This document outlines 9 tips for becoming a star engineer, separated into basic, middle, and advanced levels. The basic tips are to take on extra responsibility, develop expertise networks, and take joint ownership of projects. The middle tips are self-management, being a good follower, and targeting messages. The advanced tips are seeing the big picture, exercising small leadership, and having organizational savvy. The overall message is that engineering excellence is achieved through continuous learning and improvement.

1. How to be a star engineer

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3. 9 Tips
• Basic
– Blazing trails
– Knowing who knows
– Teamwork as joint ownership of a project
• Middle
– Proactive self-management
– The right kind of followership
– Show and tell
• Advanced
– Getting the big picture
– Small-l leadership
– Street smarts
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4. BASIC
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5. Blazing trails
• Seek out responsibility above and beyond
job description
• Undertake extra efforts for the benefit
• Step willingly into the gaps between jobs descriptions
• Stick tenaciously to an idea or project and follow it
through to successful implementation
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6. Knowing who knows
• Develop two-way streets to the experts in their networks
• Ask the right people to solve problem faster
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7. Teamwork as joint ownership of a project
• Involve taking joint "ownership" of goal-setting, group
commitment, work activities, schedules and group
accomplishments
• Help everyone feel part of the team
,Deal with the conflict
,Assist others in solving problems
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8. MIDDLE
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9. Proactive self-management
• Direct work choices
• Create opportunities
• Perform extra well on the job
• Carve out a career path
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10. The right kind of followership
• Realize the importance of being a good No. 2
• Exercise independent
• Critical judgment about what needs to be done and how
to do
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11. Show and tell
• Select either the right message for a particular audience or the right
audience for the particular message.
• Skill of deliver a message to a targeted audience
,persuade listeners to accept the message
,proactive in deflecting criticism.

12. ADVANCE
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13. Getting the big picture
• Step outside their own viewpoint and adopt a variety of perspectives.
• Star perspective grows out of getting enough experience to develop
pattern recognition.

14. Small-l leadership
• Build on expertise and influence to convice a group of people to unite on
a substantial task.
• Understand the human relationships that link people to each other.
• Take into accout the needs, skills, aspiration, and power of their co-
workers.

15. Street smarts
• Know that any large organization has legitimate competing interests.
• Organizational savvy enables them to steer their way amid these
clashes, to promote cooperation, address conflicts, and get things done.
• Managing individual or group dynamics,
understanding when to avoid conflicts
and when to meet them head on,
and knowing how to make allies out of
potential enemies.

16. Stars are made,
not born.
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