Dedicated to the application and advancement of systems engineering. Evangelist. #MBSE expert. @VitechCorp founder. @incose_org past president, Fellow, ESEP.
Blacksburg, VA
Joined February 2011
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Engineering is not just a career; it's a mindset. Adopt the engineering mindset, and you'll find solutions where others see roadblocks. #EngineeringMindset
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In everyday life, it’s better to be valued than needed.
Being needed creates dependency in others and obligation for you. You feel worried and guilty about letting them down.
Being valued grants autonomy. Your help is appreciated but not expected on their road to self-reliance.
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There is a cost to lead. True leaders are willing to pay the price: sacrifice self-interest and put their Cause ahead of themselves.
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Leaders don’t have to be perfect
Leaders don’t have to have all the answers
Leaders don’t have to be loud
Leaders don’t have to be stoic
Leaders have to be humble
Leaders have to be intentional
Leaders have to be committed
Leaders have to be confident
Leaders have to care
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6 Ways to Get Better Today:
1. Be humble and hungry
2. Focus on your strengths
3. Tune out distractions
4. See life and people as teachers you can learn from each day
5. Help others get better
6. Care more. Put more time, effort and passion into your work/life
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A key to creating a great team (at work, at home or on the field) is this... put WE before ME.
It’s what happens when your united interest becomes more important than your self-interest.
📷 pg 107 from “The Power of a Positive Team” 📖
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Systems engineers are like a bridge connecting the experts and making sure everyone is on the same page 🤝
#systemsengineering #connectors
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Just boarded my flight on way home after speaking at the #INCOSEIS 2023: can’t imagine I’ll ever be here again. Loved being an ‘honorary’ Systems Engineer for 5 days and, for creativity top-up, the amazingly-brilliant Honolulu Museum of Art & the v moving USS Arizona Memorial.
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3 Thoughts about Leadership:
1. If you model it, your team will live it.
2. You have to share your real self to be your best self. Authenticity is essential.
3. Great leaders are selfless not selfish.
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I had the distinct pleasure to keynote the 33rd #INCOSE Symposium in Honolulu today. Thank you @incose_org for inviting me and to all attendees for allowing me to share my thoughts on visualizing complex systems and the power of #data and #AI. It was truly an honor. Mahalo!
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⭐ Interview with Matthew Kamakani Lynch of the University of Hawai'i System. #INCOSEIS 2023 Keynote Speaker on ♻️ “Cultivating Emergence for Transformative Change” - Monday July 17 at 8:00 HST. Link to interview Attend 👨🏻💻remotely! #INCOSE #SystemsEngineers ...
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On this Memorial Day, let us remember that true leadership means placing the needs of others above our own.
We honor the brave men and women of the military who have selflessly served our nation. Thank you for your sacrifice.
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“Leadership is a transfer of belief.
If you don’t have it, you can’t share it.
You have to feed yourself every day in order to feed others.”
🗣- @JonGordon11
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After 20 years of writing books, I'm compiling Kindle readers' most highlighted passages.
Here's one from DRIVE:
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The responsibility of leadership is to give people a cause to belong to and then give them permission to find ways to advance that cause.
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We pay too much attention to the most confident voices—and too little attention to the most thoughtful ones.
Certainty is not a sign of credibility. Speaking assertively is not a substitute for thinking deeply.
It's better to learn from complex thinkers than smooth talkers.
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You can’t be a narcissist and be a great leader. Great leaders focus on We not me.
