I attended a conference several months ago where the CTO of a small development company was adamant about one thing: Making excellence a standard should be a focus on getting teams to work together. This is not a new concept, but one any successful organisation embraces.
Around the same time, I ran across Robert Martin's "Whiners that Fail" post at objectmentor.com. In it, he basically addresses how there are those who will complain about having to pay for things like white papers and how those people expect employers to shell out cash to make their own personal lives better. His point? "YOU are responsible for YOUR career and no one else."
I agree with that statement strongly, but not just because I realise my boss or company is not my mother. This mindset extends to how we deal with our work lives, especially when confronted with managing a problem project with difficult people, systems and requirements. How we take responsibility for our own lives/work/projects makes all the difference.
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