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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 3, 2017March 13, 2017Ideas, Innovation, Strategy

The Role of Creativity in the Life of a Product Manager

The Role of Creativity in the Life of a Product Manager by Mukesh Gupta I have been invited to deliver a talk at an event titled – “A Day in the Life of a Product Manager“, which is scheduled for tomorrow (4th March 2017) and the talk is about “The role of creativity in the life of a product manager”. I personally believe that creative thinking is a critical skill that all of us need to develop among us but it is even more relevant if we want to be a product manager and give birth, grow and mature a […]

March 2, 2017March 2, 2017Ideas, Marketing, Strategy

The Tale of Amar, Akbar, Anthony and What They All Need to Succeed

Three Friends Meet three friends – Amar, Akbar & Anthony. Amar is an entrepreneur. He thinks that he is unemployable and wants to always remain his own boss. He is self-driven, creative, knows what he wants and has the ability to inspire people. He is not afraid of taking risks and following his dreams. He dreams big and wants to make it big some-day. He believes in his own ability and pursues his dreams. He co-founded a startup and is busy creating the next billion dollar product. Akbar is also like Amar, but a bit more conservative. He wants to go […]

March 1, 2017March 1, 2017Ideas, Leadership, Strategy

What Keep us from Living Upto Our Potential and How to Overcome It?

What Stops Us from Living Upto Our Potential and How to Overcome the same by Mukesh Gupta Maximilien Van Aertryck and Axel Danielson are documentary filmmakers based in Gothenburg, Sweden, who have worked together since 2013. They created a short film where they recruited 67 people who have never jumped into a swimming pool from a height of 10m (by paying them an equivalent of 30 USD) and filmed these participants while they decided to jump or not and their actual jump. Maximilien, on his website says, People who have never been up there before have to choose whether to […]

February 21, 2017February 21, 2017Ideas, Strategy

How to Get Better at Working Remotely #FutureOfWork

How to Get Better At working REmotely by Mukesh Gupta We are entering an era where more and more of our work is going to be done not in office but elsewhere, either because commuting to office is getting worse due to traffic or because a lot of the people who work are not full-time employees but individual service providers or because of ubiquitous availability of connectivity. My work involves a lot of travel for me and which in turn means that I am working out of cabs or airports, Starbuck’s or hotel rooms. So, in the past six years […]