My wife has a tank with this printed on the front. I think it should be spray-painted across the wall of every company in the world. It’s the 21st century. If we’re going to start teaching elementary students how to code as part of their core curriculum, we should teach our management students kindness. As …
Yep. That’s what an IT support person did when someone from Marketing came looking for him. It had been three weeks since he’d opened a support ticket, and it still hadn’t been resolved. While stand-offish, slow(er)-to-respond IT departments were typical in the 90’s, this incident took place at a prior employer just a few years …
I was consulting for a business owner who was reselling some of his customer information as a sort of list broker. We had an alarming conversation that went something like this: Me: Mary Peres just placed an order for 50,000 records from 2018. Unfortunately, you don’t have enough to fill the order. Him: Just take …
I used to wonder how to have the intensity of a founder. The drive, the insane edge you can just FEEL whenever you see them.
Today, I finally figured it out.
What kind of legacy are you leaving? I’m not talking about family legacy, I’m talking about your daily work. Doing quality work? Taking care of business? That’s how you’ll be remembered.
At a recent consulting-CTO gig, I had to remind a new staff member that the company rarely closed for holidays.
