I manage a staff of 12 locally (others overseas) who's collective tenure is in the hundreds of years (no joke). One guy I'm giving his 45-year service award Monday. What I've done to keep them motivated and earn their trust/pseudo-respect: fine common ground through humor, interests, life (e.g., children if you have them) and build from there. I've kept them motivated through various incentives (money, looking the other way on leaving early, some work from home) but I also make rational arguments as to why, for example, I've raised their productivity targets. This has resulted in a 50% YOY productivity increase, and they'll go 30% over that next year at this pace. No one hates me and while they may grumble, they understand why things are the way they are. Anyway, hope that helps.
I've used both apps, as a user, not a developer. I can say this with certitude: if I want something fast with reasonable workflow capabilities, I can get it out of Sharepoint. Aside from my corporation's resource constraints, development on Lotus is way over my head and thus useless to me./Begin flamewar
As someone in a startup, I just need to add a few things to that- if you get experienced people, make sure they know your industry. I'm at an Internet company, and we have old-school executives, if that makes sense, who don't really understand what we're doing. They've created more problems than solutions. Just a caveat. Hope it helps.
I realize this is somewhat off topic, but is anyone else having problems installing R5? I've tried both the X installer and the redhat one, and it likes to lock up my system about fifteen percent into installing the packages...is this just me? any help would be greatly appreciated.
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Transfer all your WoW gold to me, for me.
I manage a staff of 12 locally (others overseas) who's collective tenure is in the hundreds of years (no joke). One guy I'm giving his 45-year service award Monday. What I've done to keep them motivated and earn their trust/pseudo-respect: fine common ground through humor, interests, life (e.g., children if you have them) and build from there. I've kept them motivated through various incentives (money, looking the other way on leaving early, some work from home) but I also make rational arguments as to why, for example, I've raised their productivity targets. This has resulted in a 50% YOY productivity increase, and they'll go 30% over that next year at this pace. No one hates me and while they may grumble, they understand why things are the way they are. Anyway, hope that helps.
I've used both apps, as a user, not a developer. I can say this with certitude: if I want something fast with reasonable workflow capabilities, I can get it out of Sharepoint. Aside from my corporation's resource constraints, development on Lotus is way over my head and thus useless to me. /Begin flamewar
why did i read this as 'bald-headed chicken porn?'
i listened to too much manson in college...
Bravo (or should I say 'well job'),
I was wondering if someone would be me to it.
As someone in a startup, I just need to add a few things to that- if you get experienced people, make sure they know your industry. I'm at an Internet company, and we have old-school executives, if that makes sense, who don't really understand what we're doing. They've created more problems than solutions. Just a caveat. Hope it helps.
I realize this is somewhat off topic, but is anyone else having problems installing R5? I've tried both the X installer and the redhat one, and it likes to lock up my system about fifteen percent into installing the packages...is this just me? any help would be greatly appreciated.