In a Virtual Machine Cluster, you are constantly turning servers on and off and sometimes those server images are remain off for a prolonged period of time. When you bring them up you start to notice that they have drifted from the initial configuration and haven’t been “around” for all the changes that have taken place around them. Sometimes this happens in your professional life as well, you leave a project partway through only to come back and…
Objectives are a tricky thing… whether you’re receiving them or managing them… they aren’t an easy problem set… any day of the year. I’ve been on both sides of the equation and see the arguments for one both sides and have been involved in a number of different programs over the years. The one I always think back to was where people could be rewarded a few extra percentage points for “going above and beyond”. The…
Ouch – did that hurt? Did it strike a nerve and make you twinge at what you are currently working on? Maybe feel a pang of failure in your stomach? Good. You can’t rest on laurels that you achieved, months and years ago, you can only focus on the next ones. If you were to leave your job today, most would remember you for what you were working on at that point in time and…
We like things to come fast, done in a day, home for dinner, sitting by the fire, reading our book. Job well done. Some tasks can follow this pattern, some tasks can be done in a day, leadership is not one of those tasks and there is no grand event that dictates that you are now a leader. Managers get up in front of their team and tell them where they are going to go, Leaders…
Employee a person employed for wages or salary, especially at non-executive level. I strongly dislike this word, it is one of the few words that I go out of my way to use (BTW this definition is taken straight from Google). If I am about to type it, I delete it and find another word to use; users, members, team, people, something, anything. It takes away all other aspects of someone wanting to work with you,…