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 …
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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 #334: Schedule Team Time to Focus On One Task
Our Social Media team at work took some time yesterday to get together and have a "Pinterest pinning party." That means we grabbed our laptops, found a spot away from our office cubes, grabbed a beverage and then all worked together on helping get our company's Pinterest page up and running by pinning (linking and …
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Leap Year Lesson #331: Don’t Be a Lone Ranger
Some of you reading this never saw a TV episode of The Lone Ranger, so I'll just refer you to this article about it for background. For purposes of this post, all you need to know is that there is a saying "Don't be a Lone Ranger" that deals with the value of working with …
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Leap Year Lesson #330: Don’t Be So Busy That You Ignore People Around You
Today was my first full day at work since last Tuesday. There was much to be done. I was very glad when my one meeting was canceled because it meant I had the whole day to get things done and make a serious dent in the 80+ emails awaiting me. I was able to reduce …
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