Appreciating Differences in People
This chapter explores the critical skill of understanding, appreciating and working well with colleagues, customers and partners who are quite different from ourselves....

Understanding Emotions/Feelings
This chapter explores understanding emotions and feelings and acknowledging them in others....

Communication Essentials
This chapter explores communication essentials, including non-verbal communication....

Dealing Well With Adversity
This chapter explores dealing with adversity and how to strengthen our own ability to successfully do so....

Leadership With a Small L
This chapter explores the concept of leadership as it applies to personal effectiveness....

Drivers of Behavior and Change
This chapter explores the sources of human behavior, particularly sources of reactions, feelings, thinking, and intention....

Spiritual Path, Practice or Discipline
This chapter explores the role of faith in personal development....

Setting Work, Career and Personal Goals
This chapter explores goals and opportunities for deciding on goals....

Thinking About a Job Change
This chapter explores the idea of a job change and includes approaches for helping people think about it....

Help for Managing Time (and Life)
This chapter explores time management and balancing priorities....

Creativity and Resourceful Thinking
This chapter explores creative thinking and offers advice for enhancing creativity....

Information and Decision Making
This chapter explores decision making and collective wisdom....

Critical Skills of Teamwork
This chapter explores the need for teamwork, interdependence, and teamrelated skills....

Dealing Well With Conflicts
This chapter explores conflict and conflict resolution....

Consulting Engineering
A Guide for the Engagement of Engineering Services
Consulting Engineering: A Guide for the Engagement of Engineering Services (Manual 45), is a comprehensive revision of the previous edition...

A Composite Sketch
Engineers are using the lightweight advantages of fiber reinforced polymers to build short span vehicular bridges and pedestrian bridges, particularly in remote areas, such as national...

Domesticating Steel
Residential contractors, nervous about fluctuations in lumber prices and quality, would welcome steel framing into the housing market if the necessary infrastructure were in place. Despite...

Ground Attack
Buried surfaces made of concrete, ductile iron and carbon steel are susceptible to corrosion by the soil that surrounds them, but there are numerous ways that these surfaces may be protected....

High-Performance Powder
The application of fundamental principles related to the composition, the making, and the thermal treatment of concrete resulted in the development of a new type of concrete with outstanding...

Mix and Match
The U.S. Navy wanted to expand operations at Pearl Harbor, which required a bridge from Oahu to nearby Ford Island. The bridge spans more than 4,000 ft, and combines a fixed bridge and...

 

 

 

 

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