Comments on: What Is Your MacGuffin? https://thomaslarock.com/2013/12/what-is-your-macguffin/ Thomas LaRock is an author, speaker, data expert, and SQLRockstar. He helps people connect, learn, and share. Along the way he solves data problems, too. Thu, 25 Feb 2021 12:53:46 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 By: More Soft Skills From The Ambulance - SQL Server Consulting - Straight Path Solutions https://thomaslarock.com/2013/12/what-is-your-macguffin/#comment-80098 Thu, 25 Feb 2021 12:53:46 +0000 http://thomaslarock.com/?p=11023#comment-80098 […] friend Tom LaRock wrote an excellent, must-read, blog post about this topic. Go read it. Back? So I can’t add much to this point – but I can tell you about what it is like to […]

]]> By: 14 Things Sysadmins Can Learn From an Elf - Thomas LaRock https://thomaslarock.com/2013/12/what-is-your-macguffin/#comment-13522 Tue, 22 Dec 2015 18:40:14 +0000 http://thomaslarock.com/?p=11023#comment-13522 […] motivation for the person to feel the need to argue or debate the topic. You need to use empathy to find their MacGuffin to understand what it is they are truly […]

]]> By: Time to erase IT friction between InfoSec, NetOps | world news https://thomaslarock.com/2013/12/what-is-your-macguffin/#comment-13224 Fri, 11 Sep 2015 21:32:53 +0000 http://thomaslarock.com/?p=11023#comment-13224 […] there’s empathy. As my co-worker and associate SolarWinds Head Geek Thomas LaRock has written, consolation is, “the No.1 thing we tell everybody they need to have if they aspire to have […]

]]> By: 101 Things I Wish You Knew About SQL Server - Thomas LaRock https://thomaslarock.com/2013/12/what-is-your-macguffin/#comment-12877 Wed, 24 Jun 2015 13:40:13 +0000 http://thomaslarock.com/?p=11023#comment-12877 […] Empathy is the most important skill a DBA can have. Arrogance is the least important skill, yet often found in great abundance in the IT world. […]

]]> By: 4 Attitudes I Wish I Had Earlier as a DBA - SQL Server - SQL Server - Toad World https://thomaslarock.com/2013/12/what-is-your-macguffin/#comment-11624 Wed, 27 Aug 2014 15:46:09 +0000 http://thomaslarock.com/?p=11023#comment-11624 […] if you don’t approach situations with empathy and ask, like Tom’s post suggests, “what’s their MacGruffin?“, you are going to do some of the things I’ve done – and am not proud of – […]

]]> By: 4 Attitudes I Wish I Had Earlier as a DBA - Straight Path Solutions, a SQL Server Consultancy https://thomaslarock.com/2013/12/what-is-your-macguffin/#comment-11623 Wed, 27 Aug 2014 15:16:14 +0000 http://thomaslarock.com/?p=11023#comment-11623 […] if you don’t approach situations with empathy and ask, like Tom’s post suggests, “what’s their MacGruffin?“, you are going to do some of the things I’ve done – and am not proud of – […]

]]> By: More Soft Skills From The Ambulance - SQL Server - SQL Server - Toad World https://thomaslarock.com/2013/12/what-is-your-macguffin/#comment-11582 Thu, 14 Aug 2014 17:16:27 +0000 http://thomaslarock.com/?p=11023#comment-11582 […] friend Tom LaRock wrote an excellent, must-read, blog post about this topic. Go read it. Back? So I can’t add much to this point – but I can tell you about what it is like to […]

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