Archive for October, 2006

Natural Talent is Irrelevant to Achieve Greatness

October 24, 2006 at 1:42 am · Filed under Striving for Greatness

Yahoo has an article saying that greatness does not come from natural talent but from painful and demanding practice and hard work. I am a big fan of both hard work and natural talent, and anyone who possesses the natural talent on something, focus and work hard to leverage that talent is bound to become great. However the article suggests that research indicate that people who deliberately practice and work harder are those that became great. The amount of hours put into honing one’s craft is almost directly proportionate to the success achieved.

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Project Management

October 24, 2006 at 1:17 am · Filed under Management & Leadership, Project Management

What is project management?

Project management is the skill of managing and applying resources, tools and processes to produce results within a set of requirements, time and constraints.

What is a project?

A project is a unique and temporary endeavour to produce a product or service. Temporary means every project begin and end. Unique means the result of the project differs in some way from all other products or services.

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Seven Deadly Sins of Project Management

October 23, 2006 at 12:27 pm · Filed under Project Management

Wayne Turk has written about the seven deadly sins of project management. He lists them as follows:

Sin #1: Failing to have good, stable requirements – I don’t agree on this. Stable requirements are a rare occurrence as business needs change rapidly. Unless the project you’re managing is about selling rags on streets, expect never ending iterations in business requirements.

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Visionary

October 22, 2006 at 12:15 pm · Filed under Attitude & Outlook

I remember my former manager tagged me and my colleague as visionaries in our group. I never paused to realize I am a visionary but somehow I saw myself seeing things differently than most people.

Qualities of a visionary

Strong in Judgment – a visionary has the judgment, strength and confidence to stand by his opinions and proven everyone he’s correct. A visionary usually thinks far off the radar and faced with lots of criticism from everyone else.

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Is it Winning Time When Your Heartbeat Turn Several Notches Higher?

October 21, 2006 at 4:28 pm · Filed under Food for Thought, Success/Career & Techniques

Seth Godin wrote about the Top 10 Secrets of Marketing Process and I was caught by number 5 which say: If it makes you nervous, it’s probably a good idea. I realized how many times I felt nervous during competitions (chess, basketball, quiz bees, etc.) and on important situations in my career (critical client demo, management presentation, deal negotiations, etc.).

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Wal-Mart Should at Least Use their Latest Kid Tactics in a Better Light

October 21, 2006 at 12:44 am · Filed under Business, Food for Thought, Link Reads

Wal-Mart has made an online game that allow children to create “wish list” for the holiday and send the list via email to their parents as things to consider. But as kids, expectations are high and “things to consider” become “things I expect” this holiday season. What makes the online game horrible is how it applauds a kid when a toy is added to their list while whining they’ll lose their job when a toy is rejected.

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Snap Out of It and Begin Routine Tasks without Thinking Twice

October 20, 2006 at 11:46 pm · Filed under Attitude & Outlook, Time Management

I have talked about Laziness is all in the mind and procrastination syndrome which deals about accomplishing tasks and goals by using courage and the power of our mind as our main weapon for success. But what about small things like immediately getting up when our alarm rings in the morning, drinking our daily supplements, or washing dishes we have just used? These might be simple and routinary tasks but it seems it takes us a lot of rolling before we get out of bed or wait until we run out of dishes before we clean them up.

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