When I used to attend SHRM conferences, friends and colleagues would congratulate me on all the cool HR programs we developed at Mirage and Wynn Resorts. While we rarely talked about it, most of those took long periods of time because they usually started out as bad ideas. That’s partly true because I was dreaming stuff up before there were computers to do them. And at that early stage there weren’t a lot of people skilled and knowledgeable enough to take the risk of working on them. But as computerization started to take off and people got more experienced with them, I was able to get people together to brainstorm my ideas. Notably, Bob Pemberton at Infinium believed in my vision and gave me the support and courage to continue while computing caught up. And David Kolins from the UK was disciplined and persistent in creating the specs needed to communicate with other developers and manage the projects. I’ve said before here that from thought to finish, my applicant tracking and paperless ideas took nearly 14 years – it would have been so easy to give up but the projected savings in time and money were too hard to ignore or abandon. My colleague John Strzemp used to say that ‘nothing comes easy’ and that was so true for my crazy projects. But bad ideas have a way of turning into good ones if you stick with them and continue to learn along the way. Do your homework and keep your eye on the ball if you want a good idea to live long enough to come true today.
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