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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 next-steps and time of next

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 : "We sold this

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

another cool way to display your Flickr set

get bored with the default Flickr interface or even Flickriver ? how 'bout this KOOL way [http://pix.plonely.com/index.php?setid=72157623397968047] ? (see below for the screenshot) there are 2 ways to have it 1. Just use this URL http://pix.plonely.com/index.php?setid=72157623397968047 and replace

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 just try this [http:

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 what they like selectively (meaning focus on the most relevant things that

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 biz, not

Just show people how important they are

and how important their work is, they would do it better. That's what I always believe. Because it works for me. There were times when I felt so boring doing something, then I asked myself: " if, I need to put what I'm doing and feel boring in my resume', how

Foobar2000

there're software that we install, we use and either we uninstall it or we just forget it. there're software that we install, we use and we long for every new version of it. new version sometimes means new features or bug fix and for some cases, we just long for

đi bán thiệp

mình chưa làm sales, nhưng có nói chiện với các pạng làm sales và đi quan sát 1 tẹo thì nghĩ đến 1 số cái sau đây 1. muốn bán thiệp thì phải nói chiện, làm người ta thoải mái và nói chiện hông phải chỉ là "mời anh/chị

What's the biggest risk in an (IT) project ?

I found this very true, especially when * I used to focus more on the deployment, but not success (or failure ?) measure and to realize/leverage its value creation * Even when I were to track some measures, the criteria somehow seem a bit blur and not convincing (me) enough Just read

listen

we just finished the implementation part in a well overdue project, and I want to write 'bout "listening" * there were some problems that were raised even before the testing phase but then de-prioritized (hence forgotten). they did come up later and bit us * there were some good suggestion that were

làm sao để Tibo thành lớp trưởng

nhân 1 ngày suy nghĩ nhiều và không ra được bao nhiêu, buồn ăn nhiều và viết cho tiêu cơm Tibo là cháu mình, sắp được đi mẫu giáo. và vì hồi nhỏ lớn giờ chú của Tibo chẳng bao giờ là lớp trưởng, nên cũng có chút mong muốn

"have fun" is nothing but a hint

Several people included "have fun" in their list of tips during my last 4-5 training days. Same goes for those "every time you wake up in the morning, you should still be able to enjoy your work". I previously took it this way: "well, they can say it because they're

a crowd must share something in common

a few days ago, I happened to watch an interesting movie scene. The teacher of some "special class" (with all those naughty and stubborn gang-related students) organizes this game: the students were divided by 2 lines facing each other and they should move forward if it's a "yes" and backward

A damn good article

source : http://blog.penelopetrunk.com/2009/01/15/how-to-figure-out-what-you-should-be-doing-with-your-life/ There is no other way to figure out where you belong than to make time to do it and give yourself space to fail, give yourself time to be lost [http://blog.penelopetrunk.com/2009/01/15/2007/11/15/stop-worrying-that-your-twentysomething-is-lost/