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Disconnect To Reconnect

Disconnect To Reconnect

By Chirag Mehta on June 20, 2016

All journeys, no matter how fruitful, come to an end. After a little over nine and half years I decided to leave SAP last week. What a journey this has been! Making Design Thinking real I was hired into a multidisciplinary corporate strategy team, set up by Hasso Plattner, the chairman of SAP’s supervisory board, […]

Posted in Business | Tagged enterprise software, management, Product Management

The Art Of Delegation - My Ten Principles For Healthy Team Culture

The Art Of Delegation – My Ten Principles For Healthy Team Culture

By Chirag Mehta on April 23, 2015

“Delegate almost to the point of abdication” – Warren Buffet I have worked with numerous leaders at all levels and have seen the best and worst practices in how they delegate or they don’t. Here are my 10 principles of delegation that I practice and advocate based on the lessons I have learned by being […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged Delegate, management

Inability Of Organizations To Manage "The Flow" Of Talent Management

Inability Of Organizations To Manage "The Flow" Of Talent Management

By Chirag Mehta on August 1, 2014

The flow, a concept developed by one of my favorite psychologists, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, matches the popular performance versus potential matrix that many managers use to evaluate and calibrate their employees. For people to be in the flow they need to be somewhere in the middle moving diagonally up. Ideally, this is how employees should progress […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged management, psychology, talent

Why And How Should You Hire A Chief Customer Success Officer?

Why And How Should You Hire A Chief Customer Success Officer?

By Chirag Mehta on March 13, 2014

For an ISV (Independent Software Vendor) it is everyone’s job to ensure customer success but it is no one person’s job. This is changing. I see more and more companies realizing this challenge and want to do something about it. Sales is interested in maintaining relationship with customers for revenue purposes and support works with […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts, Strategy | Tagged design thinking, management, Product Management

Focus On Abstraction And Not Complexity

Focus On Abstraction And Not Complexity

By Chirag Mehta on January 21, 2014

I am a big fan of software design patterns. A design pattern is a general reusable solution to a commonly occurring problem within a given context. Software design patterns are all about observing technical abstractions in complex problems by identifying patterns and applying well known solutions to them. My management style is largely based on […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged management

How I Accomplished My Personal Goal Of Going To Fewer Meetings

How I Accomplished My Personal Goal Of Going To Fewer Meetings

By Chirag Mehta on November 1, 2013

As part of my job I have to go to a lot of meetings. As it turns out, all meetings are not equally important. Many times, either during a meeting or after the meeting, I end up asking myself why the hell did I go to this meeting. Sounds familiar? A couple of yeas back, […]

Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged management, meetings | 1 Response

Purple Squirrels

Purple Squirrels

By Chirag Mehta on September 3, 2013

It is fashionable to talk about talent shortage in the silicon valley. People whine about how hard it is to find and hire the “right” candidates. What no one wants to talk about is how the hiring process is completely broken. I need to fill headcount: This is a line that you hear a lot […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged Candidate, hiring, interview, management

My Top 3 Tips On How to Help Your Team Succeed if You Are Acquired

My Top 3 Tips On How to Help Your Team Succeed if You Are Acquired

By Jason M. Lemkin on August 5, 2013

We recently passed the 2 year anniversary of our acquisition by Adobe.  I’ve learned a lot that I want to cover later, but one question I was recently asked was what can do in an acquisition as a founder to help manage your team to success. I was not a perfect executive after our acquisition. […]

Posted in Entrepreneurship, Featured Posts | Tagged acquisition, adobe, Entrepreneurship, management, saas, startup exit, startups

Celebrating Failures

Celebrating Failures

By Chirag Mehta on July 1, 2013

Being a passionate design thinker I am a big believer in failing fast and failing often. I have taken this one step further; I celebrate one failure every week. Here’s why: You get more comfortable looking for failures, analyzing them, and learn from it I have sat through numerous post-mortem workshops and concluded that the […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged design thinking, failure, Learning, management

Lead, Follow, Or Get Out Of The Way

Lead, Follow, Or Get Out Of The Way

By Chirag Mehta on May 22, 2013

If you have been following this blog you would know that I mainly blog about enterprise software, cloud, and big data with a few occasional posts on design and design thinking. That’s what I am most passionate about. Having spent my entire career building enterprise software I have realized that success and competitive differentiation in […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged leadership, management

Marissa Mayer and Yahoo's telecommuting policy: Right motivation, wrong execution

Marissa Mayer and Yahoo’s telecommuting policy: Right motivation, wrong execution

By Chris Yeh on March 5, 2013

When Yahoo! hired Marissa Mayer, I supported the move, believing that the board needed to shake things up, and that given the dismal state of the business, Mayer was probably a better candidate than they could ever have expected to attract.  I also supported the move on Mayer’s part; she wasn’t ever going to become […]

Posted in Business | Tagged leadership, management, Marissa Mayer, telecommuting, women, yahoo

Maybe It’s More Important Your Co-Founders’ Weaknesses are Complementary To Yours

Maybe It’s More Important Your Co-Founders’ Weaknesses are Complementary To Yours

By Jason M. Lemkin on January 7, 2013

I think in the enterprise, in SaaS, it’s especially important you pick the right co-founders.  It’s a 7-10 year journey, after all.  In Consumer Internet, I guess so long as you hit it early, you can always get rid of Eduardo (as expensive as that may be), kick out the Sean Parkers, bring in the […]

Posted in Entrepreneurship, Featured Posts | Tagged co-founders, Entrepreneurship, founders, management, saas, startups, Uncategorized

Why TwentyFeet is Total Twash

Why TwentyFeet is Total Twash

By Martijn Linssen on December 3, 2012

Yet another Twitter analytic tool has made it into the spotlights: Twentyfeet
Like most if not all other tools that try to measure Twitter stats (Klout, Tweetlevel), it horribly fails. Apparently it’s too much work or money to actually measure all…

Posted in Application Software | Tagged 1.0, Data quality, management, stats, trust, twitter

Entrepreneur’s Don’t Think Enough. Here’s What You Can Do About It …

Entrepreneur’s Don’t Think Enough. Here’s What You Can Do About It …

By Mark Suster on November 20, 2012

Every so often I find myself caught up in a really hectic 3-4 week schedule where it seems like I float endlessly betweens meetings. Pitches. Intros. Board Meetings. Conferences. And I get flooded with legal docs, end-of-quarter financial administration, recruiting, whatever. I get sucked up in “Do” mode. Startups Are for Doers Now, I’m pretty […]

Posted in Entrepreneurship, Featured Posts | Tagged Entrepreneur Advice, first round capital, grp partners, los angeles, management, startups, venture capital | 1 Response

Big Brother? Sits right on your mobile

Big Brother? Sits right on your mobile

By Martijn Linssen on November 12, 2012

[The image above has nothing to do with this post, but it seemed to be fitting, given the latest developments. This post is all about trust] In this age of free(mium), it’s common knowledge that you pay with your privacy. Facebook is the best (or should I say worst) example of the dance around your […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Mobile | Tagged 1.0, 3.0, application development, education, information, knowledge, management, maturity, trust

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