Organisations should actively concern themselves with network-centric questions. Here is a simple primer on organizational network analysis.

Increasing output—better and more products and services—is one of the big stories of modernity. Cost-cutting won’t ever hang in a museum. Your learning and development are always critical to a business.

We’re hard-wired for imitation and hence, limitation. Here are three ways to improve group brainstorming and discussion, taken from our own experience.

When we think of young leaders, we tend to think of young people on the development path to leadership. It’s as if we deliberately ignore the actual, current leadership of young people.

Great ideas are like great art: they can be used and studied over and over, reaping large and concentrated profits for their owners. It is essential to develop and broaden the capabilities of engineers for greater output and more competitive ideas.

Engineers should have the breadth of skill, from mathematics to computing to domain expertise to communication, to make outstanding statisticians.

Your world is not your mentor’s world. In my experience, it’s more useful to have a network of mentors, each offering you a different viewpoint when you need advice.

Communication builds credibility, which enhances communication, which builds more credibility. It’s an unjust cycle as the credible become even more credible all too easily.

When our views are rationally challenged in a positive and open context, learning and development often occur. Learning requires embracing differences.

On three separate occasions at NSW Parliament House, the engineers had out-argued and out-witted their famously outspoken opponents. First lawyers, then economists, then architects.