When Wynn bought the Desert Inn from Caesars, it came with PeopleSoft as it’s HR system. They thought the system would be adequate when in fact its version was so old it had to be totally updated. We went back and forth with them and became frustrated when they were unwilling to make the kinds of upgrades needed to satisfy my paperless and self-service expectations. I didn’t want to abandon my vision for HR and they were unbending – I worried I might have to abandon my dream. But I found some PeopleSoft program developers interested in making that system do what the PeopleSoft execs didn’t want it to do. Opening all of Wynn’s casinos presented many challenges and this one was my biggest; and that’s when I realized that to strive with difficulties and conquer them was the highest form of professional contentment. Made more so by working with really smart and committed people, giving them the space to do what they do best, and having the patience to let ideas develop. Don’t abandon your good ideas just because someone tells you it can’t be done. Collaborate, communicate, commiserate, and stay true to your vision. Good things happen to those who have the courage of their convictions today.
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784) English writer, poet, playwright, essayist, moralist, literary critic, sermonist, biographer, editor, and lexicographer. The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography calls him "arguably the most distinguished man of letters in English history".
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