Fostering Autonomy in a Team: 7 Lessons
January 22nd, 2012 // 8:00 pm @ Tanmay // 4 Comments
“…leadership may be defined as: the ability to enhance the environment so that everyone is empowered to contribute creatively to solving the problem(s).” – Gerald M. Weinberg People do their best work when they are “intrinsically motivated” and one of the most important intrinsic motivator for people is autonomy in work. People need a space [...]
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Purpose Precedes Process
January 15th, 2012 // 5:57 pm @ Tanmay // 3 Comments
If process is a vehicle, purpose is the compass. Purpose gives a definite direction to processes. People (and their expertise) are the drivers. Technology acts as an accelerator. Most system implementation or change initiatives focus enough on the P-P-T – People, process and technology and somewhere along the lines, the focus on purpose blurs. I [...]
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5 Insights on Creativity from Osho
January 8th, 2012 // 7:17 pm @ Tanmay // 9 Comments
Creativity is at the core of building quality in design. People rarely innovate when they simply follow instructions. This led me to think more about creativity – the act of doing something in an unconventional way, the act of creating something meaningful that changes you and hence the world. Traditionally (in an industrial world), only [...]
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What We Need The Most in 2012?
January 1st, 2012 // 6:52 pm @ Tanmay // 5 Comments
Business ecosystem is rapidly changing – and as a student of personal and organizational change, I recently re-read Dr. John Kotter’s book (published in 2008) titled “A Sense of Urgency”. I have read it before and somehow felt the need to read it again. In the book, Dr. Kotter argues that single biggest reason most [...]
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Gratitude 2011
December 25th, 2011 // 7:25 pm @ Tanmay // 5 Comments
Gratefulness fills me whenever a year ends. Each year brings along new hopes, some challenges, many opportunities. When the year ends, we look back and ruminate on how we did to seize those opportunities, to face those challenges and what we learned out of it all. One of the things I am so grateful about [...]
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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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