The Runway


100. The Runway

The runway in front of you needs lot of groundwork in this evolving landscape. How are you preparing yourself? This book aims to help you in this journey. 

That is what I wrote in the start of this book. I am going to explain the metaphor ‘the runway’ here and take it further to connect with the journey of IT professionals.

When you are learning something, you have limited resources such as time, money, etc.  These constitute your runway.  The runway you have to learn, prepare, practice is limited. You need to be aware of what is in store for you and get ready. Else, how can you deliver?

You are working on a technology platform or domain.  You don’t know when the next leap is.  Your runway in the current platform is never an infinite path.  How can you anticipate and prepare? You need to improve your anticipatory skills to make the next leap.

Competition can and will challenge you. It may make your runway shorter.  You may have to take your product to the market at a great speed. New challenges will appear when you are making this happen.  This applies to your career too. How does your competitive landscape look like? Where is it leading you to? What influence do you have to succeed in what you deliver?

How agile are you in embracing change? How do you manage change when there are multiple dynamic factors? -  Technology, business pressure, international policies, global challenges, etc.  How far is your runway to deal with the changes you are managing? What does it mean to you and your deliverables?

Accomplish what you want to accomplish on your runway.  And get ready to deliver!

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7. Delivering the Bad News                              Table of Contents                               Epilogue 

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