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Nicholas Bate of Strategic Edge: Bate has a unique style of creating contexts with numbers. Very quantitative. For example 2011: Year of Transformation 100/25. Dan McCarthy of Great Leadership: All about leadership and management. The host of the Leadership Development…

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Utpal Vaishnav

January 23, 2011

Doesn’t matter who does it

In project management, who does it, matters. Yup! If your project is such no one can do it, success is at stake. And if your project is such that anyone can do it, it doesn’t matter even if you’ll…

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Utpal Vaishnav

January 13, 2011

Hard Work Vs. Done

What Matters Most? Hard Work or Getting It Done? Consider the following conversation with a 1960’s factory-model believer business owner and his newly joined employee: Owner: “You haven’t worked for 260 hours (26 days * 10 hours) this month…

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Utpal Vaishnav

December 12, 2010

What Every Project Manager Wants to Know about Vacation Planning?

Managing Software projects is a critical job. Apart from being the face of the project, you may be the only person without a backup. It becomes challenging to plan some time off work when you don’t have a backup,…

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Utpal Vaishnav

November 30, 2010

Weakness 17

Hate changes; Never say sorry; What the heck is accountability? Always agree; Show draughtiness; Disrespect who are not in power; Take credit for other’s work; Choose the short-term sacrificing the long term; Use time in office politics; Never confront;…

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Utpal Vaishnav

November 3, 2010

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