by S Srinivasan | Feb 8, 2016 | Chow
Your customer wants the best product quality and quicker turn-around time to confirm the quality. However the customer, as always, wants to reduce his spend on the testing. Every vendor has told your customer that automation is the answer to the customer’s need. The...
by S Srinivasan | Sep 24, 2015 | Leadership, Mindfulness
Do you think some of us love to negotiate and others completely loathe the thought of it? Well, I don’t think it’s true totally. Most of us love to negotiate in some circumstances, and not so in other conditions. Some of us like to do it a lot more than others do. I...
by S Srinivasan | Sep 17, 2015 | Leadership, Mindfulness, Personal Growth
When a newly commissioned ship sails from a port, laden with valuable goods, every captain hopes the ship will navigate the tumble of the seas well and be the ship of choice, in the years to come. No one expects the Titanic journey. Every sailor that you get on board,...
by S Srinivasan | Sep 2, 2015 | Leadership, Mindfulness, Project Management
After all right from the very beginning, both the models have existed – insourcing in India (popularly referred to as captive organizations), and outsourcing to Indian outsourcing service providers (over the years include the offshore operations of the global IT...
by S Srinivasan | Aug 28, 2015 | Coaching, Leadership, Personal Growth, Project Management
Most of us, in our lives we work under the guidance and direction of our manager. There’s of course a lot of talk of servant leadership and how managers become servants to the team. Sometimes it sounds like a good fairy tale story. At other times it’s demonstrated...
by S Srinivasan | Aug 27, 2015 | Leadership, Personal Growth, Project Management
Most of us who have grown up in India, would have definitely grown up knowing the great Indian epic Mahabharatha. Are there parallels between what happened in Mahabharatha and in today’s corporate world? Are there learnings from Mahabharatha that are applicable...
by S Srinivasan | Aug 19, 2015 | Agile, Project Management
There’s one school of thought – that you learn something when you do it and experience the feedback. It’s true. When a parent tells a mischievous child that putting your finger on top of the lamp fire will hurt you, the child does not listen. It puts...
by S Srinivasan | Aug 6, 2015 | Coaching, Leadership, Mindfulness, Personal Growth
This is from a true real world scenario. Imagine that you are doing very well in your organization. Everybody has a healthy regard for you. One fine morning in your one on one with your manager, he says “I hope there will always be someone looking out for you...
by S Srinivasan | Jul 30, 2015 | Coaching, Leadership, Mindfulness
Over the weekend I was out at a food court to meet a former colleague of mine. She had got along a couple of her young friends as well. As we were conversing, the young lady, who had come along with my friend said “When I discuss with my manager what I...
by S Srinivasan | Jul 7, 2015 | Coaching, Leadership, Mindfulness, Personal Growth
I began life as a child, and still continue to behave like one. I started my working years as an individual contributor, and still continue to be one. In addition to this in my wonderful journey of life and work I have also become a parent and a team manager. What’s...
