Cloud Computing is not just the future of mobile. It’s the future.
If you are consulting in Telco you definitely must deal with this enables and with all the technologies related.
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Togheter with a friend/colleague/deskmate I am participating to an innovation contest.
We are asked to invent something related to gps and satellite technologies, an idea to improve people life.
You don’t realize how difficult is inventing something new.
I said NEW. No no no, that’s not new, I mean something never seen before.
Get it? Right.
Some good ideas came up, but they suddenly died at the question: would you buy this?
I wonder, what when HR asks you about your being a creative guy?
Do they mean if you can invent? I don’t think so. I think they mean if something else.
First, there is nothing you can invent from zero, you agree?
You can change, shape, bend, turn, toggle, shake upside down so that you cannot recognize what you started from. But the world already has all you need. But you need to find it.
Searching is being creative. Seeking shelfs is not.
Tell yourself, I am an EXPLORER. I am CURIOUS. I want to OPEN UP everthing and see it inside.
Inventing is not mandatory, though.
Today I bought my first flash for the camera. Someone else invented it for me. But now let’s see what I can do with it.
P.S.
This post is dedicated to Claudio, who reads my blog. He is experiencing somehow the desert at work, but I tell him: “Man, you are a sailor, you can FIND the wind at any time”.
A friend of mine told me there’s a a good reason why windshields are much larger then rearview mirrors.
Focusing on how to make it to tomorrow is much more important than wondering about past events.
There’s little help in you past. Resources are in you. Use it to find your way for making to your dreams.
P.S. Friends are Giants! Thanks Andrea
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Exercise number 2 
: make it to keep a predefined timing. Your nice fashion watch is not there to inform you that supermarket is about to close and your dinner will be another pizza…; watches can measure time intervals too.
For one day, decide meetings duration, discussion limit time, limit time to certain part of the project, in a word (or 3 words actually) control your time.
See what happen when you take the steering 10 minutes close to the end of a meeting time trying to fix decisions.
See what when you really close the call with someone who rang asking for “just 2 minutes of your time”.
See what happen when you respect time for task A in order to respect time for task B (whose stakeholder pushes slightly less so you normally delay and delay and delay again).
Results:
- you will differentiate giving your brain the time to get acquanted with issue #1 while taking care of issue #2 and sometimes giving you the “eureka!” solution later
- you won’t let others needs overwhelming you and your time. You have the right to go to the supermarket when bread is still on the shelves
- you will not take more time to others, they will be grateful to you (and you’ll meet them at the supermarket)
- you have the power to decide. Use it. Using you power to decide needs to be trained everyday or you risk to loose it.
What time is it? Ouch…pizza again. 
Given 100% you total time for work, what is your tasks distribution?
Sum the pieces, you’ll get 99,99999%
No, this is not because you can sleep less or stop eating. This is simply because every single day, you get better thus (little, very little) faster in what you do.
What if you were your client for one day?
You cannot ask for him doing the same, but it could be a good practice to try (just for one day) to look about your tasks and deadlines as if you were your client, paying for your time.
Think about that when you go out for a break, of a coffee, of any time you write “we are working on this”.
Think as if you would be answering yourself. This is good excercise to understand how your actions and behaviour is actually being perceived by your client.
Of course you are thinking “what about him…! He should either!”.
Well, then think your customer knows what you think about him when he bugs, he perfectly knows 
Ideas for spending a week end on a good consulting training: spend it with babies
They can both leave you positive feelings, recharge your batteries as well as training you for good consulting management.
You’ll improve (among all) on how to:
- convince a group to follow your project plan, presenting each activity as the most funny and amusing thing ever
- assigning roles in a game where everybody wins (or at least they believe so)
- face unexpected interrupts while everything seemed to be fine and quite at least for a while
- understand that there is no tomorrow, there is now, and now and then now again
- explain why “you let him doing this while you are forbidding me the same now”
- leave everybody happy and not feeling too bad if the one who seemed to love you not even salutes you as busy with someone else…
and much more…
