Ideas, Leadership

Samsung unveils A “Phablet” – a Foldable Phone or a Foldable Tablet?

In their developer conference, Samsung revealed (partially) a working prototype of a tablet that can be folded into a phone.  Tablet or a phone – A matter of framing:  While everyone around the world is calling it a “foldable phone”, I would like to think of it as a foldable tablet, that when folded becomes a phone. This framing is important in my opinion because, based on what I saw (in the unveiling videos) I believe that most of the use of the device will be in the tablet form rather than the phone form. Hence, I think of it […]

Personal Growth, Podcast

A Talk based on the book – Thrive at SAP Asia

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http://traffic.libsyn.com/pushingbeyondtheobvious/02_A_Talk_based_on_my_Book_Thrive_at_SAP_Asia.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Email | RSSAs part of an employee engagement activity, I was given the opportunity to deliver a talk based on my latest book – “Thrive – Mindsets and Skillsets needed to succeed in a world dominated by smart machines & intelligent algorithms“.  I tried to record the audio of this recording and would like to share that as part of my podcast. The recording is not very clean and there is some noise through out the recording and I am sorry about that. I am sharing this despite the noise as I think that […]

Ideas, Leadership, Personal Growth

7 Lessons from an Old Indian Tale

Let me share a story with you… The story of three donkeys, their master and a wise man! Once upon a time, a long time ago, there was a young man who lived in a small village. He owned three donkeys and used them to carry loads for people. One fine day, he was walking along a river towards his destination. The sun was at its peak and it was extremely hot. The cool river water was tempting. He decided that he wanted to take a bath in the cool river water. So, he started tying up his donkey’s to […]

Ancient Wisdom, Leadership

#MeToo: Where There is One, There Ought to Be More..

I was reading a book by Max Bazerman “The Power of noticing”. He has a chapter in the book titled “Missing the obvious on a Slippery Slope”. This chapter is based on the results of a study done with Francesca Gino. The Frog, the Boiling Pot of Water & “#MeToo” This is very similar to the story of the frog in a pot of boiling water. If you put a frog in a pot of boiling water, it will jump out immediately. If we put the same frog in a pot of cold water and slowly increase the temperature, the […]

Ideas

Making Infinitely Better Decisions in Life and In Business

These past few days, I have been contemplating about time and how the thinking in different time horizons affects the decisions that we make in the moment. I have realised that we could make infinitely better and more intentional decisions if we were more intentional and thought about every decision in terms of different time horizons. This also led me to think about the cost of making decisions and how this impacts our everyday decisions. Generally speaking, when we are deciding in favor of short term, we tend to have benefits upfront and the costs piling up in our future […]