A seasoned high tech leader with over 20 years of leadership and technology experience, Matt Schlegel provides consulting services in the areas of team leadership, product development, working with Japanese joint development partners, and telecommunications. Matt founded Sakino Consulting to help companies, in joint product development ventures with Japanese partners, bring new products to market (www.sakinoconsulting.com). Also, Matt is a proud member of Schooley Mitchell Telecom Consulting, focusing on finding clients the best solutions for their communications needs (www.schooleymitchell.com/mschlegel). After graduating from Harvey Mudd College with a BS in Engineering and UC San Diego with an MS in Electrical Engineering/Applied Physics, Matt was granted a Mombusho Scholarship to perform research at the University of Tokyo. The following 3 years were spent living, studying and working in Japan. Leaving Japan, Matt returned to his native San Francisco Bay Area where he has spent the last 15 years working in a number of management and consulting roles. Matt Schlegel
A seasoned high tech leader with over 20 years of leadership and technology experience, Matt Schlegel provides consulting services in the areas of team leadership, product development, working with Japanese joint development partners, and telecommunications. Matt founded Sakino Consulting to help companies, in joint product development ventures with Japanese partners, bring new products to market (www.sakinoconsulting.com). Also, Matt is a proud member of Schooley Mitchell Telecom Consulting, focusing on finding clients the best solutions for their communications needs (www.schooleymitchell.com/mschlegel). After graduating from Harvey Mudd College with a BS in Engineering and UC San Diego with an MS in Electrical Engineering/Applied Physics, Matt was granted a Mombusho Scholarship to perform research at the University of Tokyo. The following 3 years were spent living, studying and working in Japan. Leaving Japan, Matt returned to his native San Francisco Bay Area where he has spent the last 15 years working in a number of management and consulting roles. Problem Solving and Shared Leadership
In the previous blog I described how the numbers of the Enneagram are the sequence in which humans would naturally solve problems. As an engineering manager, when I was challenged to address some large structural problems like the type I described in the first blog of this series, I looked to the Enneagram to provide [...]
Problem Solving and the Enneagram
In the previous blog, I provided you with a link to a blog about a problem-solving tool that I am describing in detail on the SD Forum Engineering Leadership SIG (ELSIG) blog site: http://sdforumelsig.blogspot.com/search?q=matt+schlegel
And, while you will find the steps of that problem-solving approach in the ELSIG blog, I include them here for your reference:
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A Book about Problem Solving
I am writing a book. I plan to finish writing this book by the end of March 2010, and plan to publish it by the end of March 2011. Those are my big goals. The book is about solving problems, and not just any problem, but solving a specific class of problems. It is the [...]
