--- In [email protected], Gregg Wonderly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > htshozawa wrote: > > > > > > Except for the new Porche Cayenne they drive to work! :) > > > > +1 on Johan. We have to keep executives informed so they will be > > given credits when the project succeeds. :) > > The actually work probably has to be bottom up. > > It's cheaper and more productive to reward the sales toads, because they're the > ones talking to the customer. If they are happy, the customer's happiness is > halfway there. You just have to keep the donuts on the break room table, and > make sure that there is plenty of mountain dew in the fridge. Then, you'll keep > the developers awake and hopefully productive as long as their office is on the > opposite side of the building from where the Cayenne is parked... > > Gregg Wonderly >
A few years ago a wise English businessman (yes, he had made a lot of money respectably) offered me a simple classification question for people in business, i.e.are you: (1) a salesman/woman or (2) a filing clerk? This deliberately simplistic classification divide is designed to make you think about your attitude to other people, whatever the situation - it actually has nothing to do with your job role. It is a question as relevant to an office cleaner or Java programmer with ambition as it is to a VP Sales/Marketing. Yes, I have known some of the latter that fitted better into the filing clerk category. If you are in IT providing business solutions, it is a useful question to put to yourself. It is all about attitude! Gervas
