Several tips for engineers to prepare for thinking and working in a bigger box

Today we had a guest speaker at 310, Mark Schar, who is a design researcher and angel investor. He talked about how people trained as engineers can think in a bigger box and prepare for working in a bigger box.

Here are a few tips he gave at the end of the speech.

Understand the Business

• Read the WSJ
• Profit forecast
• Jack Welch-Winning

Know the Customer

• d.school-world class
• customer and consumer

Passion for Technology

• Explore, Evangelize, Sell

Clearly Communication

• Practice

Inspire Collaboration

• Other people shoes

Leadership

• Observe those who are clearly an leader in an organization. Role model.

Project Management

• So different from product management!
  

Ship Something

• Get'er done.

Also I learned about this guy, Bill Campbell.