QAspire

FEBRUARY 13, 2011

When we work as an individual contributor in early years of our careers, we are in-charge of our own outcomes. At some point, we get promoted to a leadership position, and we have to get things done through people. This is one of the most significant transitions in our careers, and the one that is [.

Review 157

Review Books Career Positioning 157

QAspire

FEBRUARY 2, 2011

When we work on large scale projects, long term assignments or complex change initiatives – we decompose our work into smaller chunks that are more manageable. Geeks refer to this technique as “modularization”. We create a set of smaller tasks that we perform according to a schedule to achieve milestones, and hence the objective. It all [.

Long-term 155

Long-term Reference Objective Project 155

QAspire

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

Rapport building isn’t just something you do when you first meet someone or as a part of a sales call or a negotiation. As leaders (and human beings) one of our goals must be to build better and deeper relationships, and one of the tangible ways we can do that is through an ongoing [.

Goal 153

Goal 153

QAspire

FEBRUARY 23, 2011

Two things we know about change: Resistance is our natural reaction to any change that disrupts our current way of working. Things only change when the pain of change is less than the pain of remaining in current state. Ability to foresee, plan and implement change for better alignment to the market and generate better outcomes is a [.

Process 143

Process Management Resistance Marketing 143

QAspire

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

A few years back, I was facilitating a team that was responsible for pulling off a project in a completely new technology. This also meant that each one of the team members had to take initiative and explore new areas of the technology. While the project had a designated project lead, we saw many team members [.

Team 140

Team Project Leadership Technology 140

QAspire

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

If you are a leader, you will invariably face situations where: People will criticize you for doing something. People will criticize you even for not doing something. Your decisions will go against you. You will face a lot of resistance in your initiatives. Roadblocks will be encountered People will closely analyze your decisions. You may be accused of doing (or not doing) [.

Resistance 139

Resistance 139

QAspire

FEBRUARY 20, 2011

John F. Kennedy said this (one of my favorite quotes) - “There are risks and costs to a program of actions. But they are far less than the long range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.”. Comfortable inaction is the state where the immediate implication of not doing something is not visible, but in a longer [.

Cost 130

Cost Leadership 130