Your leadership is driven by getting things done. Results are what you are all about. Whether it is small or large tasks. Your work or helping others. What you think of first is getting done. The project needs to stay on track and on time. The effort must be completed. The task at hand must […]
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I was asked recently about my leadership style. Everyone has a leadership style. It grows out of your disposition. Your disposition is your habitual inclination or tendency to think in a specific way. It is the way you generally look at things. You may be born with it or it may develop over many years. […]
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I am always looking for good CAD Management tools. CAD Standards Management is always critical to the success of a firm. Many processes and tools have been used to get the job done. Most of them developed in-house and some commercially available. CAD Masters has one that you may want to check out. This is […]
Trial Seven: Change is Bad When taking on a new position you will have to balance the need to make changes, but not too many. Change must be needed since they offered you the position. Unless they hired you and specifically said not to change anything and to just maintain what was going on, then […]
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Trial Six: The Blame Game Ever get blamed for something that you did not do? Ever try to blame a mistake you made on something or someone else? The challenge for a new CAD Manager may be either one of these, but I want to assume that you are not the time to always try […]
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Trial Five: A CAD Meltdown A nuclear meltdown is a term for a severe nuclear reactor accident that results in core damage from overheating. Accidental damage can happen in CAD also. A meltdown is when the project gets a major derailing, a critical piece of hardware fails at the most inopportune time, software explodes in […]
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Trial Four: The Smartest Guy in the CAD Room – Thinking you know it all Sometimes a new CAD Manager will think that they know everything that there is to know about the tools they use. This feeling comes from the fact that they are most likely the smartest guy in the CAD room and […]
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Trial Three: Ambiguity of your Duties: What am I supposed to do? Sometimes new managers really do not have a full understanding of what they are to be doing. Most have a good grip on what it took to get them the position, but if they are growing into the spot, they may not see […]
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Trial Two: The Constriction of Having No Control Trial number two is related to number one (The Authority Challenge) but it relates to not having control. You have no control over key areas that impact your success. This relates to people and projects. Symptoms of this Trial: The existing workforce that you have to work […]
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