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 …
Author: Jeff Ross
Leap Year Lesson #353: It’s No Wonder Why People Shop Online
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 …
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Leap Year Lesson #352: Hire the Right Person
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 …
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Leap Year Lesson #351: You Must Move On
The saturation of media coverage for the Newtown, CT tragedy is just too much. It isn't healthy to watch the coverage constantly after a tragedy like that. At the beginning when we're in shock and trying to find out what happened, watching in disbelief is understandable. But when it reaches a point of repetition with little …
Leap Year Lesson #350: Hang On to Imagination
This morning I spent an hour with four young children - two boys who will be three years old in a few weeks and two girls who are each four years old. I wish I had a video of the time because it was fascinating. I haven't been around that much imagination in a long …
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