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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Book in excellent unread/unused condition. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> In a major high-tech firm a design engineer spends a good chunk of time with someone from another division sharing some preliminary solu- tions to a design problem her team has been working on for the past six months. She leaves the meeting pleased that she has helped the company avoid reinventing the wheel. But later that night as she ponders how she spent her day she wonders if she has been foolish. Although she thinks she may have saved his team months of effort by responding to this engineer’s request for a meeting she worries that he is going to look far better than he should. Knowing the way things work she worries that she and her team will get no credit for the help they gave him. Worse they might even get eclipsed in the promotion of what she believes might be an innovative solution to one of the project’s more persistent problems. At a scientific research center a technical analyst suggests an obscure statistical methodology for a groundbreaking study. He works with the scientists to interpret and write up the results so the implications will be clear to those with less sophisticated statistical skills. The senior scientist is appreciative of his help and thanks him repeatedly. The technician is pleased because often his role is kept at a minimum and he simply runs the program and troubleshoots. It is rewarding to know his ideas influ- enced the design of the study and the scope of the impact it was likely to have. But later as he listens to the research team present preliminary findings to visitors from another cater he realizes that thanks are always given verbally either in private or as a footnote to the main presentation. He knows his contribution was critical to the project. It is nice to be thanked but he wonders why he has never been asked to share the po- dium at internal events such as these or been listed as a contributing author. (LL)