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Thursday, September 05, 2002
http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/p_denning_2.html The Somatic Engineer - Engineers trained in value skills will be superior professionals and designers Peter J. Denning Engineers are widely seen as people of great technical prowess but who are difficult to get along with, aloof from their customers, and inclined to substitute technologies of personal interest for technologies that would bring value to their customers. This exacts a huge cost -- unreliable and undependable technology, waste in technology development, and a standoffish identity for all engineers. These problems would largely disappear if engineers were educated in value dynamics -- the value-generating and value-delivery skills that are the foundation of leadership. The value skills cannot be learned from a book. They are most effectively learned through coached somatic practice....
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