Self-Management Strategies for Engineers can be summarized as follows
- For individuals, management means decision-making of how to allocate limited resources (especially Hours.).
- The act of listening to a lecture itself is an investment of time in knowledge acquisition management decision.
- For knowledge acquisition,
- (1) to be taught,
- (2)Act and learn on your own,
- (3) knowledge exchange
- There are three ways to do this.
- Knowledge exchange in (3) is often overlooked but important.
- To exchange knowledge, we need friends who understand each other’s situation.
- As a first step toward this end, we should
- Create a small informal group and be the originator.
- Join multiple groups and be [a conduit of knowledge
- Set recall trigger to 1 year later for [looking back
- As a first step toward this end, we should
- The smaller and more informal the group is, the better the understanding of each other’s situation and the more efficient the exchange of knowledge.
- If too large, free rider problems will occur.
- Engaging in multiple areas of knowledge exchange provides a level of expertise that cannot be Googled and leads to further knowledge exchange.
These are the main points of the strategy for allocating one’s limited resources to knowledge acquisition and further increasing knowledge through knowledge exchange.
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