Effective Meetings: A Round Up
May 15th, 2012 // 7:13 am @ Tanmay // One Comment
I love SCRUM methodology because it focuses on making meetings effective. Focus is on decisions and actions. A quick stand-up meeting everyday to track progress. One of the biggest wastes in any organization are ineffective meetings. I have always believed that meetings (specially with the team) are a great forum to inspire action, instill a [...]
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Food For Thought – April 2012
May 2nd, 2012 // 7:10 pm @ Tanmay // 2 Comments
From a number of GREAT bloggers and authors I read, here are a few snippets of thought provoking insights – straight from my feed reader. Note: Important take-aways marked in bold+italics. Michael Wade on “What Managers Can Learn from Novelists” “Recognize that life is not a novel. At least, not in most cases. The most [...]
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On Creativity: SRK and Seth Godin!
April 27th, 2012 // 6:02 am @ Tanmay // One Comment
Two personalities from two diverse nations; One is an Indian mega-star Shahrukh Khan (SRK) and the other is a relentless instigator (and my hero) Seth Godin. Both live a creative life and express themselves fully through their work. Both have a significant impact on large number of people. Recently, both expressed their views on creativity. [...]
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Leadership, Self-Awareness and A Story
April 16th, 2012 // 6:51 am @ Tanmay // 2 Comments
Last week, I delivered a talk at a leading b-school and interacted with final year MBA students who are now ready for their first jobs. Their faces radiated hope and aspiration. To me, they seemed like caterpillars who are changing into butterflies, ready to break the cocoon of academics and enter into the world of [...]
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Getting Ahead: Interview with Joel Garfinkle
March 22nd, 2012 // 5:37 am @ Tanmay // 3 Comments
I had a pleasure of reading a new book titled Getting Ahead: Three Steps to Take Your Career to the Next Level by Joel Garfinkle (@workcoach4you). Joel is the founder of Garfinkle Executive Coaching, author and one of the top 50 coaches in America. Joel was kind enough to share his book with me, which [...]
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Enjoy the Process – 2
March 6th, 2012 // 6:40 am @ Tanmay // No Comments
In 2010, I wrote a post titled “Enjoy the Process”. The central idea of the post was: “My point is – if we constantly keep our goal in perspective (and get overwhelmed by it), we become less efficient. Anxiousness (and sometimes fear) kills creativity. We rush through the process to see if our efforts are [...]
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In Praise of Comprehension and Meaning
February 12th, 2012 // 7:27 pm @ Tanmay // 4 Comments
We live in an “instant” world. People want to do everything instantly, including understanding, comprehension and making sense of something. I remember having attended a strategy meeting where head of the department (call him boss) was explaining a new strategy that none of us had heard about before. He completed explaining and requested the audience [...]
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5 Insights on Creativity from Osho
January 8th, 2012 // 7:17 pm @ Tanmay // 10 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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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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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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