The Heath Brothers have been an important influence on the thinking in WNE. Their book Switch: How to Change Things When Change is Hard approaches difficult change from the perspective of the elephant, the rider, and the path (emotional, rational, and…
FACILITATING CHANGE THAT STICKS: Becoming an Effective Educational Change Agent June 10-12, 2014 At Olin College in collaboration with Big Beacon Attempts to effect change in engineering education often sputter out after a few years. Why? Although faculty members and administrators are good…
Carol Dweck makes a useful distinction between "fixed" and "growth" mindsets. Those with a fixed mindset believe that traits such as intelligence, leadership, or even engineeringness are fixed. Those with a growth mindset believe that they can grow and develop…
Daniel H. Pink's book, Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us provides a good background on having good work ethic which is briefly explored in WNE. Pink believes that many of us go about our work ethics in an improper fashion,…
In the Chalmer Brothers book, Language and the Pursuit of Happiness the indirect relationship between how human beings communicate is approached in a bold way. Chapter 7 on coaching in particular draws on the insights expressed in this book Read this text as…
The Heath Brothers take on the use of language for creating changes that stick was a significant influence on the events leading up to and the publication of WNE. Their book Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die examines a…
Olin College announces 1 October release of A Whole New Engineer in a press release (here and here). From the press release: In their new book (scheduled for release on October 1, 2014) A Whole New Engineer: The Coming Revolution in Engineering,…
