Author: Mukesh Gupta

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Insanely Interesting People who Influenced me: #20 Rajinikanth

I would like to take a moment and thank the people who have had a significant impact on me as an individual. The way they have lived their lives and their body of work has had an outsized impact on how I think about life in general and my work, in particular. Some of these are contemporary thinkers and some of them are just a memory. Some of them are famous in their own rights and some of them are yet to be found by others. Some of them are young and some of them are old. Some of them […]

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Insanely Interesting People who Influenced me: #19 Rory Sutherland

I would like to take a moment and thank the people who have had a significant impact on me as an individual. The way they have lived their lives and their body of work has had an outsized impact on how I think about life in general and my work, in particular. Some of these are contemporary thinkers and some of them are just a memory. Some of them are famous in their own rights and some of them are yet to be found by others. Some of them are young and some of them are old. Some of them […]

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First Principles Based Leadership – How to Practice Mindful Leadership

Good leaders are students of human behaviour and psychology. In this short video, I share the insight on how our cognitive processing works and how learning this can help us become Mindful leaders. One of the most important aspect of leadership is our ability to choose how we respond to any given situation. Understanding how our cognition functions and where exactly in the process of cognition can we exercise choice has the potential to transform the way we respond to any situation. I was at a meditation retreat a few weeks back and learnt this four step process of how […]

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First Principles Based Leadership: The Hidden Risks of Data-Driven Decisions

In the past few years, we have seen a huge proliferation of data. With this amount of data being available, the expectation of data driven decision making has peaked as well. However, in my experience, just using data to make decisions is a trap and can lead to some bad decisions. Availability bias The first trap is to think that he data that we have is all the data there is. Most of the times, the data we have is the one’s that is easy to collect, store and make sense of. It is not necessarily the most important or […]

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Why Deming’s Management Philosophy is More Relevant Today

Premise Edwards Deming has been one of the most influential figures when it comes to management thinking. He is known as the father of the quality movement and was hugely influential in post-WWII Japan, credited with revolutionising Japan’s industry and making it one of the most dominant economies in the world. There is a lot that has been written about him, his management philosophy and the impact he had while he was still operating. However, there is nothing better than hearing from the man himself talk about his philosophy. So, when I stumbled onto an hour long interview where he was […]