Change Starts Here

JANUARY 28, 2015

By all counts, I had the potential to be a great engineer. Ironically, once that change management project was over, I decided I wasn’t doing enough real engineering work, and so I joined another manufacturing company as an industrial engineer. Here I am, eight years after leaving engineering behind.

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Change Starts Here

APRIL 27, 2016

About 14 years ago, there was a pivotal moment that started my journey to being a change practitioner. At the time, I was the industrial engineering manager for a manufacturing company. And I could have easily missed it.

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James Shore

AUGUST 19, 2024

Now it also covers the advanced titles—Staff Engineer for the engineer track and three Engineering Manager titles for the management track. We still need to add Principal Engineer for the engineer track, and specialty skills, but this is enough for a foundation. Verdict: Jury’s still out on this one.

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James Shore

OCTOBER 15, 2020

I was originally approached by an engineering manager at a company with several hundred engineers and about 45 software teams. The manager was looking for someone to lead a small team. The engineering manager found my thoughts about scaling insightful, so he introduced me to his VP of Engineering.

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James Shore

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Large changes—those that directly impact more than 30-70 people—require professional change management. Depending on the size of your organization, your HR department may have change management experts on staff who can help. Organizational leaders often underestimate the importance of change management.

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Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

Will’s book, An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management. Marcus: Will, you are a manager now. You have been an engineer, you’ve got a marvelous book out called An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management. When you were little, did you want to be a manager? November 4-7, 2019.

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