Tag: Lessons LEarnt

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 […]

Business Model, Entrepreneurship, Innovation

Lessons from a Failed (Billion Dollar) Business Model Innovation Attempt

In May this year, Better Place, an auto tech company filed for bankruptcy, burning close to a billion dollars. They had a brilliant solution to a complex problem. Their idea was to replace fossil fuels with batteries – literally. What this meant was that as you re-fuel your cars with gasoline, you could get your batteries changed at a fuel station. This was in stark contrast to all the other start-ups in this space, who have been working on increasing the range of their batteries to go longer distances or increase the speed at which one could charge the batteries […]