Ideas

Best among What I Read this Week

1. How to Increase Your Influence at work In this post, Rebecca talks about some tactics that we can use to increase our overall influence at work. She gives a lot of good advice. Read, learn and put it in practice. 2. What are you saying “No” to  In this post, Anthony talks about the impact that every ”Yes” we say has on our time, work and impact and argues the importance of picking the right “Yes” by saying “No” to everything else. 3. Marais  One of the best designs that I have seen in sometime. This is a gift pack for cakes […]

Ideas

Is Free Public Transportation the Answer for Germany to Meet Pollution Norms of EU?

Premise: DW Akademie recently reported that Germany would like to experiment with making public transportation free in 5 of its cities to explore if this can help it meet the pollution norms of European Union. The question is if this is the approach that will produce the results that it is expecting to achieve. This in addition to the policy to ban all petrol vehicles by 2030. Wicked problems: This is a classic example of what I call a wicked problem. This problem is so multi-faceted with so many different implications that it is extremely difficult to solve. Before we […]

Innovation, Podcast

PBTO S2E4: Rethinking Vertical Movement Inside a Building

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http://traffic.libsyn.com/pushingbeyondtheobvious/2-04_PBTO_S2E4__The_Journeyof_the_Creation_of_a_Unique_Product_-_Vycle.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Email | RSSWho is on the show: In this episode we host architect and product designer Elena Larriba. She works at the intersection between art, science and design. Her curiosity leads her to investigate new concepts, technologies and techniques which she blends together in novel experiments merging engineering, design and craft. Why is she on the show: She is the designer of a vertical movement product called Vycle, which is a hybrid version of a cycle and an elevator and can be used for vertical movement. She has since this conversation gone on to […]

Leadership

Staying relevant in A Fast Changing World

The 40 – 40 Chasm? Last week, I was attending a conference for senior marketers in Bangalore. One of the things that stuck with me from that conference was something that host Jessie Paul mentioned – the 40 – 40 chasm. She explained that if you are above 40 in age and earned 40Lakhs INR, you are supposed to be an endangered species in a corporate environment. She went on to talk about how most of us at this age have stopped learning and growing as individuals. What surprised me, even more, was the fact that most people in the […]

Innovation, transformation

Mime Artists & A City’s Transformation

I came across a story that could potentially be a Hollywood blockbuster. This is the story of a mayor who transformed an entire city, an unruly one into one that learnt to follow rules. He did this by breaking all the rules about how a politician should look like or behave like. And the entire transformation of the city started by getting “Mime” artists performing on the street. Problem: To understand the extent of the ingenuity, lets first try to comprehend the problem that was being tackled (sounds a lot like our cities): Lots of people dying on the roads […]