I have always said that if you want to do something great, work with a great team. Working with an “A” team has a ton of advantages but there are some problems too. One problem is that it’s not easy to reach a consensus sometimes. Each person has an opinion and will have valid reasons… Continue reading
Date Archives → November 2005
Ways to distinguish yourself – #58 Understand the law of the bucket and the glass
Okay – there is no such law. I made this up based on an advice by one of my mentors. Imagine an empty glass where you can pour water or any liquid. It’s ready and willing to get filled. Imagine a bucket filled with water. Now, start pouring the water from the bucket into the… Continue reading
Mitchell's three rules of business success
It’s always fun to meet my friend Mitchell Levy of Happy About. Today at lunch, Mitchell was kind enough to share his three rules of business success. Here they are (with his permission) 1. Make as many friends as possible and do as many favors as possible. 2. Looking for pain and solving it directly… Continue reading
Working on the "signal to noise" ratio
I recently wrote about a report from Blog Herald that there are now 100 million blogs in the world. How long would it take to start a newspaper? May be a few months? How long would it take to start a blog? Less than a few minutes!!
Continue readingOne more reason why you MUST focus on creating GREAT content
Blog Herald reports that there are now 100 Million blogs in the world. While we can question the statistics, the fact is that there are a LOT of blogs out there. Also, with the availability of blogging tools it’s VERY easy to create a new blog. So if you want your blog to get ANY… Continue reading
October Sky – Against all odds!
My trip from Boston to San Jose couple of days ago had another highlight. American Airlines was screening a movie called “October Sky” and since I was confident that I will complete reading Grapevine(by David Balter) quickly, I chose to watch the movie. What a good decision it was! I was proud of myself. Sometimes… Continue reading
Ways to distinguish yourself – #57 Focus on the last mile
There is a saying in the software development world that “it takes 90% of the time to complete 90% of the project and another 90% of the time to complete the other 10%.” Think about it – how many of your projects are almost complete? If a few projects come to your mind instantly don’t… Continue reading
Ways to distinguish yourself – #56 Craft a compelling elevator pitch for yourself
I wrote recently about being ready to win the boxing game. Lot of you wrote to me to expand on the topic. So here is what I have got. Elevator pitches are quite common in venture capital industry. If you are an entrepreneur in the valley (Bay Area) one of the first things that you… Continue reading
Ways to distingish yourself – #55 Commoditize your work at regular intervals
For those of you who are following the series you know that distinguishing yourself is not a destination but a journey. It’s a life long journey that you need to commit to. This means that once you achieve distinction in something very soon there will be many people who will catch up with you and… Continue reading
Highlights of CIOUpdate column on today's Slashdot review
Fellow Gnomedexer Andrew McCaskey picks up highlights of my CIOUpdate column “Leading Smart IT Professionals” in today’s Slashdot Review (a 10 minute review of interesting Slashdot news and links) Here is the link to the podcast: Slashdot Review for Nov 2 (MP3) Thanks Andrew! Please sign up for my newsletter here: