80/20 Rule - The law of vital few & the trivial many.

80/20 Rule - The law of vital few & the trivial many.
<<Extract from July 2012 Netsoft's News Letter

Habits are what we repeatedly do, consciously or compulsively. Some habits lead to disorders, whereas some leads to growth. It is self evident that 80 percent of the results come from 20 percent of the causes.  For example, Microsoft noted that by fixing the top 20% of the most reported bugs, 80% of the errors & crashes would be eliminated. The principle is concentrate on the vital few to make a significant difference.

Intel’s Andy Grove said, “No Matter where you work, you are not an employee. You are in business with one employer-yourself-and in competition with millions of similar businesses world-wide. Nobody owes you a career; you own it as a sole proprietor. And the key to survival is to learn to add more value every day”. This means, you must apply the 80/20 principle, as the effective sole proprietor does, to the chain of activities from resources to results. Use your skills and attitudes, your intelligence, emotional and spiritual quotients. Together they make you resourceful. 

“Thinking should become your capital asset, no matter whatever ups and downs you come across in your life”. – Abdul Kalam

Ref. Shrinivas Pandit, Tata McGraw-Hill , "80/20 CEO Vaman Kamath"

Keep it short and simple!

Keep it short and simple!
<<Extract from June 2012 Netsoft's News Letter

Often in life we will encounter a task that seems needlessly complex. It is easy to get going with the way we are doing, but it shall pay us huge if we can take a moment to analyze and come with a workable solution which can simplify our tasks. Once we have identified the problem(s), all that is left is to take positive action to eradicate them with a ‘keep it short and simple (KISS)’ approach.

KISS strategy is very important for us to adapt in every aspect of our life, projects, tasks or activities that we undertake. Sometimes it feels like doing new things is better than looking for old-one’s, as looking for older information in complicated scenario consumes time. So, let’s start working & contributing towards making the things simpler that can be from organizing our files & folders (so that we can get it when we need it), keeping only the required files or things (than contributing to huge data which puts us in confusion in future), information to be made simple (so that the team or new person can understand it better), solution should be simplified (write fewer lines of code to get the desired result in an efficient way), …

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.  ~Leonardo DaVinci
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.  ~Albert Einstein

Responsibility & delegation!

Responsibility & delegation!
<<Extract from May 2012 Netsoft's News Letter

We all live in 24 hours a day slot and no one has got an exception. The winners are those who make best use of this available time efficiently and productively. Most of our tasks/assignments are dependent on our individual capability as well as working in a team. The challenge is within the available time we need to decide about what we need to do and which tasks to delegate it to others.

You need to keep the things yourself, which you cannot delegate to others. Delegate the things to others by telling them ‘what to do’ and which can make them become experts & the best. Delegation is all about taking and assigning responsibility, with right men, with less intervention after assignment, with a clear objective of what need to be done and which can bring success to individuals, to the team and to the company.

No person will make a great business who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit.
– Andrew Carnegie

Let’s take up the responsibility of what best we can do and delegate the things which others can do it better. The whole intention is Team should WIN at the same time our customer should be benefited.

Being Proactive! towards companies objective.

Being Proactive!

<<Extract from April 2012 Netsoft's News Letter

We all are working towards our best and putting extra efforts as long hours and so on… The question is ‘are all the stakeholders benefited?’  Here stakeholders involve ‘You’, ‘Your Teammates’, ‘Company’, ‘Customer’ (for whom we are working) and ‘Others’ (non technical staff).

Benefited means ‘Have you learnt anything worthwhile which adds to your upgradation of skill and knowledge?’; ‘Is the output delivered by you is beneficial to your teammates or Are you creating a concern to your teammates with incomplete or delayed delivery?; ‘Is your management happy with the output from you or concerned over the lapses?’; ‘Did Customer got what they want or they are still waiting to see the intended delivery?; ‘Is the admin and other staff members waiting to know when the project is going to complete and when they can see the tangible growth?’

The answer lies in taking a moment to plan proactively our tasks and acting towards delivering the result which should benefit all.

Being proactive means that instead of merely reacting to events as they happen, you consciously engineer your own events. – Steve Covey

Proactive output means not just delivering part of the solution of your assigned task, but with that other half of the solution which does not make the customer or other stakeholder come back for it.

Taking initiative about being proactive is delivering results which should help organization achieve its anticipated growth which is very much possible when we all work towards the common goal. 

Is it ready? Towards intended delivery.

Is it ready?

<<Extract from March 2012 Netsoft's News Letter

This is the phrase that we all are used to in our daily activity. In organization ‘Is it ready?’ expected from our clients, the same is expected from management, team leaders and by you. In this process of getting it ready we are missing out certain key aspects that are necessary towards the most intended delivery.

It is imperative to take a break to understand what is that needed to inculcate in our process or system? Let’s identify the gap in completing the required activities or getting the things done efficiently and act on that shortcoming one by one.

"The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual." Vince Lombardi 

Let’s WIN our individual assignment and do our job to the best, thereby making it as a collective TEAM WIN. 

Let our answer be YES, when next time we are asked ‘Is it ready?’