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Image: Robin Williams in the Bicentennial Man Yuval Noah Harari paints an interesting and arguably grim picture of the future, in his book Homo Deus. He runs through possible ways in which the world and we humans might evolve. To give you a glimpse, think of computer programs evolving at the blistering pace they are. From predicting…
The battle known as the Siege of Jadotville, is an almost unbelievable story of grit, leadership, of unwavering loyalty and courage, of calm, and of extraordinary strategy and tactics; especially in the face of deceit, death, incompetence and betrayal. If you haven’t watched the 2016 movie by the same name, you should. Prior…
Be Your Best Judge This is a small extract from Michael E. Gerber’s ‘Awakening the Entrepreneur Within’. Michael Gerber is the bestselling author of The E-Myth Revisited, E-Myth Mastery. He says “Unfortunately, most businesses don’t close soon enough. They just linger on and on and on, surviving as best they can. Entrepreneurs should never create…
Over the decades, many business leaders have shifted their mindset, from building companies that are ‘built to last,” as Porras and Collins observed; to obsessing over this quarter, sometimes even this month. The collateral damage? Deep and widespread. Culture suffers when companies cycle through mass hiring and mass firing. CEO tenures focused on short-term metrics…
Why Design Thinking is Here to Stay A close friend recently shared this article titled ‘Why Design Thinking will fail’, written in 2013 by Jeffrey Tjendra. Jeffrey is a designer entrepreneur and strategist. Among some of us friends, there was were points of disagreement on the article. Jeffrey does seem to have a good understanding…
Ever caught yourself telling someone, or even yourself, something like, ‘what difference can one person make?’, or ‘what can one person do?’ If you have, the name ‘Ferdinand Cheval’ might be one worth remembering. Born in 1836 France, he grew up to be a mail carrier (a postman) who cycled about delivering the post. In…
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