Thoughts, devotions, and more from Jeffrey K. Ross, author of "Next Step Devotions"
More out of curiosity than necessity today, I used the smart phone app Waze on the 190-mile round trip to and from my parents' farm. I wanted to see how accurate it was in mapping my progress using GPS and warning me of potential trouble spots along the route. It does much more than that, …
Continue reading Leap Year Lesson #356: Listen to Early Warnings
Very few days go by without someone complaining to me about something happening in our company's internal social network. Usually it's about a specific discussion that someone takes offense at or because they think a rule or two have been broken that requires my intervention as community manager. That goes with the territory of managing …
Our business area at work had a celebration today. This month marked the initial release of a major, long-term development project that involves about 300 people over several years across multiple business and IT departments. It happens to be led primarily my my current director and my former director from the IT team I left …
I just made an attempt to go shopping for a couple of things - one item I want for my smart phone and a Christmas gift for a friend. After two hours, three individual stores and a mall, I came back home empty handed. The first store had one of the items and it was …
Continue reading Leap Year Lesson #353: It’s No Wonder Why People Shop Online
I've had the good fortune of working on a couple of outstanding teams in my 9+ years at Humana. One year ago today I started with the Enterprise Social Media Team where I love being responsible for our internal enterprise social network and where I share responsibility for some of our external social networks. We …
Continue reading Leap Year Lesson #352: Hire the Right Person
