Author: Mukesh Gupta

Innovation

Innovation Starts with A Question

In a world where it is extremely difficult to sustain any competitive advantage you build, it is important to constantly innovate and come up with new ideas, products and solutions and that too at Speed.  We all know that innovation always starts with an insight. You have an insight when you suddenly see things differently. You see things differently when you start looking at things differently. You start looking at things differently, when you are trying to answer a different question. You can trace most innovations and creative endeavours to a question that someone asked.  So, it all starts with […]

Ideas, Leadership

7 Lessons in Leadership, Diversity And a Culture of Learning from an Animated Short Film

I stumbled upon a short animated video which did such a great job of showcasing the kind of leadership and a learning culture that will be needed to succeed in a workplace – which operates in a volatile business environment, has a multi-generational workforce and wants to thrive by moving forward. Before we can continue, pls take the two or so minutes to watch the video below.   I hope you enjoyed the video, without having to think about and trying to learn something from the video. In this video: The younger one represents the younger employees in your organisation. The Older […]

Marketing, Podcast

PBTO44: Out-think, Out-pace & Out-Wit your competition with Lakshmipathy Bhat

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Leadership, Podcast

PBTO43: How to Lead without Authority 

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http://traffic.libsyn.com/pushingbeyondtheobvious/43_PBTO43__How_to_Lead_Without_Authority_2.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Email | RSS In the future of work that we envisage, one of the key skill that would be needed for anyone to do well is their ability to influence people (upwards/side wards/downwards) with or without formal authority. This is an ability that anyone can build provided one is deliberate about building the skill. Here are four things that you need to work on in order to build up your ability to lead with or without formal authority. Building trust – Your Track Record One of the most important component of influence or […]

Strategy

Apple Does it Again!!

  I just finished watching the replay of iPhone 7 launch event. What is most interesting for me is that the way the Apple team has been able to keep their user at the centre and used technology to deliver some amazing features, some solving issues or problems that the users had forgotten all about, as we were so used to it that we were practically blind. I am a big fan of Apple products – I use a iPhone 6, iPad Pro 12.9 and a MacBook Pro. I share this so that you know that are aware that you […]