I’ve told the story here before but feel compelled to tell it again as it relates to determination and perseverance. Many good ideas never make because they take so long and are hard to see them through to realization. That was almost true with the creative computer ideas I had. It started after the Mirage opening, when we looked back and began talking about what to improve if we had the chance to do another opening. All the manual paperwork and record keeping associated with 55,000 applications and 6000 new employees had been a nightmare to handle and store. There hadn’t been many alternative ways to do that prior to the development of computers, and they were so new back then (in 1989) that no one had thought about using them for something like this. But what little was known about them seemed to suggest this might be impossible. It wasn’t until 1998 that we were able to program computers to handle some of these manual processes, and even then, those solutions were only partial. But it started to look like they might possible. The 2003 planning for the Wynn Las Vegas opening showed that even though computers had not been used for this kind of application, they certainly looked like they could. Two years later, in 2005, all that determination finally resulted in our paperless HR environment, with online applications, self-service applications, and electronic storage of data and forms. I nearly lost heart during those 16 years, but the strength of my dream and the determination of our team kept it going finally made it happen. Whatever your dream, stay determined to make it happen today.
Tommy Lasorda (1927 – 2021): American professional baseball pitcher and manager. He managed the Los Angeles Dodgers of Major League Baseball (MLB) from 1976 through 1996.
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