One of my all-time favourite quotations finds a prominent place at my workstation. It’s by the legendary Quality guru – W. Edwards Deming : It
My work involves designing and executing ‘Reward and Recognition’ programs for the 1000-strong sales force (and key partners) of an Insurance major.
In my quest to find out what’s being discussed on this subject, across the globe, I chanced upon an excellent article published by the Harvard Business School…
On the occassion of Teacher’s Day, I just wanted to take this opportunity to say a big Thank You to all the teachers who have helped shape my life.
Most of my working life (six-odd years till date), I have spent working with small-medium outfits. Almost all of these were agencies of some form or another. But today, I have chosen to go down a new route. I have decided to become “the client”!
A free e-book distributed by Seth Godin contains a summary of his other great book – The Purple Cow : Remarkable, isn’t it?
Once again, I link to Mahesh Murthy’s column in Business World and this time it’s on Google’s unusual IPO listing : Now, I am not advocating that we all go out and subscribe to this stock. All I’m trying to say is that here’s a company that operates in the same space as conventional (multi-billion dollar) organizations do, but has the courage to do things its own way.
And on my walk I was thinking how it is some people end up on one street with the big house and some other people end up on the not so nice alley with the little shack and what the assumptions were when we were all growing up…
How it is that one person can more successfully get another person to say yes to a request? When Robert Cialdini set out on a
George Monbiot offers some excellent career advice in an essay called “Choose Life”. Many of the examples pertain to journalism, but I think it has a lot to offer for any one searching for a direction in life (or work)…
Some weeks ago, I bought a book that goes by the name of “Love is the Killer App”. It was written by Tim Sanders – a bigwig at Yahoo! – and the title, of course, intrigued me. As I started reading the book, I also looked up Sanders on the Internet and found that he has an egroup (on Yahoo!) which sends out periodic updates on the subject his book covers. The email update I got today, contains a very interesting story that I wanted to share with you. I am reproducing it here in entirety.
Working in a project-based environment is an inevitable fact of my life. And, ever so often, there are days when I start out with a 20-point to-do list, but “urgent” things keep coming up and not one of those 20 items gets done ! HBS Working Knowledge offers a solution…
An email from Vijai pointed me to an interesting Regret Letter… Wish we could send off letters like this !
Starting a business with a partner (or partners) is very different than starting one alone. The closest analogy I can come up with is that it’s like marrying someone, and the business you build is your child… Having run my own business for over one and half years with a college friend as a partner, I completely agree with the above. At the end of the day, its about matching idealogies and merging interests, and working towards a common goal. And in spite of that, the “marriage” may not last as long as you’d expect it to.
CNet.com carried a piece called “Gwyneth, the Grateful Dead and Google” which described some unusual aspects of Google’s work culture. Fortune also profiled SAS as one of the best places to work for. Read on, but only if you want to risk re-thinking your idea of Camelot.
Knowledge@Emory carries an interesting piece on the pressures and joys of entrepreneurship, culled from the wisdom of many a risk taker… And I am reminded of Dan Bricklin’s quote once again : “As you jump from rock to slippery rock, you have to *like* the feeling.”
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