Friday, August 26, 2011

Take advantage of those "sunny days"

I live in the US on the East Coast and this weekend there is a hurricane warning just days after my first earthquake. I can't help but think of the importance of having things in a ready enough state that if something goes wrong, errrr..., when something goes wrong, or really changes, so that you are best able to cope with the additional stress and things to do. I'm glad my husband and I decided to clean out our basement during a few sunny days this summer-- it won't be so bad when it (probably) gets flooded.


I can see how this same thing kinds happens within my work, too.
There are slower sunny days and you've got to take advantage of them.
They may not feel like "sunny days"-- but I bet you have experienced them.

These “sunny days” are the days that you are waiting, this is the time between when you have prepared for your big changes on your Intranet and when you can get implemented. I am struck by how very much time it takes to implement changes to an enterprise Intranet...after all, it takes time to align visions, to coordinate change requests, to bring different stakeholders together, to get resources and approval to move forward. But, make no doubt about it, these are your "sunny days." And, in the scheme of things, we only get a few of them, so we need to use them as opportunity to prepare.