Via Raven’s Brain blog – an excellent collection of some unwritten management rules. While you can read the full post here, here are some of my favorites. “If you are not criticized, you may not be doing much. Look for what is missing. Many know how to improve what’s there; few can see what isn’t […]
I have seen people who pretend that they are working/thinking hard the moment their boss is around – and as soon as the boss leaves – they resume their irrelevant chatting over instant messenger or their networking activities on social networks. I wonder at times “Aren’t they worried about their future?” Here is a great quote […]
Guy Kawasaki, over at his blog “How to change the world” interviews Jeffrey Pfeffer, the author of What Were They Thinking?: Unconventional Wisdom About Management The interview makes it for a great read and here are a few excerpts that I really admired. On leadership: “In fact, sometimes, as the Grammy-award winning Orpheus Chamber orchestra […]
Via Seth Godin’s blog post “That Moment“: “When you are sitting right on the edge of something daring and scary and creative and powerful and perhaps wonderful… and you blink and take a step back. That’s the moment. The moment between you and remarkable. Most people blink. Most people get stuck. “
My earlier post revolved around the subject of effective writing. Here are some of my favorite quotes from the book ‘The Writer and the Reader’ by Neil Ewart. It is a great collection of great thoughts on writing and reading. The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar, and familiar things new. […]
Seth Godin has an excellent post again – “Who should you hire?”. Managers and Leaders are often responsible for this challenging task of hiring people and this post surely a good reference for hiring people in your team as well as for doing some introspection ourselves. Seth says – “There is a fundamental shift in […]