50 Cents A Cap

Mike Donoghue - September 8, 2008

Mike Donoghue is a member of a multinational information technology corporation where he collaborates on the communications guidelines and customer relationship strategies affecting the interactions with internal and external clients. He has analyzed, defined, designed and overseen processes for various engagements including product usability and customer satisfaction, best practice enterprise standardization, relationship/branding structures, and distribution effectiveness and direction. He has also established corporate library solutions to provide frameworks for sales, marketing, training, and support divisions.

So the peddler picked up his caps and put them hack on his head--

First his own checked cap,

Then the gray caps,

Then the brown caps,

Then the blue caps,

Then the red caps on the very top.

And slowly, slowly, he walked back to town calling, “Caps! Caps for sale! Fifty cents a cap!”

- an excerpt from the book Caps For Sale by Esphyr Slobodkina

You are a multitasker. You perform many duties and carry out many functions beyond the scope of your normal job requirements. This means doing a lot of work and all but changing yourself into a different person by assuming the responsibility for these activities.

Wearing many hats in an enterprise unfortunately happens frequently. Sometimes it’s because you work at a small operation and everyone needs to pitch in where needed. Sometimes it’s because there are personnel shortages because of departures, downsizing or spiked improvements in business. Other times, it’s just the nature of the business or operation--over-taxing the roles of its personnel, unnecessarily boosting their professional anxiety.

To attain the role of project manager often means having had to assume a variety of positions in order to gain an understanding or empathic/sympathetic comprehension of what the needs for a project (and its team members) are. This also may include practical …

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