The Smarter Conversation

Posted on March 21, 2007
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Every post on Seth’s blog is a reason to read his blog. Today he pointed me to this. Neat and Succint. Thanks guys.

Lemons to Lemonade - New Series

Posted on February 26, 2007
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An undisputed fact of life is, you never know what it is gonna throw at you. Things go wrong, even with the best planning. It is upon you, as an individual, to make the bad situation work for you. And how, you ask. By being cool. This is most crucial quality you can possess, if you need to squeeze the bad lemon and make a lemonade.

This is a new series on how to turn around a bad situation. The idea is simply to capitalize on the opportunities that is presented by these situations. Mostly I will be talking about situations related to the professional life, but you can always improvise it to adapt to the personal life.

If you have a story to share, please email me.

Technorati Tags: Opportunities, Leverage, Lemonade, Workplace, Office

New Year; New Employer

Posted on January 8, 2007
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With the onset of the new year, I decided to make some changes to my professional life as well. After a year of travelling coast to coast, and having raked up about 500k miles, a change had to be made that sat well with my family and my body.

I decided to quit Cignex and the open source world, and join WAMU. I will be working at their credit card business center, responsible for the delivery of their data marts. It is interesting in more than one way to me:

1. The past 3 years I been working as a consultant, trying to define a road map for my clients. Establishing trust meant everything to me, as a consultant. So the style of communication was geared towards building the trust with my client. In my new job, I am on the other side of the table. I would be the client, and it is my responsibility to ensure that these external consultants deliver.
2. The financial services has remained hot for quite sometime, and this would be my entry into this vertical. This industry experience, along with my healthcare and life-sciences experience, will most definitely enhance my value.
3. The role is more managerial, and less technical. From what I know of myself, and from what I have heard, that defines me.
4. Finally being a non-travelling job, I am so excited to be with my family. In a way, I feel that it is my responsibility as a father, that I be there for my daughter as she crosses into her teen years.

Besides being interesting, these are all new to me. That is my opportunity, my challenge. I am so excited to start tom’row - all fresh from a 2week chill-off period.