1000Entrepreneurs, Leadership

Reducing Costs Vs Cost Cutting

Real benefits come when managers begin to understand the profound difference between “cost cutting” and “eliminating the causes of costs.” Brian Joiner in Fourth Generation Management Most leaders don’t understand this difference. In the quest for quick results, they often opt for the latter when it is infinitely better and more efficient to opt for the earlier. Reducing cost is all about  Finding activities that don’t add value and removing them (waste) or automate and delegate processes so that we increase our efficiencies. Being intentional and engaging with everyone around to either add more value or reduce waste and mostly do […]

Leadership, Personal Growth

32 lessons from this year’s Do Lectures

I stumbled onto this list collated by Matt Spry about what he learnt from this year’s Do Lectures. This is great advice for anyone to lead their lives. Here is the entire list as quoted by him on his post here. 1. Do less, but better 2. Consciously choose everything you do 3. Follow your curiosity, talk to more people, try things, tell your story 4. Set small experiments with low expectations 5. Always look to the edges for inspiration and a glimpse of future 6. Our work and values may not change but our response to changing context should 7. Draw more […]

Personal Growth

Be Intentional in Designing Your Environment

It is an age-old adage in India that a clean desk is the mark of a clean mind. What they meant was that the external environment was a direct result of our state of mind. As with other such things, the reverse is as much true. Our external environment can have an impact on not just our mood but can even impact behavior. Take for example, the experiment being done in Berlin’s Hermannstrasse train station. This station is a known place for criminal and anti-social activities. The experiment is about using atonal music to subdue criminal activities. Psychological studies have shown […]

Ideas, Leadership, Personal Growth

Doing Work that Matters with @JamesVictore

I am a big fan of the work that James Victore puts out. Fan enough to back him and his work on Patreon. He was recently described as “part Darth Vader, part Yoda,”. You can make out his work the moment you see it. Its that distinctive and that real.  He is original, has a point-of-view and is never afraid of sharing it. He is also immensely creative. He is a good artist, a great teacher and an even better role-model, if we want to do work that matters.  In this video (at Do Lectures), he shares his approach to […]