Category: Entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurship, Podcast

PBTO Season 2: EP01: Future of Work with Andy Tryba

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Opening music credits goes to Riju Mukhopadhyay & Pavan Cherukumilli Who is he on the show:    In the first episode of the new season, we host Andy Tryba. He is the CEO of Ride Austin, EngineYard and Crossover.com.    Why is he on the show: Andy has spent the last 15 years as CEO of multiple successful startups and is currently running three startups. One of them is a very interesting social experiment and has a very interesting approach to running his other two startups as well. He has built a product that already provides glimpses of how the future of work might unfold.  […]

Entrepreneurship, Leadership

The Art Of Making Progress

Making progress is about knowing what you have and making the most of it… Making progress is about moving in the direction that we want to move, irrespective of the circumstances.. Making progress is about knowing when to stop, step back and re-think about where you are going.. Making progress is about keeping our heads down and keeping at it.. Making progress is about knowing what we can’t influence and what we can and influencing what we can influence. We spend a lot of time thinking about how to change things that are often out of our control, instead of […]

Entrepreneurship, Ideas, Recommendation

Are You An Amateur or a Professional?

Today, I read a post by Shane Parrish on his Farnam Street blog and couldnt resist sharing this with you. He tries to explain why some people are ultra successful and some are not, despite having similar knowledge or experience. He goes on to share that one of the defining aspect that can explain this difference – Mindset. [bctt tweet=”How we see ourselves matters” username=”rmukeshgupta”] If we consider ourselves professionals, our chances of success goes up significantly. So, what makes one an amateur or a professional. Below is his take on the difference between amateurs and professionals. Most of us […]

Entrepreneurship, Ideas, Innovation

7 Practices of Highly Inspired People

I have been writing every for this blog for the past 20 days and every time I open up my laptop to write, I don’t necessarily have an idea that I want to write about. I need some kind of an inspiration, some seed of a thought which can then go on to become a blog post. This is what writers call inspiration. As entrepreneurs, we our productivity and effectiveness is at its highest when we are inspired. So it is with our team mates. All creative ideas have an inspiration as their seed. Someone somewhere was inspired by someone/something […]

1000Entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurship, Leadership

Why Are Meetings so Important and How to Make them Effective and Fun

Premise: Not a day goes by when I dont hear someone complain about yet another meeting that they need to attend and how it is such a waste of time, money and effort. Yet, there is enough written about the way Alan Mulally, the ex-CEO of Ford, turned around the company in his stint as the CEO, primarily using a weekly cadence meeting with his entire leadership team , called The Business Plan Review. You can read more about this and how he ran these meetings here. What he has shown is that meetings can be extremely productive for organisations and […]