What is your idea for today?

I am lucky to have been a part of a big conference and trade show the past few days in Orlando, Florida on behalf of our long term partner, The Vendome Group.

November 20th, 2013

During this show, I had a great conversation with a great friend and SRE

supporter, Mike Whittington from Mike Whittington and Associates and although we

didn’t have much time to talk, we did talk about the power of staying sharp.

Not just staying mired in the planning process, but being on an event floor and

executing- seeing your ideas come to life, and your diligence making your client

look good. He has many clients and gets to see so many approaches to similar

problems. This gives Mike the edge to be able to offer his clients not just

service, but ideas. Anyone can take an order, or manage details, but who is

managing ideas?

The world has evolved by the power of ideas. From fire to electricity, someone

had an idea, and the diligence to follow through on enacting it. That should be

the same in our professional relationships, right? In an age where everyone is

quick to press send to manage details, we should all strive to build into our

workday either “Idea Time” or build ideas into process management. Such as “Is

this the newest concept in this area? If not, what is?” Or “Can we do this

better? How?” Or simply following through on your convictions that there are

better ways to do things and that maybe the way you have been doing something is

antiquated.

What is your idea for today?

Steve