I'm so excited about heading to work this morning, because Bob German is joining our team today. If you're not familiar with Bob's work either through Microsoft or the SharePoint community, I'll give you the 140-character version:
@Bob1German is #sharepoint developer & architect w/16 years exp at MSFT, frequent presenter, just published book on Silverlight & SP 2010.
I'm really looking forward to working with Bob, and the momentum that's building at work goes far beyond his joining us. I wanted to take this chance to say that for the first time in my life I'm experiencing a kind of workplace nirvana I haven't known before. People like Julie Turner, who just joined the team this fall, and Beatrice Baciu, one of the early hires at BlueMetal, are making my daily work life more collaborative and fun.
How to express this workplace nirvana succinctly for this blog? With Venn diagrams!
In the past few years I'd noticed that there was some, but not much, overlap in my network groups. I often envisioned a dream team where the really stellar people I'd worked with before, and the really stellar people from the community I'd only imagined working with, could come together with the really stellar people I was working with currently. Bonding and hilarity would ensue.
Well, it's happening.
That messy diagram is intentional, to show how much more overlap there is now. I get to work with friends and stellar co-workers from the past, and the group comprised of "never worked with them before but they're awesome to work with" is simply a much greater percentage of the "all co-workers" group. Kudos to the leadership of BlueMetal for putting together such a great team - they hit most of the workplace Twelve Attributes referenced below.
And those of you in the SharePoint community, note there's still a lot of room for that purple circle to move closer to the center. Please contact me if you think it would be as awesome to work with Bob, Julie, Beatrice, and all the other experts on the team, as I do!
More information:
The Twelve Attributes of a Truly Great Place to Work - Harvard Business Review blog
Counterpoint: Great People are Overrated
