Original Thinkers’ – Are they different? A TED talk by Adam Grant
November 11, 2019Changing tracks from last week, I am going back to a TED talk by Adam Grant. If you have about 15 minutes, you can listen to this talk on Ted by clicking here. Else please read the following few lines to get the gist of it. Adam Grant is an Organizational Psychologist. Grant’s book Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World examines how these thinkers are changing the world. In this TED talk Adam highlights just three unique habits Three surprising habits of Original Thinkers They Procrastinate: Adam has conducted studies which conclude that there is a sweet spot for coming up…
What I learned from Mr. R N Nayak at Power Grid – Part 3
Continuing from last week, today I will cover another lesson from Mr. R. N. Nayak. Thrift is Good Many times when I had the chance to present on discuss something with Mr. Nayak, he would innocently ask a question, “JP,…
What I learned from Mr. R N Nayak at Power Grid – Part 2
Continuing from last week, today I will cover another lesson from Mr. R. N. Nayak. Domain Knowledge is not the key to Leadership Success Like I said before, Mr. Nayak was new to our group, and had experience of the…
What I learned from Mr. R N Nayak at Power Grid
Changing track from last week, I will switch back to lessons from leaders in my own life. Today I will cover a simple lesson from Mr. R. N. Nayak, who later retired as CMD ( Chairman & Managing Director from…
Special vs Custom vs Standard? Choosing the Building Blocks-18
Continuing from last week, let us look at one potential solution to the connectivity problem for the distributed Data Centers at the Edge of the network. A shared infra can provide a cheaper connectivity but with potential compromise that the…
Technology enables Trust-Leap: A TED talk by Rachel Botsman
Continuing from last week, today I will cover a TED talk by Rachel Botsman. If you have about 17 minutes, you can listen to this talk on Ted by clicking here. Else please read the following few lines to get…
Special vs Custom vs Standard? Choosing the Building Blocks-17
Continuing from last week, let us look at another one of the problems once the Data Centers move to the edge and get distributed. When the connectivity is within the data centers, and the fiber is ample, we do not…
Unnecessary Intimacy Ugly and Incomplete : A way to build Beautiful Human Organizations
Continuing from last week, today I will cover a TED talk by Tim Leberecht. If you have about 12 minutes, you can listen to this talk on Ted by clicking here. Else please read the following few lines to get…
Special vs Custom vs Standard? Choosing the Building Blocks-16
Continuing from last week, let us look at one of the problems once the Data Centers move to the edge and get distributed. The economies of connectivity will change drastically. Implementing a spine leaf architecture within a Datacenter is within…
Idea Meritocracy : A TED talk by Ray Dalio
Continuing from last week, today I will cover a TED talk by Ray Dalio. If you have about 17 minutes, you can listen to this talk on Ted by clicking here. Else please read the following few lines to get…
Special vs Custom vs Standard? Choosing the Building Blocks-15
Continuing from last week, let me explain this week how operators can leverage the edge assets and how they can monetize them. Let me straight away jump at the two keys aspects:- A) As the data processing move to the…