Soar to Success October 2018

SOAR TO SUCCESS / October 2018 / Business Acceleration Strategies The Most Important Leadership Lesson We Ever Learned By Jeanne Dewitt, Senior Vice President, CPU Inc. Y ou’ve probably heard the old saying, “if you’re not learning something new every day, you’re dying.” Well, there isn’t a day that goes by where our team at CPU isn’t learning very valuable business lessons. This most recent business lesson came at the expense of one of our new partners who, unfortunately, had a pretty negative experience with a cloud provider. What happened? That is a long story but, to sum it up quickly, our newest partner was trusting their cloud service provider to provide a particular service. They just assumed that everything was happening according to their agreement. Until one day, when something happened that forced them to dive deeper. A simple technical issue occurred due to months of neglect by their service provider. When a security issue arose, our partner also uncovered serious securityconcernswiththeirprevious cloudpartner. You see, security of data in the Cloud is something our team at CPU takes seriously. Unfortunately, not all service providers share this same concern IRU WKH FRQĆGHQWLDOLW\ RI FOLHQW GDWD What was the lesson learned by both our partner and CPU? Trust, but verify. 5RQDOG 5HDJDQ ZDV WKH ĆUVW ZH KHDUG XVH WKLV WHUP when he was deep in the nuclear disarmament of