Trashflower

I spent most of this week in Scottsdale, Arizona at a sales meeting. Now I typically don’t look forward to those types of things, because I’m not on the sales staff, and I find myself tuning out as they talk about print marketshare. (OK, maybe not print marketshare. I think marketshare is interesting – I used to work with that a lot… but you get the point.)

Instead of dreading this trip, I tried to go into it with an open-mind, looking at the value I could get out of it. And that value was building relationships with my co-workers from around the country. Its so much easier to support people when you actually *know* them. When you know that their daughter’s birthday is 2 days after your own, or how they met their wife. We’re all just people, and the more I can help each of them succeed individually, the more our company will succeed as a whole.

Other things I learned in Scottsdale: