Career Lessons Learned – Watch the Road
One of the many lessons learned in my early Cerner Experience was looking through the current set of seemingly insurmountable problems and being able to keep the long-term vision in perspective. I recently read a book called The Hard Thing About Hard Things (Horowitz) where the author uses a car racing analogy to make the point. If
Career Lessons Learned – Composure
The history of complex enterprise wide systems implementations and support are littered with stories of failure, risk and consequences. Every person on the value chain of a systems implementation emotionally buys in to the excitement of the potential outcomes for process automating systems. The humans that architect, create requirements, develop, configure, test and support these
Career Lessons Learned – Leadership
Thirty years ago I was fortunate to get the opportunity to combine my formal education as a Medical Technologist (BSMT) with my technical tendencies and joined a startup called Patterson, Gorup, Illig and Associates, now known as Cerner. This year marks thirty years since joining Cerner and 15 since leaving in 1999. I wish to
Career Lessons Learned – A Better Systems Person
While growing up in Casper Wyoming I often worked for my dad in his plumbing business and was called the “what is it kid.” I loved to take things apart and figure out how they work. So systems thinking was a natural tendency and reinforced by learning how plumbing and heating systems work. Thirty years