Posts in Management
Measure Anything
- 01 January 2021
- Management
If you don’t measure it, you can’t manage it; If you don’t measure it, you can’t improve it; If you don’t measure it, you probably don’t care; If you can’t influence it, then don’t measure it. - Randy A. Steinberg
About Consulting
- 10 July 2020
- Management
This blog contains notes from several books relevant to consulting.
Personal Branding
- 25 December 2018
- Management
To be a great technical expert, you do not only do exceptional technical work, and also exceptional job to let people see your skills.
The Personal MBA
- 22 January 2018
- Management
This blog contains the booknotes of the book “The Personal MBA”.
The Effective Executive
- 29 December 2017
- Management
This is the notes from book <The Effective Executive> by Peter Drucker. According to Drucker, the task of leadership is to create an alignment of strengths, making our weakness irrelevant
How to Become an Outlier
- 20 August 2017
- Management
Do you want to be an outlier? How do you measure success? Money? Friends and Family? Recognition? Fame? Making a difference? Does your definition of success drive the direction of your career? … Or is it the other way around?
Kotter-Binwei Change Model
- 25 May 2017
- Management
“Change is the only constant.” – Heraclitus, Greek philosopher. Kotter 8-step change model will help you to implement changes powerfully and successfully. In addition, Binwei adds 2 more steps to help you figure out whether you are doing the right changes. To implement right changes is even more important in the current changing world.
Work in Big Company
- 17 May 2017
- Management
‘Hacker and Painter’ is a fantastic book for people work in IT industry, which enlightens me quite a lot. One point of view in this book is about the ‘dark side’ to work in big company.
Lean Toolkit for Software Development
- 16 May 2017
- Management
Lean has huge impact on current software industry. No matter your team adopts Devops, Scrum, Kanban or other Agile methodologies, you can find impact from Lean methodology. Even though Lean was invented decades ago, the concepts are still shining and toolkit are still very useful.
The Mythical Deadline of Peopleware Man-month
- 14 May 2017
- Management
This blog post is the book note of three famous books in project/people management in IT industry: The Mythical Man-month, The Deadline, Peopleware. They are enlightenment books to me on the management topics when I read these books decade ago. There are a lot of shinning points in these books, and I try to list them with my own thoughts. The book notes will be in Chinese, since I read the Chinese version that time.
Job Security
- 29 April 2017
- Management
In your company, there is only one should care about your job security: that is yourself. Many people treat the company as their home, put all their energy and be 100% loyal to the company, but seldom to think about themselves. There is nothing wrong with the attitude only if you are aware of the job security. Marketing is up-and-down and most companies needs to be profitable to survive. They have to lay off people if necessary, these people can be you no matter you treat the company as home or not. It will put you into a very negative situation if you do not prepare well for your job security.
Lean: Principles
- 27 April 2017
- Management
The core idea of Lean is to maximize customer value while minimizing waste. A lean organization understands customer value and focuses its key processes to continuously increase it.
Technology to Learn Next
- 18 April 2017
- Management
Nowadays, we are in a rapid changing world, and the velocity of the change is increasing. Especially in some young industries like Information technology, new opportunities and exciting news keep popping-up everyday. If you are in IT industry like the me (Binwei, the author), you are lucky. And it is simply too many technologies for you to learn, this blog will discuss the topic: what to learn next.
