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What employee ‘mindset’ can help organizations and individuals thrive? Success in the Knowledge economy vs in the Industrial era requires organizations need to be nimble and react quickly when necessary. Permanent flexibility requires a culture of constant learning. HBR terms them as ‘Gig Mindsetters’ – “a bold new breed of full-time, salaried employees who think …
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Are there people who have helped you, you haven’t thanked? I had no offers on Day 0 of my MBA placements. Zilch on Day 1. By Day 2, I was inconsolable. FMCG’s thought I was had too much of a tech experience. Marketing thought I wasn’t creative enough. And I didn’t take failure too well. …
How do you describe your brand? We did an interesting 10 min branding exercise recently at a Leadership workshop. “If you were a known commercial brand, Which one would you be? What 3 adjectives would you use to describe the brand? Who would be the primary customer type? What would be its differential value?” Each of …
‘In one of Stephen King’s greatest books, 11/22/63, a young man named Jake discovers a time travel portal which leads back to 1958. Jake deduces that altering history is possible. However long he stays in the past, only two minutes go by in the present. He decides to live in the past until 1963 so …
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Play it safe or take a Career Risk? Growing up in an incentivized-for-performance environment that most Asian parents tend to fall into, I dreaded failure. It meant I followed a straitjacketed path and avoided risks. Like picking STEM or management courses I felt had better ROI over Culture and Communication or Semiotics. Or picking an …
#SystemsThinkingDay2 – Why do people often sacrifice resilience for productivity or some other immediately recognizable system property? Injections of genetically engineered bovine growth hormone increase the milk production of a cow without proportionally increasing the cow’s intake. The hormone diverts some of the cow’s metabolic energy from other bodily functions to milk production. …
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#SystemsThinkingDay1 – Deconstructing Complex Systems – Hierarchy There were two watchmakers – Hora and Tempus. They both made fine watches and soon people were visiting their stores more often, and the orders for new watches were increasing in both stores. However, Horas’ business prospered over the years, but Tempus became poorer and poorer, eventually went …
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In a majority of cases being an expert at Python or SQL alone doesn’t help. Driving value with data isn’t about tools or code alone. And this is an area I oft find as a huge gap. – Can you convert an output to an outcome? – Are you looking at the relevance of the …
“I am working hard to stay abreast of advances in tech. Yet it seems like I am stuck at the same place while I see start-up founders half my age crushing it”. ‘Will I ever get ahead of the curve?’ This was from a mid-management professional. There is a term for this – The Red …
Company first – Business Unit Next – Team Third – Individual Last Always. Always think in that order. If you are a working individual solving a problem, always put the company hat first when you think through the solution If you are a hiring manager, please hire for folks with this outlook. If you are …