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A Round Up of My Writing in July 2010

QAspire

AUGUST 2, 2010

Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer A Round Up of My Writing in July 2010 July 2010 – another spectacular month came to an end, and I didn’t notice that in frenzy of things going around. In case you missed reading any of my posts in July, here is a quick round up of all my writing in June 2010.

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A Round Up of My Writing in August 2010

QAspire

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer A Round Up of My Writing in August 2010 August 2010 came to an end, and once again, I didn’t quite notice it in frenzy of everything going around. In case you missed reading any of my posts, here is a quick round up of all my writing in August 2010. Great posts, Great music!

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A Round Up of My Writing in June 2010

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JULY 1, 2010

Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer A Round Up of My Writing in June 2010 June 2010 - a brilliant month as far as blogging is concerned. So, I look forward to July 2010. In case you missed reading any of my posts, here is a quick round up of all my writing in June 2010. I explored Nine roles of great leadership.

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Are We Experiencing A Technology Tsunami?

Rich Gee Group

JANUARY 8, 2011

Some examples: I never load software anymore – in fact I don’t even use my CD/DVD player. As moving parts disappear (CD’s, Software, Wires, Hard Drives) do the systems, personnel, costs, support and focus also decline? Next post: The Best Way To Grow Your Business & Career. Can Change Your Thinking.

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A Round Up of My Writing in January 2010

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JANUARY 31, 2010

Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer A Round Up of My Writing in January 2010 January 2010 was a productive blogging month. In case you were busy all the month and could not catch up with this blog, here is a round-up of my writing activities in January 2010. I wrote earlier about “ toxic leadership ”.

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Leadership and Maintaining a Positive Outlook

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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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A Round Up of My Writing in February 2010

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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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5 Ways To Kill Email. | Rich Gee Group

Rich Gee Group

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Here are some tips that I use to make my way through 125-150 emails a day: Recognize that email is not your master, it’s a piece of software. Emails should communicate key information, schedules, and history, not management or leadership. If you receive it on your phone, call back instead of emailing them. Unported License.

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Gandhi, Leadership And A Fews Lessons On Simplicity

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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Thoughts on Project Leadership and Choices

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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5 Tips On How To Treat New Employees.

Rich Gee Group

DECEMBER 7, 2010

Also, make sure that everything (and I mean everything) is in place — their desk, supplies, laptop, passwords, systems, software, phone, and paperwork. Bring them up to their desk, let them get settled, and have a short, 10-15 minute meeting planned first thing in the morning just to temp-check. I stayed for six years. Unported License.

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Has Jim Goodnight Cracked the Code of Corporate Culture?

Michael Lee Stallard

JUNE 18, 2010

Michael Lee Stallard Insights on Leadership and Employee Engagement Home About Hire to Speak Press Kit Has Jim Goodnight Cracked the Code of Corporate Culture? Recently, SAS was named number 1 on Fortune’s “100 Best Companies to Work For” list for 2010. Unfortunately, most leaders have a blind spot when it comes to these areas.

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Great Leadership: Beware of These Nine I's

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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On Delivering

QAspire

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer On Delivering In software world, delivering is generally associated with painful process of testing, rework, defect fixing, perfecting, packaging and then shipping. Software has to be perfected before shipping. Here’s what I have realized: All deliveries have associated pain. Don’t Kill It!

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QAspire Blog: Practical Insights on Quality, Management.

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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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Teaching, Improvement and Change: A Few Parallels

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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Design Matters

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APRIL 9, 2010

Are you likely to adopt a new software application that is poorly designed? Let me make my position very clear…design absolutely matters. While this position may seem a bit harsh, it is nonetheless true. In today’s blog post I’ll examine why design matters. What do you think when you experience poor design in your life?

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Book Review: The Leadership Test by Timothy R. Clark

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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A Worthy Goal for 2011 and Beyond

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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#QUALITYtweet at Reflection Leadership (Thanks to Tom Glover)

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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5 Key Lessons From Learning Organizations

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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In Praise of Golden Shower Tree

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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The focus is on YOU

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 Blog: Practical Insights on Quality, Management.

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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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Managing Results by Defining “Deliverables” Early On

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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“Value” and “Waste” – Watch Them Constantly

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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Experience and Expertise – A Few Thoughts

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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Improvement, Change and Strength of Belief In Outcomes

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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Don't Give Up On Problems: A Lesson on Persistence

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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10 Pointers to Build Comfort Within The Team

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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Quality? Excellence? What?

QAspire

JANUARY 12, 2011

Getting people to exercise their choice of delivering excellence is #1 leadership challenge. Secondly, excellence has a lot to do with people’s motivation to do a great job. It is their choice. It starts with getting the right people and building the right culture. Finally, just like quality , excellence is a moving target. Don’t Kill It!

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Thursday Thought: The “Real” Worship

QAspire

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Regards, Jay Chhaya By Nikunj, December 2, 2010 @ 5:53 pm Truely. Tags: connecting with our own self , real worship , self development Random Musings , Self Growth | Tanmay December 2, 2010 3 Comments By Jagat , December 2, 2010 @ 1:44 pm Just 2 Words, Mind Blowing. Sir, Thank you very much for providing such nice stuff.

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Quality of Planning = Quality of Execution: 7 Lessons

QAspire

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

In software development world, inaccurate estimates are a major cause of project failures.) In my view, Agile is not just a software development methodology, agility is also a mindset. The 5 Proven Paths to Failure By Tanmay , November 8, 2010 @ 11:36 am @Neill - Scope creep is a huge killer and I cannot agree more with that.

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In Review: The Art of Non-Conformity by Chris Guillebeau

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. By Tanmay , September 27, 2010 @ 8:35 am @Chris - My pleasure Chris. So when I heard about his new book “ The Art of Non-Conformity ”, I could not wait to order it. The book is sub-titled “ Set Your Own Rules.

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Hidden Costs 25

QAspire

JULY 22, 2010

Have you ever realized the costs of: having an inefficient leadership team? By Anil Kumar, July 23, 2010 @ 8:48 am Awesome!!! By Megha Mehta, July 23, 2010 @ 9:11 am Simply Great!! By Tanmay , July 23, 2010 @ 9:52 am @Ajay - Thanks for bringing that very important point. setting wrong examples? not treating people well?

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Invisible Cost of “Toxic” Leadership

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DECEMBER 8, 2009

Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer Invisible Cost of “Toxic” Leadership Many organizations today are plagued by so-called leaders who don’t carry a leadership mindset. We all know that leadership is a mindset, a way of thinking and attitude. It has little to do with title/designation.

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Has SAS Institute’s Goodnight Cracked the Code on Corporate Culture?

Michael Lee Stallard

JANUARY 21, 2011

Last year I met with Jim Goodnight, SAS Institute’s founder and CEO, to learn more about his leadership and SAS Institute’s culture. Recently, SAS was named number 1 on Fortune’s “100 Best Companies to Work For” list for 2010. You can read the article I wrote at The Economic Times ‘ website or below.

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7 Steps For Customer Centric Process Improvement

QAspire

OCTOBER 10, 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. Leadership , Process Improvement , Quality | Tanmay October 11, 2010 No Comments No comments yet. Don’t Kill It!

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Innovation, Quality & Entrepreneurship at Akshaya Patra

QAspire

AUGUST 22, 2010

By Maulik Shah , August 23, 2010 @ 12:36 pm Nicely observed and nicely presented by you.I By Maulik Shah , August 23, 2010 @ 12:36 pm Nicely observed and nicely presented by you.I Thanks By Tanmay , August 30, 2010 @ 7:02 am @Maulik - Thanks! really true way of action of making change, with quality. Don’t Kill It!

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Metrics: Are They Mapped With Your Business Objectives?

QAspire

AUGUST 8, 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: Read my post (How to) Have a Great Monday! – and have a wonderful start into the week!

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Friday High-Five: Posts I Loved Reading Last Week

QAspire

AUGUST 12, 2010

I am fortunate to a part of a wonderful leadership/management community who so generously share their ideas, insights and knowledge. Wally Bock at Three Star Leadership prescribes a method to treat “Idea Deficit Disorder”. So, here are 5 posts that I totally enjoyed reading in the last week, and I am sure you will enjoy them too.

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5 Pointers For Effectively Dealing With Negative Feedback

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2010

Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer 5 Pointers For Effectively Dealing With Negative Feedback In my career so far, I have seen number of confrontations arising out of a negative feedback that is shared honestly. Best, Tanmay By Deborah Fike , September 3, 2010 @ 8:13 pm Really, really great advice. Have a nice weekend ahead!

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Friday High-Five: Posts I Loved Reading Last Week

QAspire

AUGUST 20, 2010

By Tanmay Vora , August 21, 2010 @ 8:36 am @MaKenzie - Thanks for the comment MaKenzie - have a great weekend! Have a Fantastic Friday and a refreshing weekend! Best, Tanmay Tanmay Vora´s last blog. Friday High-Five- Posts I Loved Reading Last Week Other Links to this Post RSS feed for comments on this post. Don’t Kill It!

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Thoughts on Effective Management Consulting

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

Robin’s Blog Seth s Blog Steve Yastrow’s blog - new article Talking Story with Say Leadership Coaching TerryStarbucker.com The Tom Peters Weblog Utpal Writes QAspire Blog: Practical Insights on Quality, Management, Leadership and Improvement is powered by WordPress WordPress Themes I think it’s not only business specific.

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A Round Up of My Writing in July 2010

A Round Up of My Writing in August 2010

Trending Sources

A Round Up of My Writing in June 2010

Are We Experiencing A Technology Tsunami?

A Round Up of My Writing in January 2010

Leadership and Maintaining a Positive Outlook

A Round Up of My Writing in February 2010

5 Ways To Kill Email. | Rich Gee Group

Gandhi, Leadership And A Fews Lessons On Simplicity

Thoughts on Project Leadership and Choices

5 Tips On How To Treat New Employees.

Has Jim Goodnight Cracked the Code of Corporate Culture?

Great Leadership: Beware of These Nine I's

On Delivering

QAspire Blog: Practical Insights on Quality, Management.

Teaching, Improvement and Change: A Few Parallels

Design Matters

Book Review: The Leadership Test by Timothy R. Clark

A Worthy Goal for 2011 and Beyond

#QUALITYtweet at Reflection Leadership (Thanks to Tom Glover)

5 Key Lessons From Learning Organizations

In Praise of Golden Shower Tree

The focus is on YOU

QAspire Blog: Practical Insights on Quality, Management.

Managing Results by Defining “Deliverables” Early On

“Value” and “Waste” – Watch Them Constantly

Experience and Expertise – A Few Thoughts

Improvement, Change and Strength of Belief In Outcomes

Don't Give Up On Problems: A Lesson on Persistence

10 Pointers to Build Comfort Within The Team

Quality? Excellence? What?

Thursday Thought: The “Real” Worship

Quality of Planning = Quality of Execution: 7 Lessons

In Review: The Art of Non-Conformity by Chris Guillebeau

Hidden Costs 25

Invisible Cost of “Toxic” Leadership

Has SAS Institute’s Goodnight Cracked the Code on Corporate Culture?

7 Steps For Customer Centric Process Improvement

Innovation, Quality & Entrepreneurship at Akshaya Patra

Metrics: Are They Mapped With Your Business Objectives?

Friday High-Five: Posts I Loved Reading Last Week

5 Pointers For Effectively Dealing With Negative Feedback

Friday High-Five: Posts I Loved Reading Last Week

Thoughts on Effective Management Consulting

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