As I have gotten older, I have recognized that knowing what you don’t know… admitting it and...
engaging Preparation
If you are involved in the latest thing in IT development, you have probably heard the term...
renewing Persistence
Three amazing gifts of moving to the DC area and working for Fannie Mae changed the course of my...
Persistent execution…
You’re going to think all of my time as a “customer” was doing deals with vendors, and that is not...
wonderfully Persistent…
This spring I will have worked full time for 45 years. From age 17 till now, almost exactly 15...
observing Persistence
As engineering continued to grow, I picked up another direct report with a great team focusing on...
A partner with Persistence
The NeXT team was integrated, with both Ops (now) and engineering (the future) in the same small...
managing Persistence….
If you talk to any IT person, other than those on the Network team, you will find that pretty much...
Persistent engagement
Now that you know the Team, there are still a few stories that are worth spinning around my tour...
renewing Promises
The culture of most Ops groups are the same everywhere… and yet unique compared to other parts of...
How does a Promise execute?
We were again in my office, which you are going to soon think is more a Disaster Recovery...
wondering about Promise…
I know I have written before about the great office I had for this season - whiteboards on both...
The Promise of observation…
Like children, you don’t really have favorites on a Team… or shouldn’t. It is where the analogy...
The Promise of partners…
When I started teaching at JMU, I started to notice people that I worked with from there… and...