If you are running a Professional Services Firm or a PS Division, you might be interested in this. My friends Jeanne Urich and David Hofferberth at Service Performance Insight published “The New Professional Services Maturity Model — A Roadmap to Achieving Professional Services Excellence”. Both the maturity concepts and the benchmark have met with incredible… Continue reading
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Gradually…Then Suddenly
For those of you who have been following me for long know that Tom Peters has been one of my heroes for a long time. Tom was kind enough to write the foreword for my book “Beyond Code“. As of today, I will be contributing regularly to the TomPeters.com blog. My first entry talks about… Continue reading
Thanksgiving Wishes – Please download the full version of "Beyond Code" FREE
This Thanksgiving I wanted to do something that is timely and meaningful. So I convinced my publishers that I will give away the full version of my book “Beyond Code” (foreword by Tom Peters) for free. Thanks to Kenzi Sugihara at Select Books, at this end of this post you will see a link to… Continue reading
Things that make me smile #44 – When the reverse is true TOO…
You have all heard of those words that can be read backwards and they remain the same. Here are a few quick examples: 1. Dad 2. Mom 3. Radar 4. Rotor 5. Madam 6. Level There are hundreds of them. However, this can apply to ideas too. I received the RedBox newsletter. Yes, I am… Continue reading
Love and Entrepreneurship – Right from Bollywood
Love and Entrepreneurship go hand-in-hand I think. Think about it – you can’t be an entrepreneur if you can’t be TOTALLY PASSIONATE about your idea. Over the weekend, I saw this Bollywood movie “Jab We Met” (meaning: When we met) starring Shahid Kapoor and Kareena Kapoor. Here is the video of the one of the… Continue reading
Things that make smile #43 – UnIntended or Pun Intended :)
Things that make me smile #42 – Sarcasm 101
Sarcasm is rarely interesting. But “sometimes” it’s funny. This one is all about bosses. Mostly created by someone who has the time to create it rather than focusing on his or her work. But the boss can’t blame him or her 🙂 Enjoy! ========= HAPPY FRIDAY! You are listening to jazz — Your first day… Continue reading
Things that make me smile #41 – Ridiculous offers
Sometimes when I see these things I remember the old dot-com dot-bomb days. They were fun 🙂 The advertisement says that the domain “lisa” is for sale for $2,400,000 dollars. All the best! ====== Note: For other 40 posts in the same series, please visit my Squidoo Lens on the same topic. Here is the… Continue reading
Launching "Behind The Car" project
Background: Today is Sumukh’s birthday. He is 10 years old. I have always wanted him to learn the basics of building a company. Of course, it will be odd to try and teach a ten year old kid about balance sheets and income statements without a context. So, the last few weeks, Sumukh and I… Continue reading
Things that make me smile #40 – Captcha or "Capt challenge"?
Trying to create a Yahoo! id for my son and these are the captcha challenges that I encountered. There were more complex ones in the beginning but I started captured a few of them: #1 #2 #3 #4 #5 If you feel like being challenged today, why not try to create a Yahoo! Id for… Continue reading