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Effective meeting

Before meeting: * Clear agenda with pre-work if needed, make sure attendee will at least read through the pre-work * It's best if the decision maker is there In the meeting: * Time-keeper & minute-taker * Don't spend too much time on 1 topic (again, time-keeper) * No personal attack * Clear

Read data

There is a saying : "Lies, damned lies and statistics". It told us how easy to read the number and how difficult to really derive something useful from it. Just want to share some simple tips about this 1. Have a right context * For example, you might read : "

job, career or calling

quote from Internet Most people approach their work in one of three ways: as a job, a career, or a calling. If you see your work as a job, you do it only for the money, you look at the clock frequently while dreaming about the weekend ahead, and you

Simple Business Intelligence (BI) solution

This is a follow-up post for this one [https://work.plonely.com/2010/02/25/its-not-always-bout-cutting-edge-part-1/]. I want to share a simple approach to implement BI in your company. What is BI ? It helps the company to aggregate data, clean-up data, and present data (provide a way for end-user to

Discover lost space on your HDD

You'd never know how much space you lost on your HDD for some created-once-and-forgot-to-delete kind of folders. Or you can just right click and choose "Properties" to check the size of each folders on your HDD. It is a damn tedious work. Or maybe you can

what you like versus what they like

you can't just do what you like. you just can't. because you're with them (family, friends, colleagues etc). and you don't want to just do what they like. because it's your damn life, right ? so, what's next ? do

It's not always 'bout "cutting-edge" [part 1]

We recently need to solve this very interesting problem: how to effectively aggregate all the sales data across the country. * Sales data: basically, we want to know something likewho buy what on when and from which sellers * Effectively: we need to get those data as fast as possible and as

Keep your crises small

This is a quick note I took for this talk, a very insightful one on how you might lead your org/your team/your life http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2h2lvhzMDc The speaker [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_Catmull] was one of Pixar founders. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- He got a

random note

Some random practical things I noted during some random training, applicable for both work, life and even drinking 1. Forget that you work for big MNC, embrace changes. Don't start with process Không nhất thiết phải uống bia bằng ly, có thể uống bằng xô 2. We are