Keeping things simple
Describe your product in a single line, better still, in 5 words. Q: What does your product do? A: It ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ The simplest questions are the hardest and there is no right or wrong answer to this question. The most interesting part of this simple question is what perceptions people build around your answer – assuming …
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Driving transformative change
- Pieces, Uncategorized
- December 11, 2020
As we roll on to a new year and possibly in every organization, every company, we talk about change. “This year we will change for the better.” “We are all about change.” “In order to move forward we embrace change.” Maybe, just maybe, there is too much expectations on this word.. change. What is change? A lot of leaders talks …
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NO QUIT
- Inspire-Me, Pieces, Quotes
- September 26, 2020
Always make a total effort, even when the odds are against you.
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I want to quit, but I removed myself out of the equation instead
- Inspire-Me, Pieces
- September 18, 2020
As leaders with a go-getter and winning attitude, we tend to start stacking up loads of responsibilities on our plates. Everything is a possibility and arrogantly enough, everyone seems to think that we are the ones that might make things work. Our schedules are always packed, our phones keep ringing and people are reaching out to us to solve any …
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A Covid-19 Piece, what Social Distancing has taught me.
The virus outbreak came into our country, Malaysia at breakneck speed. People are getting sick, everyone did not know how to react and that’s when our government requested us to go into an MCO mode – Movement Control Order. 23 March – the nation fell silent. Several months later, the nation is preparing to kick-start again. But how is the …
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Learning
The skill and knowledge attained must be “forgotten” so that you can float comfortably in the void without blockages. Learning is important, but do not let yourself be enslaved. (…) Any technique, however valuable and desirable, becomes a disease when the mind becomes obsessed with it. – Bruce Lee –
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Are you a Good or a Bad Leader?
- Pieces, Uncategorized
- December 7, 2019
The success and failure of a team depends solely on the qualities of leadership within an organisation. The outcome is easily predicted; a good leader with an OK team will still succeed in time but a bad leader with an amazing team will always fail. When you are a manager, be a good leader otherwise follow a good leader.
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Don’t work with big data but many small pockets of data.
- Pieces, Uncategorized
- November 15, 2019
Many of us has been there; trying to give big data it’s magical moment on stage. We have relentlessly waited to show the promise of what big data can bring. The pot of gold at the end of the rainbow sounds too good to be true – but we kept on searching. And many of us saw a light that …
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HELP! Fires are burning and I can’t focus on growth now.
- Growth-Hacking, Pieces
- November 10, 2019
Product Managers are always in this burning situation. Everyday there is something up; customer complaints, server downtime, fraud attack, error messages, user demands etc. We run around trying to put out this fires and once done another crops up. Endless… How do I as a product manager focus on growth?
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Pioneering growth and disrupting silos
Sean Ellis did mention that the problem with stagnant growth is when organisations have silo pillars formed between Software Engineering, Product Marketing, Marketing and Sales teams. These teams are only responsible for their own area of work. In a typical scenario, the Product Team writes and defines the requirements, Software Engineering team works to deliver the feature and the Marketing …
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