Paul Westbrook: More on Gaining Support for Sustainability at Texas Instruments: Working through the Politics of Difficult Change Post example
Paul has a BA in mechanical engineering and started at Texas Instruments right out of school. He had always worked in facilities operations of the company, for example, clean room design and management, and enjoyed it. But he had not given up on his dream of raising the bar on more sustainability. When he heard […]
Warren Peters Navigates a Complex, Multi-Staged Exchange Process Working within Organizational Realities
The Influence Challenge Warren Peters faced a difficult problem. He was under considerable pressure to fill a newly created unit manager position in his branch; and, after interviewing several candidates, he settled on Debbie Casey, who had a good track record as a supervisor but who did not have the technical knowledge of the other […]
The Career of Nettie Seabrooks and Influence Against All Odds
In the 1950s it was not easy for a Black woman to get any sort of technical or professional job. I graduated from Marygrove College in 1955 with a degree in Chemistry, but there was no chemical or pharmaceutical company that would take me. My college dean said, “Nettie, if you get a Master’s in […]
