davidNprogress

This weekend is the 25th anniversary of the OKC bombing. At the time, I was a government account salesperson for Cellular One and many of the people in the building were my customers. I would go to the building several times during the month to meet with people, deliver devices and perform other activities. On the day of the bombing, I was working at my desk to shore up a presentation regarding the Cellular One disaster support plan. My manager and our sales team served on a committee comprised of local first responder leaders including the fire chief, 911 center leadership and others. My role was mostly on the device side as I was in charge of creating an inventory of standby phones that could quickly be dispersed in the case of a disaster. Hard to believe, but back in 1995 phones were not as commonplace as they are now and our sales team needed to work hard to convince public safety officials on the value behind the need for cellular communication. I was at my desk...

It seems like it was just yesterday that we were at work with friends, co-workers, and the long talker that would trap folks for what seemed like hours to tell a random story about their weekend. Suddenly the world has changed and all of that is gone as millions of us have suddenly found ourselves forced to work from home. For those of us at home, our role now is to maximize the time to be the best possible worker we can while also balancing whatever may also be going on in the house as we deal with stir-crazy children, barking dogs and the reality of spending 100% of hour time with our family. It will come as a surprise to many to learn that the transition to working from home can be difficult. First, there is the design of the job itself. Your company may not have previously used tools like Zoom, Webex, Skype and others to connect workers with each other. Fortunately, these can be learned quickly if you have a tech leader that can help others to adapt. Next is the work at...