Innovation

A Practitioners View of “The Why, How and What of Breakthrough Innovation”

I came across this video of Stanford Biodesign Innovation Fellow, Kate Rosenbluth  and her story of how she founded Cala Health. I think the approach that she has taken to building her startup is probably the approach that I recommend in most cases. So, I wanted to share this video with all of you (my readers). If you are thinking of starting up or building a product from scratch, watch Kate talk about her experience and learn from the approach. About Cala Health: Just so that you know, her startup offers wearable neuromodulation therapies which merge neuroscience research with cutting-edge […]

Strategy

Game Theory – Gladiators, Pirates and Games of trust by Haim Shapira

I recently finished reading a book by Haim Shapira – Gladiators, Pirates and Games of trust. I must say that is probably the best introduction that I could have got to the field of game theory. Game theory is all about interactive decision making – which is what we do in life day in and day out. So, I believe that it makes sense to learn about the topic and get some insights about games people play and learn how to avoid some of the most common mistakes we end up doing and in the process learn about some strategies […]

Innovation, transformation

Starting a Digital Transformation Journey

Premise: It seems like there can’t be a day that goes by when I don’t hear the word transformation being tossed around, usually with the prefix – Digital. At a deep level, I think everyone knows and understands that transformation of any kind is not only difficult but in most cases has an extremely low probability of success. The term digital transformation is a misnomer which has quite a lot of people confused. It is first and foremost transformation, of course enabled by digital technologies but people confuse this with digital becoming the operating word instead of transformation. This is […]

Ideas

Being Intentional About our Attention

We now pay for content all the time: We pay a monthly fee for accessing video content online (Netflix and it’s like) We pay a monthly fee for accessing music online (Apple Music and it’s like) We pay a monthly fee for accessing magazines online (NewYorker and it’s like) We pay a monthly fee for accessing news online (New York Times and it’s like) We pay a monthly fee for getting goods delivered to us (Amazon and it’s like) We pay a monthly fee for creating & accessing content online (Medium and it’s like) We even pay a fixed annual […]

Personal Growth

The Difficulty of Being in the Present Moment and Strategies to Overcome it

Premise: Earlier today, I came across a blog post on The School of Life blog about the difficulty of being in the present. You can read the entire post here. It so happens that I’ve been having a conversation with my wife and son recently about the same topic (which is a slightly better way of saying that both of them don’t think I am being present in the moment when I am with them). I do accept this as a fact as I am mostly in the midst of either looking at my past or looking forward to my […]