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Monday, April 25, 2022

Notes on the Book- Measure What matters

It's important to re-assess your goals over time. Keep a keen eye on trends and market changes and make adjustments as necessary.

Risks are best taken keeping an organization's core capabilities in mind. Make sure you consider the available data and operate within your company's unique skill set.

Keep your goals simple and clear. Clear objectives are more motivating and sharable.

Invest time in understanding what motivates your individual teammates. Understanding their unique motivations can help you align their incentives with your organization's objectives.

Set goals that seem beyond reach. As a leader, your job is always to look towards what comes next, no matter how daunting or impractical.

People perform best when they feel valued. Offer feedback continuously and generously and encourage opinions and self-designed performance plans.

From OKRs-Objectives and Key Results to CFRs-Conversations, Feedback & Recognition, John Doerr crystallizes the crux of his learnings under Intel CEO Andy Grove and his management style

John Doerr illustrates with the example of Hewlett Packard and how a misstep caused it to falter. That it rose from the ashes to rule again is the positive spin.

Using the example of Google, John Doerr shows what makes companies wager on decisions that seem to put their future at stake. It is based on a series of calculated risk-taking that leans on the organization's core capabilities.

(Emeritus Insights on book Measure what matters by John Doerr)

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Tuesday, March 22, 2022

Notes on the book, The Goal

Insights from the book The Goal by Goldratt (as summarised in Emeritus)

Every action that brings a company closer to its goal is productive. Every action that does not bring a company closer to its goal is not productive.

Throughput is the rate at which the system generates money from the sale of manufactured products. Reducing inventory and operational expenses are profitable for the business.

The Theory of Constraints helps identify the most important bottleneck or constraint in the way of achieving a goal and focusing on improvement until it is no longer a roadblock.

Tackle professional challenges by asking questions. The critical thinking process helps draw innovative solutions.

A combination of balance and reflection through questions generates creative ideas and strategies that can be applied to both work and personal life.

Ask three key questions: What needs to change? What does it need to change to? How do I execute the change? Facing the fear behind any change is the only way to surge and grow.

Tuesday, January 18, 2022

Notes on Management 190122

By Deep Kalra

Finding someone willing to bet on you is tricky. When you talk to the investor, understand if they are decision-makers who will also sit on your board. Earn their goodwill with honesty and over time, their friendship and support.

Making the interview process multilayered by getting the aspirant to meet as many people as possible allows for a wide-ranging opinion on finding the right fit. Try to meet them more than once but in different settings to assess their true character.
There are several cues to understand if a candidate is a team player: reference checks outside the list given by the aspirant, and checking the language on the resume to see if it is dominated by "I" and not "we" are just some of them.

Entrepreneurs should never count on promised outcomes and investments. Know when to pull the plug. Assess by metrics such as the health of the business, ability to sustain, and how valuable is your offering to customers.

By Rajan Anandan

Consumer-focused innovation for India is different because a majority of Indians have low incomes. To innovate for India, companies need to reimagine business models, products, and services, while designing products to meet the needs of a very distinct market.

Artificial Intelligence will dominate and shape the future of the workplace. Man and machine will collaborate and supplement. Prepare for a tomorrow where learning to be relevant, irrespective of industry or role, will be the norm.

An entrepreneur and a manager have similar mindsets yet are different. One focuses on creating and the other has maintenance and growth on their minds. Every start-up of worth faces at least five near-death moments, it is a rite of passage. Not enough managers take up tough assignments where one is likely to fail but learn exponentially too.

Having audacious goals for your business and team forces you to reimagine the approach you are going to take. Google calls it moonshot thinking which is 10X as opposed to 10 percent. Think of new approaches to get things done. Learn how to come up with these ideas and have the courage to execute them.

Big skills required for success today: curiosity, creativity, adaptability, and agility. Since what you are doing today will not be relevant in five years, invest more in training in the next generation of technologies. Companies and employees need to make a concerted effort to learn new skills to be relevant.

Internet is democratizing and enabling people to access resources that used to be the purview of a privileged few. Learn what technology can do for you and your company.

Understand how to keep millennials engaged at the workplace by providing: Inspiring mission, empowerment, and flexibility while creating internal mobility.

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