All I Really Need To Know I Learned In Kindergarten

All I Really Need To Know I Learned In Kindergarten

I am currently working on a plan to work with and support our ISV and IHV partners in a couple of new strategy directions we are working on.

This actually started as a very boring project because I didn't see where the real challenges actually were. Developing strategy is already a complicated process when you can own the strategy development and implement. It becomes close to impossible when you have to develop a strategy that relies almost entirely on implementation by partnes and complementary technologies.

It was at this point that I realized our strongest talents come from some lessons learned in kindergarten.

From a poster in my thrid grade teachers class (go Ms. Chase):

• Share everything
• Play fair
• Don't hit people
• Clean up your own mess

Sharing, Playing Fair, Not hitting people (or other companies) and cleaning up our own mess are the values that make AMD great (and create a ton of work for me).

So here is why this strategy is causing me so much trouble. I have to figure out how to engage a number of critical partners as part of a cohesive long term strategy. Ever get 10 companies to "share, play fair, not hit each other and clean up the mess"....

So as I work on what could possibly be impossible... I am comforted by the fact that I work in a company full of people that were paying attention in kindergarten. Weren't you?