Engineering the Human Variable for Technical Excellence

Author and Emotional Architect mentoring high achieving technical leaders, Human Spaceflight Chief Engineer

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Engineering the Human Variable for Technical Excellence

You can engineer the perfect process—but if you ignore the human variable, your system will fail. This book equips leaders to design systems of accountability, boundaries, and excellence that don’t burn out the people inside them.

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