I read a great post over at “Thinking Faster” blog called “What’s a manager to do?” “I think in the modern economy, a manager can add at least three valuable attributes: translation, clarity and resolution.” Translation – “translate” the goals and directions from the CEO on down into actions and plans that people can work […]
General notion is that when we are at work, we are there to earn. In fact, the other side of the equation is that when we are at work, we are also investing in ourselves as professionals. In her post “Visibility trumps Hard work“, Astha underlines exactly the same. “There are tons of executive derailment studies which […]
Some people leave an indelible mark on our psyche and play a small but all important role in shaping our future. It could be parents, teachers, friends, relatives, boss, colleague or may be someone unknown. One of my teachers played this crucial role in my life and left a long lasting impression on me as […]
Good Listening skills are crucial for managers – I wish all managers followed Stephen Covey’s mantra of “Seek first to understand then to be understood”. Good understanding comes from a good listening and the quote below underlines exactly that. A wise old owl lived in an oakThe more he saw, the less he spokeThe less he […]
Experience is a great teacher they say – and they say it right. Some of my recent experiences on project/team communication have been learning lessons for me. I think it is really crucial to have sound communication practices (both personal communication as well as project communication) to make our work life easier. The lessons? Here […]
Hal Macomber over at “Reforming Project Management” blog has written an intriguing post “Silence — One of the Two Great Wastes™ — Is a Project and Career Killer” – in the crux of it, “not speaking” and “not listening” are two great wastes that kill projects and often careers. Excellent! Very recently, I experienced the […]
10 Unbreakable Rules for Project Success via Reforming Project Management blog. Know what you are doing Know why you are doing it Be prudent, honest and prepared Play to your strengths Know how to navigate Know how to communicate Know how to succeed Know how to fail Know when the project is over Know how to learn
When someone is unhappy in your team, be swift in actions to deal with the problem because negativity of one team member (“bad apple”) reverberates in the entire team. In case of teams, negatives spread faster than positives and it is a manager’s challenge to spread the positives as fast and balance the overall positivism […]
Watts Humphrey says: “The problems of software process change are often complicated bythe fact that no one is responsible to make it happen. If software process improvement isn’t anybody’s job, it is not surprising that it doesn’t get done! If it is important enough to do, however, someone must be assigned the responsibility and given […]