Category: Leadership

Ideas, Innovation, Leadership

How To Choose The Best Idea Amongst All to Execute

Premise: I am sure that we all get into a situation where we are required to come up with a set of ideas that will solve a specific problem that we have run into. The question then is how one decides which ideas deserve to be picked from the bunch of ideas that we came up with. We need some sort of a framework that will allow us to decide the value of each of the idea so that we can pick one that is most valuable. EPIC framework: One such framework was suggested by Todd Henry in his latest […]

Ideas, Innovation, Leadership

Why Some Ideas Never Get Heard!

Premise: I have been reading and writing about ideas and how ideas spread and the role they play in innovation. However, there was a question that almost always bothered me – Why some ideas, despite being great ideas, never got the traction they deserved, both within an organisation and in the marketplace. The answer to this question was provided by Nilofer Merchant in her TEDx talk that she shared on her blog. If this is a topic of interest for you, i would strongly recommend that you start following her blog and the work that she does. Here is the […]

Entrepreneurship, Leadership, Personal Growth

The Laws of Success with Albert-László Barabási

Premise: I had always suspected that success and performance are not always related, but the research by Albert Barabasi now shows that this looks to be definitely the case. Albert is a network scientist and has been involved in some very interesting research trying to find the formula for success. In this series of short video playlist, he shares the 5 laws of success that he has discovered through his research: The Secret of Success: Success is unbounded! Success breeds Success Run away with Success Success has no age In Conclusion: Porus Munshi once said that performance and success don’t […]

Entrepreneurship, Ideas, Leadership

Ten Rules for Building a Good Company

Today, I stumbled upon a book – “Tree-Ring Management” by Hiroshi Tsukakoshi. Hiroshi san is the Chairman of a kanten manufacturer far from the bustle of Tokyo , amid the natural beauty of Nagano prefecture in Japan. In the book, he argues that the primary purpose of a business is to make its employees happy. Their management philosophy also indicates that slow, controlled growth is better than rapid growth and in fact fast growth is the enemy. Their philosophy is so unique that there is an HBR case study for on this management model.  I did write about a model […]

Leadership, Podcast

How Conflicts can Super-charge Our business with Liz Kislik

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https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/pushingbeyondtheobvious/04_How_Conflicts_can_super-charge_your_business_with_Liz_Kislik.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Email | RSSWho is on the show: In this episode we host Liz Kislik, For 30 years as a management consultant, executive coach, and facilitator, Liz has focused on advancing business results for her clients. She develops higher performing workforces for leading organizations, from the Fortune 500 and national non-profits to family-run businesses. Why is she on the show: Over the years Liz has coached and mentored employees from the C-suite to the contact center — vice presidents, human resource professionals, and department supervisors — motivating them with her wit, wisdom, and humanity. […]