Today, I had a great conversation with an attorney I shared an employer with in my early days in the purchasing profession. We recorded a podcast on a topic that the purchasing profession just doesn\u2019t have enough available educational material on. You\u2019ll hear more about that in the weeks ahead.<\/p>\n
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Anyway, my colleague recalled a legal training session that he did for the company\u2019s purchasing department years ago. And he clearly recalled a director approaching him afterward and saying \u201cI\u2019ve been in purchasing for 30 years, and I never knew what those terms meant until now.\u201d<\/p>\n
My colleague was both pleased \u2013 that he could teach a seasoned purchasing director something new \u2013 and horrified that, after 30 years, a highly-paid professional didn\u2019t bother to seek to learn about some technical yet common things.<\/p>\n
Is there something in contracts, specifications, or other aspects of your job that you\u2019ve encountered often but never bothered to learn? If so, will you be like the purchasing director in this story and wait your whole career until someone explains it to you or will you be proactive and seek clarity on your own?<\/p>\n
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