Finding Our Centre Of Excellence

I read a post by Mitch Joel (one of my insanely awesome people) where he proposes a 7 step model to define what could be our centre of excellence. Please do read his post here. I wanted to do this exercise and the result is as below: The Tactic: My tactic of my primary output is content, just like Mitch himself. The Format: My format is text and audio. The Frequency: This is a place where i need to improve significantly. I have committed to myself that i will create content everyday in text and at least once a week in […]

Intelligent Failure

I just came across this video where Rita McGrath shares her views on how to fail intelligently. First, do take some time and watch the short video below. She talks about the 4 different activities that constitute intelligent failure. How does success look like? I think she makes a great point here. One of the biggest challenge that I have seen in innovation projects is they have a big goal and know what success at the highest level looks like – successful product launch, getting the next round of funding, getting approval from the management to go into production, etc. […]

3 Reasons Why Your Business Growth Will Slow Down and How to Overcome Them

Every organisation wants to grow their business. Every organisation also realises a simple fact that the more they grow, the more difficult it gets to grow. This is because growth creates complexity, and complexity is the silent killer of growth. This paradox explains the reason why many businesses are unable to sustain their growth or crumble due to their own weight after having gone through a period of exceedingly high growth. In their book, The Founders Mentality, James Allen and Chris Zook share three reasons for the slow-down of growth. Overload: This happens as the systems and processes in place […]

PBTO47: Building Your Network with Shubham, CEO and Founder – NODD

http://traffic.libsyn.com/pushingbeyondtheobvious/47_PBTO47__Entrepreneur_in_Focus_-_The_Best_Strategy_To_Building_Your_Network_with_Shubham_CEO_and_Founder_of_NODD.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Email | RSS Who is on the show today: In this episode, we host Shubham Rai, CEO and founder of the networking startup – NODD. Why is he on the show: This is in continuation of our Entreprneur-in-focus series, where we showcase some new age entrepreneurs and their work. Shubham has started seeing a lot of momentum on his current startup and looks to re-define networking for the worlds best 150 Million people. What are we talking about: In a wide ranging conversation we cover the following: The best way to network – become a […]

20 Insanely Interesting People I Came to Know in 2016

One of the things I do over time is to discover new people and learn from new sources. I had shared my earlier list of 25 insanely interesting people in 2014. You can find that list here. So, here is a list of some of the insanely interesting people that i came across in 2016. I do hope you will find some of these people and the great work that they are doing interesting enough to start following them. I must say that I was fortunate enough to discover these people online and learn so much from them. I do hope that […]