http://www.lifebeyondcode.com/2006/05/13/ways-to-distinguish-yourself-127-synchronize-your-configurations/ Personal and professional development for technology professionals. Sat, 20 Mar 2010 23:11:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.lifebeyondcode.com/2006/05/13/ways-to-distinguish-yourself-127-synchronize-your-configurations/comment-page-1/#comment-649 Anonymous Mon, 15 May 2006 03:24:11 +0000 http://www.blog.lifebeyondcode.com/2006/05/13/ways-to-distinguish-yourself-127-synchronize-your-configurations/#comment-649 Synchrony - It's the reason that the baseball team with the highest payroll cannot get their boat to the World Series every year. A team composed of All-Stars will not beat the best regular team on a given day. Statistics are only that...statistics. It doesn't mean you'll get the same performance in September that you got in July. If your third baseman thinks your catcher is a scumbag, there may be some trouble with synchrony even if they are the best at their position. I enjoyed your post, and making the connection that even in our personal lives, the concept of synchrony or teams is involved in situations where you feel you are operating in a vacuum. I may feel like I'm alone when I'm dealing with a medical bill that my insurance won't pay, and although there's no formal team, the individual efforts, attitudes, and abilities of myself, the customer service rep at the insurance company, their manager, the clerk at my doctor's office, and perhaps the doctor herself(himself) will determine the success of this unrealized(?) team to process payment on my insurance claim. We don't wear the same uniforms or collect a paycheck from the same place, but every issue that is addressed by more than one individual requires some happy synchrony to see itself to fruition. Even if the item is low priority on one person's to-do list, the respect with which I treat one of my "team members" in our conversations could have a great effect on the final result. Good luck with your book. Synchrony – It’s the reason that the baseball team with the highest payroll cannot get their boat to the World Series every year. A team composed of All-Stars will not beat the best regular team on a given day. Statistics are only that…statistics. It doesn’t mean you’ll get the same performance in September that you got in July. If your third baseman thinks your catcher is a scumbag, there may be some trouble with synchrony even if they are the best at their position.
I enjoyed your post, and making the connection that even in our personal lives, the concept of synchrony or teams is involved in situations where you feel you are operating in a vacuum. I may feel like I’m alone when I’m dealing with a medical bill that my insurance won’t pay, and although there’s no formal team, the individual efforts, attitudes, and abilities of myself, the customer service rep at the insurance company, their manager, the clerk at my doctor’s office, and perhaps the doctor herself(himself) will determine the success of this unrealized(?) team to process payment on my insurance claim.
We don’t wear the same uniforms or collect a paycheck from the same place, but every issue that is addressed by more than one individual requires some happy synchrony to see itself to fruition. Even if the item is low priority on one person’s to-do list, the respect with which I treat one of my “team members” in our conversations could have a great effect on the final result.
Good luck with your book.

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