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#043: Roger Forsgren on Professional Skills To Rewire the Engineer’s Mindset

Roger Forsgren is a retired Chief Knowledge Officer of NASA. He was a director of Academy of Program, Project and Engineering Leadership at NASA. Roger is also an undergraduate with a liberal arts degree, a mechanical engineering degree and a masters in industrial engineering. Roger is also the author of two books and the most recent being “When Graduation is Over, Learning Begins - Lessons for STEM Students and Professionals”. In this episode, Swami & Roger discuss the importance of having a liberal arts background for an engineer, foundational skills needed for successful engineers, how communication skills, decision-making skills, and working with people are as important as number crunching, and where empathy can help achieve efficiency in an imperfect world filled with vulnerable people. This is Roger’s second episode with Swami & Contraminds. We had the privilege of playing host to Roger in episode 23, released on Jan 22, 2022 - Roger Forsgren on Knowledge Management Lessons from NASA. Listen to the podcast on Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Anchor | Google Podcasts Watch the full video episode on YouTube To sign up for our weekly newsletter, please visit https://contraminds.substack.com/ Connect with Roger: https://www.linkedin.com/in/roger-forsgren-b5a20a166/ Connect with Swami: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sivaraman-swaminathan-9856501/ Connect with Vignesh: https://twitter.com/hrorq Connect with us: LinkedIN: https://www.linkedin.com/company/contraminds/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/contraminds/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/contraminds Website: www.contraminds.com This episode was made possible by the great folks at Effortless. Effortless is a Neo-Banking business application built for handling Bookkeeping, Compliance, Payroll, and Funding. Today entrepreneurs are struggling to track the cash inflows, outflows and forecasting of cashflow with the current broken finance stack. Lot of founders and core team time is spent to manually track collections, vendor bills and make payments, and in various spreadsheets, saved in mails, laptops and some physically and different banking app and sending the same to the accountants and consultants for compliance filings leading to poor financial planning, lack of finance data and non-compliances leading to penalties and interests. Effortless has made e-invoicing compliant invoicing simple for anyone to make, reduces 90% effort to collect, with all banking integration stay on the top of your cashflow. Secured UPI like business payment directly from effortless ensures all expenses are tracked including expenses you make from your personal credit card and UPI apps. Realtime insights, reports, alerts and notifications to enable you to thrive in your business. For further details, visit: www.goeffortless.ai

1 hr 15 min