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Showing posts with label book review. Show all posts
Showing posts with label book review. Show all posts
Friday, April 2, 2021

Book review: L R Natarajan’s “The 9 nuggets of innovation”

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It was a pleasure to read “ The 9 nuggets of innovation: outsmart competition ” written by my friend L R Natarajan. Over the past decade, I ...
Monday, February 15, 2021

My 4 takeways from Dr. Pavan Soni’s “Design your thinking”

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Dr. Pavan Soni is a friend and I have seen his journey from innovation evangelist at Wipro to IIMB Ph.D. program to an accomplished consulti...
Thursday, June 25, 2020

My 3 takeaways from “Experimentation works” by Stefan Thomke

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I have been a fan of both systematic experimentation and Prof. Stefan Thomke for over a decade. Hence, it is not surprising that I enjoy...
Wednesday, December 25, 2019

My 3 takeaways from Ken Kocienda’s “Creative selection” at Apple

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“How does this process compare with Apple’s design process?” is a question that I often get in my design thinking workshops. I talk abou...
Sunday, September 15, 2019

My 3 takeaways from Scott Adams’ “How to fail at almost everything and still win big”

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A few months back my friend RamP recommended Scott Adams’ “How to fail at almost everything and still win big”. At that time, I was stru...
Friday, September 13, 2019

Could “Create a margin of safety” be the toughest of the 8 steps to innovation to master?

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Café Coffee Day founder V. G. Siddhartha’s unfortunate demise coincided with my class on “Margin of safety” in “Strategic Management of ...
Wednesday, August 7, 2019

How can success be damaging to creativity? A Javed Akhtar perspective

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“So do you think that success can be damaging to creativity?” asked Nasreen Munni Kabir in her interview with Javed Akhtar in 1999 1 .  ...
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Saturday, March 16, 2019

My 3 takeaways from “Metaphors we live by” by George Lakoff and Mark Johnson

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“ Metaphors we live by ” by George Lakoff and Mark Johnsen was in my to-read list ten years ago when I read about metaphors in Chip ...
Monday, October 29, 2018

A sketch of Spinoza, the secular saint from “The courtier and the heretic” by Matthew Stewart

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I have a fascination for secular saints, spiritual teachers who stand outside the religious boundaries and practice what they preach. Se...
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Saturday, June 16, 2018

Electromagnetism: My favourite metaphor from Salman Rushdie’s “The golden house”

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I decided to read Salman Rushdie’s “The golden house” (2017) after reading one of his interviews . He was asked to explain what he meant...
Wednesday, May 31, 2017

Why does U G Krishnamurti say, “Thought is your enemy”?

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I recently read U G Krishnamurti’s “ Thought is your enemy ”. UG, as he is popularly known, is one of the blunt spiritual teachers. T...
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Wednesday, March 22, 2017

3 surprises from Isaac Newton’s biography

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Recently I finished reading “ The life of Isaac Newton ” by Richard Westfall. It is a fairly detailed account of Newton’s life. We study...
Saturday, December 3, 2016

Plastic paradox and brain’s business of building highways

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  For most of 20 th century scientists believed that brain develops during a critical period during early childhood and then remains rel...
Monday, September 26, 2016

My 3 take-aways from Edgar Schein’s “Humble Consulting”

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Prof. Edgar Schein’s book “ Process consulting ” was published in the year I was born – 1969. Since then he has been refining the conce...
Thursday, June 16, 2016

My 3 takeaways from Phil Rosenzweig’s “Halo Effect”

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When I present the development of Tata Nano through the lens of the innovation sandbox process, some people say, “But Nano is a failure...