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Advice to Rocket Scientists
Jim Longuski
其他書名
A Career Survival Guide for Scientists and Engineers
出版AIAA, 2004
主題Business & Economics / GeneralBusiness & Economics / Careers / GeneralSelf-Help / Personal Growth / SuccessTechnology & Engineering / Aeronautics & AstronauticsTechnology & Engineering / Engineering (General)
ISBN156347655X9781563476556
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=k2i9Ot0Yg7UC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋"If you are a rocket scientist, want to become a rocket scientist, or know and care about a rocket scientist -- this book is for you. While rocket scientists are generally regarded as brilliant when dealing with space travel, physics, mathematics, and technology (that is, things), they are often notoriously inept when dealing with office politics, personality conflicts, and power struggles (that is, people). They are sometimes innocently ignorant of such things. Because of this blindness to the darker side of human beings, the rocket scientist can be hurt by the political struggles that go on in the aerospace industry. This little book is concerned with the rocket scientist' s happiness. It is a survival guide for rocket scientists. It tells you why the workplace is different from school; how to seek out enlightened managers; how to negotiate you first job offer; how to tell your boss, "we've got a problem"; how to give a presentation to rocket scientists; how to write a technical report; how to achieve visibility and why it is important; and how to become a professor of rocket science. In short, this book tells the rocket scientist not only how to survive, but how to be happy and how to flourish in the complex world of the aerospace industry where science and politics often clash. There is no other book like it. I wrote this book as an outgrowth of my lecture "What Your Professor Never Taught You." I have been advising colleagues and students on how to survive in the workplace of aerospace engineering and academia for nearly two decades. The stories I present here are real-life ones. The conclusions and observations, however, are my personal opinions and are necessarily subjective. While my way is but one interpretation, I can say with confidence that many of my former students are successful, happy aerospace engineers and professors, in part because of the advice I give here. The principles in this book also apply to many fields and industries in which there are managers and highly trained analysts. This advice is sorely needed wherever there is a potential conflict between "political" reality and physical reality. I dedicate this book to all such analysts who find themselves at the mercy of office, and even national, politics."--