By Jill Woller, CVS-Life, FSAVE, and Travis Godsoe, VMA
It can be very easy for a person to turn inward and deal with immediate concerns, rather than reaching outward and building a supportive community that can work as an engine for productivity. The VM community is working hard to break through these tendencies and create a sustainable future by effectively communicating and marketing the lessons learned through experience.
This month in Value World, Steve Kirk introduces a new series as part of our regular Education column that communicates important principles VM practitioners use to estimate future impacts of design proposals. Our VM industry will only thrive if we emphasize the communication of important concepts like these to the next generation.
To that end, we encourage the submission of new articles to Value World that clearly communicate important principles, techniques and innovations to our members. Share your knowledge built through years of practice, or share your experience as someone new to the fold and looking at VM with fresh eyes and new insights. You never know what one of your peers will find most useful.
Our VM community has grown to encompass global concerns through the flexibility of its applications and the ingenuity of its membership. In this issue, Jodie Puzio reviews a book about leadership principles written by Starbucks executive Howard Behar and draws a clear line from his advice to its worth in our industry. Jim Bolton reports on the success of the 33rd Indian Value Engineering Society (INVEST) International Conference on Value Engineering in Kolkata, India, and we would like to congratulate Surya Prabhakar of Tata Steel Limited for being recognized as the most active Value Engineering lecturer of the year, spreading the message of the Value Methodology.
As we prepare for the SAVE International 2018 Value Summit in Austin, remember that VM practitioners benefit from always teaching, always learning, ever laying new foundations for a strong future.
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