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Wednesday, November 13, 2013

Is “8 steps to innovation” approach predictive or non-predictive?

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“The Black Swan” fame Nassim Taleb calls authors of books with titles such as “8 steps to innovation” charlatans 1 . It means people pra...
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Saturday, November 2, 2013

My 3 take-aways from Nassim Taleb’s Antifragile

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“What do you do if you cannot predict?” is the title of chapter 13 in Nassim Taleb’s bestseller The Black Swan (TBS) . Antifragile expa...
Friday, October 25, 2013

How smart guys pitched their ideas to Steve Jobs, the prickly perfectionist

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Steve Jobs looked at the world in binary mode. Either your idea was shitty or it was fantastic – nothing in between. That made the life ...
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Wednesday, October 2, 2013

Practicality of Gandhi’s vision of “education through the hands” today

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“The old idea was… the craft was to be taken in hand wholy separately from education. To me, that seems a fatal mistake… The brain should...
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Sunday, September 29, 2013

Uncontrolled: A case for experimentation in social sciences including management

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Imagine a company that operates 10,000 convenient stores of which 8,000 are named QwikMart and 2,000 are named FastMart. It is observed ...
Monday, September 9, 2013

Four steps where “Frugal innovation” meets “8 steps to innovation”

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When times are tough, anything frugal gains currency. “ Frugal innovation ” is no exception. Last week I attended a Tech Event of a glob...
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Sunday, September 8, 2013

Why does Ram Charan say “It is a myth that innovation is expensive”?

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A couple of weeks ago I got following question during a webinar to senior managers of an IT services firm: “Isn’t systematic innovation ...