#QUALITYtweet - An Interview with Tanmay Vora (Part II)

Posted on February 18th, 2010 | One comment

Reading time: 3 – 4 minutes

I’m devoting this week’s articles to author and blogger Tanmay Vora’s recent book, #QUALITYtweet. I reviewed the book in a previous article. Today’s article is part two of this two-part interview with Tanmay. The first part of this interview can be found here.

My experience is that most folks think of project management and quality management as very “hard skill” focused; things are either done or they aren’t. Most of your writing, both in the book and on your blog, seems to focus on the more “soft skills” of leadership. Why do you think it is [...]

Topics: Learning to Lead

#QUALITYtweet - An Interview with Tanmay Vora

Posted on February 16th, 2010 | One comment

Reading time: 3 – 5 minutes

I’m devoting this week’s articles to author and blogger Tanmay Vora’s recent book, #QUALITYtweet. I reviewed the book in my the last article. Today’s article is part one of a two-part interview with Tanmay.

Reading the book, I kept thinking how hard it must have been to get across the points you wanted to make and stay constrained by the 140-character limit. Can you talk about your experience writing the book with this constraint?

I have always believed that reasonable constraints can make us more creative. Twitter has taught us all to express ourselves in 140 characters [...]

Topics: Learning to Lead

#QUALITYtweet - A Book Review

Posted on February 15th, 2010 | One comment

Reading time: 4 – 7 minutes

I’m devoting this week’s articles to author and blogger, Tanmay Vora and his recent book #QUALITYtweet. My review of the book found below will be followed by an interview with Tanmay and at the end of the week with a guest post that looks at the intersection of quality and Reflection Leadership.

Tanmay’s book is part of the Thinkaha series of books being published by Happy About Books. Each of the books in this series were written based on the format of Twitter and contains “140 bite-sized ideas” that are all no longer than the [...]

Topics: Learning to Lead

Challenges To Being a Team

Posted on February 12th, 2010 | 5 comments

Reading time: 4 – 6 minutes

For several years now organizations have been trying to become more team oriented. Somewhere along the way we collectively seemed to understand that more things can be done when we split the work amongst a team of people. Nowadays job applicants need to prove that they can play well with others and many times job interviews aren’t with a single person, but with other members of the team to make sure the new person is a good fit.

Based on my experiences, I think we are overselling the use of the word team. I think we [...]

Topics: Follower Reflection, Systems Reflection

Have You Ever Been Part of a Highly Functional Team?

Posted on February 10th, 2010 | One comment

Reading time: 5 – 8 minutes

Much of organizational life these days revolves around “teamwork”. We try to organize the work by teams because we believe that when the conditions are right a team is able to create and do more than individuals can do on their own.

Unfortunately, I think most of us go through the majority of our work life without ever being part of a real team. Instead, we mostly spend our time as part of a group of individuals working on the same project. The difference between a team and a work group may seem small, but they [...]

Topics: Follower Reflection, Systems Reflection
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