Don't Let Them Underestimate You

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This was quite insightful and helpful. Thanks for the good post, Michael.

glhoffman of MN 9:54AM June 02, 2009

#3 above "may" be good advice, but I would tend to stress and cite your goals for local on-site, on-topic progress rather than get your boss dreaming about the buzzword of "best practices". Often that can invite delusions for side trips into fantasy land.
I once knew a second-generation family owner who pushed the personnel guy to produce more charts and graphs, basically because they were trendy at the time. There was little attention given to WHAT those things were to show and how they would possibly improve the actual performance of any person or function. But color graphs are leading edge! Yeah, right.

Muser of NM 11:10AM May 29, 2009