For example, I decided last minute to take a few days off from work, but then almost canceled it when the one place I knew that provided child care assistance was booked - I simply got on the Internet, poked around, and found all kinds of places with resources available for families with toddlers. It will be interesting to see how computers evolve as today's generation of school children, who began working with computers at an early age, push technology to provide greater benefit. Honesty and integrity are the most important to me. In every action with an individual, I need to assume the person is being completely open and has the best of intentions. When I encounter situations where that is not the case, it makes the interaction much more difficult, and never satisfying in the end.
Leadership is the most important.
This is especially important in high tech fields, where there is little traditional hierarchies, and people are well educated - they don't just follow blindly. With this and the next series of questions, I have great difficulty. I have never found one type of anything to focus on. To me the beauty in life and learning comes in the variety and the interesting part is taking the best ideas from each and putting them together to create an even better whole, and to adapt the ideas to my specific needs. A less than complete sampling of people I admire, would include my mother who raised six children, had a job and received a masters degree at a time when women didn't do that sort of thing.