Of Dinners and Loo’s in Blr

My wife hates it…everytime we go out to a hotel…my daughter wants to go to the loo….spoiling her lunch/dinner. While she waits for the lil one to grow up a little more so that she doesn’t have to accompany her….I am dreading the same….my younger son too is growing up and I hope that he [...]

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Wouldn’t have been possible but for blogs

I am just back after meeting Suhit for lunch. This wouldn’t have been possible ….but for the wonderful world of blogs.
Suhit has been associated with Rajesh and Atanu at  Deeshaa and writes about Rural India and I have been following his posts since last one year or so.
His other upcoming  venture also includes [...]

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How many projects can one manage?

Frank Patrick questions as to how many projects can a project manager effectively manage?  He writes:
the answer I was coming up with was rife with so many instaces of "it depends…." that it was feeling meaningless. Instead, I’m planning to turn my attention to identifying symptoms of having too many projects on one’s plate.

Incidentally, [...]

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Go read these blogs

Postings over the next few weeks will be fewer. I am traveling to the US for two weeks….and am not sure if I would be
connected all through…..Meanwhile here are a few blogs worth reading.
Nirmala wrote about my blog in a posting last week, same
with Mike. Nirmala, as her blog heading says, writes on diverse [...]

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The Center of Attention

Jeffrey Cufaude maintains a delightful blog, wherein he
writes about the possibilities associated with Leadership, Learning and Life.
In his latest post, The Center of Attention, He talks of leaders who know how
to share the spotlight on who needs it most, rather than reflecting it on
themselves.
He writes:
The individuals I find myself most
respecting are the ones who [...]

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The world changes, so should you

A wonderful piece of excerpt from "The Dynamics of Software Development" by Jim McCarthy:
One characteristic of excellence in software development is the capacity to make optimal decisions every day as new information becomes available. You don’t want to be over committed to an artificial version of reality, which is what most plans and schedules really [...]

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On Meditation

Wayne Dyer on Meditation.
It is the space between the notes that makes the music. Without that emptiness, that silence in between, there is no music, only a noise. You too are silent empty space at your center, surrounded by form. To break through that form and discover your very creative nature that is in the [...]

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How many planets are needed to sustain you?

I guess it was Gandhi who said that "there is enough on the earth to meet everyone’s needs, not greed". Ever imagined how much of earth’s resources are you consuming every day and how many such planet’s would be required if everyone decided to live life, the way you do?
Bawa – an Art of Living [...]

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How to get team members to take action

This month’s management tip in SD Magazine’ newsletter in by Tim Bacon, an XP (Extreme Programming) coach and a software developer at Thoughtworks. I have been following Tim’s blog for a few weeks now. I like the tips that Tim provides in this newsletter.
Rather than simply reacting to the problems that team members bring to [...]

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I wish I had this attitude….

An artist from Bangalore, K K Raghava quoted in The Indian Express.
“If I want to do something, and if it is possible, then I should do it now. If I am not yet equipped or skilled to make it happen, then I acquire those skills now.’’
What a wonderful attitude towards life. So, what [...]

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