{"id":910,"date":"2007-10-03T03:23:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-03T07:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2007\/10\/03\/tuesday-night-aot\/"},"modified":"2007-10-03T03:23:00","modified_gmt":"2007-10-03T07:23:00","slug":"tuesday-night-aot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2007\/10\/03\/tuesday-night-aot\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday Night – AoT"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Oy\u2026 I only have a few hours to sleep before I need to be in my seat and smiling at 7AM<\/st1:time>..   <\/span>Sometimes it would be so easy to tell myself. I’ll blog tomorrow\u2026 but I have a tradition to maintain here..   <\/span>I’ll make this short and sweet. Today was uneventful from the sense that I did not ever step outside of the comforting wrap of the hotel today. I cant tell you if the day was hot or cool, dry or humid.. . Inside it was cool, dry and interesting. This meeting is the one each year that draw all the 300+ folks from the IBM academy under one roof. It’s a great opportunity to connect with all my friends that live all over the world. The big thing we’re struggling with now is how to make sure that   <\/span>the body we belong to is really reaching out to the more than 210 thousand technical folks in my company.. I like thinking about stuff like that.. In fact.. anything that involves people and their path to success really interests me.. <\/p>\n

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One of the great things about this meeting is the opportunity to sit down and talk to friends I  <\/span>have from across the US<\/st1:place><\/st1:country-region>.. and in other areas such as the US<\/st1:place><\/st1:country-region>, Canada<\/st1:place><\/st1:country-region>  <\/span>Europe<\/st1:place>, India<\/st1:place><\/st1:country-region>, China<\/st1:place><\/st1:country-region>, Japan<\/st1:place><\/st1:country-region>. Mexico<\/st1:place><\/st1:country-region>. Canada<\/st1:place><\/st1:country-region>, Brazil<\/st1:place><\/st1:country-region>, etc. One aspect of this is to come face to face with ‘failure’. I know that I have not been doing my best job over the past 10 months\u2026   <\/span>I may have a good excuse.. but that doesn’t change the fact that many things I was trying to drive at my work.. may not occur once I  <\/span>take my  <\/span>in-house sabbatical Nov  <\/span>1st<\/sup> I’ve been confronted by a large array of work folks today.. that have been asking  <\/span>‘where have you been’\u2026 ‘why aren’t you doing ,,\u2026 ‘x’ “   <\/span>why are you letting us down ?<\/p>\n

I don’t have an answer.. But I do know that I’ve been doing all that I can do given  <\/span>my current situation. I’m learning to forgive myself for that.. to be easy on myself.. I hope that it works for the rest of you. <\/p>\n

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I keep  <\/span>falling asleep.. so I need to stop now\u2026   <\/span>before I drop my laptop<\/p>\n

Gnite all.. gnite Sam <\/p>\n

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-me<\/p>\n

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ps.. here are some pictures from the day<\/p>\n

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Out on 6th street
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Bob. me and Al

Nick’s admonition<\/p>\n

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Akl the fellows  in a meeting<\/p>\n

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Religious message aside.. I DO !
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