Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar. Erica Jong
We have a dedicated person who works here who’s initials essentially form the word” Krazy”. I love her exuberance and enthusaism that she brings to our office. She’s not afraid to tackle the tough stuff and she does so with gusto.
And we are bringing on the tough stuff. In our industry, converting from one software to another is a kind of crazy. The kind of crazy that means, “What was I thinking?” It will take us a year and a half at the least to make the transition – we will make mistakes – our clients will question the need for us to change – I will question whether the investment is appropriate, especially when our industry is changing so fast that what we have now may be behind the times sooner rather than later.
And yet our most daunting point from a staffing perspective, is that everyone wants to be first on the learning curve of the new software. They want to be out there. They’re not afraid of change. They’re not daunted by the prospect of failure. They want to learn. That’s called a success problem in my book. We can’t all be first, even in our small company, but by golly we’re going to try to get everyone up to the speed they want to be going as quickly as possible.
Change – it’s tough, it’s frustrating, it requires longer hours, it raises questions, and it’s necessary if we want our company to survive. I’m sure you’ll hear more about this change over the coming months. It’s the big enchilada in our garden of payroll.
Cheers,
Bryan Dear
www.payrolldept.biz
