Book Review: Lord Ganesha’s Laptop

Lord Ganesha’s Laptop: Building a radically adaptive IT Organisation in India: An expat’s story is an engrossing story of how the return ticket for an International trip got extended from 6 months to 18 long years. This is the story of an aspiring engineer who spent the prime of his career in a foreign country building an Agile enterprise from scratch. This is the …

Nifty Innovation to being Plain Vanilla

I was engrossed in summarising the minutes of a just-concluded meeting. There was a knock on my door, It was my elder one. She had her #macbook in her hand & of course with a complaint that couldn’t wait. I inattentively nodded trying hard to multi-task. “Pappa, there is something wrong with Zoom chat”, she declared, seizing my attention. I paused and turned towards her, now …

Find the Watering Hole

Be it a new role, a new company or a new domain, Transitions can be hard. Transitions teleport you to unfamiliar territories. It is usually the consequence of the sage advice to get out of comfort zones. But transitions are inevitable for growth. One of the best advice that I have ever received on tackling transitions, something that I take very seriously and follow …

Career Lessons from the movie – Cast Away

Cast Away is an Adventure/Drama from 2000 which has beautifully captured the journey of Chuck Noland a FedEx executive marooned in an uninhabited island. It is a wonderful movie which has a lot of career lessons embedded in it.

It has been a very inspiring movie at various times in my career. I have tried to capture the essence of lessons learnt from it in the post. Do share your thoughts and experience around how one deals with career challenges. After all, we are all in it together.

5S Application & Mindspace

It was a designed silence on online platforms over the last two months. I was transitioning into my new role in the last two months. During this period, I had planned to set aside some time to retrospect, reflect & reset certain aspects of my life. I wanted to share one such thought today in this post. One interesting reflection that emanated from having …

Steering Clear of the Digital Transformation Debacle

When a Digital Transformation Project ends up “successfully” but customer feels like he did not achieve what he actually needed, it is nothing less than a debacle, considering the time, money and the effort involved in the implementation of the same.

This is one of the top 5 reasons listed as barriers to success in Digital Transformation journey in recently commissioned Wipro Digital Transformation Survey 2019.

In this article, I explore what enterprises can do to avoid getting into this zone. Read on and share your views. Would love to have a conversation on this…

The Inspiring Story of Boman Irani

I recently came across a wonderful video from JoshTalks. They bring out incredible journeys of some interesting people to spark change in Indians.  The description of this video says Boman believes  that passion drives everyone to excel. I watched the video and loved it, but I totally disagree that it was passion that took Boman from a waiter to  a successful actor. It was such …

PM Vs Tech vs UX – Panel at PLF Bangalore

It was super exciting to be a speaker and moderate the panel at Product Leaders Forum, Bangalore last Friday. The panelists, Santosh Shukla, Nishant Choudhary, Himanshu Joshi, Sumit Sonal & Prasad Velagareddi brought in a lot experience, diversity and variety to the conversation. I thoroughly enjoyed the preparation & actual event equally. I did want to capture some of the aspects i enjoyed through this journey, so jotted a few lines capturing the same.

Thanks to Subhajit Paul, Madhurima Saha, Mohit Agarwal , all organisers & Volunteers who made this wonderful event possible .

Stringent Laws on Vehicle Recalls

 

On July 31st 2019, Indian Parliament (Rajya Sabha) passed The Motor Vehicles (Amendment) Bill, 2019. Among other things, there was a section which had a clause for Manufacturers. I have put together a summary of the recall rules and the impact. #bill #manufacturers #government #parliament #vehicles #technology #indian #business #automotiveindustry

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Leadership in Action : Bracken Darrell

I recommend you to read this interview of Bracken Darrell, CEO of Logitech. It is always inspiring to look back at how we waded through difficult times. But what you do in the face of success or just plain normal day is what defines #leadership. There are many other interesting things to learn from the article, but here’s something that caught my attention.  This was …