250 Process Techniques for Engineering High-Performance Materials
• You must recognize when a factor creates a trade-off between
two properties, preventing either of them from simultaneously
being at the desired value.
• Team members that do not believe in the approach being taken.
• It is easy for participants to feel that they are chopping their way
through the wrong jungle if they did not buy into the plan when
they were assigned to the project. Listen to their concerns and
consider their point of view.
• Overcontrolling organizations can easily create this situation
by putting too many constraints and assumptions on the work.
Team members may assume the existence of constraints even
when none were intended.
• Strong-willed managers and ...