There was an interesting question on LinkedIn Answers recently – “What 4 or 5 things do you do each and every day to be successful?“. Now that was thought-provoking. Here is my list of 5 things that I do (or try to do) everyday to be/remain successful: Eat healthy and walk to stay fit. No fun being […]
Photograph: by Tanmay Vora (Spring season in Finland) A good Monday means a good week ahead. So how do you ensure that you have a kick-ass Monday? Here are a few thoughts – Monday is momentum day. If you are able to pick up momentum on Monday, rest of the week just follows through. If […]
Long meetings are not neccessarily productive. Same for frequent meetings. Infact they are counter-productive because people get drained in a long meeting. A meeting without an agenda (purpose) is not meeting but just a time-pass. Simplicity is the key when it comes to meeting. Meetings have to be simple. Quick meetings that conclude with actionable items […]
I am in Helsinki Finland for official reasons and the weather here gives me extra time to move around and explore the surrounding areas. This is spring season here in Finland with road sides dotted with vividly colored flowers. Temperature varies between 15 to 18 Degrees and day time lasts for 18 hours (Sun rises […]
One of the keys to being respectable is to be positive. I have hardly seen anyone who is negative and respectable at the same time. Reason is simple. People relate better with positive statements and positive reasoning. Sure, there are tonnes of problems in your project, people are not doing the job right and client […]
Long time since I last blogged – I can give an excuse that I was busy with work, but I won’t! Here are some of the interesting posts that I randomly read during past couple of weeks that I have been away from blogging. One More Way to Engage I never knew this. Our brain […]
Read this amazing quote in a Book of Literary Quotations – “If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth writing.” Something worth thinking? On that note, have a thoughtful Tuesday!
I was reading a mini-book “Total Quality Management in a Week” by John Macdonald over the weekend. It is a great reference for people like me who are responsible for processes and ensuring quality through process engineering. Managers who lead teams play a very crucial role in the overall quality management system of an organization. […]
Mother – that is a bank where we deposited all our hurts and worries.” – T. DeWitt Talmage A lot has been written about mothers till date and each Mother’s Day reminds us how important they are in our lives! Equally true is the fact that we take them the most for granted. The bonding […]