The Fully Integrated Engineer

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