I was happy working at Wynn because I was encouraged to look for projects that got my creativity going. I had lunch this week with someone I worked with on the paperless and self-service modules we built there on the front end of PeopleSoft. We talked about how those had been flapping around in little corners of both of our minds until we were able to bring them all together for Wynn’s opening in 2005. Lots of stars needed to align for that to happen – there it was new computer technology, processes that cried out for improvement, a company and brand that stood for innovation and excellence, an appetite for well-planned risk, and people who were passionate about their vision(s). There are things everywhere that can use improvement and stars can always be helped into alignment by people with good ideas working diligently and passionately to get them designed and implemented. Ideas that can make a difference and have an impact. Keep looking around at the things you’re doing and don’t be afraid to dream about ways to make them better. Even the smallest things. Let them flap around in your mind until you see them clearly and have an opportunity to talk them up. That’s the way improvements – big and small, begin to take shape today.
Elaine Lobl Konigsburg (1930-2013): American writer and illustrator of children's books and young adult fiction.
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