This week, I read two beautiful posts on happiness and success. The first one on happiness comes from Astha Parmar through her post called “Redefining Happy”. Happiness is a very relative term – and definition of happiness is different for each individual. Don’t we see people with meager resources living like kings and other wealthy ones […]
Via Skip Reardon’s “Be Excellent” blog. “The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.” (General H. Norman Schwarzkopf) A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan next week.” (General George S. Patton) Thanks Skip, for sharing these!
It is very important for managers to identify areas they manage best. This requires some soul searching on our inherent strengths that help us in managing things better. I found this excellent post “What do you manage best?” on Jeffrey Phillips’ blog Thinking Faster, where he enlists general “things” people manage. This includes: – People managing […]
I came across an interesting post on Tyner Blain blog called “Customer Service and Software Development“. The post starts with a thought provocating statement “Sometimes we forget that people use our software”. To build more human interfaces in terms of error messages when the team is struggling to meet deadlines can be a real challenge. “Lets get the […]
Lisa Haneberg in her post “What is success and how can you get some more?” puts an extract from her book “High Impact Middle Management” where she lists beliefs Middle Managers should subscribe to. Thanks Lisa for sharing these beliefs. Out of all listed, I particularly liked the following ones. “Middle managers should be outstanding […]
Mark Moloney got me thinking on project managers and planning when he puts forward a postulate on his blog “Mark wants a Porsche“ “Any project manager who regularly works overtime must be a poor planner.“ Working overtime is very intrinsic to IT professionals, specially managers since they have to deal internally with teams and externally […]
How many times do you feel good when someone agrees to what you say ? How may times do you get irritated when someone clearly disagrees to your opinions? Here’s an excellent quote by Frank Clark which I came across on Frank Patrick’s Focused Performance blog. “We find comfort among those who agree with us, growth […]
How do we do that ? Barbara on Business Analyst Blog has an answer – “Write Better Requirements“. This post throws up a very fundamental question : “If you don’t have excellent requirements, how do you evaluate the software’s ability to address the business problem?” Poor requirement definition by the stakeholders and poor understanding (and […]
When I was a student and a budding writer, I had an opportunity to communicate with an eminent educationalist, thinker and writer Dr. Gunvant Shah. On a question I asked “How can one be like you”, here is his response which has been one of the most significant learnings in past few years. Please know […]