An MSP may consider themselves to be doing a good job when calls for help are answer quickly and there are few of them. But your client probably doesn't view it that way.
We are in a period of rapid change. The next five years is full of drama for MSPs. This should all be information that you've already heard. But have you internalized it or operationalized it yet?
Do not confuse this phrase with the customer is always right or that you have to ask how high when they ask you to jump. Yes, is about empowering your employees.
"The trough of success" perked my ears. Used in context it's a phrase that means, you are continuing to feed on past success and being stuck there at the trough of success is a guarantee of future failure.
It's the curse of being successful. Everyone wants your time all the time. There are several components to this problem. A core tenant of solving business problems is to make them obvious and not convoluted or obscured by other issues. So let's solve one aspect of this problem.
A large part of being a technical support person is understanding the problem that you're trying to solve. This one phrase prevents a lot of missteps due to assumption.
Today it's the one that my staff knows me best for. How do I know that? Because often when asking me for some advice or an idea on how to tackle a technical issue they will start the question with, I know it's always DNS but