Gary Mikos, Senior Programmer/Analyst, Conestoga Wood Specialties Corp.
September 1, 2018
Name: Gary Mikos Title: Senior programmer/analyst Company Name: Conestoga Wood Specialties Corporation Company’s Function: Cabinet manufacturer HQ: East Earl, Pennsylvania Years in IT: 34 What’s the biggest challenge facing your company today? Staying on top of new technologies and determining which could be utilized to achieve company goals or drive innovation. What do you […]
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How you pursue a goal is as important to achieving it as identifying the goal in the first place. According to a study by Dominican University researchers, participants who wrote down their goals were significantly more likely to reach them. Moreover, study members who detailed the specific actions they would take and made regular progress […]