It's official.
HBS management and the weather gods, have a nexus. When HBS is done with us, through the week, they simply pass us on to bad weather. "Yeah we are done, with them - you can rag them all weekend", seems a common theme for the last three consecutive weekends. No photography Argh !!
In the previous jobs that I had worked for, I have had team members who we had given designations like - Problem Manager, Solution Manager, Subject Matter Expert, Lead Architect, Account managers etc. These have been some real bright people who get their heads together in a room (or over ether space they call, mail, vc etc), and eventually solve the problem, create a new paradigm and all is well again !!
No !!
All is not well again. Almost, without fail there is one casualty.
Every-time, a little bit of Simplicty dies.
I am more than convinced, that when I go back to my workplace, I would create a position, called "Simplicity Manager". It will be his job, to keep our process, our product, our design - SIMPLE.
Pick up any intense success story, and you would find simplicity playing a big role - Toyota Production System, Apple, Dabbawala... all sing the same tune - be simple.
Most of our Friday noon, was spent in a team exercise called "Subarctic Survival simulation". The background, was that you have just crash landed to a subarctic, Tundra place, with your living group. It is now, upto you - first as an individual to make some choices, and then as a team to make those choices...to survive as a team.
Well, long story short - UnicTim, (my living group) was adjudged the best team for collective improvement, and we came second on the overall exercise. All UnicTim members are proud owners of a Cap (with HBS branding, ofcourse), that we earned on account of being one of the leading groups... how's that for a well oiled team engine.
I must apologize to the readers of my blog, for posting this blog around 12 hrs, late... We had a team dinner - a get together at a fabulous place call Del Fresco. As a bonus, we were first ushered into a Wine tasting event, that was swell... and post that, got to spend our energies on the big Maine Lobsters... aaahh !!
So, the week wrap up happened, pretty much on the fly. Anne decided to lead the collection of points (the gibberish things that we send her) , and put them on a nice cohesive PPT for Roco to present... and we were done. Thanks Anne, Roco for your selfless drive !!
Learning from yesterday.
1. Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity.
2. If 5% of people, KNOW, about your product - then your market share can never be more than 5% (or any given percentage)
3. It sounds like a cliche - but, LISTEN to the voices of the team.
Thoughts, brought back.
"Several hedge fund corporations ordered live satellite images of several spots in US. They claimed, it would be a terrific tool to measure the accuracy of the financial forecasts of the chief executives of a large corporation. Satellite images, Capital market, Financial forecasts ???? Now this is a long shot - think about this, and lets see, if you can figure out - how they are related and actually do the job - I will keep the answer ready in my blog tomorrow. :) " - From my previous day's blog.
Well if you are the CEO of a large retail house. And if your projections have said, you are having a bumper season. Then the number of cars, parked in your parking lot, should be a lot more than what it was in the same day last year - right ? I as a hedge fund specialist would like to see the satellite image to confirm that.
HBS management and the weather gods, have a nexus. When HBS is done with us, through the week, they simply pass us on to bad weather. "Yeah we are done, with them - you can rag them all weekend", seems a common theme for the last three consecutive weekends. No photography Argh !!
In the previous jobs that I had worked for, I have had team members who we had given designations like - Problem Manager, Solution Manager, Subject Matter Expert, Lead Architect, Account managers etc. These have been some real bright people who get their heads together in a room (or over ether space they call, mail, vc etc), and eventually solve the problem, create a new paradigm and all is well again !!
No !!
All is not well again. Almost, without fail there is one casualty.
Every-time, a little bit of Simplicty dies.
I am more than convinced, that when I go back to my workplace, I would create a position, called "Simplicity Manager". It will be his job, to keep our process, our product, our design - SIMPLE.
Pick up any intense success story, and you would find simplicity playing a big role - Toyota Production System, Apple, Dabbawala... all sing the same tune - be simple.
Most of our Friday noon, was spent in a team exercise called "Subarctic Survival simulation". The background, was that you have just crash landed to a subarctic, Tundra place, with your living group. It is now, upto you - first as an individual to make some choices, and then as a team to make those choices...to survive as a team.
Well, long story short - UnicTim, (my living group) was adjudged the best team for collective improvement, and we came second on the overall exercise. All UnicTim members are proud owners of a Cap (with HBS branding, ofcourse), that we earned on account of being one of the leading groups... how's that for a well oiled team engine.
I must apologize to the readers of my blog, for posting this blog around 12 hrs, late... We had a team dinner - a get together at a fabulous place call Del Fresco. As a bonus, we were first ushered into a Wine tasting event, that was swell... and post that, got to spend our energies on the big Maine Lobsters... aaahh !!
So, the week wrap up happened, pretty much on the fly. Anne decided to lead the collection of points (the gibberish things that we send her) , and put them on a nice cohesive PPT for Roco to present... and we were done. Thanks Anne, Roco for your selfless drive !!
Learning from yesterday.
1. Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity.
2. If 5% of people, KNOW, about your product - then your market share can never be more than 5% (or any given percentage)
3. It sounds like a cliche - but, LISTEN to the voices of the team.
Thoughts, brought back.
"Several hedge fund corporations ordered live satellite images of several spots in US. They claimed, it would be a terrific tool to measure the accuracy of the financial forecasts of the chief executives of a large corporation. Satellite images, Capital market, Financial forecasts ???? Now this is a long shot - think about this, and lets see, if you can figure out - how they are related and actually do the job - I will keep the answer ready in my blog tomorrow. :) " - From my previous day's blog.
Well if you are the CEO of a large retail house. And if your projections have said, you are having a bumper season. Then the number of cars, parked in your parking lot, should be a lot more than what it was in the same day last year - right ? I as a hedge fund specialist would like to see the satellite image to confirm that.
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