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Oneness JOURNAL

Writings on leadership, inner work, and what it means to lead a life that matters.

“A healer’s power stems not from any special ability, but from maintaining the courage and awareness to embody and express the universal healing power that every human being naturally possesses.” ― Eric Micha’el Leventhal With my de Quervain, peroneal tendonitis, tennis elbow, golfer elbow, the stress in my neck and shoulders…, I was convinced that I […]

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Helping Leaders Transform Setbacks into Joyful Careers.

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“If you just sit and observe, you will see how restless your mind is. “If you try to calm it, it only makes things worse, but over time it does calm, and when it does, there’s room to hear more subtle things — that’s when your intuition starts to blossom and you start to see […]

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The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. – Steve Jobs Career breaks should not only be accepted, but they should also be encouraged. We should remember that one wants to grow personally, professionally, financially, and spiritually.  It is healthy […]

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“In the future, there will be no female leaders. There will just be leaders.” – Sheryl Sandberg Mother as a leader “Women are leaders everywhere you look—from the CEO who runs a Fortune 500 company to the housewife who raises her children and heads her household. Our country was built by strong women, and we […]

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1 – Tell me about yourself. I have versatile experience in product and program management. I stumbled into product management when I worked on my first startup Neuf Consulting. I did not know at that time that I was doing product management but I was building my tool, doing my research, and helping to be […]

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“We do not learn from experience. We learn from reflecting on experience.” – John Dewey Sometimes in our life, we are at the point, where we have to make a choice, based on self-reflection and introspection. In my life, one of the major turning points came in 2015. My product was finally getting traction, and […]

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1- What do you think are the most difficult parts of Technical Program Management? Ever-changing technology and increasing technical complexity Data and information management and security standards Keep up with the trend with the latest technology, programming languages, cloud and infrastructure Communicating with engineering and technical staff and translating that in simple language for stakeholders […]

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1 – How did you work with engineering and QA as a Technical Program Manager? When I worked at ABC as a TPM, I managed a team of engineers, which included the QA team as well.  I managed a team under the program while I also worked with the team at a centralized processing center […]

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1 – Talk me through how you managed the roadmap for your previous product. To manage the product roadmap, I would focus on the following four points. 1) High-level objective of the organization 2) Identify relevant metrics 3) Customers 4) Prioritize When I was the product manager and co-founder at Neuf Consulting, I worked on […]

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1 – Give me an example of a time when you did not meet a client’s expectations. What happened, and how did you attempt to rectify the situation? When I worked at ABC, as a program manager, due to my technical skills and trust that I built with my client, I started getting more complex […]

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