Leadership insights, thoughts from lived experiences and readings
I finished Servant Leadership in Action: How You Can Achieve Great Relationships and Results by Ken Blanchard and Renee Broadwell yesterday. This is a collection of 42 essays from different leaders and coaches organized in 6 parts. Fundamentals of Servant LeadershipElements of Servant LeadershipLessons in Servant LeadershipExemplars of Servant LeadershipPutting Servant Leadership to WorkServant Leadership Turnarounds Some… Continue reading Servant Leadership in Action by Ken Blanchard
Last week I finished The Art of Leadership: Small Things, Done Well by Michael Lopp. I read his Managing Humans recently and joined his leadership channel in slack that has more than 15 thousand members. In 30 articles borrowed from his long running blog Rands in Response and divided equality for line managers, directors and executives in topics, he tells us… Continue reading The Art of Leadership by Michael Lopp
Last week I finished another of Patrick Lencioni's book - The Four Obsessions of an Extraordinary Executive: A Leadership Fable. In this early book (written even before Five Dysfunctions of a Team) the author emphasizes on why organizational health is the ultimate differentiator between a successful and failed business as well as how to achieve that. Organizational health… Continue reading The Four Obsessions of an Extraordinary Executive by Patrick Lencioni
This week I finished The Secret: What Great Leaders Know and Do by Ken Blanchard and Mark Miller. I was interested to read this book as I recently read Mark Miller's The Heat of Leadership and The Secret of Teams. I am also a big fan of Ken Blanchard's One Minute Manager. This a fantastic business fable involving a struggling leader Debbie Brewster discovering… Continue reading The Secret: What Great Leaders Know and Do by Ken Blanchard and Mark Miller
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
Marqeta began a new journey as a public company this June 9th by listing in Nasdaq. This is a major milestone in my career. I have missed it a few times in the past, but now I feel good that I have been part of taking a small startup to a mid-size public company. I… Continue reading Marqeta Successfully Executed IPO at June 9th
I finished another good business fable last week, The Heart of Leadership: Becoming a Leader People Want to Follow by Mark Miller. This is an amazing leadership book that I strongly recommend. It was very fitting that Patrick Lencioni wrote the forward of this book. In this business fable the author talks about foundational leadership characters. Characters, which… Continue reading The Heart of Leadership by Mark Miller
I have been thinking about using blockchain for content ownership verification for some time. I came up with this idea that may be a useful service or a platform if implemented. Let's visit a use case that this platform or service will be able to serve. A user or author decides to create a useful… Continue reading A Platform to Verify Ownership of Content
I am very keen in deepening my understanding about engineering leadership for fast growing tech companies. This is very relevant to my current company where I am working as a Sr Engineering Manager. I often share my thoughts, new learnings, leadership puzzles that is confusing me currently in my social media networks. As a result… Continue reading Good Leadership and Management Books
Earlier this week I finished another good book from Management Guru Patrick Lencioni - The Five Temptations of a CEO: A Leadership Fable. In his customary style, Patrick brings out the inner conflicts of the CEO of a San Francisco based company which many struggling CEOs experience. A temptation may be understood as a personal moral failure that… Continue reading The Five Temptations of a CEO by Patrick Lencioni
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