The Art Of Delegation - My Ten Principles For Healthy Team Culture

"Delegate almost to the point of abdication" - Warren Buffet I have worked with numerous leaders at all levels and have seen the b...

Why And How Should You Hire A Chief Customer Success Officer?

For an ISV (Independent Software Vendor) it is everyone's job to ensure customer success but it is no one person's job. This is chan...

Focus On Abstraction And Not Complexity

I am a big fan of software design patterns. A design pattern is a general reusable solution to a commonly occurring problem within a given c...

How I Accomplished My Personal Goal Of Going To Fewer Meetings

As part of my job I have to go to a lot of meetings. As it turns out, all meetings are not equally important. Many times, either during a me...

Purple Squirrels

It is fashionable to talk about talent shortage in the silicon valley. People whine about how hard it is to find and hire the "right...

Celebrating Failures

Being a passionate design thinker I am a big believer in failing fast and failing often . I have taken this one step further; I celebrate on...

Lead, Follow, Or Get Out Of The Way

If you have been following this blog you would know that I mainly blog about enterprise software, cloud, and big data with a few occasional ...