Sunday, August 2, 2009

Jul - 09: Best of Blog Posts

Can't believe I skipped this section for the last 3 months. Travel to Europe and Japan and high pressure at work has thrown my blogging out of the gear and I'm crawling back to keep the habit intact. Here are some posts that I found remarkable, in the last 3 months.

Tom Peters continues to urge to keep Excellence Always (If not Excellence, what else? If not NOW, when? - he keeps asking). In this post Excellence? Always? Yes!, he remembers the following from Martin Luther King:
"If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well."

Beautiful isn't it? He also thinks the most important job of the boss is to develop his people. Read The ONE Thing ....

Seth Godin reminds us that You Matter. In another interesting post he talks about The Risk/Reward Confusion.

Guy Kawasaki hardly blogs these days and his blog posts are typically some promo stuff on his company alltop.com (not that I have a problem with that) or his review of some cool car that he got a chance to drive for a week or so (I do envy him on this). He does interview (I love this) some cool folks though in OpenForum.com. Here are some interviews you might like:

Rajesh Setty cautions on chasing wrong milestones. He talks about The Only Milestone that Matters. Review your milestones. NOW. Check how many of them is helping you to increase your capacity to contribute.

Vinay Dabholkar is studying the roles and influence of CTOs these days. He shares Two Excellent Articles on the Role of CTO (first one talks about the roles and responsibilities of the CTO and the second one talks about 5 dominant patterns amongst CTOs in the US).

Thank you very much,


RamP!
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