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Love the Starting Line (Regardless of the Attempts)

November 29, 2011

Maybe the worst result of a failed project is rebeginning the same. Going back to the starting line. Post failure, starting line seems like an infelicitous target. Very remote. Apparently. Think: if you’ve failed, if you’ve traveled the wrong path, does it make sense to keep chasing something down the wrong path? Isn’t the logical step [...]

Prevent Your Project from Collapsing

November 3, 2011

Most projects don’t collapse sensationally. They collapse slowly. But you wouldn’t know that for sitting in at steering meetings or reading monthly project status reports. Same way, businesses, countries and families collapse. Slowly. Good and bad thing about this is: It involves people. Most people have tendency to respond to urgency. People take massive actions only when [...]

Entrepreneurship 30

April 15, 2011

What’s entrepreneurship all about? Here are thirty some thoughts on what it is and what it is not. For some people, its very cool move but in fact, it takes a completely different kind of commitment and ability to act beyond reasons. It is: Glamorous, in the beginning; Hard (in fact, very hard), soon after; [...]

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Profit from Conflicts!

September 9, 2010

A zero-conflict workplace is like living in fool’s paradise and wiser is one who is able to make profit even from the conflicts. To do that, your primary focus should be on how to prevent it. Once, Max Lucade wrote, “Conflict is inevitable, but combat is optional.” So prevent it. Here are some tips: Have people [...]

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Are You Heading Towards Ending-up At A Known Exit Point?

August 28, 2010

To live a richer, more meaningful life, you need to become a source of thoughts and actions which provide meaning to your life. You cannot take control of your life just by following others. Instead, you need to play your own game. Perhaps most of us know that, but in practice it’s not commonly seen. [...]

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