Beating the Corporate System – An Engineer’s Guide
John Carrier
Thu Jan 12, 07-09:00pm, E51-145
Single session event
In this one-hour session, we will examine how a fundamental understanding of systems can help engineering, science, and humanities students overcome the tremendous hurdles they will encounter in their pursuit of a successful rewarding career in the face of large, bureaucratic companies and institutions - organizations that seem to have been set up solely to degrade their professional skills and extract all measures of job satisfaction.
We will specifically touch on the following topics:
• A mathematical demonstration as to the superiority of the engineering field vs. “financial engineering”
• What a study of the Great Pyramids and Crop Circles can teach us about business
• The Secret the Fortune 500 CEO’s don’t want you to know – “90% of our organization is made up of ‘Dark Matter’ ”
• Why you should “Just Say ‘No’” to Innovation.
We will wrap up with a brief discussion with a short discussion of the history of System Dynamics at MIT, with current examples of its application in the manufacturing and processing industries.
Contact: John Carrier, jfcarrie@MIT.EDU
Sponsor: Sloan School of Management
Latest update: 20-Dec-2011
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