Not sure what happened yesterday, but it disappeared on me. Sometimes things run at a compressed rate and yesterday had a few.
Author: dmusic604
Boomer Mentality
I get frustrated a lot by the Baby Boomers I have to regularly deal with. My generation and theirs just don’t see eye to eye on how to best get things done. It can lead to a lot of conflicts. I’ve learned in my time that Baby Boomers believe in hierarchy. Therefore they usually aren’t…
Taking Time
Sometimes its important to roll into work a little late, procrastinate a bit and let yourself get lost in a Garth Brooks song (substitute other artist to your personal preference). Take some time for you when you aren’t supposed to and let your “Give a Damn” get a little busted.
Data Centers and Real Estate
Data Centers are the modern manufacturing. Beginning in the industrial revolution, if you didn’t plan out your manufacturing operation you were going to get left in the dust. Today, if you don’t protect, control and store your data then you will be left behind in this digital age. Everyone plans their manufacturing – there’s very…
Specialization
Not everyone can be the President. In fact only 1 person at a time can be (or approximately 0.0000000025% of the population). Similarly, not everyone can be a computer programmer or build cars or fly airplanes. Diversity makes this world go ’round. The myth that college will make you successful has been one of the…
The Next Generation
Hire people smarter than yourself. Bring in those people that will make the group and company successful because they are the future. You are nothing if there is no future. What is the purpose of this if there is no future? Some people tie their future to their children. Some to their legacy in the…
Shifting Demographics
Change is constant. The world around us is constantly in flux. The biggest on-going macro change in the US is the impact of demographics changes. An aging workforce, smaller Gen X and Y workforce, urbanization/ruralization. Our world is slowly moving and we’re all engines of that change.
Who’s Your Team
There are several philosophies around employees that are sometimes contradictory, sometimes complementary. People are our most important asset. Everyone is replaceable. Hire the best talent no matter what. Hire the right people and train them to do what you need. Some organizations follow all four rules depending on when and where they are hiring. Others…
Creation through Frustration
Sometimes life gets to be difficult. Everyone goes through phases where they don’t think things can get worse or that there are no sane people left around. It happens and usually after a few days it calms down again. Sometimes the frustration doesn’t go away and it begins to grow into something else. It forces…
A Right to Privacy
More and more consultants, service providers and just general workers live on their mobile devices. Our phones are the one place where we input our lives – which sports website we prefer, who we are calling, when we are shopping, where we are at or driving to, when we travel, who we are meeting with. …