What Is Your Value Add? |
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9.3 Leveraging Other Business Units |
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10.1 Finding Opportunities |
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10.2 Your Trump Card Is Being Flexible |
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10.3 Bankability of Ideas |
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10.4 Using Every Opportunity to Punt Your Services |
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10.5 You're Not Above Anything |
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11.1 Innovation in Service |
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11.1.1 Value-Added Service |
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11.1.3 Intellectual Property |
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11.2 How to Foster Innovative Thinking in Your Team |
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11.3 Some Ideas That Will Need Your Consideration in Innovation |
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12 Financial Intelligence |
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12.1.1 Know What Your Expenses Are---And What They Will Be in the Future |
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12.1.2 Know What Your Income Is---And What It Will Be in the Future |
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12.2.2 As a Business Owner |
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12.2.2.4 Business development |
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12.2.2.6 Business partners |
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13 Risk and Quality Management |
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13.1 What Are the Typical Risks Facing Your Company? |
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13.1.4 What Are the Typical Risks Included in Your Projects? |
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13.2 Quality Management Pitfalls |
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14.1 What Is Sustainability? |
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14.2 Why Is Sustainability Important for a Company? |
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14.3 Why Is Sustainability Important for a Project? |
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14.3.1 Resilient Infrastructure |
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14.3.3 Environmental Impact Assessment |
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14.4 How Can You Make a Difference? |
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15 Attracting, Developing, and Retaining Women Engineers and Scientists |
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15.1 Factors That Impact Encouragement into the Field of Engineering |
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15.1.2 Building Awareness through Career Development |
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15.2 The Very Real Challenges Facing Young Women in STEM |
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15.2.1 Waiting for Someone to Save You |
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15.2.2 Family/Community/Societal Obligations (Perceived or Real) |
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15.2.4 Fighting the Glass Ceiling |
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15.2.5 Much Older Subordinates |
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15.2.6 Much Older Contractors |
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15.2.7 Lack of Training, Coaching, and Mentorship |
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15.2.9 Lack of Career Focus and Passion |
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15.3 Influences on Women in Engineering |
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15.3.1 The Strongest Positive Influences and Support |
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15.3.2 The Strongest Negative Influences |
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15.4 What Do Women in STEM Need? |
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15.5 Practical Tips and Tricks as a Working Woman and Mom to Help with a Balanced Life |
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