Inefficiencies
Inefficiencies exist in the human realm as much as we are a part of a perfect universe… a universe that goes through its infinitely repeating cycles of creation, sustenance and dissolution… Your innate nature...
Category: Process & Approach
Job Description: Human or Robot
Engineering can be at two levels: 1. You can build to a requirement 2. You can build to an outcome Building to an outcome invariably yields a better product because the mindset of the...
Lost in symptoms
Symptoms steal attention. They are pronounced… easily noticed! Root cause could be concealed. It requires digging out layers until the problem is revealed. We lose energy, time and sometimes end up taking inaccurate steps...
Perfection
Consider a sculptor sculpting a sculpture. He starts with a huge monolith and starts chipping away pieces. At first it is just less of the same huge monolith… hardly seems anything more than just...
Temper expectation with knowledge
Set low expectations… and you don’t have to work very hard to deliver them! It becomes fairly easy to please people… easy to win the appreciation of those you work with! But for a...
Constant Work Velocity beats Acceleration
There are two types of students that score well: 1. Those that spend a certain amount of time studying everyday so they learn the topics being covered 2. Those that slog it out a...
Convincing…
You can convince with your words. You can convince with your deeds. When you convince with your words, you are invariably required to prove the same with your actions. When you convince with your...
Too deep in the weeds
It’s not about smarts, not about knowledge nor experience…. The best professional could still experience intellectual fatigue when he has been working too long on a system, causing him to overlook obvious issues. Or...
3 Essential Steps for Project Success
Completing Tasks does not guarantee Project Completion. Everyone can quote the theory that good planning is necessary for success. Everyone knows that Execution is equally, if not more important. Execution requires the knowledge of...
The undo button…
As addicted to computers as we have become, its but natural to mentally visualize a ‘Ctrl Z’ when something that we do not intend to, happens. I have had friends who wanted to pull...
