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System Thinking from Chess Player

Gary Kasparov became the youngest ever undisputed World Chess Champion in 1985 at age 22 . He was very successful from other grandmasters at that time because he was so different than most of them about how he handles the match results. He did 2 things differently, 1. whenever he loses a match, he analyzes the match, not about the move which made him to lose the match like "Pawn taking bishop" etc, but he will look into this decision-making process how he arrived at that move. Looking at a particular move and analyze is called output thinking but looking at the decision-making process which product that output is called system thinking. He analyzes about what did in that match, how he prepared for that match, what was his mental model when he played the match so that he can understand the flaw in his decision-making process and correct them. if he would have fixed the one most which made him lost he can only avoid that output in future, but he fixes the flaw ...
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Customer Service

On Saturday morning I called a AAA as my car didn't start suspecting the batter problem, they sent the Battery services person. He checked that alternator was the problem, he said that he would call AAA to send the towing truck (not counting battery service as service call). Tow truck driver came down to my location and started towed my card in to his truck, in mean time i called my Nissan service center, Me: Can i drop my vehicle now for the alternator problem? Service center Rep: sure sir, considering the volume of services today we couldn't get your car done today... Me: Oh OK, will i have to come tomorrow to pick the car or only on Monday Service Center Rep: We will try but if not today it will be only on Monday Tow truck driver hearing this conversation in mean time, Tow truck driver: why don't I drop you car in the service station so you don't need to drive up and down, then waste your gas.. Me: Oh is it, are you OK...

Hobby!

Everybody should have serious hobby, I chosen to be a numismatist! Yes coins, I did have lot of interest in this during my school days then I lost sight during college and most of my professional career time. Just realized that I am not spending time for me which I am interested. In 2012 I   started again to going behind coin collection, I continue this for 3 years now. I spend quality time for me in case of this hobby and able to control my mind and concentrate! What else you could because of the serious hobby? Networking Self satisfaction Kids can get motivated to take a serious hobby Time management Reduce stress Recently drove for 1 hour to Putnam to antique shop, I just amazed how I got the internal drive to spend this time. Otherwise I would have spend this time switching between channels.  We should spend time outside our home to know ourselves ! It was also a lovely drive with snow on both sides! Let's us not just have reading book, wat...

The Five Dysfunctions of a Team

I recently read the book named “ The Five Dysfunctions of a Team ” by Patrick Lencioni in Manga Style comics. It is simple superb and very engaging book. It is written in the Comics style, this is the 1 st time I am reading team management related book in this style. Author explained 5 dysfunctions in these Comics having the real time situation using the fictitious characters. He organized these in Pyramid format and how each one of these 5 things relates to each other. Dysfunction #1: Absence of Trust Fear of being vulnerable with team members prevents the building of trust on a team. Dysfunction #2: Fear of Conflict The desire to preserve artificial harmony stifles the occurrence of productive ideological conflict. Dysfunction #3: Lack of Commitment The lack of clarity or buy-in prevents team members from making decisions they will stick to. Dysfunction #4: Avoidance of Accountability The need to avoid interpersonal discomfort pr...

Fine Tastings Of the Week (12/17 – 12/25)

Innovative ideas - http://www.smartplanet.com/ Creativity Killers - http://www.fastcocreate.com/1680919/the-7-biggest-creativity-killers?partner=weekly_10 Big DATA - http://www.inc.com/minda-zetlin/greylock-partners-dj-patil-future-big-data.html Customer Service - http://www.fastcompany.com/3003947/customer-experience-just-ok-not-ok?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+fastcompany%2Fheadlines+%28Fast+Company%29&utm_content=Google+Reader Great example about Customer service , driver “Anna” in OMR Road – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmPB7fsvCg8 Agile Scrum - http://www.scrumshortcuts.com/blog/planning-metrics/scrum-metrics-and-reporting-measure-what-you-manage/ For Programming fanatics - http://lemire.me/blog/archives/2011/06/06/why-i-still-program/ Site worth of try for social media feeds - http://socialmention.com/ - Courtesy Twitter Best Interface is no interface - http://www.cooper.com/journal/2012/08/the-b...

Fine Tastings Of the Week (12/10 – 12/16)

Voice Biometrics -  http://www.healthtechzone.com/topics/healthcare/articles/2012/11/19/316538-voice-biometrics-may-be-key-keeping-electronic-patient.htm Gartner Top 10 strategic technology trends for 2013 -  http://www.forbes.com/sites/ericsavitz/2012/10/23/gartner-top-10-strategic-technology-trends-for-2013/ Mobile market Trends (huge collections) -  http://www.scoop.it/t/market-trends-in-mobile-tech-for-health?page=1 Predictions in Mechanics -  http://www.popularmechanics.com/print-this/110-predictions-for-the-next-110-years?page=all Future of the Work -  http://paper.li/rwang0/1328149883 Check this amazing Technology -  http://t.co/MGBy4LfI

Fine Tastings Of the Week (12/03 – 12/09)

Few of fine tastings from last week i could share , My Laws of Subtraction   – Must needed for people who work on presentations, innovation portfolios – http://www.gembaacademy.com/webinars/may-laws-of-subtraction.html?goback=%2Egde_31013_member_191711090 Think, Fast and Slow   – This Interview made me to purchase the book, psychology being my favorite during my college days as time pass. I again got interest in subject again – http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/interview-with-daniel-kahneman-on-the-pitfalls-of-intuition-and-memory-a-834407.html - Courtesy Sukumar to share this link in twitter account Got this link from   #SocialMedia   tag in C2.0 – http://gigaom.com/2012/11/04/5-most-surprising-things-heard-at-harvard-cyberposium/ Social Network Success factors   – http://www.damarque.com/blog/gianluigi-cuccureddu/five-key-success-factors-enterprise-social-networks?goback=%2Egde_43621_member_191734552 Not all   project man...