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The Typical IT Consultant Bag Contents

                          What makes a great IT consultant bag? Fitting everything IT consultant needs into a reasonable size bag, easily-accessible package that you can find anything you want during executing your job. IT consultant needs to have necessary and nice-to-have things on the-go. In it you'll find a lot of the usual: a laptop and power adapters....

Leadership Fostering: Secrets of Effective Project Leader

Project Leader is the person who is able to make the team achieve the desired results and project objectives effectively practiced not in words but in attitude and behavior. Everyone born with leadership spirit but need to foster leadership skills to become a leader, good project leaders are trained, they foster their leadership skills...

How to Change Behavior of Software Development Team

One of the hard missions I ever encounter is when I try to convince a software developer or a team that their end-result product is not easy to be used. At this point, you turn defensive mode ON and a list of prerecorded defenses are played. Changing the behavior of a team is one of challenges that anyone working...

Three Major Types of Skills Required for any Job

 Analyzing the skills needed to perform even a simple task can become quite complicated. A useful way to organize skills is to divide them into three basic types: ●Adaptive skills ●Transferable skills ●Job-related skills The system of dividing skills into three categories is not perfect because some overlap exists between the three skills categories. A skill such as being organized can be considered either adaptive...

Lessons Learned from ‘Water’ – Persistence!

“Little drops of water wear down big stones." - Russian Proverb I am currently at the airport waiting for my plane which I discovered moving forward couple of hours. I received this discovery with optimism (as usual). I took the chance to write this post.All the time I am fascinated with water strength and patience....

‘How to Manage Change’ is The Simple Difficult Question

'If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.'Gail Sheehy 'Change' is the most inevitable event in life. We found 'change' everyday in everyplace around ourselves. Life is built on change. As professionals we encounter change in many of our engagements regardless of its size. Of course large engagements...

What if Beautiful Things in Life Turn Not to be Free – Google Case!

 Google just announced that it will stop Google Reader by 1 July 2013. Google reader is one of the best viewers for RSS feeds. From my point of view it was a successful service. This inspired me to dig into the fact of Google business model and revenue sources. I was trying to answer the...