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Good Product Manager

Can you go through the phases where everyone in the organization resists the idea of your product being developed, from the phase where everyone wants to work on the project when it gathers momentum; not to forget the momentum-gathering phase? If you can keep yourself grounded in all these phases, then my friend, I believe you are a good product manage!

Cardinal Rule of Office Politics

An employee would never ever pick a tiff with her peer for the sake of her subordinate She may pretend or tell the subordinate otherwise, but you know it better! Some people, however, just don't get it.......

Did you hire that JERK!?

So you are interviewing and you feel that you have got the best person for the job. Fast forward 90 days: You are sure that 90 days back, the person whom you found the best person for the job and for the team is a jerk. So much so, that you are ready to bet your fortune on it! So much so, that it has become a public act! Actually it didn’t take you 90 days to figure that out, but isn’t 90 days what every management book tells you should wait before making a judgment over a new employee? Now the perils this jerk can bring are that: 1. She can drive away other talented people simply by being annoying, acting tough, unlikable or simple by being know-it-all. 2. Her personal limitations can prevent her from accepting the change is what she needs and not everyone around her 3. She won’t be able to let the organization drive changes even if it’s a do or die situation 4. To top it all, everyone will know that you have brought this jerk onboard and they will talk about it in hush-h

Travel's Online Persona

This presentation explains Travel's Online persona and how has it evolved in various regions. Later on it discusses that what does it takes to be successful at Travel Business using Online Marketing. I presented this at Online Marketing Enthusiasts' (OME), July Conference. Check out this Presentation and please email me at ankurdineshsharma@gmail.com for any further information and/or details on this: Online Travel Persona View more presentations from Ankur Sharma

Cool Organizer and Collaborator!

Thought of sharing two web based tools which I have been using since past few days now and have found really useful for organizing and collaborating: 1) http://writeboard.com : This is to create, sharable, web-based text-documents that lets you save every edit, roll back to any version, and lets you easily compare changes 2) http://tadalist.com : This web based to-do list tool. You can make lists for yourself and/or share them with others too via e-mails or by exporting them They both are reliable and built by http://37signals.com PS : In case, you haven’t heard about http://37signals.com , they are the people who designed Ruby on Rails framework on which, now many cool products like Twitter and Hulu runs. If you are a business books reader like me, their founders’ latest book, “Rework” is highly recommended. Links to buy "Rework" : India / US