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Being A Doer Is How You Change Things
Written by: Brad FeldArticle Overview: A few weeks ago, my friend Alan Shimel connected me with Jennifer Leggio. Jennifer is the Director of Strategic Communications at Fortinet and an active blogger in - among other things - security and communication. Alan suggested to Jennifer that she might be interested in the work we have been doing at the National Center for Women & Information Technology.
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Being A Doer Is How You Change Things
A few weeks ago, my friend Alan Shimel connected me with Jennifer Leggio. Jennifer is the Director of Strategic Communications at Fortinet and an active blogger in - among other things - security and communication. Alan suggested to Jennifer that she might be interested in the work we have been doing at the National Center for Women & Information Technology.
I remember the conversation fondly because I was sitting on the floor upstairs at Oblong's office in LA while a bunch of people ran around downstairs looking at some cool stuff that Oblong was presenting to one of their customers. Oblong had recently moved in to their new office and there was a noticeable lack of comfortable surfaces or devices to sit on (or in) upstairs. The floor had to make do. It was actually pretty clean and comfortable.
Jennifer asked a bunch of hard questions. We had a great conversation. I connected her with Lucy Sanders, the CEO of NCWIT, and they talked. Jennifer got her mind around how to engage in the problem NCWIT is addressing and Women in IT - Be A Change Agent (Part One) is the post she wrote kicking off her thoughts and actions.
I appear to have said at least one memorable thing during our conversation:
“The most impactful people tend to be the doers in the organization. We can’t rely solely on entrepreneurs, who may have very little time, to make change happen. Anyone with a strong voice can be a role model. It’s easier to get started when you’re a leader but real change happens when you build momentum across a much broader spectrum.”
Jennifer riffed nicely on this and came up with a number of actionable things for doers to do which she enumerated in Women in IT - Be A Change Agent (Part One).
Jennifer - great stuff on many levels.
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Re: LEADERS
- I also like being tagged with the name "Doer". If you are a Doer, then you make things happen. My wife fits this bill perfectily, she makes things happen.
Re: Spellcheck?
- [quote="TheAnonymousMan":2f894q6j]When discussing the majority of people I would definitely say that most people hit the "Change" or "Ignore" button without thinking too much about the correct spelling of a word. All bosses are concerned about is getting the report to the Directors meeting on time.[/quote:2f894q6j]
That probably depends on what the "majority" are trying to accomplish. I have word set to alert me about misspellings and grammatical problems, so I fix most as I go. But I also add names etc to the dictionary because I get tired of seeing the red and green squiggles when I know the info is right.
If you're only going to click "Change" or "Ignore" then why bother to take the time to use spell check????? Business people that I work for want the info compiled in a timely manner and they want it right - which is fine because that's the way I strive to do any project. Sending out a memo, letter, report etc with obvious spelling and grammatical mistakes makes the person and the company look bad as far as I'm concerned.
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