During a recent lunch meeting with a startup in NJ, a Senior Manager shared with me the following seven pieces of wisdom from Pirkei Avot.(Supposed to be 2000 years old).
The wise man does not speak before one who is greater than he in wisdom.
He does not break in upon the speech of his fellow.
He does [...]
Tags: Communication · Management
Came across a good compilation of common sense tips for people management. Link Here.
My only issue with the article is that they call it rules. Management can never be rule-based. It has to be customized to every context, person, team, culture, business objectives etc.
In particular, I enjoyed reminding myself of the following 10 from the [...]
Tags: Management
We are currently helping two exciting companies in New York build high performing product teams.
One company is fairly old and profitable. Let us call it X.
The other is fairly recent and barely profitable. Let us call it Y.
X has everyone they need to get the job done. We are helping X by doing an organizational [...]
Tags: Company Size
I agree with American Electric Power CEO Michael Morrison’s advice on tone the new leaders should set in the organization:
“You can never be soft in the early go….and then turn hard but you can always be a high demand leader and then over time as you become more familiar and you become more convinced that [...]
Tags: Leadership
Power of user-generated content: The duration of the average online video was 3.5 minutes.
Power of few: Google’s video sites gets 40% of total share of the videos watched
Power of quality: Hulu gets only 2.4% share of users but a total of 4.2% of time spent watching videos.
Power of bad economy: The average online video viewer [...]
Tags: Market Segments · Metrics
