80/20 I strongly believe a good manager or a good leader is a great listener. Listening skills are one of the most important skills someone can have. A manager or leader has to make decisions and they need to hear as many perspectives/the most important ones to guide their decisions. If their listening skills are…
Category: strategy
Technology and jobs
If a new technology comes and replaces people, do we consider that a great leap forward or backward? Do entrepreneurs have a moral obligation to build products and services that makes the revenue pie larger for the stakeholders or build them to keep all the pie to themselves? What role would the government play if…
Degrees and experiences
Nepal’s current job market is filled with college graduates. We have a lot of college graduates with degrees but with few or no work experience(s). The labor supply of college graduates is higher than the current demand. We need college graduates with degrees and work experiences. Some solutions to this are encouraging students to start…
Neetesh J Kunwar- Maya Sasto
Long term asset
As information becomes omnipresent, it’s doesn’t matter whether you’re in Nepal, Rwanda, or America. What becomes more important for the long term success is your network. What are you building today? Do you have mentor(s) to keep you going? How involved are you in the community and ecosystem? If you are doing everything independently, time…
Think long-term
I’ve come to realize that thinking, planning, and working on a long-term basis is the best way to go. Making decisions that are best just for the short term won’t be much fruitful. Anything great that has been achieved takes time. Rome wasn’t built in a day. How many hours do you think Stephen Curry…
My philosophy for a happy life by Sam Berns
A purposeful company
Companies exist to make money. They also should be responsible contributors to the community. Besides creating jobs and contributing to the economy, companies should have a social component to their existence. Some ways for companies to start contributing to the local community/city are to ask themselves a few questions first: What local problems can the…
Industry ready college graduates
There is a lot of talk at colleges, meetups, conferences, and other venues that college graduates in Nepal are not job ready. Although there seems to be an effort to bridge the gap between academia and industry, a lot of work still needs to be done. In the meantime, I want to share my thoughts…
on the calendar
If you really want to make things happen, start by putting them down on the calendar. Once the task or activity or plan is in the calendar, you will most likely address it. If you don’t put it down on the calendar, you will be busy doing things that you did not even plan for…
Care
If you care enough, you will make a difference in the culture. I absolutely believe so. If you find something that needs to be done and disregard it because it’s not part of your job description or someone else will handle it, then you don’t care enough. Want to make a difference in your home,…
Training at your convenience
Training at your convenience is a luxury. The market does not reward luxury; it rewards proactive and hungry go-getters. Training will prepare you for the future. It takes awareness, realization, and execution to get better. Waiting for the perfect time, scenario, environment and everything else to take training means your convenience is more important to…
3 success stories from Nepal’s IT industry
The IT industry is one of Nepal’s fast growing industry and carries a huge potential in terms of job opportunities, contribution to the nation’s economy, and possibility of putting the country on the global technology map. There are hundreds of tech companies building products/services for the domestic and international markets. Here are 3 tech entrepreneurs…
The story I waited 14 years for
After finishing college, I wanted to work for one company: Nike. Nike always fascinated me. It was a company that was innovative, cool, and easily recognizable. Back then, I frequently checked Nike’s careers page to see if I qualified for any of the jobs out there. I had done research and found that Nike’s European…
Opportunity is knocking
There are opportunities almost everywhere. I’m an optimist and see opportunities all around me. It’s upon us to decide which opportunity to move forward with and which one to let it pass. We have to keep working hard, keep moving, and the opportunity will seem like it’s right there.
Mentorship
I strongly believe in mentorship. Mentors are people who can help you grow personally or professionally. I have been extremely lucky to have some amazing mentors. Mentorship is even more important in Nepal. A lot of young people join colleges or universities hoping to land jobs when they graduate or start their own enterprise. Many…
Travel education
Travelling is an education in itself. We learn so much by visiting a place that we could have never understood, seen, or felt until actually being there. Although technology has brought us closer than ever before and taken us to places that we never knew existed, the experience of travelling to a place can never…
Constructive feedback
Constructive feedback is focused on pointing out things that the person does well and areas where he or she can improve. This is an essential part of a healthy personal or professional relationship. Giving constructive feedback is as much an art as it is science. As Stephen Covey, author of The 7 Habits of Highly…
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Consistency matters
We see new ventures come and go. Some new businesses start out with a bang. They launch competitions, giveaways, raffles…you name it. Yet, only a few businesses make it. That’s the reality. Best to be consistent in delivering. Delivering on your promise. Delivering on your customers. Delivering to stay relevant to your audience.