Category: Recommendation

Leadership, Personal Growth, Recommendation

What Kind of a Presenter Are You?

Five minutes into the session, the first cameras went dark. By the twenty-minute mark, people had started leaving. And when we finally opened the floor for questions, all we heard were crickets. The first slide that the presenter shared was one with a bunch of customer logos, across the board. The next slide was something that the audience had seen hundreds of times. I immediately knew how the presentation was going to end, a disaster. Contrast that with another presenter. He started his presentation with a story, about a conversation he had with a customer, someone like the audience in […]

Ideas, Recommendation, Strategy

Book Review – Humanocracy by Gary Hamel & Michele Zanini

Overview: Gary Hamel has been one of my favorite authors and management guru’s. In his most recent book Humanocracy, he lays out the case against bureaucracy and instead argues that we need to embrace what he calls “Humanocracy” as in build human centric organisations. He chronicles some interesting experiments being done worldwide with different management philosophies and based on them, posits some principles which when put in use can lead organisations to become a lot more human centric and can address the shackles that bureaucracy has on most organisations. What is the book about: The first third of the book […]

Personal Growth, Recommendation, transformation

Importance of Taking a Pause, Reflect and Celebrate the Journey

Premise:   The past few weeks of lockdown have had some kind of impact on each and every one of us. Most of the people that I speak to (and believe me, I speak to a lot of people every single day) tell me that they have become busier, more meetings, more work, more calls. I’ve seen something similar happen to me as well.   Are you busier now than pre Covid?   This is surprising on many levels. One would expect that the exact opposite to happen. Most businesses are closed. Not much is being produced or sold or […]

Ideas, Recommendation

Best Among What I read This Week – 7th March 2019

Here are some of the posts that i really enjoyed reading this week: Seth Godin in his inimitable style talks about “Concept Cars” and how they are a tactic by the Automotive industry to make us feel bad about our old model of car and also keep nudging us to continue to accept technology and cars which will not be available in the market for years to come.. Great post! Steve Hunt poses the question – Why Managers Don’t Coach Employees – and How to Fix It and answers it in a logical and concise manner. Emily Gosling shares her unique […]

Entrepreneurship, Recommendation

Mary Meeker’s 2018 internet trends report | Code 2018

Loved this video where Mary Meeker shares the internet trends that she shared in May. Though this is a bit dated (delivered in May 2018) but still highly relevant if you are planning to do anything on the internet.  I would recommend that you watch this and internalise the trends. You might have to watch it more than once, as she goes at an unbelievable pace and covers a lot of ground in 30 mins.  Mary is an American VC and a partner at the venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers.   She focuses on Internet and new technologies.  Enjoy the video.