I am Sick... Completely Sick. Mentally, Professionally, Emotionally and Physically.... the last few days have been troublesome... everything is going against time and Wish. Every single thing I am doing is getting myself in the bestest of hell as possible. This is how every Project Manager feels when he is in the middle of any critical project, whooaa the deliveries and projects for me though running...
Tuesday, 26 February 2008
Thursday, 21 February 2008
Motivations?
Posted by Sameer Shaikh
I read this in an email forward and found it funny... the best part of the humour below been at least there was some planning ;)--------------***************----------------------Once upon a time, a British company and a Japanese company decided to have a competitive boat race on the River Thames. The Japanese won by a mile.The British firm became very discouraged and morale sagged. Senior Management...
Tuesday, 19 February 2008
Do Hell with Retrospectives!!!
Posted by Sameer Shaikh
A Failed Project, A toxic leader, A Butt checker Team, A furious client, A meeting to decide who is to be blamed for the failure of the project.... Wow How best than this can you define UNTEAM. A developer blaming on the UI designer, The designer blaming on the developer, the QA blaming both, The Manager blaming everyone and the client blaming the development Team all of this has become common now......
Monday, 18 February 2008
Make your Organisation a GRAVEYARD
Posted by Sameer Shaikh
If you think you want to get a FLAT hierarchy in your team or a culture that lets you work with every level without having a feel of hierarchical protocol... You need to make sure that you make your organization a GRAVEYARD... Yes this is the only place where equality is religiously followed.... You would see the Poor and the rich, the nun and the witch all in same place... While I keep myself busy...
Wednesday, 13 February 2008
You get rejected if?
Posted by Sameer Shaikh
Yesterday I interviewed a Sr. Business Development Manager for my new venture, the role involves everything a Biz Dev Manager has to do plus be a potential CSO. Unfortunately he got rejected inspite been tremendously talented the only reason been there was a lot of "I" in the conversations... when Rama asked me last time on how to ensure that we get a person with the right attitude I had thought of...
Tuesday, 5 February 2008
Employees makes Brands and Cultures not Management
Posted by Sameer Shaikh
I happened to visit Planet Ford office at Pune for the regular servicing of my car eventually when everyone coming to me started asking Me for and about the car I felt to be like GOD and why not this is what makes you believe that there are people who still think Customers are God. When I peeped around I realised that the employee who had joined just a day ago was also behaving the same way the most...
Monday, 4 February 2008
TechShepherds is a NO NO!!!
Posted by Sameer Shaikh
My New Venture is starting to trouble me even before it started... the first thing that went wrong was my decission to bring in the change to the Business Model ;) and now my decission to bring up a name for the business that will help me accelerate the organisation and venture. Yes it was in my mind since long on not to anymore continue with TechShepherds however at this point my thoughts turn concrete...
