Leadership insights, thoughts from lived experiences and readings
Today I finished The Motive by Patrick Lencioni, a repeat read. First time I read it was three and half years ago when the book was just published. I read this book to remind myself why I chose to be a people manager or leader. In today's business landscape, leadership has become a term that many aspire to… Continue reading The Motive by Patrick Lencioni
Elon Musk is a name that resonates with innovation, ambition, and the unyielding pursuit of humanity's future in space and renewable energy. In his biography, aptly titled Elon Musk, Walter Isaacson takes readers on a riveting journey into the life and mind of one of the most enigmatic and influential figures of our time. I purchased… Continue reading Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson
The "Iron Triangle" is a concept often used in project management, and it can be applied to software development as well. It represents the three key factors that are interconnected and typically in tension with each other in any project. These factors are: Scope: This refers to the features, functionalities, and requirements of the software… Continue reading The Iron Triangle of Software Development
Today I finished the audiobook Startup Leadership: How Savvy Entrepreneurs Turn Their Ideas Into Successful Enterprises. In this book author Derek Lidow outlined the 4 stages of a company's growth and the leadership requirements for each of those stages. He mentions that the entrepreneur must move passed being just an entrepreneur to becoming an entrepreneurial leader (EL). Stage… Continue reading Startup Leadership by Derek Lidow
I came up with 9 rules for cross functional collaboration in large projects while thinking to solve a particular problem in office. Do you think these are too many or too few? Please share if you have any recommendations to change. Identify Teams - key stakeholders and participants like product, engineering, UX, business/customer Define Goals… Continue reading 9 Rules for Cross Functional Collaboration
Last week I finished the book Gangsta Vision: Recipes to break into product management leadership by Dilip Ramachandran. Dilip is my ex-colleague from Marqeta and a friend of mine. Few months before publishing this book, he had a session with me. That's when I came to know that he had been writing this book. While the… Continue reading Gangsta Vision by Dilip Ramachandran
Last Thursday we had an outing from Twin Health as many employees flew into Mountain View Headquarter to finish the Q2 planning. We also had our Chief Marketing Offer Shella Tan join. Incidentally this is also the month when I finished my first year at Twin Health. The outing was in Campo di Bocce of… Continue reading Twin Health Outing at Campo di Bocce of Los Gatos
A few days back, I finished the latest book from management guru Patrick Lencioni named The 6 Types of Working Genius: A Better Way to Understand Your Gifts, Your Frustrations, and Your Team. The premise of this book is that each of us has certain types of work that bring us joy and energy and other types of… Continue reading The 6 Types of Working Genius by Patrick Lencioni
I finished reading Crossing the Chasm: Marketing and Selling Technology Projects to Mainstream Customers by Geoffrey Moore. I started reading this book before my Bangladesh trip in February and continued reading during my Kenya trip last month. This is a very useful but hard read. As I am working on a bay area startup, it is very relevant… Continue reading Crossing The Chasm by Geoffrey Moore
It's been 3 months I joined #twinhealth and enjoying my work here. I was featured today in our Twin Health LinkedIn page. Ashik Uzzaman we are so happy to have you as both a people and engineering leader. Among his many contributions; Ashik organized and leads a Leadership Guild where Twins are welcome to join and… Continue reading I was Featured Today in Twin Health LinkedIn Page
Earlier this week I finished listening to the audiobook Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance by Angela Duckworth. This is a very thought provoking book with full of enthusiasm. Like many I have always admired talent too much in my childhood and youth, while at times I myself have been admired the same way. But I started… Continue reading Grit by Angela Duckworth
We had a nice social event for US Engineering event yesterday in our Mountain View head quarter of Twin Health followed by a hiking in Rancho San Antonio Open Space Preserve which is within 10 miles of our office. I was part of team dragon; we were 3rd out of 5 teams while fullstackers won.… Continue reading Twin Health US Engineering Social Event
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