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...'
3 comments:
Thanks Baiju and best wishes for your transition.
Michael Watkins
mwatkins@genesisadvisers.com
Thanks a lot Michael. I am delighted to see the comment from you for my blog entry. The first 90 days is an amazing guide for leaders. Its really helping me. I am using your 90 days advices along with Bosidy's Execution for my "Impossible is Nothing" journey @ my new job.
Hi Baiju,
finally managed to reach your blog.
Keep writing frequently.
hope you have a great tenure at Y.
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