Tuesday, 24 January 2012

Remember to put "YET" at the end

It should have dawned on me many years ago that, in my role as IT Manager at St Christopher's School Bahrain, I should be publishing some of what I do out into the WWW (that's the Wild Wild Web) rather than just getting on with my job - privately, selfishly almost.  So, here I sit, quietly cursing the period of the year where I upset some people: Resources and Budgeting.


"I want 10 of X", "I want 50 of Y", "We want 100 of X AND Y", "I want to trial Project Delta"
"Mmmm, but the pot of money suggests something quite different," I ponder.


So, when it gets to your turn to get upset by me (that includes those of you I don't work with ... yet), don't say "Hmmph.  I didn't get that bid"; rather, say "I didn't get that bid, YET"


Equally, if you've never had bids questioned/turned down/rejected/reduced ... you, too, can add YET.


Time: Nature's way of making sure that not everything happens at once.

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