Category: 1000Entrepreneurs

1000Entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurship, Leadership

Super Balls and Glass Balls

I am currently reading the book – Breakthrough: How to Harness the Aha! Moments That Spark Success by Scott Duffy and David Meltzer. So far the book has turned out to be an easy read and has some interesting stories to teach some very good (though not very surprising lessons).  One of the thing that the authors talk about in the book is about the ability to manage different priorities as an entrepreneur or an intrapreneur. In this context they share the metaphor of super balls and glass balls.  While juggling different balls, you can drop the super balls without […]

1000Entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurship, Leadership

Engaging Freelancers To Benefit from the Gig Economy

In a recent study it was found that an estimated 11 percent of the working adult population was composed of full-time freelancers in 2016, and more than one-third of the entire population had freelanced at some point. What’s more, 86 percent of contract workers chose to freelance—making flexible workers a deep resource for talent. What this translates to is the fact that we will continue to see significant number of freelancers in our work environment. The question then to be considered is the following: How will the increasing number of freelancers in the business impact its  culture? Should it? If yes, […]

1000Entrepreneurs, Ideas, Innovation

How to Run a Good Brainstorming Session

  Last week I was invited to run a Design thinking experiential workshop for the STC conference in Bangalore. We had about 70 people in the room. All of them experienced technical content writers. As I always believe, learning happens best when people have a lot of fun while learning. We then retain a lot of what we learn in that setting.  I am getting beside the point. I am sure that everyone of us, me included, have at one point or other, been invited to join  in a brainstorm to come up with ideas to solve a given problem. […]

1000Entrepreneurs, Strategy, transformation

When Your Biggest Strength becomes Your Biggest Weakness

Premise:  Once advice that almost everyone agrees to, when it comes to defining our strategy (personal, professional or organisational) is that we need to “Play to your strengths”. If you are a business that has already seen some amount of success, the chance is that you know what your core strength is. So, you build on it. You continue to invest in your strength to get even better at it. You continue to invest until you are the best-in-class on this topic in the whole wide world. This strategy works really well, until it doesn’t. The  irony is that most […]

1000Entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurship, Leadership

Why Are Meetings so Important and How to Make them Effective and Fun

Premise: Not a day goes by when I dont hear someone complain about yet another meeting that they need to attend and how it is such a waste of time, money and effort. Yet, there is enough written about the way Alan Mulally, the ex-CEO of Ford, turned around the company in his stint as the CEO, primarily using a weekly cadence meeting with his entire leadership team , called The Business Plan Review. You can read more about this and how he ran these meetings here. What he has shown is that meetings can be extremely productive for organisations and […]