Skill part in convincing is due to the work that you need to perform in order to put your points strongly in front of the person.

But there are chances that the person might not get convinced due to several reasons.In that case what to do? I suppose that depends upon the situation and the way other person has reacted to when you tried to convince. But when you go to convince somebody have both art and skill.

I was told by many of my friends, colleagues and even my family members that I always try to do many things at one go and should master only one to get success in life. Infact few of them even have candidly called me Jack of All Trades. However, I don’t agree with them completely but I would rather use the term “Jack of Many Trades” instead. I gladly accept the fact that I do many things at the same time and if I am able to do them with reasonable consistency and enjoy them simultaneously then why shouldn’t I? Sorry for sounding a bit rude, but I need to emphasize an important point here.

In India there is a philosophy that we all should work and concentrate only on one kind of work to get success in life. But let me site you a simple exam, don’t we go through many subjects in schools and colleges at the same time. Then in this case also aren’t we doing many trades (so many different subjects) at the same time and is this wrong? No because those all subjects gave you a broader horizon to think and decide your future.

There are examples of successful people who have developed multiple skill sets in their life time and were good at many of them. For example Bill Gates, ex-chairman of Microsoft is a computer geek, an expert poker player and philanthropist, and I am pretty sure that he has got many other talents also. Isn’t he a Jack of Many Trades?

 Richard Branson, a well trained swimmer, a well known writer, columnist, a giant business man etc. He is a man who has done and achive so much that somebody can’t even think. He is a Jack of Many Trades.

What ever we do in any field we need to maintain two very important things:

1. Passion and

2. Balance.

If you don’t have any passion within you then you can’t achieve big things in life. However, if your passion is not balanced and directed in right direction then you can traverse to wrong path.

 I am firm believer in concept of Jack of Many Trades and for that we need to adopt following qualities in ourselves:

1. Be flexible in life and keep your arms wide open for new things.

2. Make learning a continuous process rather than a final destination.

3. Show genuine interest in people while talking to them.

4. Don’t wait

In Startups where we usually have scarce of resources and time it is essential to build things in chunks and deliver working functionalities regularly. Do not spend months just on designing and then some more months on building before you deliver.

You missed the first, second and third waves of the internet. You missed a hundred great jobs and forty great husbands. You missed the deadline for that course and the window for this program.

Quit looking and go buy something already.

For complete though please visit: http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2010/12/just-looking.html

Also working on another interesting product (my contribution to Open Source Products). I will let you know soon about it.

• Play with your startup idea on a paper first

Even before you plan any further step with your Startup idea, it will be really helpful if you play and draw your idea on paper (or excel sheet, ppt etc). The purpose of this idea is to bring more self understanding for the idea and get comfortable with it. Tomorrow, when people ask questions about the idea then you will not fumble with the answers.

Firstly, stop running away from the complex thing and face it to understand – from head to toe. Once you understand the whole stuff then 60% of the job is done. The situation is no longer a complex problem for you.

Secondly, look for possible solutions of the problem. Now as you understand the complexity of the situation look for different options and solutions. Now your job is 90% done.

At last, pick up the solution that you feel is the best fit for the issue and that makes it 99% done. I am leaving 1% to some chances of error (no body is perfect )

For discussion lets talk about only the professional life so as to understand the concept of “Divide and Rule” and same would be applicable to personal life also. When ever we face some big challenges or issues we get bogged down with the sheer colossal nature of it. We jump on to the problem and without any strategy start looking for the random solutions. Somtimes this strategy works but often it doesn’t result in desired results, and leave us with a feeling of despair and lack of confidence.

In the above kind of situation the golden rule of “Divide and Rule” can help a lot which profess that we should divide our issue or problem at hand into smaller sets. Then tackle those small issues one by one. Lets take an example, your boss asked you to design a new product in one week of time and you don’t have any idea about the product. Instead of directly jumping and worrying about how product will be designed in just one week of time, divide this activity in smaller set of tasks. Such as, collecting information of what the product is about,getting its definitions etc, contacting a POC who has knowledge about the similar kind of product,writing down the requirements of users of the products etc.

Then tackle one or two tasks simultaneously and steadily complete the list of tasks. You will be amazed to see that in week’s time even if you are not able to do complete product modelling but you would be in better state to face people and let them know that you could complete the designs with in some more days. You will be more confident and sure about how and what will be delivered as product modelling.

This technique sounds simple but some times people ignore it while handling the issues when situation demands so. Next time when you face any issue, consciously make efforts to apply this rule and you will definitely get better results.

Can someone become a leader without being good in communication skills? Or can someone become a leader only because he/she has good communication skills?

If you have to choose one from the above what will be your answer?I think i will go for the 2nd option even though i know that there are many examples for the 1st option also.