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Understanding The Organization and Its Context Project/Org Human Systems Challenges, 2024 & Beyond Reliable project success going forward will require the understanding of two organizational dynamics: 1. Psychological Safety, and, 2. Managing and leading a multigenerational workforce. Q. Your thoughts(?) ...

Always great to learn from you Dilip! Re: "here is something I'd like to share on human skills – let's say, soft but competent skills." My take is that the education of engineers is absent such knowledge. And so predictably at least some 60% of their projects fall short of contractual requirements ...

Lose the expression "Soft Skills" Use the label "Human Skills." Cheers, Bill ------------------------------ William M. Hayden Jr., Ph.D., P.E., CMQ/OE, F.ASCE Buffalo, N.Y. "It is never too late to be what you might have been." -- George Eliot 1819 - 1880 ------------------------------

Dr. Deming's Point 8: "Drive Fear Out of the Workplace." Deming said a worker, fearful of a manager's reaction, will provide that manager with any numbers to stay safe. More on this at: Deming.org Q. What and how are executives in your org transforming their individual experts into expert teams. ...

Thanks to one and all for sharing your thoughts. Whenever this subject surfaces, I recall the line from the Paul Newman movie in which he keeps trying to escape jail, and the warden keeps catching him. The scene: Paul is caught again, and the warden leans over him as Paul is lying in a ditch ...