158. Why Chris Barnes Always Asks if New Projects Align With the Firm’s Values

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Philip Howard

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🗓️ 26 July 2022

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Chris Barnes Chris Barnes is CTO of Operations and Strategic Services at Howard LLP. Howard LLP is a market leader in providing financial consulting, audit, assurance, tax, and IT consulting services to businesses across multiple industries. Though he didn’t get into computers until the late 1990s, with his first machine being a Zenith, this hasn’t held Chris back from success. He now has extensive experience with networking and bringing resources together. Why Chris Barnes Always Asks if New Projects Align With the Firm’s Values We’re going to hear Chris talk about the necessity of understanding the values of where you work, leading without fear, and letting go of the decisions of others. Before all of that, Chris tells us about how he broke into the industry when the dot com bubble crashed.

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0:00.0	I wanted to start off with a little segment I call random access memories, right?
0:15.3	And the idea of this is I'm going to give you a question or just a really simple question.
0:23.7	And all that I need you to do is answer it with the first thing that pops in your head.
0:30.8	Right.
0:31.1	So the first one you get is, are you a fan of the floppy disk icon or the little square with the arrow down save icon?
0:43.1	Which one are you?
0:44.5	Where do you fall?
0:46.8	I think I'm going to go with the arrow down save icon.
0:50.3	Like move past the floppy?
0:51.8	Yeah.
0:53.2	That ship has sailed?
0:56.0	A long time ago.
1:00.4	What was your, I'm sure you've had a bunch of them, but what was your favorite computer back in the day?
1:07.1	Well, you know, since I got, I actually got into this game kind of late.
1:13.2	Um, it'd probably be late 90s. And my mom at the time worked at a big company. And she brought
1:20.4	home this giant Zenith laptop. But it was like, I wish she could see the measurement. I mean, it felt like it was about
1:31.8	18 inches or so by 18 inches. And it had the little pop-up drive for your, for your disc. And so
1:41.0	when I think of kind of the first machine, it's that one.
1:46.3	That's, and it was, I don't know if I said it, it was a zenith.
1:49.2	You know, I love about zenith.
1:51.0	The back in the day logo on it with the just, the giant Z.
1:54.8	Mm-hmm.
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