Leadership insights, thoughts from lived experiences and readings
I finished The Little Book of Talent: 52 Tips for Improving Your Skills by Daniel Coyle today. I have read this author's The Culture Code in the past and liked it very much. Here are those 52 tips that I plan to revisit every once in a while. Stare At Who You Want To Become Spend Fifteen Minutes A… Continue reading The Little Book of Talent by Daniel Coyle
Crash Course is my favorite youtube video series. Over the last few days I finished Crash Course: Business - Soft Skills which consists of 17 episodes. This is a good basic to be covered by any employee or leader in corporate business. My personal favorite is Episode#14: How to Find Your Leadership Style. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSRvDfD451I
Today I finished The Culture Map: Breaking Through the Invisible Boundaries of Global Business by Erin Meyer. This book has been in my to-read list for a long time but finally I finished as this was the topic for discussion in our monthly management book club reading at office. This is a very valuable resource for anyone working… Continue reading The Culture Map by Erin Meyer
Last week I finished Managing Humans: Biting and Humorous Tales of a Software Engineering Manager by Michael Lopp. This was a very relevant book for me as it focused on engineering management, particularly the type of job I do in Silicon Valley software companies. The author is a highly experienced engineering leader, currently an executive in Apple and… Continue reading Managing Humans by Michael Lopp
. A few days ago I finished another leadership business fable The Secret of Teams: What Great Teams Know and Do by Mark Miller. Through the character Debbie Brewster and her mentor Jeff Brown, the author reveals to us the secrets of high performing teams In this book what we find is that there are three pillars… Continue reading The Secret of Teams by Mark Miller
Today I finished The 9 Types of Leadership: Mastering the Art of People in the 21st Century Workplace by Beatrice Chestnut. In this book, the author talks about Enneagram and how it is relevant to leadership styles. The Enneagram is a system of nine personality types combining traditional wisdom with modern psychology - a powerful tool for understanding ourselves and… Continue reading The 9 Types of Leadership by Beatrice Chestnut
Today I finished The Pragmatic Programmer: your journey to mastery, 20th Anniversary Edition (2nd Edition). This is one of the 2 books that I have been procrastinating for two decades to read. The other book is The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering. When pragmatic programmer came out 20 years back, it was a phenomenon… Continue reading The Pragmatic Programmer: Your Journey to Mastery, 20th Anniversary Edition
I will be attending QConSf 2018 during November 5th to 7th at Hyatt Regency, San Francisco. I hope to get some good knowledge from this developers' conference. Here are the sessions I will be attending day 1 (I have had a backup session for each one to be able to swap with my manager in… Continue reading QConSf 2018 at Hyatt, Sfo
Fortune named TubeMogul 76th in the list of top 100 workplaces for millennials in the U.S. Proud to be working at TubeMogul! http://fortune.com/?franchise-list-item=tubemogul http://finance.yahoo.com/news/tubemogul-named-one-best-workplaces-130843648.html?soc_src=mediacontentstory&soc_trk=fb Millennials (also known as the Millennial Generation[1] or Generation Y, abbreviated to Gen Y) are the demographic cohort between Generation X and Generation Z. There are no precise dates for when… Continue reading TubeMogul is Fortune’s One of the Best Companies to Work for Millenials
At my office today we had the evening of Night Of Passions where 9 people presented on 9 passions/hobbies for 10 to 15 minutes each. Yours truly was was one of them. I presented, no surprise, Play Chess to appeal this game to my colleagues.
Last week we had the 4 days long TubeModul DevCon 2016 conference held, first 2 days at TubeMogul premise at EmeryVille and the last 2 days at Lawrence Hall of Science, Berkeley University. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJmIIOtoA8A&feature=youtu.be You can find some more details on the TubeMogul Engineering Blog post.
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