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Being Present

Being present means focusing on the situation at hand and being fully attentive. It is listening and responding to the person or persons in the interaction.

Have you ever seen a Santa with a child during the holidays? When that child is telling Santa what they want for Christmas, the only two beings on the planet are that Santa and that child. The best Santas are those that are fully present with the child. They listen. They are attentive. They respond appropriately.

Be present with people

Knowing the Cost of Success

Life and career are heavily intertwined. Goals and aspirations for one impact the other. We each need to think about the costs that one has on the other. Never just blindly grab an opportunity (that golden ring on the ladder perhaps) without weighing the cost.

Michael Morris

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Our life and career aspirations require us to weigh the costs

Top Leadership Qualities for Success

Leadership is a complex dance of skills, attitudes, and behaviors that inspire others to follow you—not because they have to, but because they want to. Over time, I’ve come to appreciate that certain essential leadership traits make all the difference, especially in high-stakes environments like global telecommunications, where secure and highly available IT systems are non-negotiable.

Michael Morris

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Leader Conducting A Meeting With Co-workers

Turning Lemons Into Lemonade

What I discovered though was this this phase of my career became the most fulfilling of my career. Politically, I could be as outspoken as I desired. but the most fulfilling part of this phase of my journey was the ability to play forward some of my experience and wisdom to more junior employees who were in the initial stages of their careers. There were all sorts of opportunities to play it forward.

Michael Morris

Oct 1, 20254 min read

Sometimes we need to learn to make lemonade from the lemons we are dealt.

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 10, 20254 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 6, 20254 min read

Are You Open To Thinking Outside The Box?

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