GUEST POST from Mike Shipulski
If your solution isn’t sold to a customer, you didn’t do your job. Find a friend in Marketing.
If your solution can’t be made by Manufacturing, you didn’t do your job. Find a friend in Manufacturing.
Reuse all you can, then be bold about trying one or two new things.
Broaden your horizons.
Before solving a problem, make sure you’re solving the right one.
Don’t add complexity. Instead, make it easy for your customers.
Learn the difference between renewable and non-renewable resources and learn how to design with the renewable ones.
Learn how to do a Life Cycle Assessment.
Learn to see functional coupling and design it out.
Be afraid but embrace uncertainty.
Learn how to communicate your ideas in simple ways. Jargon is a sign of weakness.
Before you can make sure you’re solving the right problem, you’ve got to know what problem you’re trying to solve.
Learn quickly by defining the tightest learning objective.
Don’t seek credit, seek solutions. Thrive, don’t strive.
Be afraid, and run toward the toughest problems.
Help people. That’s your job.
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