productivity
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What’s your biggest skill?
For most people, their biggest skill is complaining. I’m talking about employees whose entire energy and focus are on complaining about managers, the company, and almost everything around them. You have to understand a very simple thing: there is no perfect organization, no perfect manager, no perfect CEO, and no perfect people. Everywhere you go, Continue reading
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The Best Lesson I learnt from a book
When asked about the most valuable lesson I’ve learned from a book, the first thing that comes to mind is a life and business principle from Jim Collins’ Good to Great, specifically in the chapter ‘First Who, Then What.’ Please listen to it as the author describes it himself in less than 3 minutes. Continue reading
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Are You Harnessing Your Team’s Full Potential?
“Until 1989, Jack Welch and his colleagues had doubted there was much to learn from their employees, believing instead that the workers, like drones, were just supposed to carry out management’s decisions. They were not supposed to show initiative; after all, they were workers, not managers. But eventually the chairman began to realize that GE’s Continue reading
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Managers Mistake #1
“Criticism is often met with 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 and 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭. Instead, understanding and patience can lead to more positive outcomes.” – this is in the first chapter of “How to win friends and influence people” by Dale Carnegie Especially if you are a manager, 𝐝𝐨𝐧’𝐭 𝐜𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐳𝐞. On my experience I’ve seen that criticism rarely leads to positive Continue reading
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The Hidden Time-Wasters in Tech Meetings: My 2,000-Hour Insight
Since I began my career in tech, I’ve spent over 1,000 hours in technical meetings. I’ve seen two frequent issues often lead to longer meetings: 1: Topic Switching In some companies, topic switching was almost unconscious. A planned 15-minute meeting can stretch to 30, and finally to 45, as we drift into unrelated topics. 2: Continue reading
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It’s not about you, it’s about ME
The other day on the train, I overheard a couple arguing nearby. Despite my ear pods, I caught one phrase: “It’s not about you, it’s about ME.” This made me think about startups how our products shouldn’t be about us, but about our customers. They don’t care how much time we’ve spent; they care about Continue reading
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Startups Common Mistake #2
When Thomas Edison was developing the phonograph, he didn’t wait until he had a perfect model. He created a rough prototype and immediately started demonstrating it to the public. These early demonstrations were crucial. They provided feedback that helped Edison understand what worked and what didn’t, allowing him to refine his invention. The public’s reactions Continue reading
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Startups Common Mistake #1
With a decade of experience working in more than 15 mobile startups, I realize that in most of them we have built, in most cases, unnecessary features which were not requested by users or were not tested via MVF (minimum viable feature) before. Those features were either not acknowledged at all by users or were Continue reading
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Are you giving the cake enough time to bake?
Imagine you have a recipe from a famous chef for a delicious cake. You buy all the necessary ingredients and follow the instructions precisely. However, when you see that the recipe requires baking the cake for 40 minutes at 200 degrees, you decide to speed things up. You preheat the oven to 400 degrees, thinking Continue reading
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