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More Thoughts On Tale Of Two Managers and Relationships of QAspire

June 23, 2010

Tanmay has written an interesting post at QAspire blog today called, “Focus on Relationships and Tale of Two Leaders”. Here’s its quick summary followed by some of my thoughts on the same. Story of Peter In his quest to achieve his sales targets, Peter was overly focused on “closing the sale“. When in front of [...]

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Bad Bad Cellphone 7

June 20, 2010

Turn it off, whenever you can. Never ‘while driving’. Distracts you often from doing whatever you’re doing. Radiations – bad for health; Vibrations – bad for ear drums; Camera – security threat. Compute ‘total cell-phone usage time’ vs. ‘doing something which takes you near to your goals’. Most likely, get balled over. Causes male infertility [...]

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How To Caffeinate Your Leadership Repertoire?

June 15, 2010

Recently Google announced of their new search index called Caffeine. A significant improvement over their traditional indexing system. Google’s old indexing system had several layers which used to take significant time to get updated with newer information – like social media status updates – to serve the world. Leadership is no different. Like Google search, you [...]

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Today Why Not? 7

June 10, 2010

Think only positive; leave the negative for tomorrow. Go to your team-mate’s desk to discuss in lieu of writing a bureaucratic email. Listen to a motivational piece of music for 15 minutes or so. Read some of the best blog posts in your interest area. For example, QASpire’s post on Training which has been featured [...]

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Smash The Problems By Analyzing, UnAnalyzing and Reanalyzing The Assumptions Attached

June 6, 2010

Every problem – regardless of its size or simplicity – ejaculates an attached list of assumptions. Many a times, assumptions are imprecise and make the problem statement ineffective or erroneous. To effectively deal with assumptions, first step is to write them down and the second step is to make sure that most obvious and safe [...]

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