Comments for Not All Managers Have Pointy Hair: A CEO's Guide to Understanding ManagementFollow the founding engineer turned CEO of a data visualization services provider as he offers insight into management perspectives and shares unique experiences from the executive level, including key lessons in resolving management issues, advancing your career, and becoming an all-around better businessperson.Comment by hothaggis on When opportunity knocks...- April 26, 2006 Mike, Really liked this post. Totally agree with point 1. I take on challanges, especially the difficult ones because I want to succeed within myself. I try not to see barriers but opportunities to try and resolve problems in a different way. Regards and Thanks SHHhttp://networking.ittoolbox.com/r/rss.asp?url=http://it.toolbox.com/blogs/understanding-mg... Comment by Dratz on When opportunity knocks...- April 18, 2006 The most difficult think for a human to do is to decide Not try to do something, but DECIDE to do something Where you just acknowledge that failure is not an option so you don't have to waste any effort on excuses or covering your butt I don't understand why more people don't challenge themselves with the impossible To me, it proves I'm alive I am working on a situtaion now for the former client of a former client of mine for free (so far anyway) because they just chttp://networking.ittoolbox.com/r/rss.asp?url=http://it.toolbox.com/blogs/understanding-mg... Comment by halle on Free Will, Eh- April 15, 2006 I have seen few really mercenary employees Most of the time it seems to me that if the company is loyal then most of their people are to But when the company stops being loyal to their employees things change A small example: I know some of the people in a department in a relatively big IT consultancy company The company where doing well possibly even very well (and maybe they still are), but the shareholders were'nt pleased, they expected it to do even better So tophttp://networking.ittoolbox.com/r/rss.asp?url=http://it.toolbox.com/blogs/understanding-mg... Comment by BIVet on When opportunity knocks...- April 13, 2006 I get my greatest joy from doing what others say " can't be done". Obstacles are more than opportunites, they are what makes it worth while to get up in the morning. People come to me when all else fails, and I seldom do. Usually it just means stepping outside the box and working back from the goals into the tools available to do the job. Egotistical No. I just love to play with these great technological toys the great minds who have come before me have created, until they do the things thttp://networking.ittoolbox.com/r/rss.asp?url=http://it.toolbox.com/blogs/understanding-mg... Comment by Mike MacDonald on When opportunity knocks...- April 7, 2006 Hi Matt - It was you, but not that post. I was referring to this one. I couldn't remember initially where I had found it. BTW, I did enjoy your I GIVE YOU PERMISSION post, very good stuff. Mikehttp://networking.ittoolbox.com/r/rss.asp?url=http://it.toolbox.com/blogs/understanding-mg... Comment by Matthew Moran on When opportunity knocks...- April 7, 2006 May I be bold enough to indicate that it was my blog entry - I GIVE YOU PERMISSION I want to take it a step further I cannot, for the life of me, ever see NOT taking on the impossible project - the project that people have run from I did it in corporate America (when I was an employee), I did it with my consulting company - telling my consultant's that the word's IT CANNOT BEhttp://networking.ittoolbox.com/r/rss.asp?url=http://it.toolbox.com/blogs/understanding-mg... |