Posts Tagged Work Experiences
Thoughts on Sales Engineering
Posted by Thom in Business, IT, Work Experiences on 2009/06/26
social_prefix = ”; social_title = ‘Thoughts on Sales Engineering’; social_url = ‘http://www.thommitchell.com/2009/06/26/thoughts-on-sales-engineering/’; Sometimes I’ve heard Sales Engineers nicknamed “sales preventers” because they understand why a product isn’t a good fit for a particular client’s needs preventing a potential deal. Knowing when and how to highlight a potential deal’s issues requires a delicate balance. and good communication skills. [...]
Waiting tables is a great training ground
Posted by Thom in Business, Work Experiences on 2009/06/17
Few jobs besides waiting tables allow for unbridled experimentation coupled with unparalleled immediate feedback in the form of cold hard cash, or lack thereof, . First of all let me say that I waited tables in a variety of establishments – from my very first job as a waiter as 17-year-old in a Shoney’s Big Boy to years [...]
Leadership always matters, especially in the Military
Posted by Thom in Business, Work Experiences on 2009/06/03
In the Navy I worked for a variety of commanding officers. All of them career officers and all of them wanted to have successful commands. But what was striking were the differences of leadership in how they sought to achieve that success. In the military, unlike in the civilian world, the commanding officer doesn’t have to [...]
Jack of All Trades and Master of ……Quite a Few
Posted by Thom in Business, Networking, Work Experiences on 2009/05/12
A recent Blog entry by Steven DiMaio struck home for me personally because I have a wide variety of skill sets and a large number of work experiences. This is usually a very good thing because I can usually make connections between disparate tasks and industries striking to the heart of issue quickly providing resolution to [...]
20 years with email
Posted by Thom in Technology, Work Experiences on 2009/04/03
It’s been over 20 years since I got my first email address. Of course I didn’t know what to do with it – after all an email address is pretty useless if no one else has one – like the fax machine, a classic illustration of the network effect. Eventually one of my friends back [...]
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