What does Ownership mean?
corpminion There are companies that espouse “Ownership” as a core value or as a leadership principle (e.g. Amazon). What does it really mean though? As per the Amazon Leadership Principles “Leaders…
Asymmetric Bets
What are Asymmetric bets? They are bets where the potential upside is much higher than the potential downside. For example, if you invest $1000 with a potential return of $10,000…
What is Leverage?
Wikipedia defines Leverage as “In finance, leverage is any technique involving borrowing funds to buy things, hoping that future profits will be many times more than the cost of borrowing”.…
Complaining Productively
It is common for people to “complain” and play “victim”. It can range from how your son did not pitch in his baseball game due to coach’s bias or it…
Think Big and Small
There are many jargons, frameworks and preachers on how to think “big”, “drive continuous improvement”, “deliver consistently”, blah blah blah. You will hear terms like “mental models”, “lattice network” and…
Software Development Capacity and Roadmap Management
I speak with many Software Development Leaders periodically and I find that many of them don’t have a model for managing the capacity of their team. While this is super…
There is no failure, only feedback
Said one of my favorite Tweeters Naval Ravikant— link to his tweet here . I am a fan of Naval’s philosophy and his objective thinking evidenced via his tweets. I…
Culture Eats Strategy for Breakfast?
There are claims that Peter Drucker made the above assertion, however as per the Peter Drucker Institute, Drucker never said that– he said “Culture—no matter how defined—is singularly persistent”. The…
Roles in Software Development
This post is targeted to people not familiar with Software Development roles. Delivering software projects, particularly large and complex one’s have their own challenges and requires multiple teams and people…
Large Multi-Day Meetings
I don’t like large meetings, particularly multiple day meetings. I prefer small group discussions that solve a specific problem– this could be brainstorming solutions, ideas, identifying problems, etc. While I…