What is the number one thing that is impacting your ability to perform your job today?
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Mike B.
Global Operations Excellence Manager at 7-Eleven Inc
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As a large company employee--
Answer: Having to follow prescribed protocol, rather than being unleashed,encouraged, and budgeted to test new practices.
Randy T.
Sr. Staff Semiconductor Design Engineer at Renesas Electronics America, Inc
Insufficiently precise and/or incorrect documentation of the design constraints over which I have no control. This has always been the largest hurdle in any (technical) organization I've been a part of, and likely always will.
The biggest constrain in my job profile is unclear specification for effort estimation. The end result is over-budgeted manhours & getting involved into further negotiations; resulting into nothing.
Dan T.
Consultant at BT Global Services / Infrastructure Information Security Engineer, Sempra
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Not having a budget and having no power to enforce new policy in a growing company.
Without doubt, a resistance to change. Investigation is an ever changing field and behind the scenes more needs to be done to make it easier to make these changes.
Chris W.
17 years internet/new media experience.
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I'm on a sabbatical at the moment so I don't have this problem. When I did have a job the answer to this question would be:
Managerial lack of clarity in business development direction, even when I was a CEO or managing Director - one always has a boss!
This means that the managers didn't know what they wanted to do and therefore left the decision to others who probably knew less but could be blamed should the direction be proved wrong.
or more succinctly - lack of managerial 'balls'
chris@chriswarrender.com
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I am sorry if my answer is not welcome as I am still in middle school and do not have a job, but the thing that keeps me most from my schoolwork today was getting carried away by my own research. Having looked up a few news articles for a Current Events assignment, I noticed an alarming simalarity and straightway e-mailed the man quoted in the article with a question. The e-mail bounced back, and, in an effort to find a current one, ended up here.
A simple chain of events, but I will have more work to do tomorrow because of it.
Naina R.
Logo Designer & Professional Photographer
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The number one thing impacting my ability perform my job today is wanting to go back to the very same vacation I just took on the beaches of Goa. A vacation needs another vacation :)
James M.
Tecnical Support Engineer at Symantec
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#1 Having to take direction from a manager who doesn't have a clue IT.
