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Recent Posts
- Keynote and Technology Demonstrations at IEEE VisArch Co-located with ISCA
- Recent I3T Lab graduate Sarah Eom highlighted by the Duke University Center for Computational and Digital Health Innovation
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- I3T Lab Tour a Part of Regional NAE Meeting
- One more half-marathon: Garmin Durham 1/2
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Category Archives: Management
RIP Andy Grove
I was saddened by the death of Andy Grove, the former Intel CEO who drove the growth of Silicon Valley. Andy Grove’s “High Output Management” has been my go-to book on running teams and improving business processes. I have seen few books … Continue reading
Posted in ASICs, Career and Leadership, Good reads, In the news, Management, Technology, Tips and tricks
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New Management Models: Do They Make Control-Theory And Information-Theory Sense?
There has been a lot of talk lately about new management models, that is, the alternatives to centralized top-heavy decision-making that has been the staple of the corporate world for so long. Coursera has had a fun class on this, … Continue reading
Posted in Communication skills, How the world is changing, In the news, Industry trends, Management, New business models, Uncategorized
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Experience with Manufacturing
When I was interviewing for PM positions a couple of years ago, I wanted to do what I do now – build exciting real-world products soup to nuts, concept to manufacturing to deployment, algorithms to software and hardware design to … Continue reading
Posted in Consumer technology, Good reads, Hardware, In the news, Management, Technology
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DARPA Project Experience and DARPA Project Leaders
Recent Wired Magazine profile of Dr. Regina Dugan, formerly the director of Pentagon’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and currently an executive at Google (Wired Magazine article available here) led me to a Harvard Business Review article by Dr. Dugan … Continue reading
Posted in Career and Leadership, Good reads, Management, Ph.D., Technology
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PM Candidates: Ask Questions, Please
All job candidates, for all jobs everywhere, should know to ask questions of their interviewers when prompted. The answer to “Do you have any questions for me?” ought to be never be “no“, for any position. But especially for PM … Continue reading
Posted in Career and Leadership, Communication skills, Industry, Management, Skills, Tips and tricks
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Do not Call People “Resources”
Managers: if you call your people “resources”, they get to call you “overhead”. Calling people “resources” must be one of the worst habits of the different kinds of managers. Yeah, that is the terminology used in the Project Management Professional … Continue reading
Posted in Career and Leadership, Communication skills, Management, Skills, Tips and tricks
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Value of Meetings
Recent results from a study on how one hour of executives’ meetings propagates to hundreds of thousands of hours across the organization are not at all surprising, but its good to see the actual numbers beautifully visualized. The Guardian has … Continue reading
Posted in Communication skills, In the news, Management, Skills
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Mentoring Students
While much is written about various approaches and activities grad students can use to keep engaged and motivated and to succeed (such as wonderful advice provided here, here, here, here, and in many other articles and posts), one particular useful … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Career and Leadership, Graduate school, Management, Ph.D., Skills, Tips and tricks
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