This is the organized digest from "How to be star engineer" Article.
- Don't just focus on self engineering technique. The most important thing is co-workers' recognition.
- The stars were not standout because of what they had in their heads but because of how they used what they had.
- Stars are made, not born.
- Blazing trails:
- only certain actions earn the initiative label.
- Seeking out responsibility above and beyond job description.
- Undertaking extra efforts for the benefit of co-workers or the larger group.
- Stepping willingly into the gaps between job descriptions where important jobs pop-up, affording it, and doing the good job for them
- Sticking tenaciously to an idea or project and following it through to successful implementation.
- Knowing who knows:
- Help the stars get unstuck for lake of knowledge is effective interpersonal networking.
- Effective interpersonal networking.
- Right people in them.
- They are fast to response.
- One to One and face to face communication is better to construct friendship.
- Maintain self interpersonal networking within a group expert who share knowledge for mutual benefit.
- Proactive self-management
- Stars do much more than managing time and project to meet control. Stars proactively create opportunities, direct work choices
- Despite the unsupportive manager, stars take every chance to enhance self value.
- Never give up.
- Getting the big picture
- Solve self tunnel vision and jump out of the concrete viewpoint to world.
- Stars' perspective grows out of getting enough experience to develop pattern recognition, expert's Intuition,
- iWoz: Engineer should keep the view in gray side.
- Adopt variety of perspectives to evaluate relative importance.
- Help others solve problems
- Valuable exposure to problems she would not have faced in her own work.
- Build variety of view.
- Know others' view.
- Learn to do different job, and co-work with different groups.
- Seek out the ability to smell nuances of perspective, and keep to cultivate its benefits.
- The right kind of followership
- Traditional follower:
- How to tone the line.
- Take orders without question.
- not threaten the leader
- Not only follow the leader's single trail, but also become the the other trail to help leader reach the goal.
- Find what to do.
- Think how to do.
- Independent and decisive judgement.
- Predict the coming danger.
- Question about leaders' correctness.
- The relation between Right and Wrong is not XOR.
- Engineer should live in the gray area, not only black and white.
- Find the goal between leader and follower.
- Teamwork as joint ownership of a project
- Co-work in star's view is a complex series of skills
- goal-setting.
- group commitments.
- work activities.
- schedules.
- share group accomplishments with team members.
- help everyone feel part of the team.
- deal with conflict.
- assist others in solving problems.
- Small-I leadership
- View leadership as a work strategy:
- Build expertise and influence to convince to unite with each other.
- Need efforts:
- Help members build clear vision.
- Work with high commitment and trust necessary to get the goal.
- Finding the resource to get the goal.
- Shepherding the project to successful completion.
- The talent small-l leadership needs
- Know everything about others
- Know what's best for the followers and for the situation
- Needs
- Skill
- Desire
- Privilege
- Peers will go along only if they believe a member of the group who wants to lead is acting in their interest as much as his or her own
- The most different with Big-Leader
- Refusal to assume they know everything about other people
- Behavior
- Asking first, even when they think they already kow.
- Of course, reality can't satisfied any employee.
- Wins a lot of influence and recognition by sincere offer to listen and meet partial needs.
- Create the attitude: we're all-in-the-trenches-together.
- Street smarts
- Don't be evil!
- Any large organization has legitimate competing interests.
- Ability to mediate each other to get the goal.
- Expertise in managing individual or group dynamics.
- When to avoid conflicts.
- When to meet them head on.
- How to make allies out of potential.
- Show and tell
- Misunderstanding: Focus primarily on their image and their message, not on the audience.
- Stars do: Know audience and shape message to them.
- Prepare:
- To deliver a message to a targeted audience(figure out the Composition of them).
- Persuade listeners to accept the message.
- Be proactive in deflecting criticism.
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