I am on a VR Fast train from Helsinki to Tampere as I write this. Trains here in Europe have amazing facilities to enable me to use the laptop and write something. Travelling is the best time to reflect upon and get inspired. Okay, laptop is on. What next? I decided to meet my dear friend […]
I have recently updated my Flickr Photostream with some new chosen pictures. Enjoy the photos at http://www.flickr.com/tnvora. Your comments are priceless. Here are some highlights: This is a peepal leaf against light. The veins of leaf came so clear that this looks like roads of a well planned city. This is a beautiful flower […]
The June Leadership Development Carnival is up at “Great Leadership” blog by Dan McCarthy. This time, the Carnival hosts around 30 excellent leadership artilces. Certainly worth a read! One of my posts on “Positive Project Management and Being Respectable” has been selected in June Carnival. Happy and proud again. Check it out! My post on […]
A few days back, I compiled a list of 25 things I learnt on conducting productive meetings. On the same lines, I read this amusing and very relevant post on Cultural Offering blog titled “What they’re thinking during your poorly planned and badly executed meeting” – the title says it all! My favorites from the […]
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 […]