During a recent lunch meeting, Ashwin Rangan, CIO of Walmart.com talked about this concept. So, credit goes to Ashwin. One of the key things in life is to “selectively forget” things. There are so many things that happen to us during the course of our lifetime. I always say “either we win or we learn”… Continue reading
Date Archives → October 2005
Thank you to all of you; Please vote for my new proposal
Thank you for all the support for my first manifesto on ChangeThis titled “25 Ways to Distinguish Yourself“. The rankings for this manifesto as of today are: Download Rank: #23 Email Rank: #11 Blog Rank: #30 I feel blessed and fortunate. I have put in another proposal. This time it’s called “25 More Ways to… Continue reading
What is the cost of convenience?
Most of the time when you purchase something for your convenience you pay twice. Once to purchase it and once when you make use of that convenience. Typically, the first cost is measured and the second one is ignored. Take 24/7 email access for example. You can get it using blackberry and the costs are… Continue reading
Grass is always greener on the other side
Curt Rosengren at Worthwhile blog, points to an article about a survey on career change. Interestingly more than 50% of the 1700 global executives say that they want to do something very different with their careers. If you include the “may be” responses, the percentage goes up to 75%. Here are my observations: I wish they had asked… Continue reading
Ways to distingish yourself – #40 Learn to estimate well
Whether you are an IT professional or not, you are always working on one or more projects. Most often you are handed projects from your managers and in addition you have your own personal projects. One common question before you start any project is “How long does it take complete the project?” Seems like a… Continue reading
Philosophy, Wisdom and Inspiration – Cool link
When you ask for something..
I had an opportunity to speak at HP as part of an NetIP event. I enjoyed speaking there as it was almost an interactive discussion with the group. Once the talk was completed, a few people talked to me one-on-one and most of them asked for my contact details. I give out my cards freely… Continue reading
Learning from success or learning from failure?
Today was fun. I had lunch with one of the board members at CIGNEX – Yakov Soloveychik (unfortunately Yakov still does not have a blog yet) and we were talking about learning from success and failure. Yakov had an interesting observation. Here is the gist. A lot of learning happens from failure. While you can… Continue reading
Quotes worth recording – John F. Kennedy
25 More ways to distinguish yourself – ChangeThis Manifesto Proposal
The need for distinguishing oneself has never been greater. The time has come for all of us to be “special” to survive in this fast changing world. After the overwhelming response received for my first manifesto titled “25 Ways to Distinguish Yourself“, I continued to research and write about more ways for distinguishing oneself. The… Continue reading