Performance by Kevin McManus

August 2025

Getting better at the ‘people things’

“Improving the process things is not that hard – it’s trying to manage the people things.” These days, when I talk to relatively young industrial and systems engineers, the challenges that come from the people side of work consistently occupy top position on the “things that make my job less than fun” list.


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