Entrepreneurship, Leadership, Strategy, transformation

Four insights on Achieving Resilient Growth Consistently

The best selling authors of the book – Blue Ocean Strategy, recently sent an email in which they speak about the 4 pieces of advice they give to their customers on how to build resilient growth for their organisations. Here are the 4 pieces of advice. 1. Focus on building a healthy, balanced portfolio of market-competing and market-creating strategic moves. Both are important. While market-competing moves generate today’s cash, market-creating moves ensure tomorrow’s growth.   2. Don’t wait for growth to slow to make market-creation a strategic priority.Prepare in advance. You’ll be buffered by your market-creating move in a downturn cycle […]

Innovation, Leadership, transformation

Digital Transformation = Reimagining of the Business for the Digital Age

Premise: I had the opportunity to host Mr. Vijay Sethi (CIO, CHRO and head of CSR at the world’s largest two wheeler manufacturer – Hero Moto Corp) on a meeting and request him to share his his insights and learnings about digital transformation. He also busts some of the myths about digital transformation. If digital transformation is a topic of interest for you, I highly recommend that you watch the entire session here.   Once upon a time: The CIO had a very peaceful life and were very happy running the applications that they were responsible for (SAP, networks, security, […]

Leadership

How to Stay In a Positive Mental State

I am a big fan of Anthony Iannarino and his work. He is one of the few sales thought leaders who understands that to be successful in sales, one doesn’t just need to master the selling techniques but also master oneself in many ways. One such piece of insight from Anthony has inspired this post. In his post “How to Change Your Mental State Now”, he shared the following insight. In order to change our mental state, we have three variables that we can work with: –    Changing our focus –    Changing the meaning –    Changing the physiology I highly […]

Innovation, Leadership

Creative Solutions to Complex Problems

Interesting and creative solutions for complex problems usually come from combining interesting insights, information and challenges. I did write about this in the past here, here, here, here and here.     Now, here is another example of a creative solution to complex problem. When you are sleeping alone in a tent in wilderness, the danger from wandering animals is a real problem. And when you are alone, the problem is amplified. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HA58UzPVfDg&feature=youtu.be Here is Roman Signer, a performance artist creates an interesting take on staying safe (not as a problem to be solved but an experiment to explore). He […]

Leadership

Virtual Vs In-Person Meetings

Premise:   The current pandemic has definitely changed the way we organize ourselves and our meetings. This large scale experiment has also shown that work from anywhere is a going to be a distinct reality in most of our lives (unless it cant be).   This definitely means that we need to rethink the way we function – work, play and meet with our colleagues, customers and partners.   In this regard, I read this HBR post “3 Things Virtual Meetings Offer That In-Person Ones Don’t” written by Bob Frisch and Cary Greene. You can read the entire post here. […]