Entrepreneurship, Leadership

Avoiding Overwhelm – Managing the Workload of Being a Leader

One of the challenges that all entrepreneurs face is managing the workload. Being an entrepreneur is not easy. It takes a lot of time, energy, effort and attention. In this short video, Amy Jen Su, shares her perspective of how can we manage our workload and still have peace of mind and not get overwhelmed. She shares the 4P’s that we need to work on individually in order to achieve the 5th P (Peace of Mind): Personal Operating system: What she means is how we do operate as an individual. Do we have a single place where we capture everything […]

Ideas

Changing the World needs us to change the way it works…

One of the things that almost every entrepreneur does, whether they start out thinking about doing it or not, is that they change the world that they are a part of. Here is a short movie that illustrates a shares a very important point about changing the world: If we want to change the world, we need to change the way it works! The movie shows that it is our responsibility to not only understand how the world works but also to take responsibility to break away from the norm (if required) and bring about the change that we believe […]

Ideas, Innovation

Innovation Lessons From the World’s first Rope Free Elevator and a Human Powered Elevator

Thyssenkrupp unveiled their latest product – Multi. This is the world’s first rope-free elevator that can move both horizontally and vertically. I think this is a breakthrough that is worth celebrating. They claim: Introducing the elevator industry’s holy grail and the end of the 160-year reign of the rope-dependent elevator. MULTI harnesses the power of linear motor technology to move multiple cars in a single shaft both vertically and horizontally! This opens up new possibilities in urban development. You could envisage a time when if you were to move from one building to another, you could take an elevator to […]