The Value of Values and Culture

5 yrs ago Kari and Me had a discussion about listing values in various places of the workplace.. Kari had disagreed and mentioned that values should be imbibed and mentored, I agreed that it should be imbibed and mentored to, but I also argued that it should be visible to the team whenever they are...

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First get your errors right

Nobody wants to be in an erroneous situation.. I think if you ask 10 people 9 would say "No" to get into an error state at all. But believe me working in the IT industry for so long the reality realm of errors are that they are not very user friendly... Errors are just errors and the programmers argue...

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I want India to loose the cricket world cup 2011

The morning of 19th February.. I just took the day as it came regularly, the only difference that is it was a weekend and I was more lazy than the regular days. Like every Indian today, I was also waiting for 2:30 PM IST when India takes on Bangladesh in the inaugural match. Just that since morning I kept the Doordarshan Sports logged on to see the highlights of Swimming and Gymnastics.. (One of my...

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What is Team work?

So much said about it... I am sure I am not adding a big deal. But a question a few days ago really kept hammering my mind that why is team work only about success? If Indian cricket team does not win a game, that doesn't mean they are lacking team work... the effort and the hard work still remains... a lot of people for some reason really don't understand what it is really meant by team work... I...

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Ways you are forced to kiss failure

No matter how Alpha, Beta, Omega or Gamma types of project manager you are.. if you refer to Johanna Rothman's post on Don't start a project with scarcity you would be convinced that if you have to succeed on a project make sure you don't start out of scarcity. However is the situation ever in your hand? Are you as a Project Manager allowed to make a decision on when to start a project?...

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What is it like to have a healthy workspace?

Some body asked a question on Quora .. on how to create a healthy work environment with respect to the workspace not a cultural aspect included really... reminded me of a post written way back in September on Healthy Environments But I think that is not enough.. I missed to cover the healthy workspace...

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The value of NOCOMPLAINTS diet

Yes.. for the last 4 days I am on a NOCOMPLAINTS diet.. I think a term I learnt from some comment on a blog.. the idea of the NOCOMPLAINTS diet is to regain the positivity and improvise the mental health. Of late I have learnt that the smallest complaint that you make can cause a mental block to your life, day schedules and general progress through a day. Following the famous General Motors diet that...

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