Guy Kawasaki’s marketing lesson from Tam’s Art Gallery is “Do one thing right”. This is also a professional lesson as I look at it. Just like organizations, people also have to focus on doing one thing right or specializing in one area of work. Sure, we all multi-task between many different functions in an organization – […]
Jeffrey Phillips hits the point when he says “Writing well is an underappreciated skill“. I fully agree. Ability to write well is one of the most important skills one should have, especially in IT/software where paradigms of work have changed with internet and offshore outsourcing. On projects, people communicate requirements, plans, decisions, expectations and issues in […]
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 […]
Definition of a bug by James Bach and Michael Bolton (via Techtarget.com) – “A bug is something that bugs somebody who matters.” Who matters? I think testers matter here, since they work for client. They are clients advocate. Project Manager matters because he works closely with client to fulfil their business need. He has to think […]
Knowledge industries are driven by people where human brains are raw material for products and services that a company delivers. Though most companies claim to be people friendly, the ground realities are often different. This difference often stems from the difference in what we have learnt and what we actually practice at ground level. I have […]
Seth Godin is a hero – have always admired his thoughtfulness. One of such thought via his blog post “Marketing Time“- “A contractor that prides himself on finishing every single job on the day it’s due, regardless of what it takes, is telling a powerful story, doing marketing that’s actually cheaper and more effective than […]
Day to day mundane activities and reacting to normal workplace issues keep us away from thinking. I have experienced this myself. I feel a need to think about deeper issues, need to look at the larger perspective, relate different happenings, think about workplace improvement, think about initiatives that are critical for the organization – and […]