How to Win in the Age of Unreasonable Consumer

I recently stumbled onto a video of Adam Morgan (Co-founder of eatbigfish and the co-author of a brilliant book – A Beautiful Constraint) shares his perspectives on how we live in an age of unreasonable consumers and what do we need to think about in order to succeed in this world where we are surrounded by unreasonable consumers. You can watch the entire video here. The first question that comes to mind when I listen to Adam present is to question if we really have become unreasonable consumers? I believe the answer is absolutely. We now expect to have clean, […]

Insanely Interesting People who Influenced me – #5 Porus Munshi

For the rest of the year, I would like to take a moment and thank the people who have had a significant impact on me as an individual. The way they have lived their lives and their body of work has had an outsized impact on how I think about life in general and and work, in particular. Some of these are contemporary thinkers and some of them are just a memory. Some of them are famous in their own rights and some of them are yet to be found by others. Some of them are young and some of […]

Insanely Interesting and Influential People: #1 Dr. Eliyahu Goldratt

For the rest of the year, I would like to take a moment and thank the people who have had a significant impact on me as an individual. The way they have lived their lives and their body of work has had an outsized impact on how I think about life in general and and work, in particular. Some of these are contemporary thinkers and some of them are just a memory. Some of them are famous in their own rights and some of them are yet to be found by others. Some of them are young and some of […]

PBTO1: Launching “Pushing Beyond the Obvious” Podcast

http://traffic.libsyn.com/pushingbeyondtheobvious/01_PBTO1__Introducing__Pushing_Beyond_The_Obvious__Podcast.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Email | RSSI had earlier announced that I will launch my podcast shortly. Today, is the day when I would like announce the launch of “Pushing Beyond the Obvious” podcast. This is the first episode of the podcast. In this episode, I talk about what this podcast is about and whom is it relevant for. This podcast is relevant to you if: You are an entrepreneur or a CEO You are a manager responsible for sales, marketing, innovation or strategy function in your organization. The podcast provide you insights and strategies on how […]

Silencing your Inner Critic & Overcoming Self-Doubt

I have been thinking about starting a podcast for the past 5 months. I have decided the name, recorded 2 episodes for the podcast, yet it is not live. The biggest reason for this is self-doubt – self doubt that will i be able to maintain the podcast on a regular basis, specially with a full time job and an active blog.  Do you face this challenge as well? How do you deal with your inner critic? What are some of the tactics that you employ to overcome this self-doubt?  Denise Jacobs shares her experience about how she deals with […]