Dimitrios Litsikakis
Will the real Project Manager please stand up?
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Shortcuts to Success: Project management in the real world
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The Best Birthday Gift: the birth of www.TechStart.gr covering Technology Startups in Greece
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Count right now how many people can make a major decision that can ruin your life. I don’t like it when one person can make or break me. A boss. A publisher. A TV producer. A buyer of my company. At any one point I’ve had to kiss ass to all of the above. I hate it. I will never do it again.
The way to avoid this is to diversify the things you are working on so no one person or customer or boss or client can make a decision that could make you rich or destroy you or fulfill your life’s dreams or crush them. I understand it can’t happen in a day. Start planning now how to create your own destiny instead of allowing people who don’t like you to control your destiny. When you do this count, make sure the number comes to over 20. Then when you spin the wheel the odds are on your side that a winning number comes up.
(Source: TechCrunch)
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Studies show that an increase in salary only offers marginal to zero increase in “happiness” above a certain level. Why is this? Because of this basic fact: people spend what they make. If your salary increases $5,000 you spend an extra $2000 on features for your car, you have an affair, you buy a new computer, a better couch, a bigger TV, and then you ask, “where did all the money go?” Even though you needed none of the above now you need one more thing: another increase in your salary, so back to the corporate casino for one more try at the salary roulette wheel. I have never once seen anyone save the increase in their salary.
In other words, don’t stay at the job for safe salary increases over time. That will never get you where you want – freedom from financial worry. Only free time, imagination, creativity, and an ability to disappear will help you deliver value that nobody ever delivered before in the history of mankind
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- Knowing exactly when each task or project will be completed, without spending hours updating due dates with every change to the project
- Knowing who is working on what today without making phone calls or sending emails to find out(project managers do that at least for 2 hours every day)
- Focusing on a handful of most important tasks without cluttering your mind with tasks not relevant for today (higher productivity)
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Link reblogged from Nick Drandakis
My good friend Nikos Moraitakis wrote a really good piece yesterday on “the topics you won’t hear on panels”. It was the same day that the Athens Techcrunch meetup event took place so I guess the timing was good.
Nikos thinks that, more than talking about generic issues on these events,…
