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Lessons Learned in 2008: Use Your Leverage

March 26, 2009

Getting things to go your way in the workplace is not always easy.  You have to use all of the tools in your arsenal to convince others that what you want is best for a project, your team, the company or yourself.  Sometimes that tool is charm.  Sometimes it’s humor.  Sometimes you have to drop [...]

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Lessons Learned in 2008: Work With the Best

February 14, 2009

I’m so glad 2008 is over.  It was a difficult and stressful year—perhaps the most difficult of my short 10-year professional career. “Never again,” I’ve been telling myself in hopes of avoiding a repeat year. So I’m going to be dedicating a few posts over the next few days (or weeks) discussing some of the important things that really [...]

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Not What It Seems

March 3, 2008

For a while I’ve had ongoing conversations within my group of business friends about core businesses.  The conversation goes like this:  companies say they do Y but act like a company that does Z.  It’s a discrepancy in perception (or public relations) and actuality (which usually isn’t so public).  I was reminded of this topic this morning [...]

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Tech-Ed 2007 in Orlando

June 6, 2007

This week I’ve been attending Microsoft’s Tech-Ed 2007 conference here in Orlando at the gigantic Orange County Convention Center.  A group of us from work ascended upon Orlando on Sunday and Monday to check out new Microsoft technologies, do some recon on products we’ve recently brought into our “enterprise” and to get out of the office fray [...]

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VSLive! in Orlando

May 8, 2007

I’m excited and yet depressed about being at the VSLive! conference in Orlando, FL. I like going to conferences. I enjoy the experience of the hotels, the routines and the knowledge sharing. But it’s also very depressing and frustrating because it revolves around Microsoft.

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Meetings

April 13, 2007

I am sitting in a meeting with 12 people. 7 of them do not need to be here.

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Vacation Out, Reality In

April 12, 2007

So I’m back at work today after being on vacation for a week. I guess you never get used to the first day back at work. Any time I have more than a two-day weekend, I question why I’m working in Sarasota. Once I come to the conclusion that I’m here for [...]

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Vegas, baby, Vegas

April 4, 2007

Well, it’s been a long long time since I’ve had a proper vacation.  Sure, I’ve taken days off from work, visited relatives and such, but I’ve not taken five or more days, packed a suitcase and been somewhere with no other reason than to get away, relax and have fun in about 7-8 years.  After [...]

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Q2 Resolutions

March 29, 2007

I completely missed the whole New Year’s resolution thing. Since we’re at the end of Q1 2007, I figured why the hell not go quarter-by-quarter from here on out. I’ve had a lot on my mind this year. Professionally, I entered the new year as interim-CIO which added a whole lot more [...]

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Core Business Confusion

March 21, 2007

I had a meeting at work today with a few chief officers and the chairman of the board that was supposed to be about space planning. My development team has been located offsite since the end of October and is scheduled to move back to headquarters at the end of April. We outsourced [...]

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