Tag: Creative thinking

Leadership

Solving Tough Problems Using The Rules of Alchemy by Rory Sutherland

Premise: I have just started reading “Alchemy” by Rory Sutherland and am already loving it. The first thing that he writes in the book are his Rules of Alchemy. If you don’t read anything else in the book but read, understand and put in practice these rules, you would already see interesting progress in your projects. So, lets look at these rules of alchemy: The Opposite of a good idea can also be a good idea I have personally experienced this multiple times. We see this in the marketplace often – we have winners in the extreme high price luxury […]

Creativity, Leadership

What can Leaders Learn from the “Introduction of the Icelandverse”

There has been a lot of talk about Facebook’s rebrand as Meta and introduction of Metaverse. So, I will not add to that discussion. However, I do want to talk about what Iceland tourism department has done with the same. In their most recent advertisement, they have spoofed Mark’s vision of the Metaverse and introduced what they called Icelandverse. Before I can go on any further, I highly recommend that you watch this commercial here. Whether you are amused, angry or irreverent to this attempt by the Iceland tourism, as leaders, there are a few things that we can learn […]

Ideas, Leadership

7 Lessons in Leadership, Diversity And a Culture of Learning from an Animated Short Film

I stumbled upon a short animated video which did such a great job of showcasing the kind of leadership and a learning culture that will be needed to succeed in a workplace – which operates in a volatile business environment, has a multi-generational workforce and wants to thrive by moving forward. Before we can continue, pls take the two or so minutes to watch the video below.   I hope you enjoyed the video, without having to think about and trying to learn something from the video. In this video: The younger one represents the younger employees in your organisation. The Older […]