Comments on: How About Asking Yourself What’s Right?

By: Anthony Fasano

Anthony Fasano — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 20:11:05 +0000

That’s nice to hear Sarah, sounds like your CEO has a great attitude and his employees are following his lead!

By: Sarah Keilers

Sarah Keilers — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 18:52:31 +0000

Anthony –

So true – working at a smaller engineering firm here in Austin with a ton of projects, I’m sure it could be really difficult for us to look at each project as a whole (and what is going well!), instead of each project’s individual tasks and current failures… Our CEO actually does a really great job of aiming the conversation to focus on the positives and how we can help out each other along the way – I think that it even keeps the morale very high here.

By: Anthony Fasano

Anthony Fasano — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 11:36:26 +0000

HI Aixa! Thanks so much for the insightful feedback. That is exactly my point. We get so focused on what’s wrong we start looking for problems and spend so much energy trying to “perfectly” solve them.

And I love your last though…..employee empowerment! That’s pretty much the reason I became a coach!

Thanks again, keep in touch.

By: Anthony Fasano

Anthony Fasano — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 21:22:38 +0000

Yes PM I agree that in some instances we need to see what did go wrong so it can be prevented in the future, especially when you are dealing with a technical issue. Thanks!

By: Aixa G. Lopez, PE

Aixa G. Lopez, PE — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 21:07:03 +0000

Totally agree with you Anthony! As an Industrial Engineer, our objective is always looking for the most productive way of doing things. However, sometimes we get so focused on the “quick fix” that we forget to look at the root cause of the situation or thinking out of the box.

I always remember that when I was working as Director of Public Works, we often encountered situations on the construction sites. The top engineers were always looking for complicated and costly solutions. Solutions that were good, don’t get me wrong, but sometimes too costly to put them in place in a swiftly fashion.

I used to go to the brigades and crews and asked them for their intake on the situation and “voila”…they would give us the most amaizing and cheapest solutions ever. Synergy works, creativity works but employee empowerment ?…. it works the best!

By: PM Hut

PM Hut — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 16:37:51 +0000

I like the what’s right mentality, much more positive, but still, we have to also ask what went wrong, otherwise we won’t be able to filter these things in the future.

By: Anthony Fasano

Anthony Fasano — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 18:29:07 +0000

Thanks for the feedback Huro!

By: huro

huro — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 17:44:41 +0000

I like it!

By: Anthony Fasano

Anthony Fasano — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 01:26:50 +0000

I agree Jaafar that engineers fundamentally solve problems, however I think that there are different approaches we can take. Sometimes engineers may be taking something and making it better rather than “fixing” or “solving”. Maybe making it more sustainable.

Overall I think there is more left brain thinking than whole brain thinking in the industry because of our training. That’s not wrong or bad, I just wonder how different things would be if more engineers were whole brain thinkers.

By: Rosiani Jaafar

Rosiani Jaafar — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 14:54:40 +0000

Engineering itself is something created to make life easier . Everything about enginerring either civil , electrical , mechanical and now adays we have all sorts of engineering it is about making our life easy and comfortable . That’s the foundation of engineering

Engineer always want to enhance what already created before to a more advance design and conceot .

II don’t think it is about ” what’s wrong ” or ” what’s right ” .

What is important what is the best solution .