It is 1:20 AM, Sunday and I am preparing on subject “Project Management and Quality” for a talk I am going to deliver today at 10:30 AM to fellow project managers at Project Management Institute. Preparing for this exercise pushed me to think beyond the obvious – and I have some fresh insights on issues related […]
People are not human robots. They will make mistakes. A manager’s true measure is the way he treats his people when they make mistakes. I was thrashed by my boss way back in 2001 for a minor mistake I did working on a project based on a very new technology. I literally had tears in […]
I wrote earlier about seeing an “Opportunity in Crisis” – we always have two choices when faced with a difficult moment. You can either escape or have courage to be persistent. Escapism is easier – to be persistent needs courage. In this context, I loved the quote on courage I read on Crossderry Blog. Here it goes. […]
I always thought about integrating my blog to my LinkedIn profile. The only way I could do that so far was to add my blog URL in LinkedIn profile – and add a LinkedIn profile button onto my blog. I always wanted something more than this. And it finally happened with LinkedIn introducing “InApps” – […]
The lessons I learnt in the Management Development Programme (MDP) way back in Apr 2008 keeps clogging my mind space – and something new comes out as an insight. One of the topics Mr. Pillai touched upon was motherhood and management. Let me explain. I have always seen my mother give me plenty – she […]
October 2008 was month of travel. I travelled to two great destinations – Mahabaleshwar for a family vacation and Dubai for a business trip. Both these locations are diametrically different from each other. While Mahabaleshwar is very rustic and rural, Dubai is highly urbane’. Both these trips were a tremendous learning experience – about life […]
In my first job, my immediate colleagues cursed me for my inability to say no – and my boss loved me for that! I said yes to everything that was given to me – and then stretched thin to get it done. At times, this even landed me in terrible situations just because I did not […]
Each day begins with newspapers reporting despondent news on economic downturn – and a general feeling of despair surrounds us. Some inspiration was needed before I start my week and I sought help from my friend – the feed reader. This friend never lets me down – it searches effectively from some 100 odd good […]
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 […]