Was doing my usual reading on the NY Times website and chanced upon some links that I thought I’d share with all of you..
1. Interview: Adobe CEO – Shantanu Narayen
I specifically liked the following answers..
Q. Any particular techniques for managing your time, the crush of e-mail?
A. I try to go to sleep every night, wherever I am in the world, with fewer than 10 e-mails in my in-box. I try never to read an e-mail twice, so I delete it when I’m done. One of my philosophies is I respond as soon as I can, and if it’s important enough and I’ve deleted it, it’ll come back. And I say 10 only because sometimes there are attachments that require a little bit more effort, and so you don’t want to be flippant, either. But for ones that are F.Y.I., you know, I just delete them.
I have another philosophy, which is, unless I am the sole person on the “to” line, I don’t feel the need to respond.
Q. Why take the extra step of deleting it?
A. I think it just feels cleaner. It feels like I’ve dealt with it.
Q. What do you think business school should teach more of, or less of?
A. I think business schools need to focus more on a cross-functional curriculum to help aspiring managers think about things not from the perspective of finance or marketing, or accounting, but cross-functionally. The second thing I would say is leadership and really talking about how you equip people to think and learn and adapt. I think that’s really more reflective of how successful somebody is going to be, as opposed to a mastery of a specific piece of work in one of those functional disciplines.
Q. So leadership can be taught?
A. Well, I believe that sharing experiences and enabling people to reflect on what’s important to them and how they would react is certainly a way for individuals to be able to think about what’s important to them and how they hone their leadership style.
Q. Any particular techniques for managing your time, the crush of e-mail?
A. I try to go to sleep every night, wherever I am in the world, with fewer than 10 e-mails in my in-box. I try never to read an e-mail twice, so I delete it when I’m done. One of my philosophies is I respond as soon as I can, and if it’s important enough and I’ve deleted it, it’ll come back. And I say 10 only because sometimes there are attachments that require a little bit more effort, and so you don’t want to be flippant, either. But for ones that are F.Y.I., you know, I just delete them.
I have another philosophy, which is, unless I am the sole person on the “to” line, I don’t feel the need to respond.
Q. Why take the extra step of deleting it?
A. I think it just feels cleaner. It feels like I’ve dealt with it.
Q. What do you think business school should teach more of, or less of?
A. I think business schools need to focus more on a cross-functional curriculum to help aspiring managers think about things not from the perspective of finance or marketing, or accounting, but cross-functionally. The second thing I would say is leadership and really talking about how you equip people to think and learn and adapt. I think that’s really more reflective of how successful somebody is going to be, as opposed to a mastery of a specific piece of work in one of those functional disciplines.
Q. So leadership can be taught?
A. Well, I believe that sharing experiences and enabling people to reflect on what’s important to them and how they would react is certainly a way for individuals to be able to think about what’s important to them and how they hone their leadership style.
2. Pics: Surfing the North Carolina Coast
Pic # 11 is my favourite.
I tweeted them for sure, but a post feels a little more… let’s say, permanent?
