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Great Story: A Manager’s Function
I recently re-read a fantastic book “Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams” by Tom Demarco and Timothy Lister. The book is filled with hard-won wisdom about executing projects and managing people for highest productivity. Here is a real-life story from the book that underlines importance of the “human aspect” of our work; especially creative work that […]
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Productivity Reminders…
… For Managers In knowledge world, productivity is hard to quantify. If you try to adopt old “command and control” style of management to drive knowledge workers, they get even less productive. Don’t command, empower. Don’t control, but lead them instead. Understand that knowledge workers cannot always be productive between 9 to 5. They have […]
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Getting Work Done: Flow and Distractions
Across the web, I have recently read articles/posts that underline an important thing – technology is taking a toll on our productivity and is keeping us from doing work that really matters – that is, if we allow. I have seen both sides of the coin. I often get into a state when my work […]
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On Leadership and Dealing with Comfortable Inaction
John F. Kennedy said this (one of my favorite quotes) – “There are risks and costs to a program of actions. But they are far less than the long range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.” Comfortable inaction is the state where the immediate implication of not doing something is not visible, but in a […]
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Article Series on Quality – A Round-Up
As announced earlier, I am writing a very exciting series of articles on QUALITY over at ActiveGarage.com – it is a 12-part series that touches upon some of the most critical aspects of building a quality-centric organization culture. Here is a list of articles already posted so far, in case you have not read them. […]
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More with less v/s More on less.
Multiple priorities and too many task on your task list throws you off the gear at times. I am passing through one such time where there is too much on my plate and focus keeps shifting between macro and micro level tasks. While all gets done, the key point here is – “Is it effective?” – and the […]