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At face value engineers should make good
managers. Usually analytical, good at managing
risk, innovative and excellent with figures,
engineers possess many attributes required of a
manager. But the figures state a different story.
Looking back in world's history, some of the
greatest business leaders were engineers. While
today only 20 percent of Fortune 500 CEOs have a
degree in engineering. Microsoft CEO, Satya
Nadella, is an engineer. So is General Motors Mary
Barra and Amazons Jeff Bezos. Looking at Indian
corporate horizon, out of 33 CEOs of various type
of organizations surveyed, only 39% found to have
engineering degrees, while 45% are having degree
in management. Out of 39% engineering degree
holders, none completed MBA program. However
majority of them are having masters degrees in
engineering or science. All 39% CEO having
engineering degrees are first generation leaders i.e.
Ratan Tata, Mukesh Ambani, Narayan Murthy &
Azim Premji & interestingly a very few of their
children opted for engineering degrees but all opted
for an Management UG / PG degree.
The trend indicates shift from industrial-focused
careers to careers focused on business. Big
businesses are running the economy and managing
business has become more important. Through this
transformation, engineers began to lose their
positions as leaders of the great businesses they had
helped to create, replaced by professional business
managers. As a result, a leadership mentality was
slowly stripped away from engineers and the
engineering mentality started to play a lesser role in
business decision making.
Engineers possess several qualities that define a
good leader. They are detail-oriented and analytical.
While they are meticulous, they still take risks, but
calculated ones. They identify the root cause of a
problem and provide an economical solution. They
tend to have a very realistic outlook on situations
and dont add the fluff. They keep it simple. They
lead by example & are tech-savvy and understand
how it all works. This provides them with a
competitive advantage over other industry
professionals.
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if leadership doesnt come naturally, it needs to be
developed from an early age. When studying
engineering, leadership education is simply
overlooked. Pursuing an engineering degree is
difficult task & essentially be engineering focused
only. The curriculum is extremely vigorous and
often doesnt include business courses that trigger a
business mentality.
5. Change in Career Path:
Either love towards engineering field or fear of
change in career path makes them to decide not to
abandon engineering domain. Although many claim
that they never had a genuine desire to be an
engineer. It was the trend that high achieving
students enroll in engineering studies than studying
the humanities and social science disciplines, that
made them decide in favor of engineering studies.
But once in job changing career path shall spoil
their years of hard work at engineering college and
there after in industry.
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