Workshops are focused, interactive, and the results can be immediate. With the current pace of technological advancements, workshops are more effective than year long programs to get faster and effective results. The format of workshops enables participants to learn a new skill, become more knowledgeable about a topic/subject, interact with other team members etc. in…
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Beauty of Simplicity
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. – Leonardo da Vinci Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler. – Albert Einstein Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great. – Ralph Waldo Emerson The commonplace about Italian cooking is that it’s very simple; in practice, the simplicity…
Productive from home
How will the current and future of work look like? Is the hybrid work model here to stay? Mark Ma, an associate professor of business administration for Pitt Business, and Yuye Ding, a Ph.D. student in Katz Graduate School of Business, looked at Standard and Poor’s 500 firms — the largest companies listed on U.S….
Simple, easy, and best choice!
I love chicken wings! Buffalo, NY has many restaurant and bar options to have the best chicken wings. There are favorite local chains as well as renowned food establishments. We recently visited The Nine-Eleven Tavern located in 9-11 Bloomfield Ave, Buffalo, NY. Established in 1981, the The Nine-Eleven Tavern is a Cash only establishment and…
Attracting top talent to your company
How about sharing your biggest and limitless vision for your idea/company with your team and prospective employees? One of the single most important reasons for top talented individuals to join a startup, growing company or even a multinational is the vision of the company’s founders or the company’s management/leadership team. People switch jobs and careers…
Leadership’s role in Culture
Culture has to be created. Leaders are responsible for creating the company culture, growing it, and evolving it overtime. Although each team member contributes to the company culture, a dedicated team is needed to focus on bringing people together through various initiatives and activities. The leadership team has to also participate in company culture activities…
Marketing or Product development – Which first?
Should you develop your product first or start marketing the idea first? If the idea has some legs to become a business, building a Minimum Viable Product (MVP) first could help. Once you’ve build an MVP, you can test it out with potential customers. Collect feedback from early users of your product/service and continue developing…
Running a Tech company
In running a tech company, a lot of times the challenge is the company part not the tech. Tech problems might have easier solutions than people problems. The tech stack should not be the only focus if you want to build a successfully growing company. Take care of both the tech and people (more importantly)…
Coaching Teams for Global Customer Success
Multinational companies need to coach their team to handle clients based in different time zones, cultures, languages, and more. Easier said than done. Countless number of hours, sessions, content, and materials are shared internally to help the company’s team to properly and successfully interact with global clients. A few tips on coaching teams for Customer…
Everyone agrees with your idea(s)
If a team lead/manager or someone in a position of “authority” shares an idea for a new tool/process/policy (or something) and everyone on the team agrees to it without any discussions, questions or feedback, does that mean that idea was flawless? If there were no discussions, questions or feedback to the idea shared by the…
Skills over Location
A skilled professional should be respected, valued, and paid as much as someone that can be found in a particular region. With remote work and freelancing work becoming more common than ever before, companies have a global talent pool to fill their vacancies. A skilled professional based in the US would generally get paid more…
The long drought in team engagement
A company, WeAreGrowing Inc. decides to add several new team members to its company. They place ads, go through job sites, and recruiters to find and interview the best talent to join their growing company. Lots of time, human resources, and energy goes into finding the right candidate(s) for the roles and after several interview(s),…
Skills Degree
What if we could have a Skills degree similar to a College degree? A Skills degree would show all the skills you have accumulated over the years. Writing skills, editing skills, sales skills, Excel skills, technical skills, marketing skills and more skills. In a knowledge economy, our skills are our biggest assets. Skills are learnable…
A College Degree is great but not required.
I saw this on a job vacancy post. A college degree is great but not required. What’s more important is having the skills to do the job. Skills are the way to go. Whether its for an Account Executive, marketing, or technical role, skills are becoming important than ever. With the speed of technological developments…
Less Meetings, More Productivity
Meetings fill up a work day. There’s a meeting here and a meeting there. Then the day is almost done and we still have a lot of important work to be done. With remote work being a part of our professional lives, video conferencing tools so easy to use (Zoom, Meet, Teams), and devices at…
Silicon Peaks
Pukar C. Hamal, Founder and CEO of SecurityPal, recently coined the term Silicon Peaks to capture the growing startup ecosystem of Nepal. On his LinkedIn page, Pukar wrote that “The Himalayas have always been a source of inspiration for me. And given that 8 out of the worlds 14 highest mountains are located here including the highest…
What’s your Trillion Dollar Venn Diagram Of Success?
Dharmesh Shah, co-founder and CTO of HubSpot shares his thoughts on rare skills and the Trillion Dollar Venn Diagram Of Success (phrase credit to him). Dharmesh shares that “You probably have a few valuable skills right now. The question is, how do you turn those skills into a successful career or company? By combining skills…
Engaging Company Culture
Engaging company cultures have empowered, creative, and growth oriented team members leading company culture events. Through empowerment, employees are given the decision making authority and independence to decide what activities bring out the best in the team. Through creativity, employees can be resourceful and come up with activities that are out of the box and…
More Art than Science
With AI, Large Language Models (LLMs) and ChatGPT, the possibilities seem endless. In fact, it has made it very easy for us in various professions to go to ChatGPT, write a prompt, and get a good output in a span of seconds. With ChatGPT, we can have a solid starting point for an email to…
Scale or Small – which one?
Which one is better for your enterprise? Going for Scale or Staying small? If you run the best coffeeshop in town, do you focus on opening 100 more around the country or making the flagship coffeeshop the only one available and best in the world? If the decision to open 100 franchises of your coffeeshop,…