138. IT Leaders: Pull Everybody in the Room or Users Suffer Ramification! with Rusty Everhart

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Philip Howard

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🗓️ 24 March 2022

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Rusty Everhart is a seasoned and credentialed Fortune 500 IT leader with over 20 years of enterprise level experience in the CPG, manufacturing, public service, banking, retail, QSR, telecommunications, and consulting industries. He has shown strong leadership in IT Vision, Strategy, and road mapping, as well as Program and Project Management. Rusty is a cost consciousness and results-oriented leader with an eye steadily trained upon continuous process improvement and cost benefit analysis/ROI. He has a proven a track record of remarkable hires that made immediate and measurable impacts in the ability to deliver with incredible velocity and pinpoint accuracy. IT Leaders: Pull Everybody in the Room or Users Suffer Ramification! with Rusty Everhart Today’s guest on Dissecting Popular IT Nerds is the example of how IT leaders should handle their operations. Rusty Everhart is an IT manager of an over 500-user, 2 million square foot campus and furniture capital business, where their sales increased during the pandemic. And the craziest part: they don’t do a lick of online sales. Don’t miss today’s episode on proper IT leadership, specifically why you need to start getting everybody in the room when it’s time for an IT solution (and we’re not talking about your IT team), train your employees to stand with confidence, and work consistently on communication to ensure a flawless user experience.

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0:00.0	You know, be humble.
0:01.1	Teamwork.
0:02.6	You get more done by working as a team.
0:16.0	Everyone out there listening, you are listening to dissecting popular IT nerds.
0:23.2	And today we are speaking with Rusty is it Everhart or Everett Everhart Everhart Everhart it's how appropriate and
0:31.9	IT extravaganza executive director of information technology at Furniture Land South.
0:42.3	And I'm assuming that's because you're in the South and you're in North Carolina
0:46.1	where it's probably very nice right now and you don't have snow outside.
0:50.6	That is exactly right on all accounts.
0:53.7	We are in the South and it is a balmy 77 outside right now
0:58.8	uh it's beautiful my headquarters is in raleigh but uh i'm in connecticut so there you go
1:05.3	so talk to me what's it like like going from your history in IT to, I guess we would call this large retail.
1:17.5	I don't know what you would call it.
1:18.2	How many end users do you have?
1:20.6	We have 587 end users.
1:24.9	And let's just get this right out of the way.
1:26.5	Let's just get this big question out of the way right now
1:28.5	what is your most mind-blowing
1:31.5	IT leadership advice
1:35.0	and or failure that you have learned from
1:38.3	you know it could go either way
1:39.8	over your somewhat 20 years
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