Success is what you define.  

If arriving in New York on Tuesday is your objective, showing up at the city limits at 11:45pm would be considered a success.  What if the reason you needed to be in New York was for a conference that started at 10am on Tuesday?  Then arriving at 11:45pm would be a failure.  Simply saying you didn’t commit to being there by 10am would not change the fact that you missed the conference – and in the opinion of others, you failed. 

With four generations in the work force, it is important that everyone understands the challenges of working together and how we are all motivated differently. 

With Baby Boomers working past the typical retirement age and Millennials and Gen Z’s continually entering the work force, the differences in communication and values are becoming much more apparent.  

I knew going into our project at the University of Missouri that it was going to be a lot of hard work. When we started in April 2016, I was ready for the challenge ahead of us. We were there to manage the implementation of the new Cisco UC system in over 300 buildings, with 20,000+ phones …