Management

Monday Saying – 23rd August

Written by Lucian on Aug 23, 2010 in Management, Sayings | 0 comments

Take each estimate as the best guestimate made with all the current knowledge. There is always place for changes.

Bottom line an estimate is a the best guess based on all the current knowledge and skills of a person.
If the original estimate is not according with the current effort, then think what you got from it.
Keep your eyes open to possibilities.
There is always a place for quality as it is for quantity.
And team building.
Or feedback.

Applied Accelerated Learning

Written by Lucian on Aug 10, 2010 in Communication, Featured, Management | 0 comments

Here are two presentations designed with Mihail Musat (musat.com.ro) for Iashington.

The design of trainings is made with total involvement of participants and created based on their questions.

What we did?
We asked participants to put their questions with one day before and we choose 6 of them to be addressed in the training.

Simply Better – Taking one challenge at a time

Written by Lucian on Jun 23, 2010 in Life, Management | 0 comments

How it started

A few months ago I’ve read the book “The Power of Less” of Leo Babauta.
An interesting book about simply organizing life about a simplified time management, allowing yourself to focus on the most important things.
Also I’ve started to came across with many articles about ToDo lists and Organizing projects and pros and cons about all of them.

And before that I was saying this thing for months: “Less is more”. So after reading the book, I’ve decided it is time to Walk the Talk and take some initiatives

Keep the label on the box

Written by Lucian on Apr 20, 2010 in Management, People | 2 comments

Putting labels limits our ability to see other possibilities. To discover and sustain the potential of people around us.

And we are very good at doing this. It comes from early development ages of human kind, when we need to generalize in order to be able to learn new things and move forward.

It is going to a new level, in our times with so much information available. The first option when there is such an abundance of information that a human cannot read/process in one single life-time, is to generalize.

And this is even worse when we used it for people.

We just categorize one of our co-workers as being

Time Management Matrix

Written by Lucian on Nov 24, 2009 in Management | 0 comments

Related to my post about first things first, I’ve discovered today a good article about Time Management. As my article was mostly focused on handling the tasks you need to make in one day, this is much more generally. It presents a different view about pursuing purpose and handling tasks.

It has some good questions that you need to put to yourself when you start doing a task like “Is this task related to my goals? Does doing this make any difference to me?“. Pay attention to what tasks you are doing and what values they are bringing to your life.

The author of article split the current time management approaches into

Twitter like reports

Written by Lucian on Nov 19, 2009 in Management | 0 comments

There is too much information around us every where and we are using too much of our time to filter it.

This is why I like to have reports as small as possible, focused only on the content, without any thing added to it.

And looking around I’ve tried to use the twitter idea: express something in no more than 140 chars.

Also for clear understanding I like to split reports in two main components: Things we’ve done and thing we want to do.

And there is a third component that it is not contained in the raport, but a manager should be very interested in it: Thing that might stop me achieving the results.
I’ve got this from the way SCRUM works. In SCRUM they meet