Whenever an interesting or challenging mission came up, Kirk was always willing to put himself in harm’s way by joining the Away Team. With his boots on the ground, he was always able to make quick assessments of the situation, leading to superior results. Kirk very much believed in hands-on leadership, leading the vanguard of his crew as they explored interesting and dangerous situations.

James Kirk and his Away Team-Leadership

When you’re in a leadership role, it’s sometimes easy to let yourself get away from leading “Away Team” missions. After all, with leadership comes perks, right? You get the nice office on the higher floor. You finally get an assistant to help you with day to day activities, and your days are filled with meetings and decisions to be made, And many of these things are absolutely necessary. But it’s sometimes easy to trap yourself in the corner office and forget what life is like on the front lines. When you lose that perspective, it’s that much harder to understand what your team is doing, and the best way to get out of the problem. What’s more, when you’re not involved with your team, it’s easy to lose their trust and have them gripe about how they don’t understand what the job is like.

This is a lesson that was actually imprinted on me in one of my first jobs; landscaping with a local small business. During those long, exhausting summer days, the owner of the business, Clark, would spend a lot of time back at his office focused on new business and how to resource his three landscaping teams. But one thing he made sure to do every day was to come out to each work site, roll up his sleeves, and help us get the job done correctly the first time. He didn’t have to do that, but he did. The fact that he did so not only made me respect him all the more, it also meant that I trusted his decisions a lot more. In much the same way, I’m sure, as Kirk’s crew trusted his decisions, because he knew the risks of command personally.

Alpine Technology Corporation has been serving the Waste Industry with powerful office and cab solutions for over 38 years.  It’s industry leading office solution is Visual RAMS-Pro and its in-cab solution, Visual On-Route takes in-cab computing to another level.

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In the beginning was the computer. Many were afraid of and intimidated by this new creation…surely, they thought, it would eventually disappear like the dinosaurs.  Much to their dismay, those fearful souls realized it was not going to go away and, like poison ivy, they would have to learn to live with the disruptive gadget.

Then, a strange thing began to happen…more and more people adopted them and actually enjoyed working with them.  It DID exist to make our lives easier…didn’t it?  However as the computer infiltrated more and more homes and businesses, a phenomenon evolved where users realized that though this computer purported to save them time, it was actually consuming more time and keeping them from getting work done!

Technology should help you organize your time and work, not just displace it with more work.  Visual RAMS-Pro was created on that premise.  For that reason, every Visual RAMS-Pro user that has worked with Pending Charges has been amazed with how it has saved them time.  That is why VRP Pending Charges is our third thing you may not know about VRP.

In short, if you have a seasonal promotional, a limited-time discount for new customers, or any other campaign that involves changing a charge after a period of time, Pending Charges are a must.  When you set up your customer, you will place in the date you want the change to occur, the new charge amount and item in the Pending Charges tab and then think no more of it. When the date is triggered, the new charge will be applied to the customer and the old charge will be logged in the history for your review. Now that all the Post-It notes are removed from your desk and monitor, your desk will look much better.

Stay tuned for the final two things you may not know about Visual RAMS-Pro.

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