What makes a leader?
Vision, empathy, diversity, and comprehensive thinking. Working on these four would definitely help polishing on leadership skills.
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Lunch with a millionaire
I had a great opportunity to have a lunch with a millionaire. One-on-one. He paid for it. With his cash. That checks mark on one many to-do things on my lists. It is the first time that I had this chance outside of business meetings, or with one who is not related to me. The…
Product Management tools for project management
In continuation to our last week’s discussion about lessons that project management can learn from product management, let us examine some of the tools that product management uses that could assist in project management: Tools that product management use that might be interesting for project management as well: Weekly newsletter: The communication within the…
Why do you go to a specific restaurant?
Last week, to celebrate last few days of 2011, we went to an Ethiopian restaurant named Walia in San Jose. My wife & I took our friends too, who flew from Detroit to visit us. Two weeks earlier, to celebrate my birthday, we had gone to the same restaurant. I love Ethiopian food. Is Walia…
Things that will disappear by 2030
In most of the developing countries where telephone penetration was 15-40 per 1000 15 years ago has a cellphone penetration of 500 per 1000 households. In developing countries it is 800-1200 per 1000 households. The landlines in these developing countries have reduced from 400 to 250 per households. This tells me that some of the…
The least the Middle Manager needs to know
What major initiatives and projects are they supporting and are they completing them on time? MM is the interface from the team in translating the strategic goals into actionable items. It is important that MM identifies them and assigns the proper resources for them. What are the primary products and services produced by this team?…
