Prathima's Miles & Milestones

You might be the very first one at the door and still be the last one leaving from work. You will not complain because this gives you satisfaction on the work front. Striking a deal with the customer makes you the happiest. Thinking out of the box ideas is your usual day to day scenario. Stand-ups, meetings, 1-on-1, Planning poker, Retrospectives sum up your day, switching tabs between Slack, Invision, Jira, Skype, Trello pretty much sums up my day. Yet, I love start-ups as much as I hate MNCs’!

When you think of unwinding yourself, you hang out with the same set of the teammates who stuck with you during deadlines. What matters is that it makes me happy and accomplished. We spend the bulk of our time at work, so being happy with your job can make a huge difference. The people I work with tend to be happy with their decisions, they are going into it with the right mindset and finding something valuable to them. Switching from services to products its own happiness and pain points. Yet, at the end of the day, the customer is the King as the quote.

Here are a few quotes which keep me inspired in my journey so far:

“If you are not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you’ve launched too late”.

– Reid Hoffman

“Your reputation is more important than your paycheck, and your integrity is worth more than your career”.

– Ryan Freitas

“Every time we launch a feature, people yell at us.”

– Angelo Sotira

“People think focus means saying yes to the thing you’ve got to focus on. But that’s not what it means at all. It means saying no to the hundred other good ideas.”

– Steve Jobs

“If you are not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you’ve launched too late.”

– Reid Hoffman

“The key is not to prioritize what’s on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.”

– Stephen Covey

“The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.”

– Hans Hofmann

“The role of leadership is to transform the complex situation into small pieces and prioritize them.”

– Carlos Ghosn