Leadership and Management in Engineering: Recent submissions
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What Is the Ethical Role of the Expert?
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Implementation of the ASCE BOK-2: Some Thoughts
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Archibald Alphonso Alexander
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Winner Take All: How Competitiveness Shapes the Fate of Nations
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2009) -
Engineering Leadership and Management during Financial Crisis
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2010)The financial crisis that unfolded in 2008 presents engineering leaders and managers with many challenges. Survival of businesses is threatened. Yet the lessons of this crisis also present us with opportunities to create ... -
Project and Engineering Management Certification
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2009)This paper summarizes the requirements for eight major project management (PM) certificates—including new program management, risk assessment, and scheduling management certificates—and two major engineering management ... -
Practical Application of SWOT Analysis in the Management of a Construction Project
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2010)This analysis shows strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats (SWOT) from both the investor’s and the contractor’s point of view in the planning, contracting, and construction phases of a project. With the current ... -
Strategies for Managing the Consequences of Black Swan Events
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2009)The metaphor of Black Swan refers to unpredictable events, such as September 11, 2001, that happen from time to time and have enormous consequences. The phrase originated in medieval Europe during philosophical discourses, ... -
Leonardo da Vinci
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2010) -
Trust
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Clearing the Utilities on Time and Under Budget
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2010)Serious schedule and budget busters are lurking just below the surface in the path of your project. How does a project manager avoid disastrous collisions with underground utilities or a deadlock with the utility owner ... -
Organizational Power in Perspective
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2009)Power and influence are fundamental human phenomena that are deeply ingrained on the psyche and conscious personality of individuals. The difference between proper and improper use of power is the difference between success ... -
Norman Ralph Augustine
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The ASCE Committee of Global Principles for Professional Conduct
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2009)The ASCE Committee of Global Principles for Professional Conduct was formed to address corruption in the global engineering/construction industry. Among it’s many activities, the committee has brought anticorruption topics ... -
What Is My Responsibility?
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A Global Challenge for the Engineering/Construction Industry
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2009) -
Eliminating Corruption in Our Engineering/Construction Industry
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2009)The public works/engineering/construction sector has been identified as the most corrupt sector in the world. For a long time the industry had no concerted plan to attack the problem, but in the late 1990s several events ... -
Leadership Grid between Concern for People and Intuition
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2009)Intuition has been recognized as an established factor in human psychology and thinking. In this paper we present the results of our study of the prevalence and exercise of intuition in a public construction organization. ... -
Managing Water Supply Systems Using Lateral Thinking Techniques: Practical Applications in East Africa
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2009)Water utility reforms aimed at enhancing operational performance of utilities are vigorously being pursued in African water utilities. In this paper, I use case examples in East African cities of Kampala, Nairobi, and Dar ... -
Henry James Hatch
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2009)