Hi there, You may not know me, I'm a list lurker 99% of the time for the past many years, and just now wading through the smoldering backlog of mail from the past week on LUAU and HOSEF / HOSEF managers.....
I just wanted to thank you for: a) trying to keep a level head and calm things down when the flames were flying and b) sharing this insightful story -- the suggestiong to bring solutions instead of just problems wherever possible strikes me as a sort of professional collary of "if you don't have something nice to say, don't say anything" Aloha, Rob --- Jim Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Allow me to tell a story. Back when I was the hot-shit network (telecommunications and data communications) stud at Sun Microsystems, (late 80s, and very early 90s), back when a lot of people called me "Jim net.god Thompson", my new boss, (I'd just been moved up), a very wise Indian gentleman, stopped me during one of my weekly 1:1 rants. "Jim", he said to me, "you always bring me problems, but never solutions!" (You have to imagine it with a thick Indian accent.) I was, in a word, "enlightened". Sam Rangole (for that was his name) had shined a perfect spotlight on my misbehavior. I was complaining about how stupid the other groups were, how far they had to go, and how they were not going to reach the goal anytime soon. He didn't waste any breath giving me "yes but", or "you should", he simply asked me to start bringing him something he could use to do his job.: Solutions (from an expert). In my new state of enlightenment, I started working harder. I would see a problem, diagnose it, and never raise it to Sam's attention without a suggested path forward. The results were amazing, rather than fear me, people I worked with started to seek me out. "How can I make this better?" "Will you check my results?" I was no longer someone who would tear them down, but rather *could be counted on* to make them look better. So, everyone, please bring forward solutions to the problems you pose. Jim __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
