This is excellent advice...and it goes the other way, too! My career now is over (I'm retired), but I was in a technical field and had to learn the non-technical skills...effective supervision, managing personality conflict, writing for persuasion rather than just technical conclusion...even project management requires an understanding of team members' strengths and weaknesses (what my outfit called "situational leadership").
Yeah, if you're not in a technical field learn the essentials of the technical; if you're in the technical field learn all you can about the social aspects of team and project management. And apply them.
Your observations about women bringing men into projects is interesting; very often I was brought in to projects to help move them forward when they seemed stalled; this was often at the request of women (my boss was a woman so I never thought of it as a gender thing, though not all the requests came from her). I thought it was an expertise thing, now you've got me re-evaluating those experiences...
I am in the process of a career change, I am going to try and apply these principles.
Have you read 'Class' by Paul Fussell? I have not read it, as it is specific to the US - but looks quite interesting.
This is excellent advice...and it goes the other way, too! My career now is over (I'm retired), but I was in a technical field and had to learn the non-technical skills...effective supervision, managing personality conflict, writing for persuasion rather than just technical conclusion...even project management requires an understanding of team members' strengths and weaknesses (what my outfit called "situational leadership").
Yeah, if you're not in a technical field learn the essentials of the technical; if you're in the technical field learn all you can about the social aspects of team and project management. And apply them.
Your observations about women bringing men into projects is interesting; very often I was brought in to projects to help move them forward when they seemed stalled; this was often at the request of women (my boss was a woman so I never thought of it as a gender thing, though not all the requests came from her). I thought it was an expertise thing, now you've got me re-evaluating those experiences...