Business Ethics 1 min read
Defining Business Etiquette
Business Etiquette is a set of social, professional and cultural sensibilities that a person is expected to possess in order…
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Five Biggest Engineering Disasters
As engineers continue to push the boundaries of scientific invention and exploration, along with great achievements unfortunately come terrible failures…
Basics 7 min read
How to build psychological safety into your own team
So, what is special about Engineering that leads us to drive away so many promising engineers, and allow so many…
Basics 5 min read
Engineering a culture of psychological safety
Our findings were later published as Project Aristotle. The biggest finding was that the number-one indicator of a successful team wasn’t tenure,…
Basics 6 min read
System safety engineering
Why do complex technologies so often fail, and fail in such unexpected ways? Why is it so difficult for hospitals,…
Business Etiquette 3 min read
Importance of Business Etiquette
Etiquette is a set of unwritten rules that apply to social situations, professional workplaces and relationships. In the business world,…
Basics 4 min read
How does product safety relate to functional safety
Since my experience stems from “the old days” (yes, this is showing my age!), we didn’t differentiate between Product and…
Basics 3 min read
Safety engineering reduces risks and threats in production
The margin for production errors is constantly shrinking and manufacturers strive for complete control over their production processes. Safety engineering…
Business Ethics 3 min read
Corporate Accountability
DEFINITION of ‘Corporate Accountability’ Corporate accountability is the performance of a publicly traded company in non-financial areas such as social responsibility,…
Business Ethics 6 min read
12 Things You Need To Know About Financial Statements
Knowing how to work with the numbers in a company’s financial statements is an essential skill for stock investors. The meaningful interpretation…
Business Ethics 3 min read
Accredited Investor
What is an ‘Accredited Investor?’ An accredited investor is a person or entity that can deal with securities not registered…
Business Ethics 5 min read
Ethical Investing: How to Research Ethical Investments
Researching ethical investments means examining both company ethics and investment performance. Let’s start with ethics. Perusing Corporate WebsitesIt seems like…
