To My Five-Year-Old Son, The most beautiful sound I ever heard in my life was when I heard your heart-beat for the very first time, which was loud and strong and music to my ears. I can’t explain in words the intense emotion I felt on that day in that…

To achieve a goal you’ve never achieved before, you must do things you’ve never done before. In Stephen R. …

Rules for focused success in a distracted world — What is Deep Work versus Shallow Work? Deep Work: Professional activities performed in a state of distraction-free with focus. This flow state pushes cognitive capabilities to their limit. These efforts create new value, improve your skill, and are hard to replicate. Shallow Work: Non Cognitively demanding, logistical style tasks, often performed while distracted. …

In his book Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies, Jim Collins coined the term BHAG (Big Hairy Audacious Goal) as a visionary, strategic goal. BHAG’s are bold long-term goals, typically spanning from 10 to 30 years, and expand beyond the comfort zone and are emotionally compelling, like J.F…

I read “The DevOps Handbook” a couple of years back. I enjoyed the book and applied a few lessons from that book and experienced first handedly how it improved team productivity and morale. That book is catered to more for engineers than managers. Accelerate did a good job by providing…

Measure What Matters by John Doerr is an interesting book and after reading the book page to page, I had a better understanding of goal setting and the power of OKRs. …