Issac Jacob

Active leadership involves taking the lead from behind. It means that supervisors give community/team members the power to share ideas, make comments, and influence their work toward the objectives they are tasked with achieving. Why modern leaders use participatory decision-making? 1) Build community resilience: Community are consulted about potential solutions by leaders. With this, everyone can elaborate on issues and come up with solutions within the given structure. Strategic planning requires the community to be involved in finding a solution, whereas a crisis may call for top-down solutions. 2) Build social assets: When leaders and the community work together for the common good, trust and confidence grow. As communities grow more diverse, the demand for social capital and participative, collaborative decision-making also grows. If members and stakeholders feel that they were given a voice in the decision, they are more likely to accept it. 3) Ensure cooperation with the provided guidelines: Due to discrimination, marginalized voices are less likely to be heard, and community members who are unable to attend are completely unheard. Regardless of whether a meeting is conducted or not, online discussion tools promote the greatest ideas impartially and enable participation. 4) Improve authenticity and transparency: An impartial method focuses participants on the issue and its solution, rather than the procedure. When people feel that the decision-making process is unjust, they are less likely to participate in the process or support the outcome. However, participants are more likely to commit to, support, and work toward that choice if they feel the process was fair. 5) Make smarter decisions: Many of the issues that hinder community systems can be addressed more effectively in large, diverse groups. The group needs to be large, varied, and knowledgeable to be able to make better decisions than the experts. The group members must be allowed to make their own decisions before combining their unique ideas into collective decisions. These groups work best on difficult problems if everyone can agree on the goal and the challenge is presented in a way that doesn't assume a particular perspective. Conclusion: Those who are prepared to engage with their stakeholders or community, pose challenging questions, and work cooperatively and collaboratively to co-discover community-informed solutions are the real leaders in our times.

My first memories of any number crunching software was Microsoft Excel. On a very slow Windows XP machine, Excel was the only spreadsheet program anybody needed and it was an overkill even then. The sheer number of features available on excel including the formulas and recently released plugins. Anybody from Hedge Funds to Small Industries used excel to automate a good chunk of their work and proved to be one of the top selling software with the MS Office Suite. Google Sheets was a more anew introduction with the Google Suite, which comes into adoption with the widespread usage of remote working and multiple people collaborating on similar projects. The fact that it's actually a web app that functions seamlessly shows the amount of work put into action. Here comes the problem. Isn't it high time there's a complete redesign of our spreadsheet software and provide customers with a more user-friendly and data intense alternative ? There're some very fundamental tasks that could be converted into a user-friendly version in my opinion. - Basic Data inputs - Categorizing Data - Easy access to third party plugins - Ability to convert tables into diagrams and visual representations Let's Talk ?

I have been exploring PH for an obvious reason lately. But this sham of Product of the day/Week tagging is horrible experience. I feel this is quite traumatizing for any founders of the product. On one hand, we see some genuine folks building product and want to showcase with utmost honesty. On the other hand, a mediocre product with investor backing use resource to promote themselves with Marketing firm to win the PH of the day/etc tags. How is this fair? PH team should go back to their drawing board, find a right way for every product to be on top. User who selects certain category should get more suggestion on similar domain. In build event platform for product showcasing at same moment and let audience decide what is best for that particular day. Looking to hear the community's thought here. Pretty sure many have gone through bad experience here. We can work on solution for sure.