Collaboration
25 articlesHow to Recognize an Email Written by an AI Language Model (August 2024)
AI-generated emails are pouring into our inboxes. Language models like Meta Llama, Anthropic Claude, OpenAI ChatGPT, and Google Gemini are becoming increas...
Facilitating Team Communication by AI Prompting Humans! Introducing Daily Team Sync
In the ever-evolving landscape of remote work, maintaining team cohesion and productivity can be a challenge. As someone who's led distributed teams across...
My Personal and Professional Values: Keys to Collaborative Success
Shared values and principles are the driving force behind any successful team. I hold certain values dear, not only in my professional life but also in my ...
Why I Recommend Using Spike for Email, Instant Messaging, and Video Chat (Review)
Background I care deeply about the people in my life. I value my relationships with them. I cherish in-person, face-to-face conversations. In my personal a...
Importance of Mentorship Article by Yujin Kim, CTO of WorkMarket
In his recent article about the importance of mentorship, Yujin Kim, Chief Technology Officer at WorkMarket (an ADP company) talks about what he learned fr...
An Example of Respectfully Declining a Meeting at Work That is Already in Your Calendar
Here is an example of how to respectfully decline a meeting to make time to work on a higher priority. We occasionally find ourselves in meetings when our ...
Reflections on the Yale CEO Summit 2016: Disruption and Leadership in Focus
Yesterday, I attended the Yale CEO Summit for the second time. The summit, held at the Waldorf Astoria in New York City, brought together some of the world...
Posted Signs for Productive Meetings
You can post these slides as signs in your meeting rooms and offices or include them at the start of your presentations. You can also open the original Goo...
Template For Requesting an Outcome-Focused Meeting
Most meetings are wasteful because they're organized around what people will discuss rather than what they will accomplish. "Let's meet to talk about the ...
Templates for Replying to Meeting Requests & Polite Ways to Decline Meetings
By default, we should only attend meetings where we are active participants, not passive attendees with not much to contribute to the desired outcome of th...
What I Learned During the Hacking Attacks of August 28, 2013
One of the most important lessons that was reinforced to me during the Aug 28th hacking attacks on Melbourne IT, the domain registrar for the Web sites of ...
Ladell Fuqua, Director of Consumer Marketing, Conde Nast
Ladell Fuqua shared this recommendation for Rajiv on April 3, 2013 via LinkedIn: Rajiv is one of the most talented individuals I know. He has proven his le...
Terry Schwadron, Editor of Information and Technology, The New York Times
Terry Schwadron shared this recommendation for Rajiv on March 5, 2013 via LinkedIn: Rajiv is a highly knowledgeable technology manager who can also serve a...
Jonathan Landman, Deputy Managing Editor, The New York Times
Jonathan Landman shared this recommendation for Rajiv on March 5, 2013 via LinkedIn: Rajiv brings together two excellent qualities that don't commonly coex...
Land du Pont, Executive Director, Product Management, Conde Nast
Land du Pont shared this recommendation for Rajiv on February 17, 2013 via LinkedIn: During the three years we worked together, I learned so much from Raji...
Susan Kaplow, Executive Editor, Syndication and Web Development, Conde Nast
Susan Kaplow shared this recommendation for Rajiv on December 16, 2010 via LinkedIn: Rajiv is both an accomplished technologist and a skilled executive. I ...
How to Avoid Duplicate Search Results when using Apple Mail.app with Gmail
I use Gmail's IMAP feature with my Apple Mac OS's built in Mail.app program. Mail.app keeps local copies (on all my personal Macs) of all my email messages...
Benefits of Using IRC or Group Chat & Video Conference During Incident Management
When a team of engineers is dealing with a real-time incident, such as a system outage, troubleshooting a problem or dealing with a malicious hacking attac...
Ted Nadeau, SVP, General Manager, CondeNet, Conde Nast
Ted Nadeau shared this recommendation for Rajiv on September 10, 2009 via LinkedIn: Rajiv and I worked together for two years at Conde Nast Digital. Rajiv ...
Hyde Post, Vice President, Internet, Atlanta Journal-Constitution (a Cox company)
Hyde Post shared this recommendation for Rajiv on July 26, 2009 via LinkedIn: After surveying the landscape at Coxnet, Rajiv made a number of key changes i...
Wayne Weber, Senior Software Engineer, McClatchy Interactive
Wayne Weber shared this recommendation for Rajiv on July 21, 2009 via LinkedIn: Rajiv always has his antenna out into the ether of the latest technical tec...
Benjamin Sun, Chief Engineering Architect, Knight Ridder Digital
Benjamin Sun shared this recommendation for Rajiv on July 21, 2009 via LinkedIn: Rajiv is one of the best managers I have ever had. As the VP of engineerin...
Build and maintain a cohesive leadership team
For an executive, having a management team of people who are good at their jobs and work well with each other is one of the most important factors that lea...
Opinion on the Amazon S3 Outage; Checklist for Dealing with Outages
My journalist colleagues at Wired.com published some of my comments related to Amazon S3. ((Silicon Alley Insider and ValleyWag have amusing spins on it. 🙂...
7 Tips for Effective Email
Some tips for making better use of email at work and in personal life Realize that busy people may skim your email instead of reading it thoroughly, especi...