Two years into my career, I had a colleague who was a talker. He would incessantly talk about what he did through the day, how he handled a situation, how he found problems with what someone was doing and so on. You get the point. He was an expert at tooting his horns and exhibit […]
Recently, I was enjoying my evening break on the office terrace at around 6:45 PM sipping hot tea and having a chat with one of my colleagues on everything that din’t matter! 🙂 Suddenly, he interrupted me to direct my attention skywards. We saw a group of Geese flying in a typical V formation with […]
The branch of tree that bears fruits leans down. When leaders assume higher responsibilities, they become more humble. Recently, one of my friends, an very senior Oncologist performed more than 10 complex stem cell transplants for cancer patients and gave them a new lease of life. When I met him to congratulate, he said, “I […]
The April Leadership Development Carnival is up at “Great Leadership” blog by Dan McCarthy. For those who are aren’t aware of Carnival concept, Carnival is a blog event where excellent insights on a particular topic are hosted in form of single post with links to original blog posts. “Great Leadership” is an excellent Leadership blog […]
Nicholas Bate is at it again – lists I mean. He is simply too good at articulating his thoughts in lists of 10, 25 and 100 points. Lists that are provocative and call for action. I did refer to his “Professionalism 101” list earlier. This time around, its “Be Different 25” – list of 25 […]
Just a passing thought – no one can help one who does not help himself. I observe people heavily relying on their managers for their self-improvement. I had a team member who approached me to help him improve upon his communication skills. I did a number of mentoring sessions to guide him. I also arranged […]
With two recessions in less than 10 years, it is very important for managers and professionals to know how to manage work in such situations. Thanks to Journyx Project Management Blog for pointing to the post “10 ways to be a good manager during recession” over at TechRepublic blog. The post offers some useful guidance for […]
Here are a few selected Twitter updates I posted through March 2009. March was a month of quotes and I found a lot of appealing and interesting quotes from people whom I follow on Twitter. While I love all of them, I specially like the ones marked in bold. For those new toTwitter, RT stands for Retweet which […]
Jack was a “do-as-directed” professional. He used to tell his colleagues, “I am paid to do the work and my manager is paid to think about what I should be doing”. He would never own up anything more than his own tasks and would refrain from even thinking about the overall project. Times were good […]