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Coders Vs Software Engineers - Sashank

Coders Vs Software Engineers

The global Software industry is a multi-trillion dollar industry, set to employ over 26.5 Million software developers by 2019. As massive as this industry is, the number is true Software Engineers is tragically small. I contend that there are three types of programmers: Coder Integrators Coders Software Engineers...

The two steps for learning - Sashank

The two steps to learning

There are two steps for learning to begin: To Identify To Acknowledge It’s only when you identify that there is a shortcoming that  you recognize the need to learn. It is when you acknowledge that there is that shortcoming, that you open doors to receiving the learnings needed...

Organizational Velocity - Sashank

Organizational Velocity

Imagine a chariot with seven horses, all running in the same direction, but at varying speeds. Aligning your team to work in one direction, each functioning in his place, at his complete potential, and in coordination with the others is hard work. Setting the expected throughput, ensuring that...

Choosing your entourage - Sashank

Choosing your entourage

The importance of surrounding yourself with the right people cannot be over emphasized. More often than not, you might find yourself having to decide between keeping a relationship and deliberately cutting that relationship loose. Whether it is a friend, a close associate, a partner, an employee or a...

Challenge or Struggle - Sashank

Challenge or Struggle

There is a fine line between challenge and struggle! When you take on a difficult task or put yourself in an uncomfortable situation willingly, it’s a challenge. When you are put in the same situation to your dislike, it’s a struggle. One results in fun for it is...

Everything needs maintenance - Sashank

Everything needs maintenance

“Everything needs maintenance” should be such a redundant statement! Yet there’s the constant need to state the obvious. When you birth a baby, is when your real task to grow and mature the baby begins. When you build a machine, is when you must start the regiment of...

Waking up midway through your dreams - Sashank

Waking up midway through your dream

It’s not like I am used to taking an afternoon nap, but the past few weeks have been unusually demanding. My body needed some rest and as I sank into my couch, I slipped into a weird dream. It’s more the time between sleep and when i woke...

A better fit for the other job - Sashank

A better fit for the other job

The current job deals with the abstract; it needs a broader and deeper understanding; a long term vision with the ability to balance near term deliverables. You cannot afford to be myopic. It can get frustrating as there is little direction,only a dream, which needs to be broken...

The right people - Sashank

The right people

When the right people are not in the right jobs, the problem becomes visible and clear quickly. Systemic processes, tools and accountability measures cannot produce results like the right people can. Right people cannot be found by the mere desire nor by the extreme need to bring them...

Leadership and team - Sashank

Leadership and team

Leadership is defining what needs to be done really well, ensuring that everyone works on that very thing in one direction. It is trusting that each person will come through with their part. Leadership identifying those that can get the job done and letting them have fun together...