Lots of people will give you advice... and depending upon how well they know you, the advice might be valid or not so valid.

Lots of people will give you advice... and depending upon how well they know you, the advice might be valid or not so valid.

You have to think that the answer - and the right answer - for you and your organization might not be something that's been done before. And it's up to you to discover and work with your team to form and figure out how to do successfully.

At the end of the day, you know yourself best.

No matter how senior you get in an organization, no matter how well you're perceived to be doing, your job is never done. Every day, you get up and the world is changing; your customers are expecting more from you. Your competitors are putting pressure on you by doing more and trying to beat you here and beat you there.

His advice to me was to be patient, keep working hard and it will pay off in the end, which it did for him and, hopefully, it will for me.