Wednesday, August 25, 2021

50 Things I learned from Sanjeev Singh

1. Do it yourself: If the team does not turn up things before end of the day, then I will do it myself the next day. 

2. Be on top of the documents: Be in the command of the document. Change flows from there.

3. Grab maximum: Wherever there  is opportunity, grab it.

4. Think what next: What ever is happening, consider it finished. Think about what is not being done. Involves lot of thinking and continuous assessment.

5. Spot the bottleneck: Keep a vigilante eye. Know the bottleneck in the work.

6. Plan ahead for a month: If the deliverable is next month then ask your team to prepare for next week.

7. Work on minimum viable product: Do not go overboard with things. Try for minimum viable design.

8. Sell your story: Market your story. Find a senior member/leadership who buys your idea so that you will be shielded if things go wrong.

9. Don't wait for others: If your team is slow, don't wait for them. Pace up.

10. Keep the sub-ordinates busy: Never leave your sub ordinates empty. Keep them busy.

11. Fullest focus: Take one idea and make that idea your life. 

12. Profile each employee: Know the strength and weakness of each employee. Accordingly assign them jobs.

13. Think in terms of framework: Framework is important. Design things in abstract terms.

14. Control people around: Have control over staff. Whenever some one joins, establish your leadership by showing off skills, behaving aggressively.

15. Ignore those you can't control: If you can not control some free radicals, keep them on sidelines. Give them punishment postings.

16. Know when to respond: Not required to respond to each and every thing.

17. Learn everyday: Work more number of hours than rest of the team. Learn everyday.

18. Work hard: Work hard. There is no alternative to it.

19. Keep revising documents: Documents are never final. There is always scope of improving and refining.

20. Brand the idea as your own: Whenever some one gives an idea, either ignore or devalue. Later propose the same idea with change in the form.

21. Focus on delivery more than the quality: Deliver fast, fail fast and revamp.

22. Know the intention of the people: Be forgiving. Do not damage people. At best ignore them. But know the intentions.

23. Build your own brand: Build your brand

24. Be your own judge: Your own self is best parameter of what is right or wrong.

25. Support employees at crucial juncture: If employees stuck at some point then be supportive

26. Sense the honest effort: Appreciate and support honest effort. 

27. Appreciate from time to time

28. Mean business: Focus on business. Don't get distracted with other ecosystem issues.

29. Ignore distractions: Ignore ignore, ignore

30. Never involve in petty matters: Find a sub ordinate and pass all the nuisance stuff to him

31. Schedule meetings on the weekend: Work extra time, over time

32. Create artificial pressure/Urgency: Create a sense of urgency for the team

33. Keep punishment postings/assignments

34. Take the lead, set example

35. Know the way, go the way, show the way

36. Make your notes, Keep them handy

37. Ask questions

38. When stuck in meeting, deflect or back out or delay

39. Centralisation of authority

40. Imagine, Visualise and Dream

41. Go to the root cause

42. Set the tone of the project

43. Prioritize (project features)

44. Push for more

45. Work first (Child in the office)

46. Know the basic tools (Docx, PPT, Excel)

47. Make ppt of whatever you learn/envision

48. Always know the weak points of employee

49. Make your team which lasts long

50. Know your domain

51. Thug life necessary at times

52. Have a program office for big change

53. Keep seniors in loop

54. Know that work motivates people: If you wish to punish some one, put them on non-working post.

Will put instances in this.



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