Many people who end up in leadership positions think they are leaders. This little quote explains that it’s not the position or it’s not the people that report to you that defines the quality of your leadership but.. “The quality of your leadership is reflected in the caliber of people choosing to follow you” –… Continue reading
Date Archives → July 2005
Innovation in a small way – Microsoft media player
The latest version of Microsoft Media Player has a cool feature. If you minimize it, you can have it on your taskbar with all the key controls in place. Here is are two images of the media player on the task bar 1. When play is ON 2. When paused “What’s the big deal?” you… Continue reading
Apple – an example of corporate resilience and innovation
Apple and Steve Jobs never cease to amaze me. Today Apple reported earnings and they exceeded the revenue and profit expectations by a wide margin. Look at the attached graph that shows the iTunes song downloads chart that I made up from publicly available information. If you observe closely, you will notice that it took… Continue reading
Amazon reports: Advance orders surpass 1.4M for new Harry Potter book
Amazon reports that the advance orders for JK Rowling’s new Harry Potter book has surpassed 1.4 Million. That’s a record for Amazon. The earlier Harry Potter book held the record with 1.3 Million advance orders.
Continue readingWriting a book – advice for new authors; my experience
I got inspired by Dave Taylor‘s recent post with cool advice for new authors. Joe Wickert provides some more insights into this seemingly common “writers block” In the recent past, I have met with several “to be” authors. One or two of them were even taking a course on how to get published. One of… Continue reading
Paypal – Make it easy and then make it hard
Paypal has a service to let non-paypal users to pay using their credit card. However, if you have a Paypal account and you choose to pay with your credit card, Paypal does not like it. Here is the message from them Our records indicate that this email address is already registered to an existing Paypal… Continue reading
Quotes worth recording – Walter Savage Landor
This little quote reminds us that our thoughts are under our control. Many times we tend to forget this simple truth and get carried away with negative and unproductive thoughts. “My thoughts are my company; I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss them” – Walter Savage Landor Please sign up for my… Continue reading
It's not over… Dancing with stars story
Kavitha got me glued into this cool program on ABC called “Dancing with the Stars” and I followed the last few episodes. This week was the final week and Kelly and Alec were the winning team. Here is my point: While they danced superbly, their journey to the top was not smooth. They were not… Continue reading
Zero emission Buses (ZEB) from VTA; Wanted: More Innovation
While driving to work today, I saw a Zero Emission Bus (ZEB) by VTA (valley transportation authority) here in Silicon Valley. The bus was completely powered by fuel cells. It was a delight to see fuel cells in action (one the road). May be I had missed the announcement or busy with work but I… Continue reading
Operation Hero Miles – Hats off to AA!
AA just unveiled a program called Operation Hero Miles where people can donate American Advantage miles and AA will pool them and donate to those that are serving in the war. AA’s goal is to get at least 17,760,000 AAdvantage® miles to Operation Hero Miles. With the matching program in place all it requires is… Continue reading