Great engineers practice defensive communication
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Good engineers I’ve worked with over the years have always had one thing in common — they prefer precise communication. I do too.Good engineers will demand that requirements and specifications are spelled out exactly and then make sure that they meet all the criteria perfectly. But great engineers communicate defensively.I don’t mean defensive as in “it wasn’t my fault” — I mean defensive as in defensive driving.As an engineer it’s quite natural to apply the engineering mindset to pretty much everything that’s happening around you — and we’ve actually seen this have tremendous results in non-engineering disciplines like sales, marketing, and fundraising, and even PeopleOps (I mean come on, PeopleOps is totally an engineering phrase)The one place where I’ve seen the engineering mindset fail over and (...)
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