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8 Product Management lessons from the movie 'Gold'

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The movie 'Gold' starring Akshay Kumar, is an inspirational story of how passion, determination and persistence can help one achieve the Impossible. The character of Tapan Das, who was the Team Manager of Indian Hockey Team, is a fine example of an ideal Product Manager . Listing few of the core responsibilities/skillset of an ideal PM with examples from the movie (Spoiler Alert! ): Vision: The foremost responsibility of a PM is to set the vision for the team. During 1936 Olympics in Berlin, Tapan clearly set the vision for Gold medal as free India as a Goal and Vision. Hustle: As a PM, you need to hustle to get things done. Tapan, hustled to meet Mr Wadia to get things done over and over again through out the movie. Stakeholder Management: Aligning different stakeholders to your vision and progress is critical. Tapan did a brilliant job of doing that with Mr Wadia, Imtiaz, Samrat and other members of the team. Be it a royal blood like Raj Pratap Singh or a

Did Snapchat CEO's comment on India being a poor country?

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I would like to get the facts straight over here before we get more offended reading the headlines of all the major Indian bulletins. Lets breakdown this incident: This is an allegation. There are no evidence yet to prove this yet. The allegation is made by an employee of Snapchat, Anthony Pompliano, who is currently engaged in lawsuit against Snapchat, accusing the company of misleading the investors by providing inflated statistics about user data. Snapchat unredacted lawsuit by gmaddaus on Scribd According to the allegation, the statement was told in answer to a private company meeting, discussing the further expansion plan. India was ranked 126th in the world richest country. Total countries are 189. The ranking was created by adjusting GDP per capita to relative purchasing power.  Snapchat is a business. It earns money from advertising. The digital advertisement market of India is close to   Rs 7000 crore  . Which roughly comes to $ 1 billion which is very low

How different is Lalu Prasad Yadav and Donald Trump?

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After my post on  How similar is Lalu Prasad Yadav and Donal Trump?  , I have been getting request to write a post on their difference. So lets see how different they are: Money Donald Trump has 300 times more money to screw up with as compared to Lalu Prasad Yadav. The GDP of US is approximately 300 times of Bihar. Power Trump have control over nuclear weapons and can destroy the world while Lalu only had some rogues and destroyed just a state. People Trump have 3 times more lives at stake as compared to Lalu. Population of USA is approximately 3 times that of Bihar. Comic Lalu succeeded in making Bihar butt of all Jokes. Trump still has a great and enthralling task ahead of him. Lets all pray that he fails. Ancestry Lalu was born to a poor peasant family in Bihar. And his rise to power is a "rags to riches" story. While Donald Trump was born to a rich emigrant family in USA. Never the less his rise to power is more of &quo

Buy Cow Dung Soap now

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Initially when I found that amazon is selling Cow Dung cakes online ,  I was shocked and humored but recent news of Government Researching Cow urine for Cancer Treatment  have taken me out of my wits. Now today, I discovered a Soap which people are buying made from Cow Urine and Cow Dung, I felt it needs to be shared. So find the all new Patanjali Kanti Panchagavya Soap made from Cow Urine and Cow Dung for a more stinkier skin. Cow Dung Soap

Donal J Trump Inaugral Address : Live Funny Excerpts From Speech

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Donald J Trump's Inaugural Speech : Chief Justice Roberts, President Carter, President Clinton, President Bush, President Obama, fellow Americans, and people of the world: Fuck you . We, the citizens of America, are now joined in a great national effort to doom our country and to restore balance in world power. Together, we will determine the course of America and the world for years to come. We will face challenges. We will confront hardships. But we will get the job done. Today's ceremony, however, has very special meaning. Because today we are not merely transferring power from one administration to another, or from one party to another -- but we are transferring power from Washington, D.C. and giving it back to Moscow , the Man without a Face . And Thank You Bane for the inspiration For too long, a small group of nation's  has reaped the rewards of power while the rest of world borne the cost. Washington flourished -- but the world did not get sh

How to send a meeting request correctly with nodemailer?

I am trying to use the following code to send out meeting request using nodemailer. The problem I am facing is that the meeting invite is going as an attachment ics file instead of request where one can directly add. I have tried it on multiple mail client. Any pointers would be highly appreciated. transport . sendMail ({ from : 'BakBak.io ' , to : 'biplav.saraf@gmail.com' , subject : 'Meeting' , //html: "Hi", text : "Hola!!" , alternative : { contentType : "text/calendar; method=REQUEST; name='meeting.ics';component=VEVENT" , contents : new Buffer ( cal . toString ()), contentEncoding : "7bit" , "Content-Class" : "urn:content-classes:calendarmessage"