Miticulous
Software Solutions

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

As leaders our responsibility includes encouraging our teams and grooming them to become successful in their current job assignments and grooming them to be future leaders. This grooming involves individualized encouragement and mentorship that must recognize that people are wired differently. Encouragement must be considered and applied uniquely based on how the recipient will receive the encouragement for it to be most effective. Otherwise we are attempting to put a square

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.

We usually give up on people because of poor performance. Often people are in roles that poorly utilize their skills to the best advantage. Discovering gold on a reclamation project required taking risks and not giving up on a person who was struggling. However, in the end it was gratifying to see a person succeed in a role that matched their skills and subsequently transition from the worst performer in the wrong job to a top performer / manager in a job that matched his ski

Henry Bedingfield (1505 - 1583). How we invest those dash years depends on our priorities, whatever we may believe our calling in life has been, our ability to take a chance on someone or something even when circumstances deem otherwise, and how we choose to impact the lives of the people and world around us.