My first 90 days @Yahoo!

Sep 4th(Thu) was my last day with Ariba and I joined Yahoo! on Sep 8th (Mon) to head the Quality Engineering for the Emerging Markets(EM) business group. Today its Nov 9th. I have completed my 2 months with Yahoo. Its really an exciting journey. I am liking my new job.New challenges and responsibilities mixed with lots of things what I used to do in my previous QA job at Ariba.

Jaya, Ariba India MD was mentioning about a book "The first 90 days - critical success strategies for new leaders at all levels" by Michael Watkins in one of the steering commitee meetings. I have read this book and used the learnings and philosophy for my transition into Yahoo!. It helped me a lot. One of the first thing this book talk about is "accelerate your learning of your new job" and match strategy to situation by diagnosing the situation to develop the right strategy. I have developed a simple quality engineering maturity assessment framework to diagnose the current situation and created a simple dashboard for all the EM products (aka properties). This is helping me to set up my Q4 goal and track the progress on a monthly basis.Team is good and I have a good manager. Impossible is nothing. I have big dreams and need to execute my dreams to make big wins for Yahoo!

Oct 26, Sun: Villju moved to his new apartment (Mahaveer Dazzle) @ Hoddy circle, whitefiled. Nimmu had her dance programme at Malleswaram , part of Genesys (her dance school) anniversary. She danced for 'Sing is King' and 'Bang ...Bang...'

QoD

Impossible : Impossible is nothing

• “When no-one else believes in you – believe in yourself.”
• “Push yourself further, and you find out what you’re really made of.”
• “You will go through tough times. It’s about coming through that.”
• “No matter how bad things get, make the most of what you've got.”
• “Keep moving forward and do what you love.”
• “If you keep on putting one foot in front of the other, you¹re going to get to where you need to be.”
• “People putting you down can drive you to do things you didn’t even think you could do yourself.”
• “The things you fear, you just fear them in your head.”
• “Where you start isn’t necessarily where you end up.”
• “You have to fight for every step of the way to your impossible.”
• “Sometimes bad things can turn out good.”

Perfection : "Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it" - the surrealist and uber eccentric painter Salvador Dali