As a child, I grew up admiring the story of Ekalavya from the epic Mahabharata, who found creative ways to learn by keen observation and reverence of Dronacharya who was teaching the craft and skills of archery to the young Pandava and Kaurava princes.
Essential ingredients for high-performing teams. Vulnerability and psychological safety are necessary to build trust in any team. For a team to be…
The essential ingredient for high-performing teams. Do you actively cultivate and nurture psychological safety in your team? If not, it’s not too late…
In my earlier post, I shared that I narrowed my exploration of open-source metadata systems to two options - Open Metadata (from ex-Uber folks) and…
Exploring open-source metadata systems
Love, teamwork, leadership, failure and learning from a military leader. As a long-time fan of Simon Sinek, I often dip back and listen to some of his…
An open-source metadata system - As you build your product, often you will see an explosion of data driven by increasing capabilities of the system and…
When someone asks me about what process and methodology worked best for my teams, I keep it simple by saying - I like to stay agile. But...
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Dispatches by Deepak Alur