According to lore, there are Seven Deadly Sins. I’ll leave it up to you to agree or disagree; believe or not.
Whatever, here’s the list of Seven:
- Pride
- Lust
- Sloth
- Greed
- Wrath
- Envy
- Gluttony
- Lust
- Sloth
- Greed
- Wrath
- Envy
- Gluttony
It’s easy to see all seven playing out in managed print services. Today, let’s consider the mother of all MPS sins – an excessive belief in one’s own abilities: Pride.
Early on in my managed print services journey, I met many supposed MPS Experts. I remember some of these guys built an ‘empire’ drilling holes into recovered (from a dumpster) toner cartridges. They didn’t hesitate to tell me how they have been ‘doing MPS for 25 years’. I was quick to retort, “Oh? What kind of ribbons did you use back then?” I found their smug attitude amusing.
That was in 2009.
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