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Category Archives: mistakes
Leadership: Succession Leadership
Succession leadership is the ability to pass on your leadership responsibility to another capable of the task. To be able to spot potential leaders to take your place, as you step down, in a smooth hand over of responsibilities confident … Continue reading
Posted in business, design, Engineering, engineering development, failure, Good Character, Integrity, leader, leadership, Management, MECHANICAL ENGINEERING, mistakes, Politics, quotations, quotes, success, technology, train travel, transport, travel, Uncategorized, Vehicle
Tagged business, design, development, engineering, failure, leader, leadership, Politics, quotes, success, succession leadership, technology
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Leadership: Perseverance under Pressure
Failure is not an option … Continue reading
Posted in courage, failure, leader, leadership, mistakes, quotations, quotes, space flight, technology, Uncategorized
Tagged apollo mission, churchill, failure, great leadeship, leader, leadership, lincoln, perseverance, pressure, quotations
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Shackleton – Success under failure
In late 1914 Ernest Shackleton and a team of 27 men sail towards the South Pole to be the first to cross the Antartic continent but unfortunately the expedition became a failure very early on as the ship Endurance became … Continue reading
Posted in courage, Exploration, leadership, mistakes, success, Uncategorized
Tagged adventure, antartica, courage, Exploration, failure, leadership, success, team leadership
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Trust me I’m an Engineer #2 !
A sample of images of how we sometimes get things wrong – enjoy ! Plus a link below of a video clip of The Two Ronnies – Four Candles sketch, as a light way to end the year … Continue reading
Posted in civil engineering, Comedy Sketch, design, Engineering, Engineering Mistakes, humor, humour, mechanical, mistakes, Uncategorized
Tagged architecture, Comedy Sketch, design, Engineering Mistakes, failure, humor, humour, technology
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Engineering Oversights !
Trains Too Wide ! In France 341 new trains intended to be rolled out over two years were too wide for the platforms in nearly 1,300 stations because railway network engineers “forgot to go and measure the actual distance … Continue reading
Posted in architecture, business, cad, design, Engineering, humor, humour, Industry, manufacturing, mechanical, MECHANICAL ENGINEERING, mistakes, project engineering, technology, train travel, transport, travel, Uncategorized
Tagged architecture, business, design, development, Europe, failure, humor, humour, Industry, manufacturing, projects, technology
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Trust me I’m an Engineer !
A sample of images of how we sometimes get things wrong – enjoy ! Plus below a link to video clip of Peter Kay as a light way to end the year ! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YH5vSHiAOAE Happy & Prosperous 2017 All … Continue reading
Posted in architecture, civil, design, Engineering, failure, humor, humour, mechanical, MECHANICAL ENGINEERING, mistakes, project engineering, technology, Uncategorized
Tagged architecture, design, failure, humor, humour, mistakes, projects, technology
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