Category: Leadership
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The First Crack Framework – How I Rebuilt a Broken Team Mid-Project
My project was 6 weeks behind schedule. The client was angry. My manager was watching. And I had a team of 14 engineers who had stopped trusting each other. It was 2018. Samsung Networks. UP East. We were deep into the Jio 4G rollout — one of the largest in the country. 19,000+ LTE sites.…
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The Bottleneck First Rule
UP East Circle. 2015. Samsung Networks. Jio 4G Project. 800+ sites to deploy. 1 month behind schedule. The team was in crisis mode. Everyone had the same solution: “Work faster. Add more people. Escalate to senior management.” My manager asked a different question: “What’s that one thing blocking everything else?” We stopped adding effort. Started…