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cjm64
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RE: Let's Be Motivated!!!

How to motivate someone will vary greatly based on the person they are and what drives them. If you are a manager in this situation it is on you to fi...

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RE: Why do people leave work?

I think that the two are unrelated. The reasons that you work and the reasons to leave a particular employer can be vastly different. People work beca...

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RE: Skills Learned in this Class

I think the biggest learning for me in this class came from the simulations. Working together with a group of people towards a “real world” goal is so...

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RE: Overworked Americans vs. Motivation

I think the biggest reason that people work themselves so hard is that they fear what will happen if they do not. Management has become so accustomed ...

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RE: Engineer vs. Manager

Different from what many people here have said, I currently want to remain in an R&D/engineering role for as long as possible. To me the process o...

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RE: What is retention ?

As you mentioned, retaining key employees is critical to project and company success. The amount of effort put into retaining an employee must match t...

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RE: Changining staff

It is important to attempt to prevent a situation like this by ensuring that people on the team are not going to just leave without notice, and that m...

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RE: Procurement Management

I did a co-op at J&J, and the group that I was working with was looking at sourcing completed products that J&J could sell under one of their ...

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RE: Single Source/Dual Source

Using different components from the same company does not completely solve the issue of dual sourcing, because those two components are not completely...

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RE: PM: Handling Team Issues

Like any relationship in the world, communication is key. It is important that you understand the obligations of each team member, but it is just as i...

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RE: Importance of Metrics

Metrics are an important way to measure how healthy a project is. High level metrics like cost and progress allow the company to track the work that h...

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RE: planned value vs actual costs

Monitoring the difference between planned value and actual value/costs is critical in ensuring that the project will maintain its viability. In a more...

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RE: Customer Inputs

For my master’s thesis there are three key people with input in the design, myself, my advisor, and our clinical collaborator. The clinical collaborat...

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RE: Design validation

Design validation is critical to the life-cycle of a project as it is when you test to make sure that the product or deliverables meet the requirement...

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RE: Underestimating Task Duration

I have run into these problems on a smaller and more personal scale. I am currently completing my master's thesis, which revolves around the early des...

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