Author: Mukesh Gupta

Strategy

Starting Movements instead of Businesses

I recently watched a TEDx Talk titled, “How to start a movement | November Project | TEDxBeaconStreet”. This was about the founders of the November project sharing their success at holding open workout sessions across cities and their learnings from the experiment about starting a movement.  You can watch the entire video here. I really think that the lessons that they share about starting movements is not only important for people who want to start a social movement, but equally important for entrepreneurs to understand so that they are able to build a movement around their businesses. As an entrepreneur, […]

Ideas

How Do You Stay Inspired Everyday

I read a blog post today written by Robin Phillips with the same title and that got me thinking about how do I stay inspired and came up with the list below: Read I try to read a lot, everyday. My reading list is also very varied – from business blogs to design blogs to start-up news to innovation articles. The sheer diversity of what i read and the amount of creativity & innovation that i see happening in the world, through what i read keeps me motivated and inspired every single day. As much as it is important to […]

Leadership

Leadership Advice from Vijay Sethi, CIO, Hero Moto Corp

Last week, I had the opportunity to host Vijay Sethi, CIO at Hero Moto Corp as part of a Leadership Talk series at my work. Below are my notes from the talk and the Q&A that followed the talk. Hope there is some learning for you. I learnt some new things and some thoughts were reinforced. Notes from the session: Honesty, integrity, humility: the three most important virtues of a good leader. Diversity is only as relevant, as much as the leader is willing to listen to differing opinion. Motivation comes from within. External stimuli that motivates, can quickly turn […]

Marketing, Podcast

PBTO20: A Crash Course in Digital Marketing for Entrepreneurs by Mitch Joel (@MitchJoel)

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http://traffic.libsyn.com/pushingbeyondtheobvious/20_PBTO20__Crash_Course_in_Digital_Marketing_with_Mitch_Joel_MitchJoel.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Email | RSSWho is on the show today: In today’s episode, we host Mitch Joel. Mitch is the President of a Digital media agency – Mirium. He is the author of two books –Ctrl Alt Delete and Six Pixels of Separation. He was a part of my list of insanely interesting people I discovered in 2014. He hosts a podcast called the Six Pixels of Seperation and blogs every single day here. Why is he on the show When Google wants someone to explain the latest developments in marketing to the top brands in the world, they […]

Strategy

Fighting Complexity By Embracing Simplicity

  According to the “Simplifying the Future of Work Study,” a survey conducted by Knowledge@Wharton and SAP, fighting complexity has become a strategic corporate imperative. You can find a link to the whitepaper which details the responses and the results here. The question that I would like to ponder here is the following: How does complexity creep into every aspect of our lives and what can we do about it In my opinion, every landscape (including IT landscape, process landscape, political landscape, personal landscape) is just like a garden. If we want to keep our gardens clean and well looked after, we […]