The Knowledge Project

“If you think of the engineering design process, it's based on one identifying a problem or a goal. Then it's about collecting a lot of data around that particular problem or goal, then defining your requirements, then designing and building a solution, and then eventually testing it for what the outcome would look like. And that discipline and rational thinking and data driven analysis actually helps you in being able to run a company.”

“Life is short. Set big goals, whether it's how much value you're creating, whether how much profits you're growing, whether a certain project that you think needs three years to get done and how you can get it done in three months. Set big goals and do that at work. Do that in your personal life. Because when you set big goals, you achieve great things. If you set small goals, you achieve small small things.”

“Generally, we break it down into three broad categories and this is the work side. Number one at work would be, are they good at what they do? Or do they have a high intellect? Number two is, are they serious about work? Are they hard workers? And the third one is, are you collegial? Are you somebody who gets along with the rest of the team, who try to look for what's best in the team?”

“My mind, what ego is, you think that you're so good at something that you stop learning. I think in the world of business, you're dealing every day with with either problems or goals you wanna accomplish. And a engineering mindset gives you a framework of how to solve for these problems.”

“As an engineer, you're thinking perfection. You're thinking the process has to work just right. But the reality is people don't operate that way. Engineering on its own gives you a framework. However, how you can transform or translate that framework and how you manage people and love people and believe in them and believe what's best in them is the other ingredient to be able to then enable you to deliver good outcomes.”