In my last post I shared with you the McKinsey study on why some corporate hot-shots had made it big. In this post I will summarize the findings from an interesting study among TED’sters Briefly about the background of the study Richard St. John, an analyst, author and speaker, decided to interview some of the greatest thought-leaders, leaders and celebrities of our time to get a better understanding of, what had led to their success…
"Thoughts on Becoming Successful – Eight To Be Great"Author: Aly Chiman
Aly Chiman
Many people have over the years analyzed, discussed and conceptualized what it takes to become successful as CEO, housewife, entrepreneur or something entirely different. Of the many books, articles and blog-posts I have read I’ve taken three concepts with me that I’d like to share with you in the following three blog posts about the McKinsey Way. Study from McKinsey on what it takes to become successful Best practice from 500 TED’sters The TOP-model; Talent,…
"Thoughts on becoming Successful – 1/3: The McKinsey Way"
In last post we had talked about CountDownLatch and seen a good use case around computer login. We have seen that in countdown latch participant threads in waiting and running were different. Next utility is CyclicBarrier. In this same threads participate as running and then waiting. CyclicBarrier comes under java.util.concurrent package. While initialising CyclicBarrier we can give how many threads will wait on barrier, until last thread arrives. CyclicBarrier barrier = new CyclicBarrier(3); barrier can…
"Java Concurrency Utility – CyclicBarrier"Is it possible your web site stinks, and you don’t even know it? Web sites, and their ability to be ranked high by Google (translation: their ability to be found by your prospects), has become so complex, that just having a nice looking site isn’t enough. Having a good-looking site is critical too, but if no one can find it by searching by your product or service, it’s an outdated site. And in that respect:…
"Is it time to get a new website?"
We’re originally from NYC, but now, after moving to Boston, we took a long weekend recently and went back to NYC. We love being back there and always noticed how much cooler billboards are there. There’s noticeably better billboards being done there, but we don’t think it’s because the billboards are being created by agencies in NYC. Those of us who follow this stuff know that for years, many of the superstar design agencies haven’t…
"Why can't more billboards be this cool?"