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I was meeting with an insurance executive of a small start-up insurance company in San Francisco discussing business requirements when used furniture arrived. The executive asked me to help him level the desk so that they could start using them Read More …
A colleague and were flying to Washington DC, Reagan International airport, to visit an account in the Bethesda area. Neither of us had been to DC much and so we got directions. Get on the George Washington Parkway and head Read More …
I arrived late evening, about 11:30pm, to Hartford, CT. I got my rental car and drove straight to the hotel and because it was so late, I left the car with the valet. I walked to my meeting the following Read More …
A call was made to the help desk that nothing was working on the customer’s computer. The help desk professional remoted into the customer’s computer, but without success. Finally, a help desk professional was dispatched to the customer’s physical location. Read More …
It was a Saturday and I was meeting a colleague of mine at the EDS data center on Forest Ave in Dallas. I arrived early and not seeing my colleague’s car, I decided to sit on the steps behind the Read More …
When managing your stakeholders, it is important to know the dominate behavioral characteristics of your stakeholders. Whereas each stakeholder will not be 100% a junker or 100% procedural, knowing their dominate behavioral characteristics can be very help in several situations. Read More …
Back in the days when I was a manager, once a month, unannounced, I would walk up to one of my supervisors in the morning and inform them that I worked for them that day. It was their job to Read More …
It was early meeting and I took a taxi to the EDS headquarters on Forest Lane in Dallas. I nor my taxi had ever been to the headquarters before. After a bit of confuse with the driver of the taxi, Read More …
A colleague of mine made the mistake of putting his luggage in what looked like was his rental car, but it was not. To make matters worse, it was 5am and my colleague had to catch an early fight. The Read More …
A principle that I have employed for several years in the three whys. The theory is you have to ask “why” at least three times to really get the root need, want, or cause. This principle has proofed useful over Read More …