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Comment on Do the Biggie’s have a war cabinet? by Sherene

Sherene — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 16:18:24 +0000

Ah look at you, blogging regularly again, I note!

I suspect many of these large companies do indeed ‘war cabinets’, if you may, which are silo-ed teams looking at what the competition is up to…but I would imagine that a more effective approach would be for each product team being constantly aware of the latest in their area of technology and a more proactive approach from each employee to constantly push the envelope.

Comment on Europe – learn to fail, instead of failing to learn by Does American culture have an elevator speech? | Perceptive Travel Blog

Does American culture have an elevator speech? | Perceptive Travel Blog — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 04:12:42 +0000

[...] doesn’t Europe build a Google? Chirdeep Singh Chhabra says that Europeans need to learn to fail, and TechCrunch journalist Mike Butcher weighs in on pointless criticism of others’ efforts [...]

Comment on Lack of Leadership in Europe by Chirdeep Singh Chhabra

Chirdeep Singh Chhabra — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:14:16 +0000

@Shefaly Not sure I agree with the “le president” as the le president in France is more than a chairman and very powerful. Besides not sure terminology is French driven. I remember the days of research in EPFL where mixing french terminology could happen. My favorite being – eventually and éventuellement. While éventuellement means – possibly (uncertainity of event ever happening) while eventually – means the event will happen at an unspecified later time : in the end. Enough digression.

Does Europe care? Well I am hoping they learn and care. I am afraid they don’t seem to learn. But this is what I think is the reason why UK and Eastern European countries are not at the core of EU. I am not talking about immigrants view here or the stifling if any that they might feel. That is another topic.

I agree about the those distressed Europeans becoming the beacon of change. Well long time ago they decided to go to the US instead and I think a lot of them still do for this reason.

Comment on Lack of Leadership in Europe by Shefaly

Shefaly — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:52:50 +0000

Chirdeep:

The title “President” I believe is an outcome of things lost in translation. The role is le president, so more like a board chairman than someone vested with real powers. Should really suit a certain Blair who is good at fluff.

Now that semantics are out of the way, I agree with your contention. But you leave out the big question. Does Europe care? The continent has made general peace with a certain preferred lifestyle. Their policy choices, their social make-up all either service or validate that preference. If as immigrants, we find that stifling, we are free to go elsewhere, aren’t we?

My distress is reserved for those Europeans for whom the bigger societal preference is something they dislike. Apart from leaving for elsewhere, they have only one other choice: be the beacon of the change they want to see. No?

Comment on Can I choose my customer? by Calvin Robinson

Calvin Robinson — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 18:14:19 +0000

Yes ;-D

Comment on Why I hate deadlines and love milestones by Sherene

Sherene — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 13:55:59 +0000

Milestones can be broken up into deadlines, just as marathons can be broken up into laps of high and low speeds – some people, like myself, are motivated by deadlines, not necessarily to party after they are met, but to know how to expend their energy – when to be in peak performance and when to take it easy. Ideally, everyone would be in peak performance all the time, but let’s admit it, we’re human and prone to lapses, and having deadlines ensures the lapses don’t overlap with important goals.

Comment on Lack of Leadership in Europe by Sherene

Sherene — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 13:52:48 +0000

I can’t back this up with facts yet but my feel on this issue is that individual enterprise is just not as valued in Europe as in the US. Over here, people look to maximize equality and benefits for larger communities and might even look down on sole individuals looking to aggrandize or assert his or her own wealth/fame/leadership.

For instance, I have heard the Danish culture is not terribly appreciative of anyone claiming to be the best or trying to outdo someone else, which apparently explains the tentative claim in Carlsberg’s ‘Probably the best beer in the world’

Interesting article here about misplaced modesty amongst Danes, which can probably be applied to other parts of Europe too: http://www.winch.dk/default.asp?id=24664

Comment on Useless Feedback by Chirdeep Singh Chhabra

Chirdeep Singh Chhabra — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 22:54:29 +0000

farhan – I agree but it’s not possible to bake that slice in some cases. We always need some market research and feedbacks. But what I am seeing is crafty questions to suit a desired solution or just a really wrong question. And this is really destroying a lot of good work behind it.

There is another problem where people tend to work on such feedback for far too long. You believe in it and you and your customers see and clear problem – go and bloody build it. Too much of this market research is also a growing trend – annoying!!

Comment on Useless Feedback by Farhan Lalji

Farhan Lalji — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:20:58 +0000

I’m of the belief that people don’t know what they want until you show them. Give me a slice and I’ll let you know if I like it.

Comment on Classic MGM Film Musicals by Sherene

Sherene — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 23:30:33 +0000

Seems like a really good production, this one =) Wish I had known about it! Yes, I shd follow BBC Proms schedule more closely..