I am a bit lost!!! and drowned and low and aggitated and irritated and angry and furious and upsetNow is the time for me to be back on track and remove the blockers that have been causing so much of pain to the projects...Now if every Manager thinks this way I am sure no project will go over budget, costs , quality and time? Ofcourse this should be done frequently by the Managers and not at the end...
Friday, 28 March 2008
Wednesday, 26 March 2008
How many Projects do you manage?
Posted by Sameer Shaikh
Reading Johanna's post about How Many projects are you managing? gives a clear touch to what Me and Kari had always been talking about... If you want to complete a project or to that matter anything that you want to do in life thing with quality and standards you should keep focus on it. the moment you manage more than one thing you tend to pull down both... No wonder we have a whole bunch of Managers...
Monday, 24 March 2008
How to Loose your Best Guy?
Posted by Sameer Shaikh
Thursday, 20 March 2008
[Humour] Performance Appraisal and the real meanings
Posted by Sameer Shaikh
This is really funny and ingenious idea (Not mine though)Outgoing personality-Always going outGreat presentation skills-Able to bull shitGood Communication skills-Always on the phoneWork is first priority-Too ugly to get a dateActive socially-Drinks a lotIndependent worker-Nobody knows what he doesQuick thinking-Offers plausible excusesCareful thinker-won't make decisionsUse logic on difficult jobs-Use...
Monday, 10 March 2008
A blog post a day keeps the visitors Awake!!!
Posted by Sameer Shaikh
An Apple a day keeps the doctor away!!! that is what is said when you want to stay fit n fine. To keep me fit n fine these days I am on different diets and medicines ;)Yeah. I am very fond of medicines these days. I am having medicines of:1. Empowered Speeches - To empower and regain my lost passion2. Fiction - To get back my lost creativity3. Soar calmness - To control my anger 4. Passionate Love...
Sunday, 9 March 2008
Startups and hardwork
Posted by Sameer Shaikh
While lots been talked about How to save money at startups a few points that trigger me and what I second also are :Fire people who are not workaholics. don’t love their work… come on folks, this is startup life, it’s not a game. don’t work at a startup if you’re not into it–go work at the post office or starbucks if you’re not into it you want balance in your life. For realz.Yes. You need hardworking...
Saturday, 8 March 2008
I resign officially
Posted by Sameer Shaikh
Just waiting for valleys to dry up so that I can smoothly flow out of this... I resign officially out of the scores of my Myspace account now.. here are the reasons:1. I dont check it too often2. There is nothing new now since the CEO last announced.3. Too many ads that get blocked in my home and Vista firewall4. Too much of unrequired friend invites 5. Every Single invite I get thinks that I am a...
Friday, 7 March 2008
Pissing Off on Opportunities
Posted by Sameer Shaikh
So when I posted my last post on I AM SICK I got help from several people and before I could actually utilise the help I realised that I have learnt to Piss off on Opportunities badly.... here is what I have done:1. Missed to follow up with a critical prospect over the next meeting on getting the business move -- I Pee!!!2. Missed to change the pre-sales presentation to give a glimpse of Behavirioul...
Dealing with difficult people II -- The How to
Posted by Sameer Shaikh
So I could finally save some time today and try to write up what I started a few days back... Dealing with Difficult People - I So when you are dealing with Difficult people who come as Hostile Barbarians there are a few things that need to be taken care unless you really want to ruin the democracy in the Team.... The Hostile Barbarians as said are the species who want to run their own things no...
Sunday, 2 March 2008
Dealing with difficult people - I
Posted by Sameer Shaikh
I wanted to write about this on the day I decided to move on the the next chapter of my Book Work Better than Sex, however thought I would still study more and add to the species so that you know more about the difficult people you have to deal with all your Manager career.... All through our work life we are bothered, harassed and humiliated by some people we purely name them "DIFFICULT" in one form...
