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  2. Fast-Tracking Your Career: Soft Skills for Engineers
  3. Part Two: Dealing with people
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Fast-Tracking Your Career: Soft Skills for Engineers

All 50 numbered rules from Bill Chou's book on soft skills for engineering and IT professionals, one card each, plus a matching game that pairs each rule with a story Chou tells about it.

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Part Two: Dealing with people

Chapter 2 on getting people to like you and help you, and Chapter 3 on selling your work, your ideas and yourself.

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Flashcards: 10
Pair match: 10
Part Two: Dealing with people – Flashcards
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Card #1

People Smart, Rule 1: Getting accepted by accepting others first

Card #2

People Smart, Rule 2: Winning by understanding both ourselves and our counterparts

Card #3

People Smart, Rule 3: Being aggressive by being nonaggressive

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Part Two: Dealing with people – Pair match
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On a 2012 visit to Bangladesh, the US secretary of state wears almost no makeup and stands for photos beside two women ministers who wear none↔Getting accepted by accepting others first
A light drinker accepts a macho colleague's challenge to down a glass in one go, on condition that the challenger drinks vodka while he drinks wine↔Winning by understanding both ourselves and our counterparts
An engineer gets a raise by showing his boss a higher outside offer, and three years later tries the same move, only for his boss to wish him well in the new job↔Being aggressive by being nonaggressive
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