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clintsharp — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 04:52:52 +0000

I’ve been thinking about doing it for years, but today I’ve finally moved this from a custom WordPress instance on Dreamhost (run by Kirkham Systems for the last 5 years at no charge, thanks Tom!) to WordPress.com. Since I never updated my WordPress instance, I’m really surprised it hasn’t been rooted yet. Since the last 3 or 4 postings here refer to my being more active with blogging, I won’t commit to writing more, although I think I’d really like to.

Time to start writing thoughts again

clintsharp — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 00:11:27 +0000

A couple of things have happened recently which has made it to where I believe it’s time to start writing thoughts, publicly, again. First, I’m relatively certain people do not read this, at least regularly. Secondly, even though I have advanced significantly in my career and I am now a very competent middle manager, I believe my entire happiness in my work life is suffering simply because we seem to defer to political correctness. Making sure no one’s feelings are hurt rather than running an organization as a meritocracy where the best ideas win seems to be lay of the land, at least in American business these days. I used to not be afraid of putting my thoughts out there, now I seem to be in constant fear that being liked is the most important aspect to career advancement. I have decided that while I have come very very far in the last few years attempting to ensure that I am effective at change in a large organization due to being well liked and respected, I will no longer place being liked ahead of stating what I think will be in the best interest of our organization. That does not mean I intended to go back to being a daft prick like I have been in former years, but I will be firm on my thoughts on the direction our organization should be taking. I want these ideas to stand on their own, so this will be immediately followed by another post on being too customer centric.

Holy Shit, 1.5 Years since my last post!!

clintsharp — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 06:20:15 +0000

Holy shit. That’s crazy. Wonder if anyone still reads this thing. It appears to have been hax0r’d as there’s some links on my blogroll I didn’t add. This WordPress version is crazy old now too.

So, things are going great at work. Since my last posting I’ve signifcantly advanced in my management track and have something like 20 people working for me (although that’s about to go down a bit). I have lots of interesting commentary on IT Management, and I suppose I’ll probably refactor this blog to voice my opinions on IT Operations. Dunno if anyone even cares about such things, but we have a number of challenges I don’t mind sharing wisdom with the Internets on.

More to come in a week or two while I figure out what to do about this hosting situation and get this thing refactored.