Steering the ship
December 11th, 2006 by Robert
In my professional life I have served my country, worked for one mom and pop shop, spent time with a small software vendor and worked for 2 big companies and 1 medium size company. In that time I’ve seen really dumb decisions, tough decisions and everything in between. Had a few supervisors who looked out for me, had a few that were only interested in their career paths, and a few that tried to do the right thing. Witnessed a few outright lies to customers and a few creative solutions being offered.
So it is fair to say that I’ve seen just about everything and it constantly amazes me how some companies operate. Through it all I’ve fought many, many uphill battles, fighting against bad vendors, trying to protect the company I’m working for and help it make informed decisions. As a result I’ve had a few successes and many more defeats, but I have always tried to keep my integrity even though I couldn’t keep my mouth shut.
Who cares you say? Well, seeing as I plan to own a couple businesses of my own and who knows some or maybe just one of those will grow large enough so that it has many employees I don’t want to fall in to the same trap. Naturally you can’t please everybody all the time, but I don’t want to make the same mistakes as those I’ve worked for in the past. With that being said, I’m dedicating this category just for marking these occasions when I will look back to remind myself of how I don’t want things to be run.
Let us see if I can steer my ship in the right direction.
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