Entries by Tameez Ansari

Iterative cooking and cleaning!

Today (Jan 30, 2020) at the office our facilities folks were installing/affixing whiteboards on the wall. We started talking and the discussion led to cooking and cleaning around the house. Go figure! We talked about how our work habits were varied for different people. As the discussion wore on, Brad recalled how he works around […]

Leadership: Transactional vs Transformational

In other words: Management and Leadership Leadership is defined as the ability to influence a group towards the achievement of a set of goals (Robbins, S. P., & Judge, T. A., 2016, pg. 191). Of course, it is only one of the 350 definitions that have developed over the past several decades and unlike management skills, […]

Prefer Odd Numbers, or Even?

Have you ever reflected on whether you like odd numbers or even ones? In this modern time, we find them all around us. The digital world in which we live makes numbers very visible to us, whether we want to see them or not. Clocks and watches very often now are digital. Controls in car dashboards […]

When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare or compete, everybody will respect you.

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AT&T Customer Service

I wanted to get TV service from AT&T as I already have Internet service from them. The product is called U-verse and customers can get a bundle of Internet, TV and home phone services. On the TV front, there are a number of different plans. I subscribed to the Internet service back in July and have […]