Employee hunting

The tables have turned. The situation in the IT market is now employee hunting and not job hunting as it used to be. My first two hours at BarCampMumbai have been filled with discussions on the current situation in the IT market. Employers are not able to find good programmers. Or even programmers! People have […]

Acceptance precedes acceptance

I was talking to a friend today and said “you can’t expect them to accept you unless you accept them”! I realized this was a big idea! All too often we want people to accept us the way we are. But we won’t accept them the way they are (probably that’s why we want them […]

Travel plans and managing groups

Incidently, there are multiple travels that I have to manage these days. Attending weddings, business visit, family outing, religious trip and another wedding! I am just going through the pains of getting people together for the travel. Different people have different motivations and constraints. When you want all to be together – or even a […]

Weekly Planning

Last Monday, I sat down and planned activities for the whole week. When I completed that planning, I was clear about the objectives for the week and felt accomplished right at that point in time. During the week, I could follow up on the schedule. I was one day late overall, but could complete most […]

Trust, Freedom and follow up!

My main aim these days is to create leaders in Magnet. It’s been going great for the last 4 months and we have the whole team taking on leadership now. And I learnt: trust your team, give them freedom, but follow up and support them as required. That’s how they will learn and grow. That’s […]