TCP/IP Tutorial

 If any body wants to know what is the all fuss about IP addresses, there is a good tutorial at:

http://www.vtc.com/products/TCP/IP-for-Windows-tutorials.htm

Efficiency vs Effectiveness

“Efficiency is doing something right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing. There is nothing more futile than to correctly do something that should not have been done at all.”

Long live Peter Drucker!

Ed Batista: Peter Drucker on Managing Oneself

How true

Remember we are only talking about the 20% tier so the people that listed this reason, are not the lazy people of the bunch. They are the ones fed up with bureaucracy, hiring freezes, lack of cooperation, undefined goals, and poor technology. You cannot ask someone to complete 20 tasks and then give them inferior tools and personnel. A lot of employees will struggle through these problems because of their dedication to the company, however, at some point, the fight is no longer sustainable. The employee will either leave, OR , become so unmotivated that they lose their star status and become a normal employee and thus under perform.

Why Top Employees Quit – Dumb Little Man

A management type that I faced on a project

The RandomizerThe insane version of the Prioritizer/Scheduler is the Randomizer. This is the manager who is going to swoop into the situation with good intentions, but he’s mostly going to randomize the team with his endless good intentions.The warning signs of the Randomizer are easy to recognize — his marching orders to address the fuck-up change every couple of hours. You might not initially see this because the Randomizer is the boss. His sense of passion and urgency is intoxicating because everyone wants to get to the other side of the fuck-up. They want to succeed. After the third drastic change to the plan of action, the team is going to start scratching their heads and thinking, How is running around bumping into shit actually helping us?You job as the minion of the Randomizer is to get back into the 1-on-1, close the door, and see if you can summon the Prioritizer. Your boss should be your strategic muse, not your tactical nightmare.

Rands In Repose

The Enemy – RandsInRepose

The EnemyThe $150,000 mistake, your shipping schedule being off by a year, and The Really Bad Hire (aka: we’re being sued).These are not screw-ups, these are fuck-ups. When you discover them, the air leaves your lungs, the back of your head tingles, and there’s an odd metallic taste in your mouth. Your mind goes blank except for the crisp mental picture that is your fuck-up.This initial discovery is shocking, but what I want to talk about is secondary discovery. This is when your boss learns of the fuck-up, and you shouldn’t be worried whether there’s an odd metallic taste in his mouth, you should worry about who he’s about to turn into.Management TransformationsIdeally, your boss is the levelheaded type and he’ll manage your fuck-up cleanly and easily using his years of experience, but fuck-ups knock people off their game and out of their comfort zone. Fuck-ups create stress and stress can mutate normally sane people into unrecognizable caricatures of themselves. Let’s talk about some of them.

Rands In Repose

Communication at Work

#2. Communicating EffectivelyBy this, I’m not necessarily talking about giving speeches and presentations, although that certainly falls in this category. I ‘m mainly talking about being able to clearly take what’s in your head and to put it into words so the other person clearly understands what you’re saying the first time.I know that sounds simple, but I’m sure you’ve met people in the workplace who don’t take the time to prepare when they speak with you and as a result, waste your time talking in circles when all you want to say to them is: “Can you take some time to think through what you want to say and come back to me later with that?”

Top 5 Things That Should Be Taught In Every School » Self Improvement Blog – BrianKim.net

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Good excuse

From Reuters site.

Quick quiz: It’s the holiday season, you’ve partied too hard, and you just don’t feel like going to work today. The best way to handle it is:

a) take a vacation day
b) take a sick day
c) take one of those “kidnap days” that some bosses don’t even tell you about

Unfortunately, a 21-year-old fast food worker in Germany chose c), text messaging her parents to say she had been kidnapped. The brilliant plan worked, until she showed up unscathed the next morning, saying the kidnappers had set her free.

My mantras

My mantras are as follows:

• Look, listen and learn ( Remember that you have two ears and only one mouth).
• Communicate
• Think smart….. Don’t reinvent the wheel. (definitely required in IT industry where developers keep on recoding the same stuff!)
• Think think think….. God has given you a brain… use it. (even if you don’t believe in God, you still have a brain !)
• Every experience comes with a lesson. Learn from it and move on to the next stage.
• As you sow, so shall you reap (GIGO) .
• Be flexible, respect others and be  compassionate.

Engadget and Crossfire

Engadget has a review of Crossfire machine at http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/30/hp-iq770-crossfire-19-inch-touchscreen-media-pc-revealed/3#comments.