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March 30, 2017March 30, 2017Ideas, Leadership

5 Rules to Follow – Simon Sinek

I came across this video where Simon Sinek talks about 5 rules to live by. He shares these lessons through some very interesting and compelling stories. I highly encourage to watch the video below (about 18 mins). If you don’t have the 18 mins and want to know what are the 5 rules that he talks about quickly, they are as follows: Go after the things that we want: There are two ways to see the world – to see what we want or to see everything that stands in the way of what we want. Rule is – We can go […]

March 24, 2017Leadership, Sales

Read This if You are A Sales Executive or a Sales Leader: Best Among What I Read – Sales Edition

Best Among What I Read by Mukesh Gupta If you know me at all, you would already know that I read a lot of stuff – right from business topics like (Sales, Innovation, Leadership, Marketing) to personal topics like philosophy, religion, psychology, habit formation, economics and the lot. I used to share a collection of articles that I really thought were well written or were thought provoking for me, almost everyday till a few months back. Some of my readers have indicated that they miss those collections in place, that it saves them time and requested that I start posting […]

March 21, 2017March 21, 2017Leadership, Marketing, Sales

Lessons in Storytelling That I learnt from TED Conference Speakers

Lessons in Storytelling From TED Conference Speakers by Mukesh Gupta Premise: Story telling has been one of the most memorable and influential ways to spread ideas. The TED conference is so popular because the speakers in the conference are mostly good at telling stories – stories that they are passionate about and that passion spills over to the audience and we are able to connect. Also, note that the duration of these talks are not very long. So, I wanted to learn if there are any story telling secrets that i can learn from the TED speakers. Also, I thought […]

March 17, 2017March 17, 2017Ideas, Leadership, Strategy

PERSONAL MANIFESTO – YOUR FRIEND, PHILOSOPHER AND GUIDE IN NEED

PERSONAL MANIFESTO: Your Friend, Philosopher AND Guide In Need by Mukesh Gupta Premise: In his post “How Personal Manifesto’s help us make better decisions, author/podcaster Todd Henry talks about the importance of having our personal or team manifesto’s and how they can help us make decisions that are consistent to what we set out to achieve. A personal manifesto is not a playbook but is like a friend, philosopher and a guide whenever we need one of them. If you are like me, you would experiences where you come out and say to yourself – what the hell was I […]

March 16, 2017March 12, 2020Innovation, Leadership, transformation

The Hard Thing About “Digital Transformation”

The Hard thing about Digital Transformation by Mukesh Gupta Premise: Everywhere you go on the internet, there is one thing that is prevalent. No, I am not talking about Donald Trump, though he seems to be prevalent almost everywhere as well. I am referring to “Digital Transformation”. I have been reading about digital transformation everywhere i go on the internet for sometime now and yet, I don’t yet see true success story of a brand or a business that has actually successfully gone through and transformed, in the true sense of transformation. The question is why is this so? Any […]