Quought for the Day #35 – Ashwin Rangan

Until recently, Ashwin Rangan served as the Chief Information Officer of Walmart.com. Prior to this assignment, he served as senior vice president and chief information officer of Conexant in Newport Beach, CA (www.conexant.com). Ashwin was a member of the founding team that spun-out Rockwell Semiconductor Systems (in January 1999) and created Conexant. Prior to joining Rockwell Semiconductor Systems in 1995, Rangan served as senior manager of Demand Management Systems at AST Computer in Irvine, CA, until AST was acquired by Samsung Electronics.

Ashwin serves on the board of Suggestica.

My $.02: The quick recipe for unhappiness is to not know what makes you happy. If you don’t know what you want, whatever happens, it won’t be what you “wanted.”


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Here’s Ashwin’s Quought for the Day

“What is the one pursuit that invariably brings YOU a feeling of happiness?”
 
Write down your answer. And measure – for yourself – how much of time everyday gets invested in that activity. The answer will be quite revealing, I feel.


Related Links:
1. CIO Institute
2. Suggestica
3. Walmart.com

Note:
Quought = Question that provokes thought. Questions are important. Thinking is important. Questions that make you think are very important!

PS:
Squidoo Lens: The Power of Questions!