In my earlier post today, I wrote about decision making in general and “elephantine” way of decision making where I shared a short story of a tamed elephant. The subject did not leave my brain for the entire day and my mind pushed me to think a little further on it – dig a little more and […]
Feels proud to mention that Insights is reviewed by “Bloggy Award” – for those who don’t know – Bloggy Awards reviews good blogs and rates them on different parameters like Visual Aesthetics, User Friendliness, Reading Enjoyment, Useful Info and the Overall Experience. End of each month, winner is declared. Apart from ratings on a 10 […]
Naysayers are important people – who push you to do more and do better. When they reject an idea, you have an opportunity to do more and prove a point to them. When I decided to take up a career in IT/Software almost a decade back – many people tried putting me off saying that […]
Via Be Excellent Blog – Simple yet profound lesson from Olympics. “In business, words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality.” From words to actions, and strategy to execution – doing it is what matters. Like Tom Peters says: “You only get oil by drilling the wells – you may […]
Recently, I was exchanging thoughts with one of my colleagues and he referred to innovation as a way to overcome routine hurdles that one faces in day-to-day work life. During discussion, he referred to 3M – a 100+ years old company which thrives on innovation. Their success as a company is a result of innovative […]
I had an interesting experience recently with one of my team members. We were to submit an important project document to client and we decided that we will first freeze the table of contents (ToC) and then move on to filling up content. Almost a day went by and I had no update on ToC. […]
This wonderful quote comes straight from Guerrilla Consulting Blog – where Mike McLaughlin refers to this quote by Harry Beckwith – “…comfort nudges us dangerously close to complacency, and nothing good comes from that. It kills businesses, dulls lives, and encourages nothing better than ordinary. Our greatest blessings come from people who refused to be […]
I start my day with a quote from Lisa Anderson’s blog: “Don’t ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive, and then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.” – Harold Thurman Whitman There is a difference between existing and living – are […]
I recently got engaged in a dialogue with one of my colleagues who is into sales. As we know, sales and marketing is extremely target oriented. People who get overwhelmed by sales targets seldom succeed. He shared one of the advices he got from his boss long back – “Persistence is the key here – […]