“It’s simply not enough for a leader to have vision.”
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Channel: Rice University · 2018 · Education
“It’s simply not enough for a leader to have vision,” said Fred Higgs. “A true leader also knows how to inspire others to execute that vision and in a way that benefits an entire organization.” As the faculty director of the Rice Center for Engineering Leadership (RCEL), Higgs employs his lifelong passion for building — both things and teams of people — to help craft leaders every single day. Today, Higgs and others are predicting a surge in demand for engineers as emerging technologies open new paths for eager problem-solvers. “In elementary school, I thought I wanted to be a scientist because, like me, they did well in math,” said Higgs, the John and Ann Doerr Professor in Mechanical Engineering and professor of mechanical engineering. “My sixth-grade teacher encouraged me to go into engineering, because I wanted to build things like space shuttles. She said it’s not the scientists who built the space shuttles, it’s the engineers.” For more: unconventional.rice.edu/
