This Is How Engineers Can Build a Good Work-Life Balance
To have a good work-life balance, you can’t live your life to work. It should be the other way around: Work so you can have a good life.
Maximizing Productivity Hacks for Engineering Professionals
Effective and successful engineers have a single trait in common. They are capable of effectively managing their time. Time is a precious commodity, therefore, maximizing productivity and your time can do wonders for your career and personal life.
How Not to Lose Focus and Concentration During Working Long Hours
Focus and concentration are very important factors that effective professionals always prioritize when working. It is necessary for getting the work done. However, with the increasing development in technology coupled with other factors taking place around the world, it has become so easy to lose concentration while working on a task, simply because we are […]
Focus on Your Planning to Be Productive in Your Engineering Career
Most engineers I know are interested in achieving a relatively high level of productivity in their professional and work activities. Since most are working long hours, they aren’t interested in spending time on none-value added activities. Those who are successful in optimizing their productive time, do so through focusing on developing a plan of […]
80/20 Principle as One of the Most Effective Ways to Increase Your Productivity
In 1895, Vilfredo Pareto, the Italian economist, became aware that people could be divided into two groups. The first one was the “vital few” that made up the top 20% regarding influence and money, and the second referred to the “trivial many” that made up the bottom 80% of the population. Then, he realized that […]
5 Reasons Why You Should Encourage Flexible Engineering Work Hours
Flexible working has been one of the main topics in the business world in the last couple of years. This trend has reached the engineering field too, with 77% of firms offering some kind of flextime to their employees. Seeing that we are now living in the world where the newest employees are millennials, employees […]
5 Big Mistakes Engineers Make on the Job
Engineers are expected to perform at their best, if not all the time, most of it at least. Room for error in this type of career is small of course, as it can have huge negative impact on an individual project or the lives of millions of people. It is essential to learn from our […]
What a One-year Old can Teach Engineers about being Productive
When she was about one year old, my daughter, Charlotte, started mimicking what my wife and I did in a big way. If we did it, she wanted to do it. If I stirred my coffee, she wanted to stir her milk. If my wife went to play the piano, Charlotte wanted to play the […]
Systems Engineering and Thinking for Engineers: Three Ways to See the Bigger Picture
This may not come as a big surprise, but it takes a very different approach to engineering when you’re designing a space shuttle than when you’re designing a guitar amplifier (No offense, Marshall fans). The challenges and issues are simply different in nature when you tackle a mega-project. There’s more to integrate, there are more […]
Looking Back on 2016: How Multitasking Negatively Impacted Engineers’ Productivity
Science has done its due diligence, and the research speaks for itself; multitasking is officially out as a productivity tool. In fact, the latest data shows that multitasking can actually decrease productivity. Clearly, as a busy engineer, a decrease in productivity is the last thing you want and need. In this post, I’ll show you […]