Posts Tagged: ILead
Professor En-hui Yang asked information theorists from across the world to doubt absolutely everything — except, of course, their decision to study information theory (IT). Yang spoke at the IEEE North American School for Information Theory (NASIT’14), hosted this month…
If you’re like many others using Twitter and LinkedIn, you’ve probably overdosed on articles headlined, “How to be more like Steve Jobs”, “Gandhi’s five tricks to success”, or “What Sir John A. Macdonald ate for breakfast.” But to those at…
Today’s assignment: design an outdoor, heated smoking area for a local women’s shelter. Do you take on the project, knowing it propagates a harmful, deadly habit? It’s dilemmas like this that engineers face in the real world, but not necessarily…
During her undergraduate classes in industrial engineering, Hanna Janossy (IndE 1T3 + PEY) discovered that improving a simple process could spur big change. With this in mind, she led 13 student organizations with new ideas, inspiring her peers to make…
When asked to talk about the qualities of leadership, perhaps it’s not surprising that a man who’s been mayor of Toronto, a litigation lawyer and CEO of World Wildlife Fund-Canada would focus on the importance of strength. But during his…
Although he doesn’t have an engineering degree and admits to being hopeless at constructing IKEA furniture, Andy Byford, head of Canada’s largest transit system, knows that engineers with savvy leadership skills are a force to be reckoned with. “Engineering as…
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