Manish Pansiniya’s Blog

This book is really nice and simple. It contains great quotations of the qualities that leader has. It is categorized well. I think everybody should go through the list once. Each one is jewel in itself.

Some of my favorites are as below:

Many people have ideas on how others should change; few people have ideas on how they should change. = Leo Tolstoy

The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him. = Niccolo Machiavelli

There’s nothing more demoralizing than a leader who can’t clearly articulate why we’re doing what we’re doing. = James Kouzes and Barry Posner

I cannot trust a man to control others who cannot control himself. = Robert E. Lee

A true leader has to have a genuine open-door policy so that his people are not afraid to approach him for any reason. = Harold Geneen

Delegating work works, provided the one delegating works too. = Robert Half

You do not lead by hitting people over the head—that’s assault, not leadership. = Dwight D. Eisenhower

Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership. = Karl Popper

Lead and inspire people. Don’t try to manage and manipulate people. Inventories can be managed but people must be led. = Ross Perot

In order to make a fire burn, you fan the live coals. In order to keep your organization fired up, it’s imperative that you find and motivate the leaders or potential leaders in your organization regardless of how far down the line they might be. = Dexter Yager

Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy. = Saadi Shirazi

And Many More… Beautiful book…worth reading. 10/10.

Nice article about motivation using rock climbing philosophy. Shown 9 principle used in the rock climbing. Worth watching.

I am currently working on great project and we all are doing/giving great performance still the project is not making success which we want. There are many reasons for the same. The first reason I consider, is the requirement clarification issue, then estimation issue, team knowledge issue etc.

I read following Article about the same and like the idea which he mentioning. I agreed to most of the point mentioned in the post…

Great Performances in Failed Projects

There are 2 ways of learning 1) Learn from your mistakes 2) Learn from others mistake. I think 2nd would be better approach . The Mistake Bank is one of the community site where people are sharing their mistakes.

Hi…just going through one site and had some pictures which i like really a lot. So just putting here…somewhat describe my current situation

There are many More but this l like somewhat more…Great messages into some of them. Really good ones.

I am quite interested in putting what i am reading as well as what i want to read or finished reading. There are many sites available like weRead. But currently i am just putting the list on my wordpress blog as i want everything to be organized from here .

You can see those list from : Books ( My Love ) – Lists (Almost best Motivational Books until now)

Will add more as currently feeling bit sleepy

I have just figured out from experience that there should be effective communication in everything you do. Also, this communication somehow reach to the end as it is without modification. But as in all organization, there are people who modify the things according to their own need . Wow.. Money matters buddy…

I just find out one good article which discussed the same…

The purpose of communication (to engage in the act of information exchange) is the fulfillment of one’s physical or emotional needs. If you are tired, you start asking around for a cheap hotel.

The effectiveness of the communication is determined by the quality of the communication channel, the quality of the interaction, if you will. If there is noise on a channel, the effectiveness of communication reduces.

The risk of noise on a channel is determined by a need to cheat, and the opportunity to cheat.

The need to cheat arises when there is scarcity; when you get in direct conflict with others when trying to fulfill your needs. If the entire village is competing for the same bed, asking around will probably sent you in the wrong direction.

The opportunity to cheat appears when information can be manipulated, when it is possible to provide wrong information on purpose. If information is not clear, complex or ambiguous the opportunity to cheat increases. When there is no way to verify information, when it is difficult to get feedback the opportunity increases also. ….. (And so on. For full article, go to  Purpose Of Communication- What Is It Good For-)

Managing Stress
Swami Sukhabodhananda

One youngster comes to me very depressed and asks this question "Why is God creating so many difficulties for us? How to handle stress?" I tell this youngster to reflect on this beautiful story:

A man goes to a shop, picks up a beautiful cup and says "my god this cup is so beautiful" and suddenly the cup starts talking to the man. The cup starts saying "O man, I am beautiful right now, but what was the state of my being before the pot-maker made me a beautiful pot?

Before I was sheer mud and the pot-maker pulled me out of the mud from the mother earth and I felt why that pot-maker is so cruel, he has separated me from mother earth. I felt a tremendous pain. And the pot-maker said, "Just wait." Then he put me and churned me, when I was churned I felt so giddy, so painful, so stressful, I asked the pot-maker "Why are you so cruel?" the pot-maker said, "Just wait." Then he put me into a oven and heated me up, I felt completely burnt. There was tremendous pain and I asked the pot-maker "Why are you so cruel?" and the pot-maker said, "Just wait."

Then he poured hot paint on me and I felt the fume and the pain, I again asked the pot-maker "Why are you so cruel?" and the pot-maker said, "Just wait." Then again he put me into an oven and heated it to make me more strong, I felt life is so painful hence pleaded the pot-maker and the pot-maker said, "Just wait." And after that the pot-maker took me to the mirror and said, "Now look at yourself". And surprisingly I found myself so beautiful.

When god gives us lot of trouble, it appears god is very cruel but we need patience and we have to wait. When bad things happen to good people, they become better and not bitter.

So, all difficulties are part of a cosmic design to make us really beautiful. We need patience, we need understanding, we need the commitment to go through in a very calm and wise way. So, all difficulties are not to tumble us but to humble us.
With this understanding, let us not be against difficulty. Understand difficulty is a part of a purifying process. A purifying process at present which we cannot understand and hence we need faith and we need trust.

Let us understand how to handle stress with this background. You can be affected by stress from two angles. There is an internal stress and there is an external stress. Nobody can avoid stress; one has to only manage stress. Managing stress can be internal and also external.

The internal stress is; your thoughts can create stress, your values can create stress, and your beliefs can create stress, meaning thereby your stress is coming from your mind more from the outer world. Many people suffer not from heart attack – they suffer from thought-attack.

For example, when somebody says you are an idiot, we get so hurt, we get so victimized. My boss has called me an idiot and I am feeling tremendous pain. Now where does this stress come from? If my boss has called me an idiot, I have to ask myself "am I an idiot"?

If I am an idiot nothing to be upset about; and if I am not an idiot, then also nothing to be upset about! It is the perception of the boss. But why do we suffer from that stress? I suffer not because my boss has called me an idiot but because of the thought-attack.

I may say the boss has called me an idiot; therefore I am suffering? It is true that the words are unpleasant. But what hurts is the interpretation of the unpleasant word. The thought in me interprets. That is pain and therefore it becomes pain. Much of our stress is our mind interpreting it as pain. So we suffer from thought-attack more than heart attack

Nice Article

I have gone through my blog reading and find out nice content as follows .

Suggested reading: All Things Workplace: Nothing Happens Until People Talk.

Add these four thoughts to your leadership communication kit:

• Never assume that anyone knows anything.

• The larger the group, the more attention needs to be given to communicating.

• When left in the dark, people will fantasize their own reality. Do you want their fantasy to trump your reality?

• Effective leaders are obsessed with accurate, frequent communication.

I especially love point #4: Effective leaders are obsessed with accurate, frequent communication.

If you are ready and dare to do new things with the enterprenureship in mind but lack of funding, you may get it from google itself. It has launched Google Venture. 

http://www.google.com/ventures/

Now, please don’t disturb me and let me get out some weird idea from my silly MiND

I am reading blogs and i came through some nice articles about Management. I think this should be passed to my reader as well .

Enterprise Architecture and Internal Rot – James McGovern

What does better mean- by Seth Godin

Things not to say – “We don’t have time” – Scott

Advice to a new team lead – by Alistair Cockburn

Characteristics of respectable enterprise architects

There are many more..but will post later on