QAspire

FEBRUARY 27, 2010

Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer A Round Up of My Writing in February 2010 February was an amazing month for me personally – lot of new exploration, new experiences (good and bad, bad left me with some good lessons) and new ideas. Subroto Bagchi has a deep impact on the way I think about entrepreneurship and leadership.

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Terry Starbucker

OCTOBER 8, 2017

A More Human Short Story – My Path To Leadership Joy . It was early in 2010… We thought he was indestructible. He had a style of leadership that I would classify as undeniably human, and personal. I traveled to the field extensively. I had experienced the joy of leadership, and it was (darn) good.

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Rich Gee Group

DECEMBER 10, 2010

As my holiday gift to you, here are my TEN most read & requested posts from 2010: Set Your 2011 Goals In Two Steps. Is Your Career A Rollercoaster Or Are You Driving It? Are you driving your career? What’s Killing Your Career? I commute every day on I-95, the most travelled highway in Connecticut. Guaranteed.

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Michael Lee Stallard

JUNE 9, 2010

Michael Lee Stallard Insights on Leadership and Employee Engagement Home About Hire to Speak Press Kit June Leadership Carnival Published by Michael Lee Stallard on June 9, 2010 12:33 pm under Uncategorized This month’s Leadership Carnival is hosted by Chris Young at MaximizingPossibility.com.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 18, 2011

Years ago my husband and I were fortunate enough to travel to China with Zen Master Thich Nhat Hahn who was being permitted to bring his Buddhist teachings to the people in Beijing and various outer monasteries. Leadership is about being a model of behaving in ways that create cooperation and collaboration.

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QAspire

DECEMBER 19, 2010

Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer Leadership and Maintaining a Positive Outlook Conversations are at the core of good leadership and how/what a leader communicates reveals the personality of the leader. I read this on Twitter recently - conversations are the currency of leadership. Don’t Kill It!

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Rich Gee Group

JANUARY 5, 2011

I’m regularly on the road to travel, meet new people, network, and bump into friends and colleagues. Do you develop a ‘safe space’ where they can grow, relax, expand, and grow their business or career? I run a 21st century business: I have a home office where I coach. Starbucks is perfect for #3. Unported License.

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QAspire

JANUARY 16, 2011

Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer Gandhi, Leadership And A Few Lessons On Simplicity I have been a great admirer of Mahatma Gandhi - one of the greatest leaders India has ever produced. I recently visited Sabarmati Ashram , one of the residences of Gandhi, where we got a glimpse into Gandhi’s life as a national leader.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 11, 2011

Don’t you wish you had a GPS for your life and career? Wouldn’t it be great to simply plug in your dreams or goals for your life and career and have someone tell you in a very confident assuring voice how to get there? A “GPS Buddy ” could make a huge difference in how well you navigate in 2011 toward your life and career goals.

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QAspire

OCTOBER 31, 2010

Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer Thoughts on Project Leadership and Choices I love project management as a subject not only because it gets so much work done, but also because project management manifests how people operate. I have written before that Projects are a great opportunity to practice leadership. Thanks Tanmay.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 25, 2010

Walking into these organizations is often like traveling back in time 20 years. Reward talent, innovation, loyalty, attitude, creativity, work ethic, contribution, and leadership ability…not tenure. The bottom line is this…as an employer you need to possess an extreme bias toward performance.

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Michael Lee Stallard

JUNE 5, 2010

In the summer of 2003, the ninety-two year-old Wooden traveled to the White House, where he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, America’s highest civilian honor. All of his players were to be respectful toward flight attendants, waitresses and waiters, and hotel workers they encountered while traveling with the team.

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QAspire

AUGUST 31, 2010

Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer Great Leadership: Beware of These Nine I’s I wrote earlier about Nine I’s and Great Leadership. Ineffective : Leadership delivers performance. Tip : For a better understanding and correlation, read this post along with my earlier post Nine I’s and Great Leadership.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 12, 2011

This is very true as it relates to organizations that are working to increase gender diversity at the leadership levels. Advocacy is what makes the “world go round&# so to speak as we observe how individuals rise through their careers. In many organizations the influential members of leadership are still primarily men.

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Rich Gee Group

DECEMBER 13, 2010

It can tell you a lot about that person and give you speaking trajectories to ask more questions — “I see you have an office in Hong Kong, do you travel there often?&# “I see that your company is a subsidiary of Pixar, what is it like to work with them?&# Most people just take the card and shove it into their pocket.

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Rich Gee Group

DECEMBER 8, 2010

I buffer adequate amounts of travel time between appointments. Here are some techniques I use to be on time: I leave early. So when I get to my destination early, I get to do a little work. Like writing this blog post. This allows me to easily make it to my next appointment without worry. Establish A Contract With Your Team. Unported License.

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 15, 2010

My other option is to use the small lightweight laptop I use for travel. I can then choose the correct word from a list of possible word options, but I have to hope it’s on the list. Otherwise, I have to revert to Ctrl V. But because it’s for convenience, it’s really not ideal for lengthy projects, marathon typing, and other assignments.

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QAspire

JANUARY 3, 2010

Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer Nicholas Bate’s Book ‘Instant MBA’ and Other Great Resources for 2010 Nicholas Bate is a prolific thinker, blogger and author. Instant MBA will do that with some very practical advice on how to inculcate MBA thinking and emotional intelligence to advance your career.

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QAspire

NOVEMBER 28, 2010

Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer Teaching, Improvement and Change: A Few Parallels 12 years back, I started my career as a tutor who taught Oracle and PL/SQL to students belonging to different age groups. Don’t Kill It! Working and Walking – Where Are You Going? with Phil Gerbyshak Management Craft Nicholas Bate NOOP.NL

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QAspire

SEPTEMBER 26, 2010

I am glad I did, because this book instantly made it to my favorite books in 2010 which also includes Seth Godin’s Linchpin. The book carries some very interesting anecdotes from Chris’ travel in different countries. By Tanmay , September 27, 2010 @ 8:35 am @Chris - My pleasure Chris. Have a GREAT week ahead!

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QAspire

JANUARY 17, 2010

Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer Book Review: The Leadership Test by Timothy R. Clark Businesses today are plagued by people who are "installed" in leadership positions just because of their prior performance as a "worker" I have seen some excellent technical brains failing miserably as project leaders.

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QAspire

JANUARY 2, 2011

“Striving for excellence” should be a call to action for us to renew our focus on developing a culture of excellence, great leadership, adopting best practices, making them work in our context, continual improvement and superior service to our customers/peers. Very truely said - “Striving for excellence” should be a call to action for us.

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QAspire

FEBRUARY 16, 2010

Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer #QUALITYtweet at Reflection Leadership (Thanks to Tom Glover) Tom Glover is a “Leadership Friend” who hosts Reflection Leadership Blog. I came to know Tom via our common leadership community over at Twitter. I sent him a copy of #QUALITYtweet for review a few months back.

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QAspire

JANUARY 9, 2011

In my career so far, I have (broadly) seen two kinds of organizations. First are the ones who know the problem areas, but are not willing to invest in having the necessary structure to prevent them in future. . - - - - - Acknowledgements: The Rainmaker ‘Fab Five’ Blog Picks of the Week - 2010 Rewind Edition includes my posts.

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QAspire

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

Photo by Tanmay Vora at Indroda Nature Park, Gandhinagar, 2010. Regards, Jay Chhaya By Hemal, September 20, 2010 @ 10:42 am Yes Tanmay, I am certainly listening. By Joe@Leadership blog , September 21, 2010 @ 11:14 pm Fantastic looking plant, not one we have in the UK unfortunately it would seem. Have a great week ahead!

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QAspire

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

Photo: Flower at Esplanade Park, Helsinki, taken during my Finland visit in May 2009 Tags: God , Hard work , Opportunity , Random Muse , Work Career Related , Leadership , Random Musings | Tanmay February 19, 2010 6 Comments By shahmaulikn, February 19, 2010 @ 8:18 am Wow.Simply Great. I am so glad you liked it.

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QAspire

AUGUST 1, 2010

He delivered some simple yet powerful messages on excellence while narrating the tale of his life and career. Video Question Of the Week 30 By Vamsi , August 2, 2010 @ 8:40 am Thank you for sharing the lessons! Passing Thought By Jay Chhaya, August 2, 2010 @ 8:54 am Great, Superb, Excellent!! I liked the most: be your own enemy.

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Next Level Blog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

Both Draper and Gekko are consumed with their careers. It lets us travel the way a child travels, around and around, and back home again, to a place where we know we are loved.   While that statement may be true in the fictional realm, it’s definitely true in the literal realm. It doesn’t happen by accident. Click Here.

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QAspire

AUGUST 24, 2010

Note: My book ‘ #QUALITYtweet – 140 bite-sized ideas to deliver quality in every project ’ explores the people, process and leadership aspects to build a constantly improving organization culture. Check it out if you haven’t already ! Bonus: QAspire Blog was recently featured on Community of Program and Project Managers (PPM Community).

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QAspire

JANUARY 20, 2011

"The HR Carnival" by Mike Haberman (at Omega HR Solutions) features my post " Don’t Just Punish Them If They Don’t Comply " along with 32 other great posts on HR, Leadership and Organization Development. Don’t Kill It! Working and Walking – Where Are You Going?

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Persuasive Powerhouse

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

September 20th, 2010 | Author: Mary Jo Asmus Every now and then, I have the pleasure of seeing how my education and early career as a bench biologist can have some connection with the work I am now doing. In addition, there is evidence that some sensory information is sent directly to the heart before it even travels to the brain.

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QAspire

OCTOBER 17, 2010

Along with experience, gaining expertise is always benifitial as it adds value addition to work and organizations By Conor Neill , October 18, 2010 @ 12:05 pm I recall from an academic paper that I read last year a taxonomy of levels of knowledge which I have tried to recreate here 5 levels of knowledge 1. Consistency matters! .

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QAspire

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

By Tanmay , November 18, 2010 @ 7:23 am @Ketan - Thanks so much Ketan, am glad that you liked it. Best, Tanmay By Jay Chhaya, November 18, 2010 @ 12:18 pm Nice topic for today’s post! I hope you are doing well there. I hope you are doing well there. Yes - no pain, no gain theory applies here. Don’t Kill It!

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QAspire

SEPTEMBER 12, 2010

Life Lesson on Endurance What I learned from my daughter about “Persistence” Tags: Leadership , Persistence Leadership , Managing People , Managing Projects , Process Improvement , Self Growth | Tanmay September 13, 2010 No Comments No comments yet. RSS feed for comments on this post. Don’t Kill It!

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Women on Business

JANUARY 14, 2011

Both Katie and I had, and still have, a great love for travel, and in our travels we had developed an appreciation of the brands of both established and emerging designers from around the world. This we believed to be particularly true in terms of the sorts of brands that we were going to be offering.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

OCTOBER 26, 2014

During my active career, I used to spend a lot of time travelling for business so hotel stays for me became somewhat commonplace. Note: This is a refreshed version of a post I wrote in 2010. And, I experienced a variety of attitudes from hotel staff as well. That’s what I think anyway. What do you think?

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QAspire

AUGUST 15, 2010

By Saket Bansal , August 16, 2010 @ 10:08 am good pointers… i am bit unclear about “Ask open ended questions&# … Is this required to know the person only? Become a Generalizing Specialist or T-Shaped By Tanmay , August 16, 2010 @ 10:25 am @Anand - Thanks Anand, glad you liked the pointers and the acronym.

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