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Personality- Traits and Values

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I’ve told you before how engineers (not ChemE’s) were trained back when I was going to school.  It was clearly a concept of “we will make you equal” development.  The engineer-in-training was honed to be completely compatible with the square box that the professors envisioned for their students.What makes a ChemE different

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Trust this as far as you can p?

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Back when I was involved with some 10 different research projects every week, I realized that one of the weakest points in my training was statistics.  I needed those skills to discern if what we were doing was actually an improvement or not.  As a techie, I was taught to believe (yes, that’s the verb) that statistical analysis would remove any bias I would bring to the analysis.

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Leading Values

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We were working with a new client, helping to set up the systems and find the employees it will need to make the venture a success.  During one of the discussions on direction and attitude, the client voiced that our Jewish values were truly helpful.  I, for one, did not consider these to be innately Jewish- especially since my business partner of decades agreed with these “credos”- and he is a Southern Baptist.  Moreover, I believe every person and company (every company is really a collection of individuals with a common mission) needs to espouse values or credos such as these to succeed.  It has nothing to do with one’s religion.

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