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In a majority of cases being an expert at Python or SQL alone doesn’t help. Driving value with data isn’t about tools or code alone. And this is an area I oft find as a huge gap. – Can you convert an output to an outcome? – Are you looking at the relevance of the …
Company first – Business Unit Next – Team Third – Individual Last Always. Always think in that order. If you are a working individual solving a problem, always put the company hat first when you think through the solution If you are a hiring manager, please hire for folks with this outlook. If you are …
I thought I wanted to work in Marketing and drive Go-to-market strategy in my first role. As management trainees, we rotated across roles in the first year and I was assigned as the product manager to drive Product Usage and Retention for my State. It involved number crunching day in and out – analyzing customer …
What do you do when people you manage fail? You forgive and forget You remember, pass blame, stigmatize and humiliate them You forgive and remember The right approach that Bob Sutton, Professor of Management at Stanford University advocates is to *forgive* so that people have psychological safety and *remember*, so that you can learn, the …
“Projects fail at a spectacular rate. One reason is that too many people are reluctant to speak up about their reservations during the planning phase. By making it safe for dissenters who are knowledgeable and worried to speak up, you can improve a project’s chances of success.” How can you use pre-mortems to plan better? …
Are you above average? Is your child an A student? Is your employee an introvert or an extrovert? Every day we are measured against the yardstick of averages, judged according to how closely we come to it or how far we deviate from it. The assumption that metrics comparing us to an average—like GPAs, personality …
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How do you enable your teams to bond and share knowledge in a remote first set-up? One can be in back-to-back calls and yet not feel connected – much like being in a room full of people but feeling lonely. I think this is a very real problem that leaders need to address. Here are …
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What do you think are the ingredients for Happiness? Sonja Lyubomirsky, a psychology professor and a popular author on the topic of Happiness summarized the common elements we usually consider on what it takes to be happy – A comfortable income– Robust health– A supportive marriage and– A lack of tragedy or trauma She noted …