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Friday, September 20, 2019

3 tips on being mindful in the corporate world: An Edgar Schein perspective

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I have been a fan of Prof Edgar Schein, an expert on organizational culture. However, I was surprised to hear Schein emphasize mindfulne...
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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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Sunday, June 23, 2019

Mot-chat #2: A master-class with Rishikesha T. Krishnan, Professor of Strategy, Indian Institute of Management Bangalore

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In this 30 minutes conversation, Professor Rishikesha T. Krishnan, a friend, a collaborator and a veteran in the field of technology man...
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Sunday, May 26, 2019

Empathy tips from Kahneman’s “Adversarial collaboration”

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(Reading time: 5 minutes) Empathy is one of the core elements of Design Thinking. It is easier to empathize while dealing with people ...
Friday, May 17, 2019

MoT-chat #1: Interview with Zunder Lekshmanan, CTO, OpenTurf Technologies

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I am teaching a course at the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore starting next month titled “Strategic Management of Technology a...