CHRISTINA MOORE

team management

12 | Its Just Work

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It is just work.

Sometimes all of the work smarter, better tools, teamwork boils down to focusing on the job and doing it. Nike says it well: Just do it! A team-building phrase that does carry sympathy and understanding and the tenderness of acknowledging, that work what we get paid to do. It is just work – with deadlines, and challenges, and tiny rewards. Ain’t no real short cuts, but I do find joy in working. Do others?

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Zen, Zen of work, motivation, WCRB, CRB, Hyatt House, Irma, Hurricane Maria, Disaster Recovery, Disaster response, Oracle, Oracle APEX, data management, programming, software development, entrepreneurship, business management, team management, team planning, crisis management, disaster recovery,

11 | PST Baby: Primary, Secondary, Tertiary

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“What could possibly go wrong?”

Around here, if there is one plan there are three plans. We’ve got to have the primary plan, then the backup plan then the other plan for when it all goes entirely wrong. PST – a reminder to start with a primary plan, a secondary plan, and a tertiary plan. Embracing failure may improve our lives, our work, and our teams.

In this episode, I explore lessons from a 2008 fire on the USS George Washington, an aircraft carrier, the crash of flight 14 FedEx, sailing in Alaska — oh, and programming with Oralce APEX. And I ask myself what I might sound like playing the piano.

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Oracle, Oracle APEX, planning, PST, primary secondary tertiary, USS George Washington, FedEx Flight 14, plane crash, data management, programming, software development, entrepreneurship, business management, team management, team planning, crisis management, disaster recovery