Skip to main content

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



Not all project managers would love to read, it gave some thoughts chew to – http://network.projectmanagers.net/profiles/blogs/5-things-a-tech-lead-can-do-that-a-project-manager-cannot

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

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...
Post a Comment
Read more

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...
1 comment
Read more

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 ...
Post a Comment
Read more