Wednesday
Andrew Carnegie would have loved WWP. Talk about a place to make friends and be influenced by people! This is the place where the elite meet to greet. (It’s already been established that our membership in IFMA makes us among the smartest and most proficient in the industry…attendance at WWP really highlights those who want to truly succeed in the profession through learning and networking)
This is also the place to be influenced. Those less experienced among us should seek out the members with all the ribbons and titles on their badges. There is an inestimable amount of knowledge and wisdom to be had for the asking.
As for us grizzled old veterans (and the more attractive muses of the profession on the distaff side), we might be surprised at the different perspectives we get from those newer to Facility Management.
No dialogue that takes place at WWP is wasted.
Too many conflicts this morning. I performed my duties responsibly, presiding over the FMCC meeting and officially passing the orb & scepter over to Kit Tuveson, who took over the Council as President. This is the day for Council meetings and that takes precedence over those other gatherings that were so tempting.
There was a Global Sustainability meeting taking place…I really wanted to listen and share at that one. I was invited to help at New Attendee Orientation, but I had to miss that one, too. And we just barely made the tail end of the Moderators meeting. One of the challenges at every WWP is that everything is important…it’s sort of like the CFM exam, where every choice is the right one, it just needs to be decided as to which one is the most right one…but here you don’t have a chance to go back and revisit the options.
The Opening Keynote was entertaining and thought-provoking. As an amateur writer, I try and use the opening sentence in any article as the ‘hook’…getting a reader’s attention so they’ll read on. Now all I think about are ’sticky’ openings. Just another example of too many choices…although it is interesting to view confusion as creative exercise…
Sometimes you have to go with the flow…so we all followed the parade to the Expo floor for its opening. Anita and I worked the FMCC booth for an hour or so. We openly postulated whether the booths that were serving beer were jealous of the cookies we offered and if we would attract more visitors. (We did run out of cookies before they ran out of beer.)
Welcome Reception- an evening at Gilley’s is almost an exercise party. Between the line dancing, bull-riding and casino, body and mind were tested in a decidedly party atmosphere.
We had driven over and we found that in Dallas, parking in the north 40 is really parking in the north 40. Just a little added exercise to clear the mind and body of any excesses.
-Bill C.
(5) Currency trading takes place in the north 40. I must admit – it was very hard for me to trust Facility Management that was created by someone else. Put it the right one.