Annual Management Improvement Carnival: Edition 2
December 21st, 2011 // 6:09 am @ Tanmay // 2 Comments
Here’s part-2 of the Management Improvement Carnival featuring the other two blogs that I love reading. The lot of people liked the first edition where I reviewed blogs of two masters – Seth Godin and Bob Sutton. Great Leadership by Dan McCarthy I (and blogosphere) knows Dan McCarthy as the host of “Carnival of Leadership [...]
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Annual Management Improvement Carnival: Edition 1
December 17th, 2011 // 12:34 pm @ Tanmay // 6 Comments
It is always a great privilege to participate in Annual Management Improvement Carnival organized by John Hunter. I am thrilled to play the host at QAspire and I will be featuring my “four favorite” blogs in two editions. From time to time, these blogs educate me, stir up my thinking, change/challenge me and help me [...]
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The Quality Manifesto (Free PDF)
December 14th, 2011 // 7:35 am @ Tanmay // No Comments
Greetings, friends and readers! Today, I am excited to announce the release of my new manifesto titled “The Quality Manifesto – Getting the Basics of Quality Right in Knowledge World”. This manifesto is completely free with no email opt-in required. What’s it all about? This manifesto is about delivering excellence (as an individual and as [...]
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The Attitude of Quality
December 11th, 2011 // 2:18 pm @ Tanmay // 4 Comments
A retail outlet of a leading shoe brand recently opened up in near vicinity. The design of the store is flashy with impressive interiors and product arrangement. The brand carries a lot of consumer trust since many years. Good store, great brand and competitive prices all at one stop. The only (and probably the biggest) [...]
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Quality is Human. Quality is Love.
November 28th, 2011 // 5:27 am @ Tanmay // 8 Comments
Quality is Human When leaders rely too much on processes, metrics, facts and trends to measure project/organization’s quality, they forget one thing: that quality is about being human. Quality is human. That is because people drive quality and exercise their choice of delivering good versus great work. Because work allows people to expand their capacity [...]
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Building an Adaptable Team: 6 Ideas
November 21st, 2011 // 7:07 am @ Tanmay // 4 Comments
Ability to deal with rapid changes and uncertainties on the field is as critical a skill for organizations/teams as it is for the military troops. In military operations, lack of agility can have more serious and rapid consequences. In case of teams, individuals and organizations, the consequences may not be visible in a short term, [...]
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Giving Up On Need To Be ‘Rational Always’
November 15th, 2011 // 5:30 am @ Tanmay // 2 Comments
As we grow, our belief system firms up with notions of what is right and what is wrong. What works and what not. At work, our beliefs further solidify according to the context we work in. Understanding of data, facts and trends is important because it make us “rational”. The problem starts however, when we [...]
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A Steve Jobs Story on Simplicity and Focus
November 10th, 2011 // 6:07 am @ Tanmay // 6 Comments
Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson is on my reading list and I was curious to have some initial reviews about the book. Matthew E. May recently reviewed the book on his blog. In a post titled “The Zen Master of Subtraction: Steve Jobs”, Matt shares some very interesting stories/snippets about how Steve Jobs generated extreme [...]
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Productivity Reminders…
November 7th, 2011 // 4:55 am @ Tanmay // 2 Comments
… For Managers In knowledge world, productivity is hard to quantify. If you try to adopt old “command and control” style of management to drive knowledge workers, they get even less productive. Don’t command, empower. Don’t control, but lead them instead. Understand that knowledge workers cannot always be productive between 9 to 5. They have [...]
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The Importance of “Know Why”?
November 3rd, 2011 // 5:21 am @ Tanmay // One Comment
Knowledge industry, particularly software, is full of people who possess “know-how” – knowledge of how to get something done. Give them a task, and they will be able to apply their technical skills (read ‘know-how’) to accomplish it. A lot of people possess a very sound “know-what” – knowledge of facts, figures and methods. Give [...]
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