Team Development Through Feedback
Groups and teams need to be effective in whatever they're doing; they need to achieve their mission or purpose. Just as important, every team or group needs to be seen as...
Getting Your Group or Team Unstuck
In the natural course of events, difficult circumstances arise. Surprises and changes, sometimes nasty, seem to pop up, usually at the worst possible times. Murphy was definitely an optimist....
Conflict: Handling Differences in Groups and Teams
Many group leaders and members say they have a terrible problem with conflict in their groups, meetings, and discussions. Conflict is indeed a significant problem in many types of organizations,...
Overcoming Separation in Time or Space
Groups such as project teams, practice networks, and marketing groups are becoming ever more dispersed and distributed. For example, on a current project for a major water utility, I'm...
Shared Leadership in Groups and Teams
The qualities needed for effective leadership have been argued for centuries. Many recent researchers and authors have made significant contributions worth having close at hand on your...
Teams Are the Best Development Vehicles
Any natural team or work group provides an excellent vehicle for learning and cross-training among group members and for development of individual members as well as the organization:...
Team Versus Individual Recognition and Rewards
Nothing about leadership and management is as complicated and unfathomable as rewards, both tangible and intangible. Many firms make large layouts of cash, year after year, for very little...
Project Team Leadership
In the research lab, design office, fabricating shop, or on construction site, it is the project manager (PM) who must pull diverse talents and personalities into a project team. Depending...
Precautions for Pitfalls and Pratfalls
While the team approach is neither fragile nor risky, there are some times and places where pitfalls may exist and precautions should be taken. In many cases, these pitfalls and precautions...
Introduction
This chapter serves as an introduction to the book....
Wind Load Provisions
This chapter explores the provisions of the Wind Load standard....
Examples
This chapter contains ten examples of determination of wind loads using the analytical procedure of the ASCE 7-98 standard....
Frequently Asked Questions
The purpose of this chapter is to attempt to clarify certain provisions of the standard through frequently asked questions....
Guidelines for Inspection and Monitoring of In-Service Penstocks
This volume provides a guide to information and engineering techniques for inspection and monitoring of in-service penstocks. This guide covers penstocks constructed of steel, concrete,...
Avoiding Overload
Working for yourself can bring a rewarding sense of independence, but it can also be hectic as you try to be all things to all people. Engineers who start their own companies often find...
A Sound Assembly
In downtown Salt Lake City, the new 1.5 million sq ft (140 000 m�) conference center for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (LDS) faced design issues that include height restrictions,...
Safeguarding Bixby Bridge
The two-lane arch bridge over Bixby Creek�in Big Sur, California�reflects the Art Deco style popular in the early 1930s, when the crossing was built. Its slender deck and arch ribs appear...
Traffic-Calming Basics
The use of traffic calming measures, such as speed humps, traffic circles, and lane narrowings, is becoming more popular in the United States as a way to reduce vehicle speed and traffic...
Tunneling beneath Cairo
The second phase of the Greater Cairo Metro system in Egypt included many geotechnical challenges. Thirteen kilometers of the 19-km heavy rail line were constructed underground within...
A Better Image
As new sources of satellite and aerial data emerge, and as imagery processing software becomes cheaper and easier to use, engineers are tapping remote sensing data's potential...
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