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Advice To A Young Me

Have you ever been given advice that changed your life? Sometimes simple advice can change your course or even save you from future troubles.

If you had to give your young self advice today, what would it be?

Building Your Career Roadmap: A Personal Journey

Your five-to-seven-year career plan needs to align with your end of career goal. You may need to make adjustments to get to where you ultimately see yourself. A Chinese proverb states that the journey of 1000 miles begins with the first step. Every career step choice is either one that tracks toward my desired career destination or one where I will end up in a destination I never chose. You do not want to climb a career ladder and end up atop the wrong building

Michael Morris

Sep 255 min read

Enough Already!!!

The accident broke the pattern. I ended up being a blessed man with only two broken arms. The life lesson was that I learned --- the hard way ---- was how to accept help. It entailed both help for me to take care of myself and help to prepare food for me while I recovered. The other lesson that became apparent to me was that I had built a crackerjack team. They were highly skilled and competent. They knew I was down for a while and that they needed to step up and do their j

Michael Morris

Sep 104 min read

For the first time in my life, I realized I could not do it all by myself. We all kind of know that intellectually but often do not exactly internalize it. We live in denial.

Are You Open To Thinking Outside The Box?

I always accept a vendor's pitch. I want to understand their product and its current capabilities. Where do they believe the market is going? What is on their current roadmap? Would they customize features for us if we need something not on their current roadmap or would they include it as a later future roadmap deliverable? What is their cost structure? The answers to those questions help me to validate what we are doing and the direction that we are taking

Michael Morris

Sep 64 min read

Are You Open To Thinking Outside The Box?

Building A Career Toolkit

We all sometimes must do menial task level things that are not our preference. However, they need to be done. What we get out of those tasks depends on our attitudes as we approach them. We need to look at them as developing or practicing skills that may be valuable later or even tasks that allow you to be more empathetic towards people that perform those tasks regularly.

Michael Morris

Aug 275 min read

Careers are journeys that last a lifetime ---- with the same or different employers, but lifetime journeys, nonetheless. Every task can be perceived as adding or enhancing a tool in our toolkit that will help us in whatever comes later in our career.

Blackballed For Doing The Right Thing

Sometimes we must take risks and do things that we know may have unpleasant consequences. That may involve being blackballed for doing the right thing. However, at the end of the day, we really need to hold true to ourselves and to the things we believe or know to be right despite the consequences.

Michael Morris

Aug 216 min read

Have you ever suffered negative consequences for doing the right thing? Today’s story involves a time when I knew that I had to do the right thing, but at a huge personal and professional risk.

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