Pretentious or genuine
The toughest yet the most important thing to do…. To distinguish the pretentious from the genuine! Where not recognizing the pretentious could be dangerous for you, mis-recognizing the genuine could be devastating for the...
Category: Leadership
Conflicts and Conflict Management
The one thing that is common to almost every entity is Conflicts…. You can categorize them in any number of ways… – Idea conflicts: What do we want to accomplish – Process conflicts: How...
The best form of learning…. The best part of learning!!!
When you ask yourself what has worked for you and what has not… you will see in your experience, your failure to detect the variables that influenced your failure…. You will have to reflect...
Of wolves & leeches…
Notice a pact of wolves! There is purpose… strategy… coordination… discipline… planning… orchestration and perfect execution and beyond all… there is Team Work! There is sincerity, loyalty, dignity, trust, understanding and unity… They look...
A job well done
No words can convince people like a job well done…. And the way I define a job well done is: 1. It is planned well 2. The plan is published for all to know...
Attitude… a small case study!
I would like to relate two conversations that I had with two senior engineers in my team over the past 5 days… Firstly, about them: Both highly talented, hard working girls, good with communication...
The most sought after skill set
Strategy is defining the map…. the starting point, the destination, each milestone/ checkpoint, the path between milestone and milestone, determining what is needed to get from one milestone to the other, defining the criteria...
The 80-20 rule for people…
You must have definitely heard of the 80-20 rule…. 80% of the work gets done in 20% of the time…. I contend that 80% of the work gets done by 20% of the people…....
The Human Platform
The Human Platform: The link between Strategy and Execution… Here’s one topic I could probably write a book on that I again attempt to keep to under a minute’s reading… Two things about the...
My boss is a jerk
My boss is a jerk… He does not care to see how hard I work… It’s all about Outcome to him!!! Scenario 1: Your mom puts in her very best effort in the kitchen...
