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Dubai's Burj Khalifa - the world's tallest building - looks nothing like Microsoft's Office Suite, and digital surround sound doesn't work like a citywide telecommunication grid. Yet these engineering feats are all the result of a unique thinking process combining abstract and structured thinking, common sense and creativity.
In this groundbreaking new work, Guru Madhavan reveals the extraordinary influence of engineering on society. Drawing on a cast of star engineers like Steve Jobs, the Wright brothers and Thomas Edison, Madhavan explores this mindset and shows how to apply it to life and business in areas as varied as traffic congestion, healthcare and filmmaking. «Think Like an Engineer» demonstrates how key engineering concepts can help you solve problems, make better decisions and innovate in a complex world.
At last engineering is getting its due engineers are finally cool. But few of us understand the engineering mindset. It's the mindset that came up with flatpack furniture, disposable nappies, and the postal code that solved Stockholm's traffic and the problem of bank closing times (the hole-in-the-wall) and whose seemingly simple ideas have saved countless lives, with innovations such as painting a line behind traffic lanes and combining GPS with 999. The engineering mindset is much like a Swiss-army knife - multipurpose, combining structured and abstract thinking, common sense and great imagination, and cross-pollinating information from every possible sector. With the help of a cast of star engineers and fascinating, unexpected real world examples, Madhavan offers a framework for you to think like the best engineers - more creatively, systematically and strategically so that you can learn to make better decisions in a complex world.
Prologue Invisible bridges
One.Mixing And Matching
Two.Optimizing
Three.Enhancing Efficiency And Reliability
Four.Standardizing With Flexibility
Five.Solutions Under Constraints
Six.Crossing Over And Adapting
Seven.Prototyping
Eight.Learning From Others.
Fade-Out. A mind-set for the multitudes
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